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OSHO :~ BEAUTY { FOR AN ENLIGHTENED CONSCIOUSNESS , ONLY BEAUTY EXISTS } [ must READ & COMMENT ]?

"Beauty doesn't exist in things ;
beauty is a projection .

Beauty is not objective ;
it is subjective .

So
one day somebody looks beautiful ,
another day
the same person become ugly .

It is you who projects ,

it is you who withdraws ;
the other work just as a screen .


Once you come to know that
the mind projects beauty and ugliness ,

that the mind projects good and bad ,

you stop projecting .

Then for the first time you come to know
what objective reality is.

It is neither good nor bad ,
it is neither beautiful nor ugly ;
it simple is .
All your interpretations drop with the projection."


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Before commenting on this quotation, I would prefer to know more about its context. As a student of comparative religion, Osho frequently was asked for interpretations of various scriptures, in which case he would first interpret, and then comment on the interpretation.

If I had to comment without the complete text, this is what I would have to say: whenever an individual uses some or all of his senses within a framework of a moment, the totality of the physical body attaches a vibrational and identificational "nametag" or "barcode", so to speak, to the object. Yes it is subjective in that sense and each individual's assessment can vary in the same way that this person can look at something with the naked eye, or with a magnifying glass, or with a normal microscope, or with an electron microscope, and so on. We can look at our senses also as tools. An artist's rendition of something he experiences is an example. It can be totally different from mine, yet for him it is what it is.
Now how does this fit in within humanity's experience of the object? Imo this is the imaginary world. On a logical level one might say that the consensus causes an evening out of vibrations and thus reaches an "official barcode". This is very important to me because on one hand what I am saying is that either everything is an illusion or it is not, and this is important because we either create our reality or we don't.
My experience leads me to believe that we do, and if that is correct, then my reality can be totally different than someone else's every given moment. Why every given moment? Because my interpretation of a subject (could be object) is subject to change at any given moment and thus provide the subject (object) with a different "barcode", which I then can experience multiplied in my reality due to the universal law of attraction, "that which is like unto itself is drawn". Again this works very well for the individual. For example the man selling roses on the street corner can stick a rose in front of my face which I then conceptualize from my past experience as being a rose of such and such a "barcode". Every time I give him my payment I can be buying a different rose. Well it IS a different rose. If not I am getting ripped off. There is no issue here.
Is there an issue for my wife, my neighbour, Mr. Bushe, or the rest of humanity? Clearly not. Let us suppose that the "barcode for a red rose always begins with 11122233444 and only when I add more detail it becomes 11122233444.98977.445575 and each decimal point indicates a different scale of specific qualities. In the world of vibrations this might read as a level 4 scarlet-red long-stemmed rose with a heady sweet smell which can induce a higher state in me. If I can use an extra thirty words to describe this rose, why could I not use an equally complex "barcode"? Now this "barcode" IS universal, beyond words, is it not? Beyond words in the sense that words are not necessary for the process of creation. Furthermore anyone else can attach their personal meaning to my "barcode", ie. a child in the next car might only see its "barcode" for 'a flower'. This does cause the planet to collapse or the universe to implode. No problem!
Now getting back to the supposed quote, "

." Once you come to know that
the mind projects beauty and ugliness ,
that the mind projects good and bad ,
you stop projecting .
Then for the first time you come to know
what objective reality is.

Imo this is a lie, a con-job, or I don't understand anything.
Imo this is a chain to enslave followers or I am blind.
Imo lied-to, conned, slaves will continue to look for this supposed objective reality forever or until they go bankrupt whichever comes first, or they will wake up and say, "Alright! Enough!" "My objective reality is none of your business. Adios Amigo !"