What is the difference between the Jews and others in the context of the concept of the chosen people?

Beloved Osho, I heard you say that moses was responsible for the persecution of the jews, because he created the concept of the chosen people. What's the difference between the jews and us? I know the difference between moses and you, but what about the phenomenon of a rising anger and hate in the outside society? Are we, or you, responsible for our persecution?

You are asking me: if my people are going to be persecuted, who is going to be responsible -- I or they? 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…

Beloved Osho, I don't really have a question to ask you -- everything is very good. Only one thing is confusing me a little. You have often spoken about the "chosen few." please, who is doing the choosing?

It is a very difficult question. In the beginning, God used to do it! But there are many hypotheses about what happened to God: some say he died a natural death, some say he committed suicide, some say he got into an accident. Some say he was murdered by man -- because without murdering him, man could not really be free. I will not go into what happened to God. One thing is certain: he is missing. In the beginning, he had chosen the Jews to be the chosen few -- "God's own people." But since then, he has had no opportunity. Although Jews have been praying continuously in every synagogue all over the world, "Now it is time for you to choose somebody else; we have suffered enough!" And it is true. If God had not chosen them they would have lived just like everybody else. But because he…

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 --…

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…

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