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If you love somebody and the whole day you say, "I love you, I love you," manytimes -- and you enjoy saying it -- in the beginning the other person may behappy, but sooner or later the thing is going to be too much. "I love you, I loveyou" -- you are making a beautiful word useless. Don't use it too much. Then it issignificant, then it carries some meaning. In fact those who are really in love maynot use it at all. If the love is not shown by itself it cannot be said -- there is noneed to say it. And if it is shown by itself, then what is the need to say it? Thereshould be a few key words which you use rarely, very rarely. They should bekept for rare occasions when you touch a peak.The Jews have always insisted that the name of God should not be taken. It wasthe custom in the old days, before Christ, that only the High Priest of the Templeof Solomon was allowed to use it -- and once a year only. Nobody else wasallowed. So THE WORD is the code, the code for God's name. Something has tobe used to indicate it and this is a beautiful code: THE WORD. They don't useany words: they simply say: THE WORD. The same has been done in India also.If you ask Sikhs, the followers of Nanak, they will say: NAM, the Name. Theydon't say any name; they.simply say: the Name. It means the same as THEWORD.Only the High Priest was allowed, and the High Priest had to purify himself. Thewhole year he would purify himself and fast and pray and get ready. Then oneday in the year the whole community would gather. Then too the High Priestwould not utter the word before the crowd: he would move into the innermostshrine of the temple; the doors would be closed. Deep in silence where nobodycould hear -- the crowd would be waiting outside and there was no possibilityfor them to hear -- he would assert the name in such sanctity, deep love,intimacy. He was asserting the name for the whole community.It was a blissful day when the name was asserted. Then for the whole year thename was not to be brought to the lips. You have to carry it in the heart; it has tobecome like a seed. If you bring the seed out of the soil again and again, it willnever sprout. Keep it deep down. Water it, protect it, but keep it deep indarkness so that it sprouts, dies and is reborn.The name of God has to be kept deep in the heart. Even you should not hear it; itshould be so deep in your being, in your subliminal depths, that it never evenreaches to your own mind. That is the meaning of why the High Priest goes intothe innermost shrine. Nobody hears, the doors are closed, and he asserts thename once. The meaning is this: go into the deepest shrine of your temple of theheart, purify yourself, and once in a while, when you feel the fragrance of yourbeing -- when you are at the peak of your energy, when you are really alive andnot an iota of sadness lingers around you: you are happy, tremendously happy,ecstatically happy and tranquil and silent, you are in a state where you canthank, where you can feel grateful -- then go into the innermost shrine. Yourmind will be left out -- that is the crowd. You move deeper in the heart and thereCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho
you assert so silently that even your mind will not be able to hear it. There, theWord has to be carried.IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD,AND THE WORD WAS GOD.There is no difference between God and His name. He has no name; He himselfis His name. His ìs-ness' is His name; His existence is His name. A child is born.What name does he have? -- no name. But he is. That ìs-ness' is his name. Then,for utilitarian purposes, we give a name to him and by and by he will forget hisìs-ness' and he will become identified with the name. If somebody insults thename, he will be angry; if somebody praises the name, he will be very happy.And the name never belonged to him!God is the child, always the child, always the innocence of the world. He has noname. That is the meaning of this saying: AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD.Ìs-ness', existence, being: AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD. His name is Hisbeing. Don't repeat His name, move into His being -- that is the only way toattain Him. In fact, forget about Him. Move into your own being and ìs-ness',and you will attain to Him.ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM; AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOTANYTHING MADE THAT WAS MADE.God is creativity. To say that God is the Creator is already to falsify Him, but tosay, "God is creativity," will not be understandable. Then people will think: thenwhy use 'God'? -- just `creativity' will do. We say, "God is the Creator," butbecause of this expression much nonsense arises. Then when did He create theworld? Then why didn't He create it before? Why couldn't He create it before,why did He create it at the time He created it? Why has He created it the way itis? Why can't He improve it?So much misery, so much suffering in the world, and He is the Creator. ThenGod becomes the culprit. Then we feel angry: if He is the Creator then He isresponsible for all. Why can't He change it? Then all sorts of problems arise, andtheologians go on answering these questions.In the first place, they need not arise if you look at the thing directly. God is notthe Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating;He cannot be on a holiday from His creativity. That is not possible; you cannotgo on a holiday from your innermost nature -- no. Whatsoever you can leave isnot your nature; that which you CANNOT leave is your nature.God's nature is creativity. He has always been creating. And there is no otherway: the only way the world can exist is how it exists. It is the only way.Whatsoever you think or condemn or appreciate is meaningless. It is like goingto a rose and asking, "Why do you only have so many petals? A few more couldbe there. What was wrong? " But if a few more were there, the same questionwould have again been relevant.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho
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Page 3 and 4: Hence I have chosen to talk on Chri
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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 37 and 38: REPENT: FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN I
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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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Come Follow To You, Vol 1Chapter #5
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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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