Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

- for them he is the only begotten son of God. They are not saying anything aboutBuddha or against Buddha. They are not comparing.That's what I mean when I say Buddha is also the only begotten son, you arealso. Everybody in this world is unique. Once you attain to your innerrealization, you are the only begotten son of God -- as if the whole existenceexists for you and only for you. The trees flower for you and the birds sing foryou and the rivers flow for you and clouds gather together for you. You becomethe sole center of existence when you attain.Or, if you fall in love with a Buddha, a Jesus or anybody -- these assertions oflovers should not be taken as statements of fact. They are poetic realizations. Youcannot argue with them; they are not arguments at all. They assert something ofthe heart.AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, AND DWELT AMONG US... FULL OFGRACE AND TRUTH. Wherever truth is, there is grace. And wherever there isgrace, there is truth.Try to understand this. You can be graceful only when you are true. If you have acertain lie within you, that lie will disturb your grace, that lie will be poisonousto your beauty, because that lie has to be hidden, suppressed. Nobody is to beallowed to know it. You cannot be open; you will be shut by the lie.If you deceive, you cannot be free and flowing. You will be stuck with yourdeception. So I don't say that lies are bad because they are harmful to others --no. They are bad because you will miss your own grace. Deceptions are not badbecause you deceive others; deceptions are bad because they will disturb yourflow and you will not be flowing. You will start freezing. In many places you willbe stuck, dead. You will have blocks in your being.Look at a child. Every child has grace. Then where does it disappear to? Whenevery child brings grace in the world, where does it disappear? By and by it islost, and then everybody becomes graceless, ugly. It is rare that somebody iscapable of being as graceful as he was when he was a child. What happens? Whyis a child graceful?Have you seen a child whom you can say is ugly? No, that never exists. A child,and ugly, is impossible. All children are beautiful, unconditionally beautiful.They are flowing, and they are true. When they want to cry, they cry; when theywant to laugh, they laugh. When they are angry, they are angry, and when theyare loving, they are loving. They are true to the moment, they are neverdeceiving.But soon they learn the politics. Soon they will learn that: "Mother likes it if Ismile. It is easier to persuade her, it is easier to manipulate her, if I smile." Asmall child is becoming a politician! He waits. He may be angry inside, but whenthe mother comes he smiles because that is the only way to get the ice-cream.Now the smile is false, and a false smile is ugly because the whole being is not init; it is something painted from without. Then more and more things will beCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho