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five hundred days -- no. The plant used to double itself so half the pond wouldbe covered on the nine hundred ninety-ninth day and only one day would beleft. But that would not be sufficient time to cut the plant or to keep it to the half.And it happened. On the nine hundred ninety-ninth day the pond was halfcoveredand the man said -- he was not feeling very well, a little sick -- he said,"There is no hurry. I have waited nine hundred ninety-nine days and there wasno trouble. Now it is just a question of one more day. After one day I will do it."The next morning the whole pond was covered and all the trout were dead.This is the puzzle of life. It is a dilemma; one has to choose. If you go onaccumulating things and possessions, the plant is doubling on the pond. Everyday your things go on growing and your life is suffocated. Life looks too long --seventy years, eighty years. There is no hurry. People think, "When we reach tothe mid-point, we will change."People always wait for religion until they get old. People go on saying thatreligion is for old people. Go into the churches, into the temples, and you willfind old people -- just on the verge of death. Their one foot is already in thegrave: the nine hundred ninety-ninth day. The next morning, life is going to besuffocated. Then they start praying, then they start meditating, then they startthinking of what life is -- what is the meaning of existence? But then it is too late.Religion needs a deep urgency. If you postpone it, you will never be able tobecome religious. It has to be done right now. As it is you are already late, as it isyou have already wasted much time -- and wasted it in futile things, wasted it inthings that are going to be taken away from you.You have to pay for all those things, with life. Whatsoever you possess, you loselife for it. It is not cheap; it is very costly. One day you have many possessions,but you are no longer there. Things are there; the owner, dead. Great piles ofthings... but the one who wanted to live through them; no more.People go on preparing for life -- and they die before their preparation iscomplete. People prepare, and never live. To be religious is to live life, not toprepare for it. You are doing a very absurd thing: your rehearsal goes on and onand the real drama never starts.I have heard about a small drama company. They were rehearsing. The realdrama was getting postponed every day because the rehearsal was nevercomplete. One day the heroine was not there, another day some other actor wasnot there, one day something else happened -- the electricity failed or something-- and it went on being postponed. But the manager was happy for at least onething: that the hero of the drama had always been present, he had never beenabsent.The last rehearsal day he thanked the hero. He said, "You are the only personwho can be relied upon. All these other people are unreliable. You are the onlyone who has never been absent. Summer or winter, cold or hot, you have alwaysbeen here."Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho
The hero said, "There is something I would like to say. I am going to get marriedon the day the real drama is going to be played, so I thought that I should at leastattend the rehearsals. I will not be here on that day -- that's why I have neverabsented myself."Know well that exactly on the day when the real drama is to start, you will not behere. It is just the rehearsal: preparation and preparation.Possessing things is simply preparing to live, arranging so that you will be ableto live. But to live, no arrangement is needed; everything is already ready.Everything is absolutely ready; only you are needed to participate. Nothing islacking. This is what I call the religious attitude: this urgency that you have tolive now and there is no other way to live. Now is the only way to live and to be,and here is the only ho me. There and then are deceptions, mirages.... Beware ofthem.Now try to understand these very significant sutras of the gospel:AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, AS THEY WENT IN THE WAY, A CERTAINMAN SAID UNTO HIM, LORD, I WILL FOLLOW THEE WHITHERSOEVERTHOU GOEST.When you come across a man like Jesus or Buddha, something suddenly strikes.They have a magnetism, a presence which attracts you, which surrounds you,invokes you, invites you, becomes a deep call in the heart of hearts. You simplyforget yourself; you forget your way of life. In the presence of a Jesus, you arealmost absent. His presence is so much that for a moment you are dazzled, for amoment you don't know what you are saying, for a moment you utter things younever meant to utter -- as if you are hypnotized.It IS a hypnosis. Not that Jesus is hypnotizing you -- his very presence becomes aconcentration of your being. It becomes such a deep attraction that the wholeworld is forgotten. You must have been going so mew here to do something: youhave forgotten it. You must have been coming from so mew here: you haveforgotten about it. Suddenly, in his presence, the past and future disappear.Suddenly you are here and now and a different world opens: new dimension isrevealed.AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, AS THEY WENT IN THE WAY, A CERTAINMAN SAID UNTO HIM, LORD, I WILL FOLLOW THEE WHITHERSOEVERTHOU GOEST.This man doesn't know himself what he is saying. It is an urge of the moment.After a moment he will repent for it, after a moment he will start lookingbackwards, after a moment he will start thinking about what he has done.When you come to me, sometimes you say things which I know you don't mean,which I know you can't mean, because they are so irrelevant, they don't fit -- as ifCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho
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Hence I have chosen to talk on Chri
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Christ rose high. Jews had been wai
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you assert so silently that even yo
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enlightened. You are full of light
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him. Buddha was born a Hindu: Hindu
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can become flesh, it can be uttered
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painted, more and more personalitie
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These two lawgivers have created th
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Ramakrishna functioned more freely
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And if you love me I know that you
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That's the problem. You ask, "Why d
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And when God happens, everything ha
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cannot easily become an atheist and
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Suddenly his whole science disappea
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The enemies asked, "Why have you co
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REPENT: FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN I
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What are you doing -- repenting? Yo
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If you repent, conversion happens.
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So first let God descend in you. Th
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the innermost revolution that he wa
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In the last days of his life, befor
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Jesus is peace, silence. He is not
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so direct, God is very indirect. He
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ody may be there, tremendously beau
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an old man, uneducated but wise thr
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oats together and they are moving i
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you are taking a bath, the answer c
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Watch people who think of committin
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toes, it will not go to your whole
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And unless it is an experience, it
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why I insist: drop a little out of
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If I can get it down and look at it
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they don't have their own eyes; the
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It is said that travellers in forei
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presence is second. Sariputta would
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intelligence, the more possibility
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Only if God is enthroned in you --
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