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societies -- the Jews. In fact, Moses must have been a great genius because heprovided the law, and Jews have survived all sorts of catastrophes. He must havegiven them a very permanent base. But he was a lawgiver, just as Manu was thelawgiver to Hindus. Moses is the Manu of Jews, he gave the law.Let me tell you a small story. It happened that Moses was passing and he cameacross a man who was praying. But he was doing such an absurd prayer (notonly absurd, but insulting to God) that Moses stopped. It was absolutelyunlawful. It is better not to pray than to pray in such a way, because the man wassaying things which are impossible to believe. The man was saying, "Let mecome close to you my God. my Lord, and I promise that I will clean your bodywhen it is dirty. Even if lice are there, I will take them away.... And I am a goodshoe-maker, I will make you perfect shoes. You are moving in such ancient shoes-- dirty, gone completely dirty.... And nobody looks after you, my Lord. I willlook after you. When you are ill, I will serve and give you medicine. And I am agood cook also!"This type of prayer he was doing! So Moses said, "Stop! Stop your nonsense!What are you saying? To whom are. you talking -- to God? And He has lice onHis body? And His clothes are dirty and you will clean them? And nobody isthere to look after Him, and you will be His cook? From whom have you learnedthis prayer?"The man said, "I have not learned it from anywhere. I am a very poor anduneducated man, and I don't know how to pray. I have made it up myself andthese are the things that I know. Lice trouble me very much, so He must be introuble. And sometimes the food is not good -- my wife is not a good cook -- andmy stomach aches. He must be also suffering. This is just my own experience thathas become my prayer. But if you know the right prayer, you teach me."So Moses taught him the right prayer. The man bowed down to Moses, thankedhim, tears of deep gratitude flowing, and he went away. Moses was very happy.He thought that he had done a good deed. He looked at the sky to see what Godthought about it.And God was very angry! He said, "I have sent you there to bring people closerto me, but you have thrown away one of my greatest lovers. Now he will bedoing the right prayer, but it won't be a prayer at all -- because prayer hasnothing to do with the law. It is LOVE. Love is a law unto itself; it needs no otherlaw."But Moses is the lawgiver. He founded the society: he brought the TenCommandments. Those Ten Commandments have remained the foundation ofthe whole Western world: Judaic, Christian, Mohammedan -- all three religionsdepend on the law of Moses.So the whole world has known only two lawgivers: the East knows Manu andthe West knows Moses. Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, they have been supplied thelaw by Manu, the law has been given by Manu, and Moses has given toMohammedans, Christians, Jews.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho
These two lawgivers have created the whole world. And there must besomething -- both are `M': Manu and Moses. Then comes Marx who is the third`M'. China, Russia -- he has given the law to them. These are the three great `M's'-- lawgivers.FOR THE LAW WAS GIVEN BY MOSES...Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave withothers; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law isan outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful,but that is not enough -- good, but not enough. If a person is simply lawful, hewill be dead. He will be a good citizen, but he will be dead. Law can be thefoundation of the society, but it cannot be the very building. You can live on thelaw, but you cannot LIVE in it. It has no space for that. For that, love is needed.Jesus was the fulfillment of Moses. What Moses started Jesus was completing,but Jews denied him; what Manu started Buddha was completing, but Hindusdenied him. Marx still needs a Buddha or a Jesus in the world. Someday he willcome, but Communists will deny him.They become law-oriented. Then love seems to be against law. In fact, law isneeded only so that love can become possible. Law is needed so that people canlive peacefully and love; law is not, in itself, the end. It is the means; love is theend. But when people become too law-abiding, then love itself seems to beunlawful. They become afraid of love because who knows? -- you are moving ona dangerous path.Love is mad; law is calculation. Law is dependable, the society can decide on it.But love is not reliable -- who will decide? Love knows no rules: it is notarithmetic, it is poetry. It is dangerous. Love is always wild, and law is social.Remember this: be lawful but don't end there, otherwise you lived in vain. Infact, you lived not. Be lawful because if you are not lawful you will be in trouble.You have to be in the society, you have to follow certain rules, but they are onlyrules. There is nothing ultimate about them, there is nothing from God aboutthem.Let me tell you this: the Ten Commandments were created by Moses. They werenot from God, they cannot be. Those Ten Commandments are human rules of thegame. "Don't steal! " -- because property is individual. But if the game changesand the property becomes shared, then "Don't steal!" will not be much of a law.Or if someday the world becomes really affluent then there will be so much thatnobody steals. Stealing is possible only if poverty is there. People are hungry andpoor -- they steal. But if the society is affluent, as it is going to be someday, andthere are too many things -- whatsoever you need, more is available -- then whowill be a thief? Then the commandment will disappear. there will be no need forit.The Ten Commandments are social. Moses brings the law; Jesus brings truth,grace, love. Love is from God, law is from the mind. Love is of God, law is ofman.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho
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Page 21 and 22: Ramakrishna functioned more freely
Page 23 and 24: And if you love me I know that you
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Page 31 and 32: Suddenly his whole science disappea
Page 33 and 34: The enemies asked, "Why have you co
Page 37 and 38: REPENT: FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN I
Page 39 and 40: What are you doing -- repenting? Yo
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Page 43 and 44: So first let God descend in you. Th
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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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the heart, unless it becomes a deep
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AND JESUS, WALKING BY THE SEA OF GA
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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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achieve anything. Don't try to beco
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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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comes to man he is a prophet. When
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easy. It is almost as if you love n
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the individual, it is a new being a
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Remember, he was killed by very goo
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happy with your father, come and be
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If you are afraid to go to a place
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This is the key message of Jesus: t
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done something wrong or not is irre
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I cannot prove it to you, I cannot
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It is already the whole. Nothing ex
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looks sad, very sad. You are sad an
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Always look at them as great artist
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Ordinarily your mind will agree wit
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When Jesus comes -- a man of consci
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about me -- never worried about him
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WHY DO YOU ALWAYS TELL US TO BE HAP
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The hero said, "There is something
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That's why a man like Jesus is so h
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Hence, religion. Religion is nothin
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If a guest comes to your house and
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Jesus knows: he says, "I am homeles
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worldly father you don't attain to
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When you start teaching you are not
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deep down one should live in renoun
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You cannot be identified with being
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To the actor, all roles are the sam
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He cried. For a moment he even beca
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it will try to again reclaim the fa
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DID JESUS BECOME THE CHRIST ON THE
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