From Unconsciousness to Consciousness

Select all	TALKS IN THIS SERIES - 34	Minutes
	1. Understanding Silence	97
	2. Don?t Follow Me ? I Am Lost Myself	91
	3. Godliness, Not God	84
	4. Only You Are Responsible	110
	5. Rebellion as Religion	109
	6. Why Are Religions Afraid of Women?	98
	7. Eat from the Tree of Knowledge	96
	8. Will-to-Power: The Cancer of the Soul	92
	9. Just to Be Born Is Not Enough to Be Alive	98
	10. Childhood: An Education in Psychological Slavery	101
	11. Yes, I Teach You Selfishness	106
	12. Live Now, Pray Later	89
	13. What Is the Question?	119
	14. Prayer Is Business	78
	15. Transformation, Not Consolation	102
	16. God: The Greatest Fiction	93
	17. The Immaculate Deception	97
	18. Marriage: The Coffin of Love	113
	19. Meditation: The Science of Awareness	104
	20. Manufacturing Enlightenment	123
	21. The Biggest Fetter Is the Ego	118
	22. You Will Not Find God, but You Will Find Yourself	119
	23. The Only Way to Fail Me Is Not to Be Yourself	124
	24. Even a Dead Man Knows How to Swim	98
	25. Religiousness, Not Religion	114
	26. Sin and Guilt: Strategies of the Priest	116
	27. The Other Is Hell	104
	28. You Can Only Be Yourself and Nothing Else	117
	29. Only Plastic Does Not Perspire	134
	30. Live Dangerously	104

Osho ends three years of silence and begins an entirely new phase of his work. Sometimes shocking and always humorous, he exposes the lies to which society still so earnestly adheres. Osho talks directly to those who are listening now, ruthlessly attacking the hypocrisy and will-to-power

Excerpt from: From Unconsciousness to Consciousness, Chapter 2

Jesus says, ‘come follow me.’ You’re against this statement. What would you like to say about it?

"Jesus says, ‘Come follow me.’ It is not only Jesus who says it: Krishna says it too, Buddha says it too. All the old religions of the world are based on that statement. But that statement is a psychological exploitation of man. I cannot say, ‘Come follow me.’

"First, those who have said it have crippled humanity, have made humanity helpless. They certainly fulfilled a certain need. People don't want to be on their own. They don't have the guts to create their own path, to walk and create it. They want to be led. But they don't know that if you are being led, slowly slowly, even if you have eyes, you will lose them. You will be seeing through the eyes of Jesus, Krishna, Mohammed. Your eyes will not be needed; in fact your eyes will cause a disturbance.

"The leader wants you to surrender your eyes and see through his eyes; surrender your legs and walk with his legs; to not believe in yourself but believe in him. To me it is a crime; it is crippling you, paralyzing you, destroying you. And you can see it all over the world. The whole of humanity is destroyed by such statements and such people.

"I can say to you, ‘Come and share me,’ but I cannot say, ‘Follow me.’ Who am I that you have to follow?

"And you have to understand also that each individual is so unique that if you start following somebody you will be automatically imitating. You will lose your identity. You will start becoming phony, a hypocrite. You will not be yourself, but somebody else. You will become split.

"You will have a mask: Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan, Buddhist. That will be just the mask that you and the person you have been following have created – it is not your authentic face. You are going against yourself, and you will be in suffering... and the whole of humanity is in suffering.

"It sounds very strange to say that such statements are criminal, because they come from nice people like Jesus, Buddha, Confucius. You can understand my difficulty too. I have to say it the way it is." Osho