It seems to me sometimes that the quest to influence the human mind may well be the central issue of the next decade or so from all fronts.

How do you see that? If you agree or disagree, how do you see that kind of competition for beliefs?

My approach is totally different. I want to destroy all belief systems, catholic or communist, it does not matter.

What about the belief system that doesn’t believe in belief systems?

It is not a belief system. It cannot be a belief system. It simply deprograms people, but does not program them. It leaves them clean, tabula rasa, no writing on them, just the way they were born, innocent.

My function here is to deprogram the Jew, the Hindu, the Mohammedan, whoever comes here. I have to destroy his belief system. I am not trying to influence him in favor of another belief system. I have none.

It is said that nature detests a vacuum, that something will fill the human mind.

No. That is not true, because for thirty-two years I have been absolutely nothing. So it may be objectively true as far as science is concerned, that nature abhors vacuum, but as far as spiritual interior world is concerned, it is just the opposite.

The deeper you go, the more you find yourself empty. Ultimately, you find yourself just a zero, and that is the point of enlightenment. Your Ego has disappeared; your greed has far away disappeared.

You have disappeared, there is only light, life, infinite, eternal, but you are not there as a person, but just a pure consciousness, and it is nothingness.

Buddha has actually given it the name nothingness nirvana; that means nothingness. In thee western world, no religion has reached to that point all the western religions the three: Christian, Judaic tradition and Mohammedanism, which are born outside of India.

The other three religions which are born in India: Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, all three have reached to the point where you enter into an inner zero. And that is their ultimate goal: to be nothing and it is never filled by anything.

You won’t be surprised to learn that I don’t understand any of that.

You will not, and I am not surprised, because how can you understand something that you never have experienced. For example, if you have never tasted sugar, whatever I do, there is no way to explain you the taste of it. I will have to ask my sannyasins to hold you and force a spoonful of sugar into your mouth the only way.

Looks a little hard, but what can be done? Unless you taste it you will not understand it. So if you really want to understand what I am saying about inner nothingness come here, be here for few days. Meditate with my people who have experienced it.

Osho