Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

The enemies asked, "Why have you come back? Why have you not caught holdof him?"He said, "I was going to, but his words fell in my ear. And I tell you, no man hasever spoken like this man! The very quality, the authority, the power that hespeaks with, overpowered me. I was hypnotized: it became impossible to catchhold of this man."Jesus is love. Love has authority of its own, it is not borrowed. The old rabbis andthe Old Testament people are like the moon -- the borrowed light. Jesus is thesun; he has his own light. Love has its own authority; law never has its ownauthority. The authority is from Moses, Manu, Marx; the authority is from thescripture, the tradition, the convention. The authority is always of the old, it isnever fresh and new.Love is anti-law. But if you have love, you can be lawful also; there is no problemin it. But then you are more than the law; you have something of love withinyou.You live in the society, you have to follow the rules. They are just like: 'keep tothe left' or 'keep to the right' -- nothing ultimate about them; just rules to keep thetraffic in control, otherwise it will be almost impossible to move. Good as far as itgoes, but don't think of yourself that because you always keep to the left youhave attained something. Of course it is good as far as it goes, but nothing much-- what have you attained? The traffic will be convenient, that's all -- but whathave you attained?All morality, all law, is good as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. Love isneeded. Love is a sort of madness: illogical, irrational.Question 5WITNESSING, AWARENESS, MEDITATION, SUDDENLY SEEM DISTANTAND STERILE ADULT IDEAS IN THE FACE OF THE FLOOD OF WILD ANDCHILDISH ADORATION WHICH FILLS ME WHILE I AM LISTENING TOYOU TALK ABOUT JESUS. MY ADULT SELF SAYS, "BEWARE; DON'TINDULGE IN SLOPPY, SLEEPY SENTIMENTALITY -- THIS IS JUST THEMIND, CHILDHOOD CHRISTIAN CONDITIONING." BUT THE IMPULSIVE,YEARNING SEVEN-YEAR-OLD FEELS LIKE STICKING OUT HER TONGUEAT THE TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD SERIOUSLY SPIRITUAL SEEKER.WHICH IS THE REAL ME?Neither -- but the one who is watching both, the one who has asked the question.You are neither a seven-year-old nor a seventy-year-old. Oldness is irrelevant toyou, age does not belong to you. You are eternal -- neither the child, nor theyoung man, nor the old man.Always fall back to the witness, go deeper and deeper into witnessing. Neverallow any other identification to settle: of the child or the adult -- no. Allidentifications are bondages.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho