Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

elationship between you and the trees? Have you seen any relationship betweenyou and the rocks, have you seen any relationship between you and the sea? Ifyou don't see the relationship, then you can never come to know what God is.God is nothing but the whole, the total, the one. If you exist as a separate part,you unnecessarily exist as a beggar, You could have been the whole. And evenwhile you think that you are separate, you are not separate -- that is just athought in the mind. The thought is not befooling God, it is only befooling you.The thought is just a barrier for your eyes to open.That morning in the River Jordan when John the Baptist initiated Jesus, he killedJesus utterly. Jesus disappeared. And in that moment of nothingness, a Buddha --what Buddha calls SUNYATA, emptiness.... The heavens opened and the spiritof God, like a dove, descended on Jesus, lighted on him.This is just symbolic. Jesus died, God was enthroned. This is what they call inZen a special transmission, outside the scriptures. No knowledge was given byJohn the Baptist to Jesus, no scripture was conveyed -- not even a single wordwas uttered. No dependence on words or letters, just a direct pointing to the soulof man: seeing into one's nature -- an attainment of Buddhahood.This is what happened that day. Christians have missed that point: it was notknowledge that was transferred from John the Baptist to Jesus, it was a vision. Itwas not verbal, it was existential. It was more like knowing than knowledge.Eyes were transferred: a new way of seeing the world and being in the worldwas transferred. A special transmission outside the scriptures.That's why Jesus immediately felt one with God, but cut off from Jews. Jews are'the people of the book'. The Bible doesn't mean anything else; it simply means'the book'. Jews are the people of the book -- the people who have believed in thescriptures tremendously, who have loved and relied on the scriptures forcenturies.Jesus became one with God, but immediately was cut off from his own tradition.Then he tried in a thousand and one ways to remain part of the community, butit was impossible. He could not be part of the scriptures, could not be part of thetradition. Something of the beyond entered in him and when God enters, allscriptures become useless. When you yourself have come to know, all knowledgeis rubbish.That was the struggle between Jesus and the rabbis. They had knowledge, Jesushad knowing -- and the two never meet. The man of knowing is rebellious: theman of knowing has his own eyes; he says whatsoever he sees. The man ofknowledge is blind: he carries the scripture, he never looks around; he just goeson repeating the scripture. The man of knowledge is mechanical, he has nopersonal contact with reality.Just a few days before. I was reading about a very highpowered New Yorkpsychiatrist. He was talking to one of his new patients and he told the patient, "Iam very busy, in fact too busy. It will be good if you can help me. The firstinterview is always one-sided: you will be telling me all that you want to tell me.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho