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CHAPTER 4. APOLOGIES
Alive means: whatsoever comes, I will be there to respond, and the response will come from me,
not from the memory. I will not prepare it.
See the difference when a Christian missionary or a Christian minister, a priest, prepares his
sermon.
I once visited a theological college. There they prepare their ministers, their priests – five years’
training. So I asked them where Jesus was prepared and trained, who taught him how to speak.
Of course these Christian priests are dead, everything about them is planned. When you say this,
a certain gesture is to be made; even the gesture is not allowed to be spontaneous. When you say
that, you have to have a certain look; even the eyes are not allowed to be spontaneous. How you
have to stand, when you have to shout, and when you have to whisper, when you have to hammer
the table and when not – everything is planned.
I asked them where Jesus was trained. He was not a minister at all, he was not a priest. He never
went to any theological college, he was the son of a carpenter.
For two thousand years Christian priests have been trained but they have not produced a single
Jesus, and they will never produce one again because Jesus cannot be produced. You cannot
produce Jesus in a factory. And these are factories, these theological colleges. There you produce
priests, and if these priests are just boring, dead, a burden, it is obvious that it is going to be so.
There are two types of religion. One is of the mind – it is dead. That religion is known as theology.
Then there is the other type of religion, the real, the spontaneous. It is not theological, it is mystical.
And remember, Hindus have one theology, Mohammedans another, Christ-ians again another, but
religion, the mystic religion, is the same; it cannot be different.
Buddha and Jesus and Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu, they are the same because they are not
theologians. They are not talking from the head, they are simply pouring from their heart. They
are not logicians, they are poets. They are not saying something from the scriptures, they are not
trained for it, they are simply responding to a necessity in you. Their words are not readymade, their
manners not fixed, their behavior not planned.
Now we will enter Chuang Tzu’s sutra.
IF A MAN STEPS ON A STRANGER’S FOOT
IN THE MARKETPLACE,
HE MAKES A POLITE APOLOGY
AND OFFERS AN EXPLANATION:
”THIS PLACE IS SO CROWDED.”
Apology is needed because there is no relationship, the other is a stranger. Explanation is needed
because there is no love. If there is love then there is no need for an explanation, the other will
The Empty Boat 67 Osho