What is the meaning behind the phrase 'kill your parents' in Zen teachings?

The zen masters say, "kill your parents, " and even, "if you meet the buddha on the way, kill him immediately. "is it not shocking?is it not irreverent?

And remember, if you are free from your father and mother in the unconscious, you will be capable of communing with your father and mother for the first time, because then there will be no barrier. In fact, you will be able to love them for the first time. You will be able to forgive them for the first time. You will be able to feel compassion for them, how much they have done for you. When you are mature, when you are free of them, when their presence is no more a heavy weight on your heart, you can feel them for the first time. You can be with them in a loving space. So it is shocking, but it is not irreverent, one thing. The second thing: they say, "If you meet the Buddha on the way, kill him immediately." And these people who have said these things,…

As a child you did certain things—your parents stopped you. Now you want to do them—inside a voice says “No”—your father. Though now you are free. As a small child you wanted to go out at night—your father stopped you. It was right then. Even now when you go out at night, it feels as if your father forbids; it is not clear—inside, someone restrains. “Do not go; do not do this.” This inner father will never let you grow. Your mother still holds you—does not let go. You need freedom from this. Suppose you fell in love with a girl and your mother obstructed—perhaps necessarily; you were too young; you could not understand love; you would have been entangled; your studies would have been ruined; your growth stopped. Mother stopped you. She saved you from girls.

Osho, while speaking about Transactional Analysis you said that if the discoverers of this method were to come upon Buddha’s sutra mātaram pitaram hantvā, the method would become extraordinarily useful. Kindly shed more light on this!

When a human being is born, he is born like a blank sheet of paper. When a human being is born, he is born as pure innocence. When a human being is born, he is born as total freedom—unconditional. There is no limit upon him, no boundary—unbounded, infinite. When a human being is born, he is born as soul. Then society, family, father, mother, teacher, school, college, university—all together erect a layer of mind around this soul. They build a wall of mind. Remember, mind is manufactured by society. The soul is yours, the body belongs to nature, and the mind belongs to society. Mind is entirely borrowed, stale. The body too is beautiful, for nature’s beauty lives in it—the babble of streams runs in your blood, the fragrance of earth dwells in your flesh, the energy of the stars lives in your life-breath; your body has come from nature;…

Osho, my jewish parents are not happy that I have become a sannyasin. What should I do?

And he destroyed two cities completely. What happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Jewish God had done three thousand years before! He destroyed two cities for the simple reason that people were not behaving according to his idea of morality, they were becoming immoral. He destroyed two whole cities. Now, all the people could not have been immoral and even if all the people had been immoral, they could not have been immoral to the same degree. There were small children also; they could not have been immoral. They didn't know anything of morality or immorality. There were very old people also; they could not have been immoral. There were ill people who could not even get out of their beds. What immoral acts could they have been doing? But he was so angry that he destroyed two whole cities just to teach a lesson to humanity. And this young…

You say we have to drop all the inner voices which our parents, teachers and society have created in us. But now I sometimes have the feeling that your words are becoming something like that in me. How can I manage that?

You will have to kill me too. That's what Zen masters mean when they say, 'If you come across Buddha in your meditations, kill him immediately.' It is not disrespectful about Buddha, it is simply a great love and respect for Buddha. It is great reverence. But the disciple one day has to get free of the master too. The master can be used as a crutch in the beginning, but not for ever. You can use my words to drop other words, but my words are also words, remember -- one day you have to drop them too, otherwise nothing will happen. You dropped your father's word, your mother's word, and you replaced them with my word. But again you are caught in the word. You have changed your scripture, but the scripture remains. That is not going to help. A mind is needed where no word exists, no…