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Osho on Jesus

3015 discourses in which Osho speaks about Jesus, most mentions first. Each line is his own sentence from that talk.

  1. I Say Unto You, Vol 2 #5: Ecstasy is Polarities Meeting · 169 mentions · 4 November 1977
    “Who is Jesus Christ?”
  2. The Great Challenge #9: The unknown life of Jesus · 119 mentions
    “But for a Jesus it is impossible to use any other language -- Jesus is speaking to a very different type of person.”
  3. I Say Unto You, Vol 2 #9: Ye Shall Live Also · 114 mentions · 8 November 1977
    “And the second innocence is called Christ.”
  4. I Say Unto You, Vol 1 #2: Come out of your Mind · 110 mentions · 22 October 1977
    “To be a nun is a kind of masochism, a kind of self-torture inflicted upon oneself in the name of Jesus, in the name of Buddha -- only the names differ, the torture is the same.”
  5. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #20: Mind is Drunk · 107 mentions · 9 September 1974
    “It has happened again and again: Jesus comes, but you don't recognize him; Buddha comes, but you don't recognize him.”
  6. I Say Unto You, Vol 1 #8: Live in Eternity · 104 mentions · 30 October 1977
    “To a Jew Jesus is not a stranger, a Buddha is a stranger.”
  7. Come Follow To You, Vol 3 #1: Jesus is like a wilderness: raw, but alive, · 102 mentions · 11 December 1975
    “am drunk with Jesus.”
  8. I Say Unto You, Vol 2 #3: To the New as the New · 97 mentions · 2 November 1977
    “You see Jesus, you watch, you start taking notes in your mind: This is the way to sit, this is the way to stand, this is the way to walk, this is the way to sleep and eat...”
  9. I Say Unto You, Vol 1 #1: The Flute on God's Lips · 96 mentions · 21 October 1977
    “That's why it is called 'The Testament', because Jesus has witnessed to God in it: Jesus has become the witness to God, a testament.”
  10. Come Follow To You, Vol 4 #11: Behold my Hands and my Feet · 93 mentions · 31 December 1975
    “THE greatest problem that a man like Jesus faces is that whatsoever he is going to say will appear untrue to people -- because truth cannot be said; and the moment you say it, it is falsified.”
  11. I Say Unto You, Vol 1 #3: First be Reconciled · 91 mentions · 23 October 1977
    “Moses brought law to the world, Jesus brings love.”
  12. Come Follow To You, Vol 4 #3: As I Have Loved You · 87 mentions · 23 December 1975
    “That small poem not only ridicules Krishnamurti and Zen, it ridicules Jesus, Krishna -- it ridicules all religion.”
  13. The Secret #2: A Chance To Pour My Grace Into You · 81 mentions · 12 October 1978
    “Love is the true God -- not the God of theologians, but the God of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, the God of the Sufis.”
  14. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #12: Come out and I'll Show You · 78 mentions · 1 September 1974
    “Whenever there is a man like Jesus or Buddha, you try to escape from him in every possible way because he is just like a death to you.”
  15. Come Follow To You, Vol 4 #7: The Ego is the Judas · 77 mentions · 27 December 1975
    “Here is the point where people like Jesus create trouble.”
  16. Come Follow To You, Vol 4 #9: Eli, Eli, Lamasabachthani · 73 mentions · 29 December 1975
    “It crucified Jesus, it killed Mansur, and nothing has changed yet.”
  17. I Say Unto You, Vol 2 #2: Go to the Very End · 70 mentions · 1 November 1977
    “Jesus is always a stranger.”
  18. Come Follow To You, Vol 1 #9: Go thou and preach the kingdom of god · 67 mentions · 29 October 1975
    “When you come across a man like Jesus or Buddha, something suddenly strikes.”
  19. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #11: Choose the Eternal · 67 mentions · 31 August 1974
    “"Blessed are those who fail in this world" -- this beatitude must be added to Jesus' other beatitudes.”
  20. Come Follow To You, Vol 3 #9: Jesus is water of eternity, a divine well · 66 mentions · 19 December 1975
    “Jesus was standing right there and people were thinking -- and he was in front of them.”
  21. Come Follow To You, Vol 3 #3: There is no Future God; there is no past · 63 mentions · 13 December 1975
    “You can recognize Jesus only if you have recognized something of the beyond within yourself; otherwise not.”
  22. Come Follow To You, Vol 1 #1: And the Word was Made Flesh · 62 mentions · 21 October 1975
    “Christianity has nothing to do with Christ.”
  23. Come Follow To You, Vol 4 #1: This in remembrance of me · 61 mentions · 21 December 1975
    “God of Jesus,”
  24. The Secret of Secrets, Vol 2 #14: This very world the paradise · 61 mentions · 9 September 1978
    “People like Lu-tsu or Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu, or Buddha or Krishna or Christ are neither men nor women.”
  25. The Wild Geese and the Water #5: Pure Non-Zense · 61 mentions · 15 February 1981
    “And when I say "all the religions" I don't include Gautam the Buddha, Jesus Christ, Zarathustra, Mahavira or Lao Tzu.”
  26. Come Follow To You, Vol 1 #3: And, Lo, The heavens Opened · 60 mentions · 23 October 1975
    “Then Jesus was again saying the same thing: REPENT YE: FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.”
  27. From Personality to Individuality #8: Rajneeshism: womb for transformation · 60 mentions · 6 January 1985
    “If it is to be translated exactly I will have to use Jesus' word for father, abba.”
  28. Come Follow To You, Vol 1 #7: I am not come to call the righteous · 58 mentions · 27 October 1975
    “You go on behaving as if you really loved Christ, but that 'as if' has to be remembered.”
  29. Come Follow To You, Vol 2 #4: Are You The Greatest Master? · 58 mentions · 3 November 1975
    “And not only in the case of Jesus; it has been happening always.”
  30. From Personality to Individuality #3: Beware! I am here to destroy your dreams · 58 mentions · 1 January 1985
    “A Christian dreaming of Christ, a Hindu dreaming of Krishna, or a sannyasin dreaming of me -- all are doing the same thing.”
  31. Come Follow To You, Vol 1 #5: And He Saith unto them: Follow me · 57 mentions · 25 October 1975
    “Jesus disappeared, God was enenthroned.”
  32. Come Follow To You, Vol 2 #7: He that heareth the word · 57 mentions · 6 November 1975
    “It depends on you who Jesus will prove to you to be.”
  33. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #13: Fe is an Open Secret · 57 mentions · 2 September 1974
    “A Jesus lives without time; you live in time.”
  34. Come Follow To You, Vol 2 #6: Politics And Love · 56 mentions · 5 November 1975
    “It is very easy to sacrifice human beings for Islam, Christianity, Hinduism; it is very easy to sacrifice them for the idea of Christ, Buddha, Mahavir.”
  35. The Eternal Quest #6: Religious Scriptures: History or Myth? · 56 mentions
    “To Christians, Jesus is a historic personality.”
  36. Christianity: The Deadliest Poison and Zen: The Antidote to All Poisons #6: Good soldiers of christ · 55 mentions · 27 January 1989
    “Even before Jesus Christ was born, three thousand years before, India had discovered the alphabet.”
  37. I Say Unto You, Vol 1 #7: Surrender in Darkness · 55 mentions · 29 October 1977
    “And in the Gospels Jesus goes on saying again and again to his disciples: Awake!”
  38. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #15: Poet of the Ultimate · 54 mentions · 4 September 1974
    “Jesus was trained in one of the oldest secret schools.”
  39. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #17: Movement and Rest · 53 mentions · 6 September 1974
    “Jesus calls it the kingdom of God: to be like kings, just symbolically, so that there is no fetter to your existence, no bondage, no boundary -- you exist as infinity, nowhere do you clash with anybody else...”
  40. Come Follow To You, Vol 1 #2: Gods in Exile · 52 mentions · 22 October 1975
    “One, the oldest and the most used, is what happened in Jesus' case.”
  41. Come Follow To You, Vol 1 #8: God: The ultimate synthesis · 52 mentions · 28 October 1975
    “And Jesus says, "The kingdom of God is for those who are like children."”
  42. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #1: The Mustard Seed · 52 mentions · 21 August 1974
    “You will not be able to understand Jesus if you cannot understand the dimension of that relationship which exists between a master and his disciples.”
  43. Come Follow To You, Vol 2 #1: When the bridegroom shall be taken away · 51 mentions · 31 October 1975
    “Jesus created trouble for himself.”
  44. From Unconciousness to Consciousness #23: The Only Way to Fail Me is Not to Be Yourself · 51 mentions · 21 November 1984
    “You can fail Jesus very easily because whatsoever he is telling you, teaching you, is against human nature, and you are human beings trying to be superhuman.”
  45. I Say Unto You, Vol 2 #1: Neither do I condemn thee · 51 mentions · 31 October 1977
    “In Jesus, religion is born again.”
  46. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #2: Jesus is very paradoxical · 51 mentions · 22 August 1974
    “Jesus is very paradoxical, but meaningfully so.”
  47. I Say Unto You, Vol 2 #7: Man is an Empty Temple · 50 mentions · 6 November 1977
    “And Jesus, Buddha, Krishnamurti -- these are the rebels.”
  48. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #3: The Marvel of Marvels · 50 mentions · 23 August 1974
    “Jesus, or Buddha, or anybody who is awakened, will find you all drunk.”
  49. Be Still and Know #2: No Sin, No Virtue · 49 mentions · 2 September 1979
    “THE FIRST THING TO BE UNDERSTOOD about a man like Jesus is that whatsoever the church that is bound to grow around such a man says about him, it is bound to be wrong.”
  50. The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty #2: Feel, Love and Feel Alone · 49 mentions · 12 April 1979
    “Jesus says to his disciples, "Unless you are like small children you will not enter into my kingdom of God."”
  51. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 10 #6: Without any choice of your own · 49 mentions · 6 May 1976
    “"The central figure for him is Christ, whom he differentiates from Jesus as a totally different being."”
  52. Krishna Smriti #10 · 49 mentions · 30 September 1970
    “And it happened in Christ’s time too, for the Jews crucified him precisely because this carpenter’s son was, without warrant, calling himself the Christ; they held he was not the real Christ, that the true Christ was yet to be born.”
  53. Sahaj Yog #5 · 49 mentions · 25 November 1978
    “Another says, no, Aramaic—because Jesus spoke Aramaic.”
  54. God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth #7: God is the business of the priest · 48 mentions · 12 February 1989
    “So when there is no God, there is no holy scripture and there is no son of God like Jesus Christ to save you, and there is no meaning in the pope who represents Jesus Christ who is the son of God who does not exist!”
  55. Sahaj Samadhi Bhali #5 · 48 mentions · 25 July 1974
    “Later Jesus said: the Sabbath, the holy day, is made for man; man is not made for the Sabbath.”
  56. Come Follow To You, Vol 2 #3: Your Names Are Written In Heaven · 47 mentions · 2 November 1975
    “That is the basic message of Jesus.”
  57. Come Follow To You, Vol 4 #5: He Is At Hand · 47 mentions · 25 December 1975
    “This is the last night of Jesus with his disciples, and it is very meaningful, because he will not ever be seen again.”
  58. The Secret of Secrets, Vol 1 #6: Born with Joy · 47 mentions · 16 August 1978
    “That's the reason why people were against Jesus and against Buddha, and why they are against me.”
  59. Nahin Sanjh Nahin Bhor #4 · 47 mentions · 14 September 1977
    “Who could give more love than Jesus?”
  60. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #16: The Taste of the Pudding · 46 mentions · 5 September 1974
    “Jesus is freedom, Mohammed is freedom, Krishna is freedom, Buddha is freedom, but not Buddhism, not Mohammedanism, not Christianity, not Hinduism -- they are mock.”
  61. Christianity: The Deadliest Poison and Zen: The Antidote to All Poisons #5: Turning lions into sheep · 45 mentions · 26 January 1989
    “-- just to make Jesus a very special human being, far above, beyond the ordinary mankind.”
  62. From Unconciousness to Consciousness #13: Ready-to-wear Religion at the Secondhand Store · 45 mentions · 11 November 1984
    “just to believe that Jesus is the son of God, and the messiah...”
  63. The Wild Geese and the Water #14: The Bird has Flown · 45 mentions · 24 February 1981
    “Missing of the Christ is bound to attract new people into new adventures.”
