< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Christianity: just a nice Jewish boy’s hang-up 8 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, YOU SAY CHRIST WAS THE LAST CHRISTIAN. ARE YOU THE LAST RAJNEESHEE? PLEASE EXPLAIN. IT was not me who said that Christ was the last Christian. I was simply quoting Friedrich Nietzsche; it was Nietzsche who made that statement. In a certain sense Nietzsche is absolutely right, because in this world no individual is ever repeated....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌that is not so important; he is deceiving himself. And this is the case not only with Ta Hui; this is the case with ninety-nine percent of so-called religious scriptures. I am talking about all this nonsense to make you aware that whenever you come across the same kind of nonsense again somewhere else -- beware! Don't get caught in it. Enlightened people have been respected so greatly that intellectuals have had a great jealousy, and they have tried in every way to imitate the enlightened people's statements....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 Come what may, allow 20 January 1975 am in Buddha Hall STOP WAVERING, MAD MIND! COME WHAT MAY, ALLOW IT! THE SATI IS READY FOR THE FIRE OF DEATH. DANCE IN ECSTASY, BEYOND ALL DOUBTS. DROP GREED, ATTACHMENT, FANCIES. DO THE BRAVE FEAR DEATH? DOES THE SATI CLING TO HER BODY? SOCIETY, SCRIPTURE, FAMILY PRESTIGE – THE HANGMAN’S NOOSE AT THE NECK. MOVE ON THE PATH AND RETURN MIDWAY – HA!...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Deja vu – a small fragment from the past 23 June 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHO ARE YOU? SOMEWHERE I FEEL THE ANSWER WILL BE THERE WHEN I REALIZE WHO AM I, YET, WHAT I GET IS ALREADY SO MUCH. TO SIT AT YOUR FEET IS THE GREATEST BLESSING OF ALL MY LIVES. SUDDENLY, I KNOW I AM LOVED BY EXISTENCE....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Don’t be Limited by Religion 12 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin says: I’ve been a university student in theoretical physics. I love it very much. Sometimes you speak against science and sometimes you praise it. What should I do?] If you want to go inwards you have to leave the scientific attitude completely. If you want to move outwards, the scientific attitude is the only way....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Doubt is a Sword 4 September 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO WHEN MY CHILDREN KNEW I WAS COMING TO SEE YOU, THERE WAS NO REQUEST FOR GIFTS. THERE WAS ONLY ONE THING THEY WANTED FOR ME TO BRING BACK SOME OF YOUR JOKES. THEY TOLD ME THAT ALL THE STUFF BETWEEN THE JOKES WAS GOOD FOR GROWN-UPS, BUT FOR THEM JUST THE JOKES....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Drop god, drop guilt – become religious 7 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACCEPTING MYSELF AND LOVING MYSELF? THERE is great difference between the two. Accepting yourself is a much lower state of consciousness – better, of course, than rejecting yourself. It is a medicine; the disease is rejection. And anything medicinal has no permanent or ultimate value; its value is only in curing the disease....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Each moment is the goal 26 November 1987 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, IS NOT THE INQUIRY INTO ‘SACHCHIDANAND’ THE SAME AS BADARAYANA’S “ATHATO BRAHMA JIGYASA”? Maneesha, Badarayana’s statement, “athato brahma jigyasa” is one of the most potential statements ever made. It means, “Now begins the inquiry into the ultimate.” It is the first statement in his BRAHMASUTRA: MAXIMS ABOUT THE ULTIMATE, one of the greatest mystic books in the world....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 Every Buddha Enriches The Universe 30 June 1975 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 WHEN AN ENLIGHTENED BEING DISSOLVES INTO THE COSMOS, DOES HIS UNIQUENESS DISSOLVE ALSO? The enlightened man, even while he is alive in the body, has already dissolved. He knows that he is no more, he knows that he is a nothingness. The dissolution has already happened. In fact, nothing has dissolved, because nothing had been separate from the very beginning....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Evil is nothing but an absence of good 3 February 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium BELOVED OSHO, AND ONE OF THE ELDERS OF THE CITY SAID, SPEAK TO US OF GOOD AND EVIL. AND HE ANSWERED: OF THE GOOD IN YOU I CAN SPEAK, BUT NOT OF THE EVIL. FOR WHAT IS EVIL BUT GOOD TORTURED BY ITS OWN HUNGER AND THIRST?...