Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

But Judas was blind to it. He was a man of conscience: he looked at the perfumeand he said, "It is costly." He was completely blind to the woman and her heart,and the expansion of consciousness in the gesture. Perfume looked too preciousand love -- love was completely unknown to him.Love was there. The immaterial was there and the material was there. Thematerial is the perfume, the immaterial is the love. But the immaterial Judascould not see. For that, you need eyes of consciousness.A man of conscience will always be in conflict with a man of consciousnessbecause the man of consciousness sees things which the man of consciencecannot see. And the man of consciousness follows his consciousness: he has norules to follow.If you have rules you are always consistent because rules are dead. You are alsodead with them: you are predictable. But if you have consciousness, you areunpredictable -- one never knows. You remain a total freedom. You respond, youdon't have any ready-made answers to give. When the question arises, yourespond and the answer is born. Not only is the listener surprised by youranswer -- you are also surprised.When I answer you, it is not only that you are listening to it. I am also a listener.It is not only that you hear it for the first time; I also hear it for the first time. Idon't know what the next word or sentence is going to be. It can move in anydirection, it can move in any dimension.That's what I mean when I say that I remain a learner. Not only are you learningwith me; I am also learning with you.I am never in a state of knowledge because a state of knowledge is dead. Youhave known something: it is readymade. Now if somebody asks you can give itto him; it is already material.I am never in a state of knowledge; I am always in the process of knowing. To bein the process of knowing is what I mean when I say I am learning. Knowledge isalready past; knowing is Present. Life is not a noun, it is a verb. God is also not anoun, God is a verb. Whatever the grammarians say, I am not concerned. God isa verb, life is a verb.Knowing, learning, means that you always remain in a vacuum. You nevergather anything. You always remain empty like a mirror, not like a photographicplate. A photographic plate immediately comes to a state of know]edge. Onceexposed, it is already dead. Now it will never mirror anybody else; it hasmirrored once, forever. But a mirror goes on mirroring. When you come beforeit, it mirrors you. When you are gone, it is again empty.This is what I mean: a man of learning remains empty. You raise a question. It ismirrored in my emptiness... an answer comes and flows to you. The questiongone, the answer disappeared, the mirror is again in a state of nonknowing --empty, again ready to reflect. It is not hindered by its past, it is always in thepresent and always ready. Not ready-made, but always ready to reflect, torespond.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho