From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 18. ONE GOD, ONE MESSENGER, ONE BOOK – ONE BIG LIE
Celebrate the moment.
Why be bothered for the future?
And remember one thing: anybody who tries, after me, to make a tradition is my enemy, is not my
friend and is not your friend either.
He belongs to the devil.
He is now creating a church – and then the popes will come and everything. Then the businesses
start and businessmen come in and religion disappears completely.
It is better it disperses in the universe, rather than becomes a part of the religious marketplace.
So whenever people ask me, ”What is going to happen to your religion when you are not?” I say,
”Why should you be worried? While I am here, it is enough.” And there will be people... somebody
will blossom and there will be religions. People will go on blossoming, but don’t make traditions
because those traditions prevent other people from blossoming. Leave the space. If you had not
been told to be a Jew or a Hindu or a Mohammedan or a Christian, and space had been left for you,
perhaps you may have blossomed by now.
But from the very beginning they started clipping you, cutting you, cropping you....
Mukta was my gardener in Poona. She was always moving around with scissors, and whenever she
would see me she would hide her scissors. I said, ”Don’t do this. Why are you unnecessarily cutting
these trees?” One tree particularly she used to call a monster, because she wanted to cut it. So first
you have to call it a monster and then it becomes easy to cut.
First you give it a bad name – it is a cult – and then it is good to destroy it. It was a monster.... And it
was such a beautiful tree, it was growing huge, but whenever I was not watching, she was cutting it.
If it is a monster, then let it be a monster; it is that tree’s nature. Who are we to destroy it or to give it
the shape of our ideas? Mukta has been in difficulty with me because she is Greek and follows the
tradition of Aristotle – logical, mathematical. She wanted to create a European garden around my
house.
I said, ”It is not possible.” And a European garden, particularly the English garden, is so much
against nature, because where in nature do you find symmetry? But in an English garden you will
find symmetry. They will cut two trees symmetrically, will make lawns symmetrical, will put plants
symmetrically....
Symmetry is unnatural, nature is asymmetrical.
So in a Zen garden in Japan you will not find any symmetry. Even if there is, the Zen people won’t
allow it; they will disturb the symmetry – something has gone wrong.
Nature is wild, and when it is wild it has freedom.
A religious person is also wild.
From Ignorance to Innocence 259 Osho