Meaning of life, has to be created by you

Osho A YOUNG man has asked why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does
not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life one has to create it. Only if you
create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there like a rock, it
has to be created like a song. It is not a thing, it is a significance that you bring through
your consciousness. Dont wait for it. It never comes by just waiting.
One has to become a lab, one has to become a womb, one has to give birth to it. This is one
of the most significant things to be understood otherwise you will go on missing
meaning. People have a wrong notion. They think that meaning is already there existing
somewhere. It is not so. Buddha creates the meaning and then he discovers it. Thats why
his meaning will never become your meaning.
The meaning remains individual. Each one has to create it for himself, it cannot be
borrowed. Thats the difference between the scientific truth and the religious truth. The
scientific truth is a dead thing. Once discovered by one it is discovered for all. Once
Newton has discovered something for example, the law of gravitation then you need not
discover it again and again. Then it becomes a collective property.
Newton may have worked for many years to discover it, may have devoted his whole life to
it, but now a school child will learn it within minutes. He will not have to go through all the
bother. Scientific truth is a dead thing it is a thing. Hence once discovered, it is
discovered forever. When one person has discovered it then it becomes the property of all.
Religious truth is not a thing. It is a significance, it is a meaning. Each one has to discover
it, each one has to go on the exploration. Buddhas truth disappears with Buddha.
Mohammeds truth disappears with Mohammed. It was a fragrance of a flower that had
opened in the heart of Mohammed how can the fragrance remain when the flower has
gone? Now the Koran is dead, so is the Dhammapada, so is the Geeta, and so are all the
scriptures.
A scripture is alive only when the flower is there. With the flower the fragance is alive;
when the flower is gone, all is gone. Scientific truth can be learned. You can go to a school.
You can learn it from a teacher. Religious truth cannot be learned. It has to be created not
learned.
You cannot go to a teacher. It cannot be taught. There is no way to teach it. You will have
to go to a Master not to a teacher and that is the difference between a teacher and a
Master: a teacher deals in dead things, a Master lives his truth. If you are in the presence of
a Master you will start vibrating pulsating. Truth cannot be given to you but you can smell
the perfume of it. And then you can start searching for it in your own innermost core, in
your own being.
It has to evolve. It is a growth. Meaning is a growth. You will have to devote your whole
life to it. So dont ask why there is no meaning in life. There is none because you have not
created it yet. There is for me. I have created it. But my meaning cannot become your
meaning. Even if I give it to you, in the very transfer the baby will die. You will carry a
dead corpse. There is no way of transferring it.