Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

possibility to awaken. Maybe that's why he turned to this man and said, "Followme." He must have seen death in his eyes, he must have felt death around him.Of course, it was bound to be so -- the father was dead.But still the man could not contain himself. He had to come to see this man,Jesus. Maybe because of death Jesus became significant, maybe because of deathhe became aware that everybody is going to die. Maybe because of that he hadcome to Jesus in search of life.The first man was just an onlooker; the second man was ready. Death preparesyou. If you can use death, if you can use pain and anguish, if you can usesuffering, misery, that can become a step towards the divine.Shocked, this man must have been standing there almost as if he himself wasdead. Thinking must have stopped. In such a shock you cannot afford thinking.If the shock is really total, even tears cannot flow. For tears to flow, the shock hasto be not total. If the shock is total, one is simply shocked. Nothing moves: timestops, the world disappears, thoughts drop. One is dazed, one just looks withempty eyes -- hollow. One simply looks, not looking at anything. Have you seenthat type of look sometimes in madmen's eyes, or sometimes immediately aftersomebody has died who was very intimate?Jesus must have watched: this man was ready. Let me tell you, unless you haveexperienced death, you are not ready. Life is very superficial; it is just on theperiphery, just on the surface. Death is deep -- it is as deep as God -- so only fromdeath is the conversion possible. Only in the moment of death do you change.Your outlook changes, your attitudes change, the old world becomes irrelevant.Buddha was transformed by seeing a dead man....Jesus must have looked -- AND HE SAID UNTO ANOTHER, FOLLOW ME.Only one who has known death can follow Jesus.If you have known death, only then can you follow me. If you have knownsuffering and the cleansing that comes out of suffering, if you have known painand the shock that is a by-product of pain, then and only then can you be withme. Otherwise sooner or later you disperse because life goes on calling you back;there are a thousand and one things to be fulfilled yet. You will continually begoing backwards.Only when death cuts the bridge, breaks all the ties with life, is there a possibilitythat you will turn -- turn your back to the world and face God. That's why, in onesentence, Jesus says two things which on the surface look irrelevant: LET THEDEAD BURY THEIR DEAD: BUT GO THOU AND PREACH THE KINGDOMOF GOD.This man is not even a disciple -- he is a stranger standing by the side of the road-- and Jesus says, "Go and preach the kingdom of God." This is my observationalso: that the best way to learn a thing is to teach it.The best way to learn a thing is to teach it, I repeat it, because when you startteaching, you are learning. When you are simply learning you are too selfcenteredand that very selfcentering becomes a barrier.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho