Description: OSHO International Foundation - http//www.osho.com Excerpt from an
Interview with Osho by the Italian edition of SCIENCE 85 MONTHLY.Q
ONE OF THE BASIC PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE IS LANGUAGE. SCIENCE IS GROWING
BECAUSE WE HAVE A CLEAR DEFINITION OF WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. ONE
OF THE BASIC PROBLEMS FOR A SCIENTIST, WHEN THEY ARE TRYING TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT THE INNER JOURNEY MEANS, IS TO DEFINE CLEARLY, FOR
EXAMPLE, WHAT CONSCIOUSNESS MEANS. MOST OF THE SCIENTISTS DONT MAKE
ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS, AWARENESS AND THE CONSCIOUS
MIND. THEY ARE USING THIS TERM IN THE SAME WAY. SO I WOULD LIKE TO
ASK YOU IF ITS POSSIBLE TO HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THOSE
TERMS.Yes, there is no difficulty. Words can be defined clearly. The
difficulty is not because of the words, the basic difficulty is
coming from somewhere else.That is, the scientist, deep down, does
not believe that there is anything inner. He may say so, he may not
say so, but his whole training, his whole education, makes him trust
only objects which he can dissect, which he can observe, which he
can analyze, which he can compose, create, uncreate, find out their
basic constituents. His whole mind is object-oriented, and
subjectivity is not an object.So if he wants subjectivity to be put
before him on the table, that is not possible; that is not the
nature of subjectivity. So the scientist goes on finding everything
in the world except himself.A great barrier exists, and the barrier
is that there is nothing inner. When y...
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