  64. The Wild Geese and the Water #1: And Escape to Reality · 44 mentions · 11 February 1981
    “The clothes may have been made by Moses or Mohammed or Jesus or Buddha and they may have been perfectly fitting the people they were prepared, but now, after three thousand years, two thousand years, or even five thousand years...”
  65. Krishna Smriti #21 · 44 mentions · 5 October 1970
    “Christianity—I am not saying Jesus—has taken human life to be the fruit of sin, the result of original sin.”
  66. Beyond Psychology #13: Christianity is an empty box · 43 mentions · 18 April 1986
    “The resurrection of Jesus Christ may be possible, but not the resurrection of Christianity.”
  67. From Personality to Individuality #10: Christianity: just a nice Jewish boy's hang-up · 43 mentions · 8 January 1985
    “IT was not me who said that Christ was the last Christian.”
  68. The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol 2 #9: Questions and Answers · 43 mentions · 9 July 1972
    “Many things may have to be considered: one, Jesus died for Christianity at the age of thirty-three.”
  69. Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 3 #3: Take no Thought for the Morrow · 43 mentions · 3 July 1977
    “Buddha, Mahavir, Krishna, Christ, Mohammed -- they all say the same thing, obviously in different ways.”
  70. Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy #20: Base your Rule on the Rule · 42 mentions · 5 October 1970
    “There is a good deal of similarity between Christ's concept of neutrality, Buddha's idea of indifference, Mahavira's transcendence of attachment, and Krishna's non-attachment.”
  71. Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol 2 #10: The Song of All Songs · 42 mentions · 6 March 1977
    “If you have really loved me you have loved Jesus through me, you have loved Buddha through me, you have loved Zarathustra through me.”
  72. Come Follow To You, Vol 2 #11: And come, follow me · 41 mentions · 10 November 1975
    “One of Jesus' very significant parables has been lost completely.”
  73. Es Dhammo Sanantano #78 · 41 mentions · 7 April 1977
    “Jesus is compassionate; Buddha is greatly, supremely compassionate.”
  74. From Unconciousness to Consciousness #5: To be Rebellious is to be Religious · 40 mentions · 3 November 1984
    “Jesus must have known where the rocks are in the lake of Galilee; otherwise there is no other way of walking on water.”
  75. I Am That #11: No Mind At All · 40 mentions · 21 October 1980
    “Do you think in Soviet Russia Gautam Buddha is possible, Jesus Christ is possible, Lao Tzu is possible?”
  76. I Say Unto You, Vol 1 #4: Unless you Create Your Face · 40 mentions · 24 October 1977
    “That's the meaning of Jesus' saying that when the clouds shower, they shower on both the just and the unjust, the good and the bad.”
  77. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #4: Take no Thought · 40 mentions · 24 August 1974
    “These faces have to be dropped, only then can you see Jesus, because when you see your original face you have seen Jesus.”
  78. Come Follow To You, Vol 2 #5: Chapter title:... And Who Are My Brethren? · 39 mentions · 4 November 1975
    “One should hope that man grows to greater dimensions, grows to greater heights, grows to greater life -- what Jesus calls'life abundant' -- but that rarely happens.”
  79. Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy #2: Krishna is Complete and whole · 39 mentions · 26 September 1970
    “With the exception of Krishna, all the remarkable people of the world, the salt of the earth like Mahavira, Buddha, and Christ, stood for some other world, for a life in some other world.”
  80. Om Shantih Shantih Shantih #13: Be, known thyself, keep the measure · 39 mentions · 6 March 1988
    “I said to him once, "Jesus has promised to come back again, very soon.”
  81. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 6 #8: Everything is possible · 39 mentions · 28 October 1979
    “Anand Deepesh, it certainly is one of the most beautiful passages in the Christian scriptures, because it shows the humanity of Jesus, that is his unique quality.”
  82. Mahaveer Ya Mahavinash #8 · 39 mentions
    “Just as today we have gathered to remember such a one — to remember Mahavira — so at times we gather to remember Krishna, or Rama, or Christ, or Muhammad.”
  83. Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master #7: Get ready and claim your inheritance · 38 mentions · 8 July 1987
    “As far as the church of England is concerned, the archbishop is the representative of Jesus Christ.”
  84. From Darkness to Light #15: The sweet taste of corruption · 38 mentions · 15 March 1985
    “It is the worship of the cross, not of Christ.”
