Religions give commandments; Osho requests

For Osho, commandments are ugly. He says: “The very word commandment means that you have to follow it. There is no question to be raised, a commandment cannot be doubted. It makes you psychologically slave. I don’t have any commandments to give, I can only make certain requests, and I can invite you to share with me my experience.”
Certain requests are:
1. Don’t let your doubt die.That is the most precious thing you have got, because it is doubt that one day is going to help you discover the truth. Religions say: Believe. Their first effort is to destroy your doubt. Once you believe you will never be able to know on your own. Whatever science has achieved in three hundred years is through doubt. And in ten thousand years, religion has achieved nothing because of its belief. So, doubt, and go on doubting until you come to a point that you cannot doubt anymore.
2. Never Imitate.The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy – all that you need is to be a hypocrite, which is not much of a problem. Deep down you remain the same, but on the surface you go on painting yourself according to some image. You cannot change the universal laws. You can only be yourself, and nothing else. And it is beautiful to be yourself.
3. Beware of Knowledge.You should be so alert that whenever you want, you can put your knowledge aside and it will not block your vision. It will not come between you and reality.
4. Love.Replace the word “prayer” by Love. There is no God to pray to. So in my religion the word prayer has to be completely dropped. Love is not for some invisible God. Love is for the visible – human beings, animals, trees, oceans, mountains. Spread the wings of love as far and wide as you can.
5. Live moment to moment.Go on dying every moment to the past. It is finished. There is no need to label it even as Good or bad. The only thing to know is: it is finished, it is no more. It is going to be no more... gone and gone forever; now why waste time about it? Remain in the moment, true to the moment, utterly herenow, as if there is no yesterday and there is going to be no tomorrow.
- Osho