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Why haven't other enlightened masters told the truth about God, Jesus, heaven, and hell?

The truly enlightened do not belong to any "ism"; they trust their direct seeing over borrowed beliefs and speak only from firsthand experience.

— Osho
According to Osho, most ‘enlightened’ teachers are shaped by conditioning and rely on religious fictions; their status depends on affirming God, Jesus, heaven and hell, so they won’t expose them. Society suppresses genuine enlightenment and rewards compliant leaders. The truly enlightened belong to no “ism,” trust direct seeing over thinking, and speak only from firsthand experience—not borrowed beliefs.

Many famous wise people repeat popular stories to keep their power, while the truly wise drop all labels and only speak from what they’ve directly seen.

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From The False To The Truth · Discourse 8
1985-07-05 · Rajneeshmandir · English

Beloved Osho, why haven't other enlightened masters told the truth about god, jesus, heaven and hell?

"And if a man is capable of all this," Buddha thought, "even without me, sooner or later he will become enlightened. It may take a little more time, but that does not matter in the eternity of time." The story is beautiful.... In Buddhism it is said that gods came, after waiting seven days for Buddha to speak. In Buddhism there is no God, but there are gods. And gods are not creators of the world. They are just people like you who have earned so much virtue in their past life that they are given a holiday period in paradise. As they spend their virtue, they have to come back to the earth again, back into the misery, the suffering. Yes, they enjoyed the weekend in heaven.... Those people are called gods in Buddhism. The gods became very much afraid, because they were waiting for Buddha to speak. If…
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From Bondage To Freedom · Discourse 27
1985-10-11 · Rajneeshmandir · English

Beloved master, once you said jesus was fully enlightened. Recently, I heard you say jesus was not enlightened. You tell us that you always say the truth. How can truth change so fast?

Truth never changes, but statements about truth can change. When we start teaching a child, his book is full of big pictures and very little written matter. If he is learning the alphabet, then every letter stands for something. "M" stands for mango. The child can understand the mango, not the "M," and he can see the mango -- a colorful, beautiful picture. But slowly slowly the mango will be dropped. Now when you read, have you to repeat every time, "M stands for mango"? You have completely forgotten what stands for what. Now you can read the alphabet directly. Yes, I had said to you, "Jesus is enlightened." It was "M stands for mango," because you were not in a state to understand that Jesus is not enlightened. To say to you something which you cannot comprehend is meaningless. For centuries you have become accustomed to believe that Jesus…
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The Great Zen Master Ta Hui · Discourse 34
1987-08-18 · Chuang Tzu Auditorium · English
Question: BELOVED OSHO, ENLIGHTENMENT: THE KEY SOME TAKE SITTING WORDLESSLY WITH EYES SHUT BENEATH THE BLACK MOUNTAIN, INSIDE THE GHOST CAVE, AND CONSIDER IT AS THE SCENE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PRIMORDIAL BUDDHA, THE SCENE BEFORE THEIR PARENTS WERE BORN -- THEY ALSO CALL IT "SILENT YET EVER ILLUMINATING," AND CONSIDER IT CH'AN. THIS LOT DON'T SEEK SUBTLE WONDROUS ENLIGHTENMENT: THEY CONSIDER ENLIGHTENMENT AS FALLING INTO THE SECONDARY. THEY THINK THAT ENLIGHTENMENT DECEIVES PEOPLE, THAT ENLIGHTENMENT IS A FABRICATION. SINCE THEY'VE NEVER AWAKENED THEMSELVES, THEY DON'T BELIEVE ANYONE HAS AWAKENED. THERE'S A KIND ACTING AS TEACHERS SPREADING FALSE TALK WHO TELL STUDENTS, "JUST PRESERVE STILLNESS." ASKED, "WHAT THING IS THIS, PRESERVING? WHO IS THE STILL ONE?" THEY SAY, "THE STILL ONE IS THE BASIS.
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From Personality To Individuality · Discourse 7
1985-01-05 · Lao Tzu Grove · English
Question: OSHO, IS J. KRISHNAMURTI ENLIGHTENED? Not only cheap, they are selling it without taking anything from you. Not only that, they are rewarding you: if you purchase their truth they are going to reward you. The Christians will call you a saint, the Hindus will call you a mahatma, a sage. Without any effort, without paying anything you gain so much respectability. All that you have to do is to pretend, to be a hypocrite. The whole human society is pretending. What do you know about Christ's experience? Without having some taste of it, you are a Christian? If this is not hypocrisy, then what is hypocrisy? Knowing nothing about God, you believe in God. If this is not dishonesty.... Then what else can dishonesty be? You are not even honest towards God. An honest, sincere person will start from skepticism. He will enquire.
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Satyam Shivam Sundram · Discourse 6
1987-11-09 · Gautam the Buddha Auditorium · English

Beloved Osho, I don't understand why enlightened masters are critical of each other. Are they not all working towards the higher good? Are they not different flavors of the same truth?

"My wife, Bridget," Sean confided to Paddy, "is an angel." "You are lucky," said Paddy, "my wife Maureen is still alive." Hymie Goldberg was having his first session with the psychoanalyst. "Do you cheat on your wife?" asked the shrink. "My God," said Hymie, "who else could I cheat on?" A Californian psychiatrist was driving along in his car, when he saw a man lying on the sidewalk. He stopped his car and got out. It turned out the man had been mugged and left for dead. "Quick," said the shrink, "tell me who did this to you; he needs help immediately!" An Indian businessman who had made millions after a childhood of poverty was on his deathbed giving advice to his son. "Listen, son," he said, "I owe my success to two principles -- honesty and wisdom. Honesty is if you promise to deliver some goods, no matter what…
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