Being, Feeling, Action
Individual Talk
From:The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 10
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Osho,
Are you converting people to your own religion?
"I don't have any religion at all: a certain kind of religiousness, but no religion in particular. That's why it is so easy for..."
Are you converting people to your own religion?
"I don't have any religion at all: a certain kind of religiousness, but no religion in particular. That's why it is so easy for..."
Osho,
Are you converting people to your own religion?
"I don't have any religion at all: a certain kind of religiousness, but no religion in particular. That's why it is so easy for..."
Osho continues:
Are you converting people to your own religion?
"I don't have any religion at all: a certain kind of religiousness, but no religion in particular. That's why it is so easy for..."
"It will be a kind of religiousness – just a vague feeling, not a definite thought. You can experience it, but you cannot explain it. It will not be like a flower, it will be more like a fragrance. If you are not suffering from cold you will be able to feel it, the fragrance. And people's heads are too full of coldness; they are suffering from cold, they have become frozen. One is a Hindu, another is a Christian.
"That is the meaning of your name, Christina: a Christian.
"Be a christ and never be a Christian! Be a buddha, never be a Buddhist! That is settling for rubbish. When you can experience the truth yourself, why settle for secondhand knowledge? All religions are secondhand knowledge.
"When a master is alive he has a certain climate, there is no doubt about it, a certain atmosphere around him, where people start growing – growing into themselves. That is true conversion. Conversion does not mean a Hindu becoming a Christian or a Christian becoming a Hindu; that is not conversion. That is simply changing one prison for another, moving from one dead system of thought to another dead system of thought – but you remain the same.
"Conversion means a radical change in your being. It is not a question of changing your ideology, it is a question of changing your consciousness. In that sense, people are certainly being converted. And I am not converting them, they are allowing themselves to be converted. Remember that difference. I am not interested in converting anybody; I am simply making a space available for those who want to go through this revolution. They can go through this revolution. Neither directly nor indirectly am I trying to make you part of any religion.
"Just the other day I was readingsomebody has written – a Hindu – that I am converting people into Jainism because I was born in a Jaina religion. And Jainas think that I am converting Jainas into the Hindu religion because orange is a Hindu color – as if colors can also be Hindu or Mohammedan! And Christians have been writing letters to me, writing articles against me, that I am converting Christians to Hinduism."
"That is the meaning of your name, Christina: a Christian.
"Be a christ and never be a Christian! Be a buddha, never be a Buddhist! That is settling for rubbish. When you can experience the truth yourself, why settle for secondhand knowledge? All religions are secondhand knowledge.
"When a master is alive he has a certain climate, there is no doubt about it, a certain atmosphere around him, where people start growing – growing into themselves. That is true conversion. Conversion does not mean a Hindu becoming a Christian or a Christian becoming a Hindu; that is not conversion. That is simply changing one prison for another, moving from one dead system of thought to another dead system of thought – but you remain the same.
"Conversion means a radical change in your being. It is not a question of changing your ideology, it is a question of changing your consciousness. In that sense, people are certainly being converted. And I am not converting them, they are allowing themselves to be converted. Remember that difference. I am not interested in converting anybody; I am simply making a space available for those who want to go through this revolution. They can go through this revolution. Neither directly nor indirectly am I trying to make you part of any religion.
"Just the other day I was readingsomebody has written – a Hindu – that I am converting people into Jainism because I was born in a Jaina religion. And Jainas think that I am converting Jainas into the Hindu religion because orange is a Hindu color – as if colors can also be Hindu or Mohammedan! And Christians have been writing letters to me, writing articles against me, that I am converting Christians to Hinduism."
Publisher | Osho International |
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Duration of Talk | 89 mins |
File Size | 22.74 MB |
Type | Individual Talks |
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