enlightened man

Question 3 

WHAT CONSTITUTES THE BEHAVIOUR OF AN ENLIGHTENED MAN?

 

An enlightened man is all emptiness. What constitutes emptiness? It has no 'constitutes' in it; hence it is empty. A man who is enlightened has no character. 

Let me repeat it: an enlightened man has no character at all. He lives from moment to moment. He has no character to follow; he has no structure around him. A character is a structure, a character is armor. An enlightened man has no character. Let me say he is characterless. 

But try to understand me -- because he has no structured consciousness. He HAS consciousness but the structure has been dropped. He's neither Hindu nor Mohammedan nor Christian. He is neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral, neither this nor that. He simply is. All duality has disappeared. You cannot evaluate him; you cannot categorize him; you cannot put him into any pigeon-holes of your logic. He exists like emptiness -- nothingness he is. And out of that nothing, every moment the miracle -- that he goes on functioning without any armor around him, without any structure. He goes on flowing. 

It is difficult for you to understand, because you cannot think how you would function without a structure. If you don't have any morality conditioned on you, how will you behave morally? -- It seems difficult for you. It is just like saying to a blind man that we walk without groping. The blind man says, "I cannot believe you. How can one walk without groping? Groping is a must."

~OSHO~

Come Follow to You, Volume 3_10 Chapter 

Reflections on Jesus of Nazareth 

Chapter_6: A man who is enlightened has no masks