  85. From Ignorance to Innocence #18: One god, one messenger, one book -- one big lie · 38 mentions · 17 December 1984
    “When Jesus was there, Jews could not accept him as religious: he and his followers were a "cult".”
  86. I Am That #4: Surrender is of the Heart · 38 mentions · 14 October 1980
    “That something more makes a man awakened, enlightened, a Buddha, a Christ.”
  87. Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy #4: Religion has no History, It is Eternal · 38 mentions · 27 September 1970
    “No, Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira and Krishna cannot be imprisoned in a moment.”
  88. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #21: Become a Gardener · 38 mentions · 10 September 1974
    “Unless you become a Buddha or a Jesus, you cannot become omnipotent, you cannot be all-powerful.”
  89. Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 #8: The potentiality of the seed · 38 mentions · 1 April 1973
    “A Buddha, a Krishna or a Christ, they are not ideals for YOU; you are not to follow them.”
  90. Jyon Ki Tyon #9 · 38 mentions
    “In the same way, Jesus is no thief; Jesus is the Christ.”
  91. The Last Testament, Vol 6 #5 · 37 mentions · 31 July 1986
    “Naturally, in a Christian country if a man from the East, who is not Christian, praises Jesus Christ as highly as he praises Gautam Buddha, naturally Christians are happy, immensely happy.”
  92. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #5: The Strangest of Saying · 37 mentions · 25 August 1974
    “Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, they all talk about being; and the temples, churches, mosques, organizations, sects, the so-called gurus and teachers and priests, they all talk about doing.”
  93. Come Follow To You, Vol 3 #5: No man has ever found God. Whenever man is · 36 mentions · 15 December 1975
    “And if you miss it, you will miss the very meaning of the life of Jesus, because he is a rebel -- he is not a revolutionary.”
  94. From Misery to Enlightenment #16: The Master: a gesture to the light within · 36 mentions · 13 February 1985
    “I could not have said it because Jesus' finger is not pointing to the moon at all.”
  95. From the False to the Truth #32: God: the need of the old man · 36 mentions · 30 July 1985
    “-- because Jesus himself was a drunkard, his apostles were all drinking.”
  96. Guida Spirituale #9: Be Yourself · 36 mentions · 3 September 1980
    “"Be a Christ," they say, and the people who are trying to be a Christ are the Christians.”
  97. The Wisdom of the Sands, Vol 2 #4: The Three Jewelled Rings · 36 mentions · 5 March 1978
    “When a Jesus comes to the world he bringss the real.”
  98. Krishna Smriti #20 · 36 mentions · 5 October 1970
    “Christ’s neutrality, Buddha’s disregard, Mahavira’s dispassion, and Krishna’s non-attachment share many similarities, yet there are fundamental differences.”
  99. Christianity: The Deadliest Poison and Zen: The Antidote to All Poisons #7: Not faith, but fear · 35 mentions · 28 January 1989
    “…esteemed of twentieth-century biblical scholars, stated, "We can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus, since the early Christian sources showed no interest in either, and are, moreover, fragmentary and often legendary."…”
  100. Come Follow To You, Vol 1 #10: Moving towards Christhood · 35 mentions · 30 October 1975
    “Whatsoever Buddha says or Jesus says is poetry.”
  101. Come Follow To You, Vol 1 #4: Mirroring Christ · 34 mentions · 24 October 1975
    “Christ is totally different from Christianity so whenever you want to understand Christ, go directly and immediately -- not via Rome; then you will never understand Christ.”
  102. From Personality to Individuality #18: The good shepherd -- the butcher's friend · 34 mentions · 16 January 1985
    “They call it jehad, holy war, but they came five hundred years later than Jesus.”
  103. Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy #21: Choose the Flute or Perish · 34 mentions · 5 October 1970
    “Christianity -- I don't mean Jesus -- believes that man is born in sin, that life is the original sin.”
  104. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3 #8: A good belly laughter · 34 mentions · 19 August 1979
    “But Christians say Christ never laughed -- this is THEIR idea about Christ.”
  105. Krishna Smriti #4 · 34 mentions · 27 September 1970
    “No—neither Jesus, nor Buddha, nor Mahavira, nor Krishna can be confined within the limits of time.”
  106. From Darkness to Light #26: The enlightened and the endarkened · 33 mentions · 27 March 1985
    “Their Jesus Christ so small?”
