What is anti-Semitism?

Beloved Osho, are all minds jewish?

Abhiyana, there is some truth in it, it is so. To be a Jew has nothing to do with any race. Jewishness is really a quality -- the quality that calculates, the quality that thinks always in terms of business. That's why the other day I said to you that it is really unbelievable how the Italians could snatch the greatest business from the Jews. It is really unbelievable, it is a miracle, because the Vatican is the greatest business on the earth. All the Rockefellers and all the Morgans and all the Fords put together still fall short. Jewishness is a quality; it can be found in a Hindu, it can be found in a Jaina, it can be found in a Christian, in a Buddhist. It is the quality of calculation. It can become great intelligence, it can also become great cunningness -- both alternatives are there. Jews…

Osho, when you speak of religions, you usually mention christians, mohammedans and hindus, but not jews. Is there a reason for it?

And, moreover, Judaism is a dead religion, just as Hinduism is. In fact, there have been only two source religions in the world: Hinduism and Judaism. Both are dead. Jainism and Buddhism are offshoots of Hinduism but because the root is dead the branches are dead too. And Christianity and Islam are branches of Judaism, and because the root is dead the branches are dead too. These are dead phenomena. I am not much concerned with the past. Yes, something beautiful has happened in Judaism, too, and that is Hassidism -- and I have talked about it a lot. Just as I love Zen people in the tradition of the Buddha, I love Hassids in the tradition of Moses and I love Sufis in the tradition of Mohammed. These three are still alive in some small way because these three have never become established religions; they have always been anti-establishment,…

Osho, reading Martin Buber it felt as if, through Hasidic practice, he had come close to buddhahood—a great man. He wanted to build a commune grounded in Jewish humanism that embraced both the spiritual and the material dimensions of life, yet the Jews themselves rejected him. Especially over Eichmann and the Arabs, Israel tried to prove him a traitor, while he was only calling for forgiveness and friendship rather than revenge. Reviled in his own land, while people across the world—especially Christians—were influenced by him. Osho, as we settle in Kutch, please say something about this in th

Newer religions are eager to expand, imperialistic; hence they readily accept humanism. Christianity is eager for it; so are Jains, Buddhists, and Islam. All, except Hindus and Jews, want all humanity to gather under one flag; they search for pleasant pretexts, craft beautiful principles—but the underlying urge is empire-building. I will certainly call Martin Buber a great man, but not a buddha. I make a basic distinction between a great man and a buddha. A great man is a person like us; the differences between us are of degree and quantity. We know less, he knows more. Perhaps our character is weaker, his stronger. Our lifestyle less graceful, his more so. Our thoughts less logically consistent, his clearer. But between him and us there is no qualitative difference. Between a buddha and us there is a qualitative difference; he belongs to another realm. It is not a matter of more…

Why are the jews hated everywhere in the world?

Because they are clever, intelligent. Nobody likes clever, intelligent people. One feels inferior, hence, the hatred. Adolf Hitler must have felt very inferior to Jews. He Was. He was almost idiotic, imbecilic. But he must have felt it tremendously -- this inferiority. And Jews have a certain intelligence, and because of that intelligence they become rich fast. Put them in any situation and sooner or later they will be on top. How can you avoid not hating them? They simply go directly to the top; they don't wait. And particularly about money, they are the cleverest people in the world. For a certain reason: because after Jesus' crucifixion, they lost all power -- all political power; Christianity became politically powerful. There was no way for the Jews to be politically powerful, so their whole mind turned to the second power -- money. They became focused on money. These are the…

Beloved Osho, when I look at the moments when I feel separate from you, from my love and the rest of existence, it is usually the shadows of comparison and jealousy; and when I go deeper I usually get in touch with a deep insecurity and the feeling of being inferior. Would you please guide me on how I can lift these shadows and how to feel free of them?

It was not enough to complete the book -- he is the only man whose every book is incomplete. He will just go up to a certain length, then suddenly he will come upon a greater idea... he will drop the old project, start on the new project. But even his incomplete books are proofs of tremendous genius. Philosophers have been wondering what would have been the result if he had completed them, because he was moving in such new dimensions, never touched; where no mariner has ever reached -- virgin lands, which no philosopher had ever bothered about. And his insight is so deep, that to understand him, you need a very high quality intelligence; otherwise you cannot understand what he is saying. Even Martin Heidegger became a follower of Adolf Hitler, because of that German inferiority. And Adolf Hitler gave the promise, and he managed the promise --…