7 Types of Religion
OSHO : TALK ON RELIGION SEVEN TYPES OF RELIGION From the book The Beloved part 2. Pune 1976 RELIGION is a very complex phenomenon. Its complexity has to be understood. There are seven types of religions in the world. THE FIRST TYPE: IGNORANCE-ORIENTED The first type is ignorance-oriented. Because people cannot tolerate their ignorance , they hide it. Because it is difficult to know that one does not know, it is against the ego, people believe. Their belief systems function to protect their egos . They are helpful, but in the long range they are very harmful. In the beginning they seem to be protecting, but finally they are very destructive. The very orientation is in ignorance. Religion is light, religion is understanding, religion is awareness, religion is authenticity. But a major part of humanity remains in the first type of religion. It is simply to avoid the reality, to avoid the gap that one feels in one's own being, to avoid the black hole of ig