Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

easy. It is almost as if you love nobody. To love humanity is equal to lovingnobody. Then there is no problem, no difficulty.Religion is something that happens between you and the concrete existence. It isnot concerned with fictions. And religion is not tradition. Tradition belongs totime; religion belongs to eternity. To move into religion you have to move in theeternal now. Religion has no history. In this, the West has to learn somethingfrom the East.In the East we have never bothered about history. The reason... the reason issimple. All history is about time, that which happens in time is recorded inhistory. History is a dead book. We have never bothered about history becausereligion belongs to eternity: you cannot record it as an event; it is an eternalprocess. You can only record the essential fact of it, the essential truth of it, notthe ripples that are made in the river of time.That's why if you go to a Jain temple and see the twenty-fourTEERTHANKARAS you will be confused about who is who. They all look alike.You will not be able to make any sense out of it -- why do these twenty-fourTEERTHANKARAS of the Jains all look alike? They cannot be alike -- theyexisted in different ages, they were different individuals -- but we have notbothered about events in time. 'Body' is an event in time. The difference in bodiesis past history, but the innermost being, which is in eternity, is the same withinme, within you, within everybody. The form differs, but the innermost center isthe same. Those twenty-four TEERTHANKARAS in the Jain temples saysomething about the innermost being. That's why they have been sculptured tobe similar. Look at Buddha. He also looks like Mahavir: there is no difference.They are not facts, they are truths.Religion is not concerned with facts, it is concerned with truth. The facts can belearned from books -- truth, never. If you become too involved with the facts,your eyes will be clouded and confused, and you will not be able to know thetruth. Beware of facts! -- they can lead you astray. Sort out the truth. Always tryto find the truth; don't be bothered too much about facts. Facts are irrelevant.That which changes is the fact and that which remains always the same is thetruth. Your body is a fact: one day you were a child, now you are a young man oran old man; one day you were born, one day you will die -- the body changes.But the YOU who abides in the body, who has made it a temporary abode -- that'you' is eternal, that is the truth. It is formless, it has no qualities. It is immortal; itis eternity.Religion is not a tradition, so you cannot borrow religion. You will have to riskyourself; you will have to earn it. You will have to stake your life for it; that is theonly way there is. You cannot get it cheap. If you want to get it cheap, you willget a counterfeit.Religion is not consolation. It is, on the contrary, a challenge: God challengesman, God haunts man, God goes on crying, "Return! Enthrone me!" He will notleave you at rest. He will go on knocking at your doors; He will go on creatingCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho