Osho Rajneesh: The Philosophical Frog and the Centipede

Osho Rajneesh is telling a funny story about a frog and a centipede. A frog stops a centipede during his morning walk and ask him about his walking with hundred legs. Later, the story turns out to be disastrous for the centipede. Listen to the video to know the full story but I will explain the message given in the video by Osho Rajneesh through different examples and words.

Osho Rajneesh wants us to be ourselves. There are lots of fundamentalists present in the world, who are creating belief systems, fears and illogical moral values in our mind. People keep on believing them which cost them disorientation from their natural behavior. We all are more or less suffering like a confused centipede. Forced morality and our own wisdom mingle with each other and we are confused now. We exactly do not know what to do now. We can sense sometimes that there is something wrong in life. There is something missing but we are not able to find out what it is. The only problem is the borrowed morality from somebody.



We are having an education system, where children are taught to be somebody else. People may argue with the last written sentence but it is true to some extent at least. When any education system is writing things like "Alexander The Great", then we are motivating children to be like him. It does not matter if he was good or bad because it is a different topic but the main matter is the source of influence. We are at least motivating an innocent mind to be like "Alexander The Great" and it is a start of violence when we knowingly or unknowingly influence somebody to be somebody else. Some children in the countries like India are getting punished, when they are not doing well in remembering the history of Alexander like people. Children are getting punished, when they say or do anything against fundamental ideas. We do not leave any opportunity to stimulate somebody else in children.

Fundamental ideas came from philosophy which is very dangerous because most of the times it comes up with should and should not. It mostly emphasizes on doing or not doing certain things. So, it creates fixed facts for us. It creates facts that does not synchronize with our own wisdom and as an end result it creates a conflict within us. It is the only reason that I love Osho Rajneesh because he is not a philosopher at all. Some people say that they like Osho Rajneesh's philosophy but I say that he is not a philosopher and neither I am a philosopher. Osho Rajneesh himself said in one of his discourses that he is not a philosopher. A philosopher points towards certain ideas and belief systems but Osho Rajneesh makes you to jump into nothingness and into an infinite at the same time. I would say nothingness because he encourages to remove all prejudices and fixed ideas. It leaves you in a state of nothingness and whatever comes out of this nothingness is our own wisdom. There are infinite possibilities in an existence. Whatever this existence wants us to be, that will come out from this nothingness automatically.

All the religions active today misinterpreted things. If, a religion is understood in a proper way then it makes you jump into a vast ocean rather than a small stream of water. Fundamentalists of religion come up with some written words that were misunderstood by them. This has brought the whole humanity in kind of a bondage, sacrifice and fear that we do not become what we are supposed to be but become what we are not supposed to be.