  107. Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy #10: Spiritualism, Religion and Politics · 33 mentions · 30 September 1970
    “The Jews crucified Jesus on the basis that a carpenter's son was falsely claiming to be a Messiah; he was not real.”
  108. Sat Chit Anand #17: Politicians are great criminals · 33 mentions · 30 November 1987
    “And the pope declares that he is the direct representative of Jesus.”
  109. The Last Testament, Vol 6 #3 · 33 mentions · 7 February 1986
    “I can understand it looks a little odd to see Mahavira sitting on a toilet, or Krishna or Rama or Jesus Christ.”
  110. Krishna Smriti #2 · 33 mentions · 26 September 1970
    “First, except for Krishna, all the other wondrous figures of the world—Mahavira, Buddha, Christ, and others—were living for the other world: for some future life, some other realm; for the afterlife, for moksha, for heaven.”
  111. Mahaveer Meri Drishti Mein #1 · 33 mentions · 17 September 1969
    “Just as I am of Christ, of Krishna, of Buddha, of Lao Tzu.”
  112. From Personality to Individuality #19: Hell hath no fury like a Christian scorned · 32 mentions · 17 January 1985
    “You ask me what Jesus has done to deserve these people.”
  113. I Am the Gate #8 · 32 mentions · 14 June 1971
    “It will be meaningful to refer here to Jesus.”
  114. If You Choose To Be With Me, You Must Risk Finding Yourself #8: Man's Nature · 32 mentions · 8 February 1980
    “The other is going beyond it -- then you become a Buddha or a Jesus.”
  115. The Divine Melody #5: Your lake reflects the moon of god · 32 mentions · 5 January 1977
    “Jesus says: Unless you become like children again, you will not enter into my kingdom of God.”
  116. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #8: Make the Two One · 32 mentions · 28 August 1974
    “This is one of the deepest sayings of Jesus, and one of the most basic to be understood by a seeker.”
  117. The Perennial Path: The Art of Living #4: Nonstealing · 32 mentions · 12 November 1970
    “Similarly Jesus is not a thief, Jesus is Christ.”
  118. Theologia Mystica #1 · 32 mentions · 11 August 1980
    “Jesus could become a Buddha in Jerusalem, Lao Tzu could become a Buddha in China, Dionysius could become a Buddha in Athens.”
  119. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet #2 · 32 mentions · 2 March 1979
    “It has become a symbol of hospitality because Martha served Jesus, she was a hostess to Jesus.”
  120. Dang Dang Doko Dang #9 · 31 mentions · 19 June 1976
    “This is the question that Pontius Pilate asked Jesus.”
  121. I Say Unto You, Vol 1 #6: They Gave Him Crucifixion · 31 mentions · 28 October 1977
    “And the fifth, the no-mind, Christ-mind, Buddha-mind let us call it the transcendental.”
  122. The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol 3 #5: Become a Driftwood · 31 mentions · 25 October 1976
    “You can see Christ, you can hold his hand.”
  123. The Hidden Splendor #4: Who is preventing you? join the dance! · 31 mentions · 14 March 1987
    “Your whole sermon was, in a condensed form, that the people who live a virtuous life according to your Christian ideology, and believe in Jesus Christ, will go to heaven after this life.”
  124. The Sword and the Lotus #6: All is · 31 mentions · 25 January 1986
    “Gautam Buddha, Hazrat Mohammed, Jesus Christ should be understood as great friends.”
  125. The Transmission of the Lamp #32: Water into wine is not the real miracle · 31 mentions · 11 June 1986
    “There was no enlightenment in the cases of Jesus and Mohammed, and whatever happened after them, they are wholly and solely responsible for it.”
  126. The White Lotus #6: No-Mind Innocence · 31 mentions · 5 November 1979
    “That's why Christians say Jesus never laughed.”
  127. Come Follow To You, Vol 3 #7: The more you love, the more fear disappears · 30 mentions · 17 December 1975
    “Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Lao Tzu, these are the people of love.”
  128. From Darkness to Light #11: Science and religion -- two petals of the same rose · 30 mentions · 11 March 1985
    “He says he does not believe in the ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven.”
