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NO MAN, HAVING PUT HIS HAND TO THE PLOUGH, AND LOOKINGBACK, IS FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD."If you want to follow me, follow me. There is no way of going back. There is noneed: what is the point of saying goodbye? What is it going to serve? If you wantto follow me," Jesus says again and again in the gospel, "then you will have todeny your father, your mother; you will have to deny your family."Sometimes he looks almost cruel. One day he was standing in the village marketand a crowd was surrounding him. Somebody said, "Lord, your mother iswaiting outside the crowd."Jesus said, "Who is my mother, who is my brother, who is my father? Those whofollow me, those who are with me -- they are my brother, they are my father,they are my mother."Looks really cruel -- but he was not. He's not saying anything to his mother: he'ssaying to those people that if you're clinging to much to the family, the innerrevolution will not be possible, because the family is the first imprisonment.Then the religion you belong to is the second imprisonment... then the nationthat you belong to is the third imprisonment. One has to break them all, one hasto go beyond them all. Only then can one find the source: the source which isfreedom, the source which is God.NO MAN, HAVING PUT HIS HAND TO THE PLOUGH, AND LOOKINGBACK, IS FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. One has to renounce all that isfutile to gain that which is meaningful.Once it happened that a group of friends were sitting and talking about what themost essential thing is that cannot be renounced.Somebody said, "I cannot renounce my mother. She has given birth to me; I owemy life to her. I can renounce everything, but not my mother."Somebody else said, "I cannot renounce my wife because mother and father weregiven to me -- they were never my choice -- but my wife I have chosen. I have aresponsibility towards her, I cannot renounce her. But I can renounce everybodyelse."They went on this way. Somebody said he could not renounce his house,somebody else said something else. Mulla Nasrudin said, "I can do withouteverything except my navel."Everybody was puzzled -- just a navel? So they pressed him to explain it. Hesaid, "Whenever there is a holiday and I am at ease, I have leisure time, I liedown on my bed and eat celery."They said, "But how is that concerned with the navel? You can eat celery...."He said, "You don't understand. Without the navel I have nowhere to put thesalt." He puts the salt in his navel when he eats celery!But all your attachments are just that absurd. Except for your innermostconsciousness, everything can be renounced. Not that I say 'renounce it', butCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho
deep down one should live in renouncement -- one should be in the world, butone should remain in renouncement.You can live in the family, not being part of it; you can live in the society and yetout of it. It is a question of inner attitude. It is not a question of changing places,it is a question of changing the mind.The things that you are too attached to are not bad in themselves, remember.Father, mother, family, wife, children, money, house -- they are not bad inthemselves. The attachment is not bad because these things are bad or thesepersons and these relationships are bad: ATTACHMENT IS BAD.It can make you very stupid. Mulla Nasrudin suddenly became rich, he inheriteda great treasure. And, of course, what happens with newly rich people happenedwith him also: he wanted to show it, exhibit it.He called the greatest painter in the country to make a portrait of his wife.Nasrudin said that there was only one condition. "Remember it, don't forget it:the pearls must be in the painting." His wife was wearing many pearls anddiamonds: they must be there. He's not worried about the woman -- what shelooks like in the painting is not the question -- but the pearls and the diamondsshould be there.After a while when the painting was ready, the painter brought the painting.Mulla Nasrudin said, "Quite good, quite good. Only one thing: can't you makethe breasts a little smaller and the pearls a little bigger?"The mind of an exhibitionist, the mind of showing that you have somethingPrecious, valuable, the mind of the ego. The question is not of living in a palace:live in a palace, that's not the point; or live in a hut or live just by the side of theroad, that is not the point. The question is of the ego.You can be an exhibitionist in a palace; you can be an exhibitionist on the road. Ifyour mind is wanting somebody to know that you possess something, or youhave renounced something, then you are in a deep darkness that has to bebroken.Jesus says that one should not be attached and one should not look backwards.Looking back is an old habit with the human mind; you go on looking back.Either you look back or you look in the future -- and this is how you miss thepresent.The present is divine. The past is dead memory; the future is just hope, fiction.Reality is only in the present. That reality is God, that reality is the kingdom ofGod.Jesus said:NO MAN, HAVING PUT HIS HAND TO THE PLOUGH, AND LOOKINGBACK, IS FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.Just this is to be understood; nothing else has to be done. Just listen to me: youknow well that the past is past; it is no more, nothing can be done about it. Don'tCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho
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Come Follow To You, Vol 1Reflection
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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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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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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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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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tuned to the inner. She always clos
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move, and you can forget that anyth
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Wagner said, "Because I was unhappy
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afraid. Maybe you talk about freedo
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think of a world with four thousand
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You have to learn everything. I thi
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