Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

Christ rose high. Jews had been waiting for centuries for this man -- look at theirony! -- they had been waiting for centuries for this man to happen, all theirhope was with this man who would transform their lives and who would bringthe kingdom of God on earth... and then this man happened and theythemselves, who had been waiting for him, could not believe, could not trust.What happened?They became too addicted to waiting itself. "Now, if this is the man, then whatwill we do?" Then the waiting will have to stop, will have to be stopped. Andthey had waited so long -- in fact, waiting itself had become their whole activity,their whole religious activity: waiting for the son of God to come. And nowsuddenly this man is there and says, "I am here."But now they would rather cling to their waiting than look at this man -- becauseto look at this man will be the end; now there is nothing else to wait for. Futuredisappears, hope disappears, desire disappears. This man will kill all hoping, alldesiring, all future -- that is too much! The old mind has become addicted to itsown waiting, the old mind has become addicted to its own misery, frustration --now it is too much.It happens: if you have been ill very long, by and by you start having a certaininvestment in the illness. Then you become afraid -- if you become healthy again,fear arises because you will have to go to the office again, to the marketplace. Forthese few years you have been resting: there has been no anxiety; you couldrelax. Now again the responsibility. And not only that -- for these few years thatyou have been ill, everybody has been sympathetic to you, almost everybodytried to love you. You have become the center of your family, friends,acquaintances; everybody has been kind. To move again in the harsh and cruelworld: the mind recoils back; it doesn't seem worth it.If a race has been waiting for too long.... And Jews have always been waiting.They are still waiting -- and the man has happened and gone. But they haveinvested too much in waiting: their waiting has become their prayer, theirsynagogues are nothing but waiting rooms for the messiah to come. And he hasbeen here!And I tell you, if he comes again -- though I don't think he will commit the samemistake again -- if he comes again, Jews still will not accept him, because thenwhat will happen to their waiting? They have lived too much in it; theirimprisonment has become their home and they have decorated it. And now tomove in the harsh, open sky -- where sometimes the sun is burning too much,and sometimes it is raining, and sometimes it is cold or it is hot -- it is dangerous.They are sheltered.IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD...Jews have been insistently emphasizing that God's name should not be assertedbecause it is something to keep deep down in the heart. To assert it is to make itprofane; to say it is to make it part of the ordinary world and language. To say itagain and again is to make it lose its meaning and significance.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho