Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

I cannot prove it to you, I cannot argue about it, because the more I argue aboutit and prove it to you, the more it will become impossible for you. If you becomeconvinced then the barrier is perfect because your conviction will be yourconviction -- and the new will come only when 'you' have gone totally. All yourconvictions, ideologies, arguments, proofs, have gone -- wholesale -- and onlyabsence is left. And in that absence, the heavens open and the spirit of Goddescends like a dove and lights on you.BUT WHOSOEVER WILL LOSE HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE, THE SAME SHALLSAVE IT.Why does Jesus insist: FOR MY SAKE? Look at the problem: if you are going todie completely and a new man is going to come only when you are no more, thenwho will be the bridge between you and the new? Who will be the bridge? Youcannot be the bridge otherwise the new will not be new; it will just be a modifiedold.The Master becomes the bridge. He says, "Die silently. I am there to look afteryou. Move into death; I will take care so that the new can come in. Don't beworried, you relax... FOR MY SAKE."That's why religion will never become a philosophy, it will never become atheology. It will never be based on arguments; it cannot be. The very nature of itforbids it. It will remain a trust. If you trust me, you can die easily without fear.You know that I am there. You love me and you know that I love you, so whyfear?It happened: a young man, recently married, was going on his honeymoon. Hewas a samurai, a Japanese warrior. They were going on a boat to an island whensuddenly a storm came. The boat was small and the storm was tremendouslyterrible, so there was every possibility that they would be drowned.The wife became very much afraid. She started trembling. She looked at thesamurai, her husband, but he was sitting silently. It was as if nothing washappening. And they were in the throes of death! At any moment the boat wouldgo under water.The woman said, "What are you doing? Why are you sitting like a statue?"The samurai pulled his sword out of its sheath -- the wife could not believe it:what was he doing? -- and he put his naked sword right near the throat of thewife. She started laughing, and he said, "Why are you laughing? The sword is sonear your throat -- just a little move and your head will go."The wife said, "But it is in your hands, so there is no problem. The sword isdangerous, but it is in your hands."The samurai put his sword back and said, "The storm is in my God's hands. Thestorm is dangerous, but it is in the hands of somebody whom I love and wholoves me. That's why I am unafraid."Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho