Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS JESUS SAT AT MEAT IN THE HOUSE, BEHOLD,MANY PUBLICANS AND SINNERS CAME AND SAT DOWN WITH HIMAND HIS DISCIPLES.This has to be understood. It is a very delicate point: that whenever a man likeJesus is on the earth, sinners recognize him before your so-called righteouspeople -- because sinners have nothing to lose except their sins. Sinners don'thave opinionated minds; they don't have theologies and scriptures. Sinners havea sense that their lives have been futile, sinners have an urgency to repent andreturn.But the so-called respectable people -- trustees of temples and churches, mayors,politicians, leaders, pundits, scholars -- have much to lose and no urgency ofbeing, no intensity to transform themselves -- no desire in fact. They are dull anddead. Sinners are more alive than your so-called saints, and sinners are morecourageous than your so-called saints. To come near, to come close to Jesus,needs courage.Have you watched that your so-called saints are not really religious, but simplypeople who are afraid? Afraid of hell, afraid of God's punishment... or greedy,greedy and ambitious to achieve heaven: the awards and blessings of God. Butthey are not truly religious. When you are truly religious you don't bother abouthell and heaven, you don't bother about anything. This very moment you are sodeeply in heaven -- who bothers about the heaven which comes after death?Sinners are more courageous, they risk. And, BEHOLD, many PUBLICANSAND SINNERS CAME AND SAT DOWN WITH HIM AND HIS DISCIPLES.AND WHEN THE PHARISEES SAW IT -- the respectable people, the righteous --THEY SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, WHY EATETH YOUR MASTER WITHPUBLICANS AND SINNERS?Their mind is always concerned with such foolish things: with whom you areeating, with whom you are sitting. They don't look directly into Jesus; they aremore interested in whom he is sitting with. He is sitting with sinners -- that istheir problem now. Jesus does not create any ripple in their being, but the sinnerscreate anxiety. How can they come and sit with this Master?Sinners are there. The condemned people for whom they have invented hell aresitting there. Your so-called saints won't allow those sinners to be so close --never. They would not like to be in their company at all. Why? Why are yoursaints so afraid of sinners?They are afraid of their own inner fear, afraid that if they are with sinners it ismore possible that the sinners WILL CONVERT THEM than the possibility of thesinners being converted by the saints. They are afraid. They are afraid of thesinner inside them. That's why there is the fear of the sinner outside. Alwaysremember that whatsoever you say ultimately refers to you, not to anything else.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho