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Chapter 4 - This harvest moon
laughing, seeing these idiots standing on two legs. This is not natural -- abnormal monkeys, stubborn ... adamant outcasts, unfit monkeys rejected by the society perhaps.
Jesus says you are sheep and he is the shepherd. All these people are consistently trying to take away your dignity as human beings.
I say to you that you are the ultimate consciousness. You are not the body and you are not the mind; you are the buddha, the awakened one. It is just a question of sleeping or waking, not much of a difference. The sleeping person is not inferior just because you are awake and cannot sleep. His sleep simply shows that he is relaxed, while you are unnecessarily making efforts to wake him.
I sometimes wonder whether I am doing the right thing. Sleeping people, rejoicing in their misery, in their suffering ... and I am unnecessarily pulling their legs to get them out of their misery. They think misery is their blanket and they cling to the blanket. But whether I am right or wrong, I enjoy pulling legs.
Dogen said:
WE ARE NOW ABLE TO COME IN CONTACT WITH THE BUDDHA SAKYAMUNI AND HEAR HIS TEACHINGS DUE TO THE COMPASSIONATE KINDNESS THAT
HAS RESULTED FROM THE CONSTANT PRACTICE OF EACH OF THE BUDDHAS
AND PATRIARCHS.
You can see the language, it is that of a scholar and he is making absolutely wrong statements. It is not because of the buddhas in the past that you can become a buddha. You can become a buddha because you are essentially a buddha. The past buddhas may help you as a reminder, but not more than that. There is a danger also that you may start worshipping them, and once you start worshipping you will never remember your own buddha.
It is such an absurdity that a living buddha is worshipping a stone buddha, praying to a stone buddha made by human hands. It is so hilarious that all over the world, in all the temples of the so-called gods, people are worshipping toys.
I have told Avirbhava, "Collect all kinds of toys. We will make a beautiful museum and I appoint you the director general." She has brought me a beautiful bear which walks, which makes sounds very similar to Avirbhava, and when he makes the sounds he waves his tail. It is really a beautiful toy.
But all the gods are not even that much alive. The bear at least moves, waves its tail and makes sounds -- and strangely enough those sounds are exactly like Avirbhava makes.
Tomorrow you will see; Avirbhava will bring it herself.
(THE MASTER IS LAUGHING SO MUCH THAT HE HAS DIFFICULTY SPEAKING.
AVIRBHAVA IS ALSO LAUGHING LOUDLY.)
Now this is ... give it a try ... how he walks and makes the sound ... You will just be missing the tail, otherwise you are perfect.
We are going to make a museum of all kinds of toys which humanity has been worshipping, so when visitors come you can show them that "These are your gods!"
But as far as I am concerned, it is not needed at all for any buddhas to have preceded me or to precede you. I don't accept any followers and I don't accept any predecessors. Successors or Osho - The Miracle
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