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I WILL SPEAK ON CHRIST, but not on Christianity. Christianity has nothing todo with Christ. In fact, Christianity is anti-Christ -- just as Buddhism is anti-Buddha and Jainism anti-Mahavir. Christ has something in him which cannot beorganized: the very nature of it is rebellion and a rebel]ion cannot be organized.The moment you organize it, you kill it. Then the dead corpse remains. You canworship it, but you cannot be transformed by it. You can carry the load forcenturies and centuries, but it will only burden you, it will not liberate you.That's why, from the beginning, let it be absolutely clear: I am all for Christ, butnot even a small part of me is for Christianity. If you want Christ, you have to gobeyond Christianity. If you cling too much to Christianity, you will not be able tounderstand Christ. Christ is beyond all churches.Christ is the very principle of religion. In Christ all the aspirations of humanityare fulfilled. He is a rare synthesis. Ordinarily a human being lives in agony,anguish, anxiety, pain and misery. If you look at Krishna, he has moved to theother polarity: he lives in ecstasy. There is no agony left; the anguish hasdisappeared. You can love him, you can dance with him for a while, but thebridge will be missing. You are in agony, he is in ecstasy -- where is the bridge?A Buddha has gone even farther away. He is neither in agony, nor in ecstasy. Heis absolutely quiet and calm. He is so far away that you can look at him, but youcannot believe that he is. It looks like a myth -- maybe a wish fulfillment ofhumanity. How can such a man walk on this earth, so transcendental to all agonyand ecstasy? He is too far away.Jesus is the culmination of all aspiration. He is in agony as you are, as everyhuman being is born -- in agony on the cross. He is in the ecstasy that sometimesa Krishna achieves: he celebrates; he is a song, a dance. And he is alsotranscendence. There are moments, when you come closer and closer to him,when you will see that his innermost being is neither the cross nor hiscelebration, but transcendence.That's the beauty of Christ: there exists a bridge. You can move towards him byand by, and he can lead you towards the unknown -- and so slowly that you willnot even be aware when you cross the boundary, when you enter the unknownfrom the known, when the world disappears and God appears. You can trusthim, because he is so like you and yet so unlike. You can believe in him becausehe is part of your agony; you can understand his language.That's why Jesus became a great milestone in the history of consciousness. It isnot just coincidental that Jesus' birth has become the most important date inhistory. It has to be so. Before Christ, one world; after Christ, a totally differentworld has existed -- a demarcation in the consciousness of man. There are somany calendars, so many ways, but the calendar that is based on Christ is themost significant. With him something has changed in man; with him somethinghas penetrated into the consciousness of man. Buddha is beautiful, superb, butnot of this world; Krishna is lovable -- but still the bridge is missing. Christ is thebridge.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho
Hence I have chosen to talk on Christ. But remember always, I am not talking onChristianity. The Church is always anti-Christ. Once you try to organize arebellion, the rebellion has to be subsided. You cannot organize a storm -- howcan you organize a rebellion? A rebellion is true and alive only when it is a chaos.With Jesus, a chaos entered into human consciousness. Now the organization isnot to be done on the outside, in the society; the order has to be brought into theinnermost core of your being. Christ has brought a chaos. Now, out of that chaos,you have to be born totally new, an order coming from the innermost being -- nota new Church but a new man, not a new society but a new human consciousness.That is the message.And these words from the gospel of St. John -- you must have heard them somany times, you must have read them so many times. They have become almostuseless, meaningless, insignificant, trivial. They have been repeated so manytimes that now no bell rings within you when you hear them. But these wordsare tremendously potential. You may have lost the significance of them, but ifyou become a little alert, aware, the meaning of these words can be reclaimed. Itis going to be a struggle to reclaim the meaning... just like you reclaim a landfrom the ocean.Christianity has covered these beautiful words with so many interpretations thatthe original freshness is lost -- through the mouths of the priests who are simplyrepeating like parrots without knowing what they are saying: without knowing,without hesitating, without trembling before the sacredness of these words. Theyare simply repeating words like mechanical robots. Their gestures are false,because everything has been trained.Once I was invited to a Christian theological college. I was surprised when theytook me around the college. It is one of the greatest theological colleges in India:every year they prepare two hundred to three hundred Christian priests andmissionaries there -- a five-year training. And everything has to be taught: evenhow to stand on the pulpit, how to speak, where to give more emphasis, how tomove your hands -- everything has to be taught. Then everything becomes false,then the person is just making empty gestures.These words are like fire, but through centuries of repetition, parrot-likerepetition, much dust has gathered around the fire My effort will be to uncoverthem again. Be very alert because we will be treading on a well-known path in avery unknown way, treading on very well-known territory with a very different,totally new attitude. The territory is going to be old. My effort will be to give youa new consciousness to see it. I would like to lend you my eyes so that you cansee the old things in new light. And when you have new eyes, everythingbecomes new. Listen:IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD,AND THE WORD WAS GOD.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho
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Page 11 and 12: him. Buddha was born a Hindu: Hindu
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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
Page 25 and 26: That's the problem. You ask, "Why d
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Page 31 and 32: Suddenly his whole science disappea
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Page 37 and 38: REPENT: FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN I
Page 39 and 40: What are you doing -- repenting? Yo
Page 41 and 42: If you repent, conversion happens.
Page 43 and 44: So first let God descend in you. Th
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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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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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hangs. for a while on a leaf of gra
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