From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 25. JESUS – THE ONLY SAVIOR WHO NEARLY SAVED HIMSELF
Now these people are gathering details of your underground life, which is very dangerous because
that man now has every power over you. Whatsoever he says, you have to do it. Now, the pope is
trying to save the priesthood and its power, and its hold over you. It has nothing to do with saving
you, because what is the problem in confessing directly to God? What can this priest do? But no,
you have to go via the right channel, the proper bureaucracy. Even with God there is a bureaucracy:
you have to go through the priest. You cannot contact God directly.
This is his great message to humanity: disconnecting you from God completely; your only approach
is the priest. It is none of your affair to think of having any direct contact with God. Now is this a
religion?
True religion teaches you that you are part of this existence, already connected with it, already one
with
The pope is teaching that you are not connected, that you are a lost soul; only through the priest
can you be saved.
So when these Bible-packing Christians come to you, tell them, ”In the first place we are not lost,
so don’t waste your time. In this place nobody is lost, we have never been lost, so the question of
saving does not arise. And for your sake, we advise you, don’t come near here because our whole
effort is to unsave people who believe that they are saved. If you go on coming here, we will unsave
you again.”
In India I have come across these kinds of people; they are the most stupid type. And perhaps if
they are Oregonians – and they must be – then they have an even better chance of being idiotic. In
fact, listening to the question I thought that it would be a good idea to have a special election on the
first of April every year.
All Oregonians would be eligible candidates and eligible voters. The only hearing process would be
that before the polling booth they would have to do twenty minutes’ deep breathing. That is enough
to prove that they are Oregonians. A simple process, not like Norma Paulus’ difficult process – I
believe in simple things. Just breathe for twenty minutes and that is enough proof that you have
lived in Oregon. And twenty minutes are enough to contaminate anybody.
This election will choose three persons: The Idiot General for Oregon, the Idiot General for America,
and the Idiot General for the whole world. But all the three can only be Oregonians. If nobody stands
then you can fill in the name of anybody you feel is the right person. And the polling booth will only
be in this unique illegal city of Rajneeshpuram.
So each April I now give this work to poor K.D., the mayor of the illegal city of Rajneeshpuram:
he has to listen to the hearing, the twenty minutes’ breathing, and then everybody... and no age
limit, because children are more capable of seeing who is an idiot. By the time you become older,
you become duller. And living with idiots, and dealing with idiots, you start, by and by, speaking
their language. So even children, anybody who wants, man, woman, living, dead... just the hearing
process will decide who can vote. The dead person of course will be in difficulty, but he need breathe
for twenty minutes only.
From Ignorance to Innocence 365 Osho