  129. If You Choose To Be With Me, You Must Risk Finding Yourself #1 · 30 mentions · 1 February 1980
    “A Jesus, a Buddha, a Zarathustra -- these are strangers, utter strangers.”
  130. Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy #6: Nudity and Clothing Should go Together · 30 mentions · 28 September 1970
    “Whether it is the birth of Krishna or Christ, or anybody else, it does not make a great difference.”
  131. Tao: The Golden Gate, Vol 2 #5: This Moment is All · 30 mentions · 25 June 1980
    “When there is a Jesus walking, alive, a religion grows around him like a foliage growing around a tree -- green leaves, flowers, fruits -- because the tree has roots.Jesus is rooted in God, hence the tree is alive.”
  132. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 9 #9: The monkey in the forest · 30 mentions · 19 February 1980
    “Jesus says: If you have eyes to see, see.”
  133. The First Principle #4: Chapter title:Go with the River · 30 mentions · 14 April 1977
    “And one day if you also attain consciously to that childhood -- what Jesus calls.”
  134. The Secret #9: Truth Simply Is · 30 mentions · 19 October 1978
    “Just think of the cross of Jesus: that is a symbol for time and eternity.”
  135. The Secret #13: The Mirror Goes On Reflecting · 30 mentions · 23 October 1978
    “They are not afraid of the world, because there they are confronting blind people, but coming to a Buddha or a Christ or a Krishna, great fear grips their hearts.”
  136. The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol 2 #6: Questions and Answers · 30 mentions · 6 July 1972
    “I am also asked whether I feel the present generation is capable of creating Enlightened Ones like Krishna, Lao Tzu and Christ.”
  137. The Way of Tao, Volume 1 #8: Action free from ownership and recognition · 30 mentions · 26 June 1971
    “Jesus was crucified.”
  138. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #4: Beyond mind to awareness · 30 mentions · 28 December 1973
    “Even if such a man, Buddha or a Jesus, wants to communicate to you, he will have to use mind.”
  139. Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 1 #2: Ignorance is Ultimate · 30 mentions · 12 June 1977
    “This is the meaning when Christ goes on saying 'I and my father are one.'”
  140. Jin Sutra #61 · 30 mentions · 8 August 1976
    “But you haven’t understood what Jesus meant, and that’s where the difficulty began.”
  141. Tao Upanishad #82 · 30 mentions · 21 November 1973
    “Be it art, music, dance—or the words of Buddha and Jesus—in all these directions Lao Tzu’s statement is exactly true—a hundred percent.”
  142. Beyond Psychology #39: Your mind is not yours · 29 mentions · 1 May 1986
    “Rationally I know it is Gautam Buddha, but I could not put Gautam Buddha above Jesus Christ.”
  143. Come Follow To You, Vol 1 #6: The luxury of God · 29 mentions · 26 October 1975
    “Between you and Jesus, between you and me, between you and Buddha, there is no difference of being -- nothing.”
  144. Even Bein' Gawd Ain't A Bed of Roses #9 · 29 mentions · 9 October 1979
    “In a Jesus, in a Buddha, in a Zarathustra, that's what has happened: the beyond has penetrated into the dark, dismal world, into the world of misery, into the world that we have created.”
  145. Nirvana now or never #11 · 29 mentions · 12 February 1980
    “Dhyan means meditation and Natascha is one of the most beautiful names possible: it means the birth of Christ.”
  146. The Wisdom of the Sands, Vol 2 #6: Jesus Christ, I Missed! · 29 mentions · 7 March 1978
    “Everyone is unique, but not a Buddha, not a Christ, not a Krishna, not me.”
  147. Sadhana Sutra #16 · 29 mentions · 14 April 1973
    “A person like Jesus has not happened again, and will not.”
  148. From the False to the Truth #4: Just drop the cross! · 28 mentions · 1 July 1985
    “Have you seen Jesus Christ, in any picture, smiling?”
  149. From Unconciousness to Consciousness #4: The Opium Called Religion · 28 mentions · 2 November 1984
    “What other evidence has Jesus for being a messiah, except his own statements?”
  150. The Great Nothing #10 · 28 mentions · 28 September 1976
    “[A visitor, motioned forward to take sannyas, asked first if he could say something: I have a very strong faith in Jesus Christ and this strength brought me out of a very deep bondage.”

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