Osho: The Buddha for the Future
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The first of a trilogy Osho describes as “the historical documentation of my work.” From India to Rajneshpuram in Oregon, USA, dramatically culminating in the day of Osho’s arrest.
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The first of a trilogy Osho describes as “the historical documentation of my work.” From India to Rajneshpuram in Oregon, USA, dramatically culminating in the day of Osho’s arrest.
Excerpt: Osho: The Buddha for the Future
Osho talks a great deal in this period about being a friend, rather than a master to us, about being not a savior, a god, but just an ordinary man. Maybe through his dancing with some of us the gap we might feel between him and us is reduced (though perhaps not for the girls keen to make contact with my Osho-charged hand!) I feel so absolutely at ease holding his hand and looking into his eyes. There is such an intimacy about allowing myself, vulnerable in happiness and laughter, to gaze into his eyes, and that I can, enhances my exuberance.
One evening after a press conference in Jesus Grove he drops, unannounced, into the Omar Khayyam Disco. I wonder if that is to help us see him more in a more ordinary context. I see that if we persist in putting Osho on a pedestal, if we insist on seeing him as being different from us, we can privately justify making him, not us, responsible for what happens to us and around us. Osho talks about this innumerable times, and I’m struck by a particular discourse not long after the Master’s Day festival. Someone asks Osho if he or we are responsible for the “phenomenon of a rising anger and hate in the outside society,” if he or we are responsible for our “persecution.”
“My whole effort is that whatsoever I am doing I am responsible for. If I am persecuted and assassinated, I am responsible for it. But if you are persecuted and assassinated, remember, it is your responsibility, not mine. Why in the first place did you join me? I will not allow you to shirk away from your responsibility. I will not take your responsibility on myself.
“I am responsible for whatsoever I am doing, and whatsoever happens to me. You are responsible individually – because I don't believe in any collectivity. Every individual has to accept his responsibility for whatsoever he is doing, whatsoever happens to him.
“I had started alone. Then people started coming by and by, and my caravan started becoming bigger and bigger, and now it is all around the earth. But those people I respect. They have joined me on their own decision; I have not persuaded anybody.
“I have not given you any promises of a holy land. I have not given you any incentives after death. I have not given you any guarantee that if you are with me, soon you will be with God. I don't give you promissory notes, and I don't take any responsibility on your behalf, because I respect you. If I take the responsibility on myself, then you are slaves; then I am the leader and you are the led.
“No, I am not the leader, and you are not the led. We are fellow travelers. You are not behind me but by my side – just together with me. I am not higher than you, I am just one amongst you. I don't claim any superiority, extraordinary power, and all kinds of nonsense which Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, all are to be condemned for. Do you see the point? To make you responsible for your life is to give you freedom.
“A few of the sannyasins – for trivia, absurd reasons – have left the caravan. I am not at all angry with them. They had joined; it was their responsibility. They have left; it is their responsibility. If they want to come back, it will be their responsibility.
Every single sannyasin is responsible, remember. You cannot dump your responsibility on me. I am simply taking my own doings, sayings, happenings on myself. If you feel that because of me you are persecuted, drop sannyas. Why should you be persecuted for me? Who am I?
“But if your sannyas is your love affair with me, then take the responsibility: be persecuted. And persecution cannot do any harm to you, for the simple reason that we are not fanatics, we are not dogmatic. My people are open, vulnerable, available.”
One evening after a press conference in Jesus Grove he drops, unannounced, into the Omar Khayyam Disco. I wonder if that is to help us see him more in a more ordinary context. I see that if we persist in putting Osho on a pedestal, if we insist on seeing him as being different from us, we can privately justify making him, not us, responsible for what happens to us and around us. Osho talks about this innumerable times, and I’m struck by a particular discourse not long after the Master’s Day festival. Someone asks Osho if he or we are responsible for the “phenomenon of a rising anger and hate in the outside society,” if he or we are responsible for our “persecution.”
“My whole effort is that whatsoever I am doing I am responsible for. If I am persecuted and assassinated, I am responsible for it. But if you are persecuted and assassinated, remember, it is your responsibility, not mine. Why in the first place did you join me? I will not allow you to shirk away from your responsibility. I will not take your responsibility on myself.
“I am responsible for whatsoever I am doing, and whatsoever happens to me. You are responsible individually – because I don't believe in any collectivity. Every individual has to accept his responsibility for whatsoever he is doing, whatsoever happens to him.
“I had started alone. Then people started coming by and by, and my caravan started becoming bigger and bigger, and now it is all around the earth. But those people I respect. They have joined me on their own decision; I have not persuaded anybody.
“I have not given you any promises of a holy land. I have not given you any incentives after death. I have not given you any guarantee that if you are with me, soon you will be with God. I don't give you promissory notes, and I don't take any responsibility on your behalf, because I respect you. If I take the responsibility on myself, then you are slaves; then I am the leader and you are the led.
“No, I am not the leader, and you are not the led. We are fellow travelers. You are not behind me but by my side – just together with me. I am not higher than you, I am just one amongst you. I don't claim any superiority, extraordinary power, and all kinds of nonsense which Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, all are to be condemned for. Do you see the point? To make you responsible for your life is to give you freedom.
“A few of the sannyasins – for trivia, absurd reasons – have left the caravan. I am not at all angry with them. They had joined; it was their responsibility. They have left; it is their responsibility. If they want to come back, it will be their responsibility.
Every single sannyasin is responsible, remember. You cannot dump your responsibility on me. I am simply taking my own doings, sayings, happenings on myself. If you feel that because of me you are persecuted, drop sannyas. Why should you be persecuted for me? Who am I?
“But if your sannyas is your love affair with me, then take the responsibility: be persecuted. And persecution cannot do any harm to you, for the simple reason that we are not fanatics, we are not dogmatic. My people are open, vulnerable, available.”
Osho, From the False to the Truth, Talk #23 – The Birth of a New Man
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| Type | Compilations |
|---|---|
| Publisher | OSHO Media International |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-88050-456-0 |
| File Size | 1857 KB |
| ASIN | B07F41SWJ5 |
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