From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 23. CONSCIENCE: A COFFIN FOR CONSCIOUSNESS
We can’t change your constitution and your legal structure, so we decided: okay, let one sannyasin
fall into the gutter. Let him become the mayor, what else to do? K.D. is suffering in the gutter, and
we will pull him out. We will not leave him there forever, because he has not come here to become
a mayor! Nor is anybody concerned in becoming the attorney general of Oregon or the governor of
Oregon or the president of America. Nobody is interested at all.
We are interested simply in being left alone.
But these people are strange, they cannot leave us alone. They are afraid, they are worried. They
are suspicious: what is happening, what is going on? They are not even courageous enough to
come here and see; just on rumors, public opinion... and that public has also not come here. And
these people go on deciding things!
The city of Rajneeshpuram the attorney general has declared illegal. This is a unique situation; in
fact a unique city in the whole world, because there is no city in the whole world which is illegal,
and there never has been before. Either a city is a city, or it is not a city. But an illegal city... that’s
something that is absolutely unique!
But leave all this nonsense to these people. They should also create a post in Oregon: the Idiot
General of Oregon, and he should be given all these kinds of things to do. Then one can understand
that it is just humor; one can laugh at it and enjoy it. But they are very serious people; they are not
doing these things out of a sense of humor. And my religion has a basic quality: a sense of humor.
If out of sheer being with me, with my people, a trust is born in you... and it is not trust in God, it is
not trust in somebody particular; it is just a quality, unaddressed.
There is no address on the envelope: ”In God we trust.” Who are you to trust in God? On what
authority do you trust in God? – you don’t know God. You are dragging God also to the same status
as a dollar, making him a thing of the marketplace. And you cannot find anything more dirty than
currency, because it moves in so many hands.
I have not touched any note for thirty-five years. It is the dirtiest thing. Not that I am against money
but it is the most dirty thing. All kinds of people... somebody may have cancer, somebody may have
tuberculosis, somebody may have AIDS... and who knows what he has been doing with his notes?
Anything is possible, because people are so perverted, they can do anything with the bank notes. I
said, ”I am not going to touch them” – and I stopped touching them. And on that note you write, ”In
God we trust”? Please forgive God and forget all about Him.
The trust that arises in my sannyasins is simply a quality of their heart; they just start trusting. It is
not trust in something. They start trusting; even when they are deceived, they trust: knowing that
this man has deceived them, they trust. It is not a question of whom, it is just their aroma.
In the university I had to live for a few days with a roommate. I had never lived with anybody but
there was no space and the vice-chancellor said to me, ”For a few days you manage and I will find
some other place for you. I can understand that you will not like anybody to be in the room, and it
is good for the other fellow also that he is not in your room, because you may drive him crazy. I will
arrange it.”
From Ignorance to Innocence 337 Osho