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Chapter 7 - The mysterious one
But he got out of the boat from the other side and immediately started drowning and shouting, "Help! Help!"
So the rabbi asked the other bishop, "Should we tell the old boy the right way to walk on water? It has to be on this side of the boat. There are stones ... you have to know exactly where the stones are. Then anybody can do it."
Poor fellow ... stepped out on the wrong side. Neither faith nor no-faith is going to help.
But people go on insisting, particularly the priesthood of the all the religions.
Nikos Kazantzakis was expelled from the Orthodox Church of Greece, because he wrote a book on Jesus as if he were a human being, not a son of God. Of course human beings cannot walk on water. They go on water in the proper way
-- in a small boat or a big boat. But the Orthodox Church expelled him for making Jesus Christ a human being. In his book Jesus falls in love with Mary Magdalen. Now that is absolutely insulting to the orthodox mind.
Just yesterday Anando brought me the news that in America they have been trying to make a film based on that book. But continually the government comes in, the church comes in, and there are huge demonstrations that the making of the film should be stopped. And the only point in the film they insist is wrong ... It's very human, Jesus hanging on the cross falls asleep, nothing to do ... and thinks of Mary Magdalen. That is the problem, he simply dreams of his girlfriend.
Now another producer has taken courage, knowing perfectly well that the film will be banned, will have to go underground. But it is worth making to bring Jesus down to the earth, to make him a son of the earth. What is wrong in it? The poor fellow is hanging on the cross, isn't that enough? You cannot give him even the small solace of dreaming about his girlfriend? I don't think there is anything wrong about it.
In fact if Jesus was ever crucified he must have thought of Mary Magdalen. What else was there to think of? He was finished with God, he had shouted at
God, "Father, have you forsaken me? -- because six hours have passed, I am hanging here and no miracle is happening. I was hoping that you would come sitting on a white cloud, playing 'Alleluia!' on the harp. I can see all around -- there is no white cloud, no song on the harp, no sign that you are even aware that your only begotten son is being hanged."
In such a situation it is absolutely natural that he must have said in his mind, "Fuck it!"
What else to do? And he must have realized that he had been unnecessarily stupid, otherwise a beautiful woman ... and he could have lived silently, peacefully. But he unnecessarily got into this trip ...
All these people have been made ninety percent fictitious simply to raise them above the rest of humanity.
THEREFORE, FOLLOWERS OF THE WAY, THE ONE WHO IS NOW LISTENING
TO MY EXPOUNDING OF THE DHARMA IS CERTAINLY NOT YOUR FOUR
ELEMENTS, BUT ONE WHO CAN MAKE use OF YOUR FOUR ELEMENTS.
Buddhists believe that the body is made of four elements. And the fifth is your consciousness, which is not part of the body but lives in the body; which can go out, can enter into another womb. This fifth is your reality. In your deep silence you start disentangling yourself from the body, from the mind, from the heart. And what remains is just a pure space.
Osho - The Miracle 95
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