Osho speaks on ‘Midwife’; “I can help, I can protect, I can guide, that’s all. The actual phenomenon, the transformation, is going to happen to you.”
I am here just to be a midwife. That’s what Socrates used to say – that a master is just a midwife. I can help, I can protect, I can guide, that’s all. The actual phenomenon, the transformation, is going to happen to you. Suffering will be there, because no birth is possible without suffering. Much anguish will come up, because you have accumulated it and it has to be thrown. A deep cleansing and catharsis will be needed. […]
A real master teaches you unlearning; it is never learning. You have come to me to unlearn whatsoever you know, never learning. You have come to me learned, so whatsoever you know, please drop it. Become ignorant, become like a child. Only the heart of a child can knock at the doors of the divine, and only the heart of a child is heard. Your prayers cannot be heard; they are cunning. Only a child, only a heart which doesn’t know can be.
Osho, A Bird on the Wing, Ch 1
Quote published in The Book: An Introduction to the Teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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