Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

Always look at them as great artists. A painter simply paints a picture; a poetsimply writes a poem... a Jesus creates a human being. A poet changes a canvas:it was plain, ordinary; it becomes precious by his touch. But can't you see thatJesus touches very ordinary people -- a fisherman, Simon called Peter -- hetouches, and by his very touch this man is transformed into a great apostle, agreat human being. A height arises, a depth is opened. This man is no longerordinary. He was just a fisherman throwing his net in the sea and he would havedone that his whole life -- even for many lives -- and would never even havethought, imagined, dreamt, what Jesus transformed into a reality.In India we have a mythology about a stone called paras. The stone paras isalchemical. You touch iron with the paras and it is transformed into gold. Jesus isa paras. He touches ordinary metal and immediately the metal is transformed, itbecomes gold. He transforms ordinary human beings into deities, and you don'tsee the art in it. Greater art is not possible.To me, the gospels are poetic. If I speak again on the same gospel, I will notspeak the same, remember. I don't know in what mood, in what climate, I will bethen. I don't know from which door I will enter then. And my house of God hasmany mansions. It is not finite.Question 3YESTERDAY AFTER THE LECTURE I APPROACHED SMALL SIDDHARTHABY THE DRINKING WATER. HAVING READ WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT HIMBEING ONE OF THE ANCIENT ONES, I CROUCHED DOWN, LOOKED INTOHIS EYES AND SAID, "OSHO TOLD ME WHO YOU ARE." HE SMILED,LOOKED DEEPLY AT ME, AND TWICE THREW WATER ON MY HEAD. HETHEN SOFTLY HIT ME ON THE HEAD AND SAID QUIETLY, "SHUT UP."THERE WAS SILENCE. IT WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL.It must have been. He baptized you by water. It was a baptism. And he is veryinnocent; more than John the Baptist. His innocence is very spontaneous.You should crouch more often before him. And you should allow him to throwwater and hit you more. And when he says, "Shut up," then shut up and remainin silence.He is a tremendously beautiful child.Question 4WHEN I REFLECT ON CHRIST'S PERSECUTION TWO THOUSAND YEARSAGO, I FEEL THAT IN THE MEANTIME NOTHING MUCH HAS CHANGEDIN PEOPLE'S ATTITUDES TOWARDS A LIVING MESSIAH IN THEIR MIDST.SUSPICION, CYNICISM AND MISTRUST SEEM TO BE ALL AROUND JUSTAS BEFORE. COULD IT BE THAT YOU, TOO, ONE DAY WILL BEPERSECUTED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT? LOOKING AROUND THEAUDITORIUM, I FANCY THAT I CAN SPOT THE DOUBTING THOMAS, THECome Follow To You Vol 1Osho