Think about truth — that is allowed! That’s why in the West philosophy has grown to great heights and depths. But it is always thinking about truth. It is like madmen thinking about sanity, blind men thinking about light. However the blind man tries to think about light… he may create a big system of thought about what light is, but it is not going to be anything like light. For light, you need eyes.
You cannot think about truth, because thinking will be done by your mind — which is full of lies, nothing but lies. How are you going to think about truth? Truth can be found only when you have put the mind aside. In the East we say truth is the experience that happens in the state of no-mind or in the state of beyond mind. But in the West the very idea has not existed. And that will make one thing clear to you: philosophy is a Western thing. In the East there is nothing like philosophy.
It is very strange: the East is far older, at least ten thousand years old, but there is nothing like philosophy in the East. What is called Eastern philosophy is a wrong name. In the East it is called darshan — darshan means “to see.” It has nothing to do with thinking. The very word darshan means “to see.”
I had to coin my own word for it: I call it philosia, as against philosophy, because philosophy means “to think,” and philosia means “the love of seeing.” Philosophy means “the love of thinking” — but what can you think? Just to avoid the danger of people going beyond mind, and becoming dangerous to the society, a substitute, a toy has been created. That is philosophy.
