Why is there a contradiction between the teachings of Osho and Jesus regarding asking and giving?

Osho, you say: Do not ask; give, pour yourself out. And Jesus says: Ask—and it shall be given. Why is there such a contradiction between the statements of two enlightened ones?

Both statements were given at different moments and to different kinds of people. There is not the slightest contradiction. Understand. Jesus said: Ask—and it shall be given to you. Knock—and the doors shall be opened. Seek—and you shall find. Absolutely right. If one never seeks, how will one find? If one never asks, how will one receive? And if one won’t knock at the door, how will it open? Simple and straightforward. This is a statement on one plane. It was necessary for the people Jesus was addressing. Remember the people he spoke to—these are the people who crucified him. They had no inner state that could be called spiritual—otherwise they would not have crucified Jesus! Lao Tzu’s saying will seem exactly the opposite to you; that is also my saying. Lao Tzu says: Ask—and you will miss. Seek—and you will go astray. Do not seek—and you will find. This…

Beloved Osho, you say, "don't ask, and it shall be given to you," and also, "trust in allah, but tie your camel first." when is the moment of action and when is the moment of surrender?

And that's what has happened: you have forgotten. You got so interested in so many things that you have forgotten who you are. Whom are you going to ask? Who is going to give you the answer? I had said that statement in contrast to Jesus Christ's words. He says, "Seek and ye shall find." Analyze that sentence. That simply means that what you are seeking is something outside you: "Seek and ye shall find." But if it is the seeker itself, then seek and you will go on missing. Jesus says, "Ask and it shall be given to you." He is trying to convince you to pray -- that is the meaning of ask. Pray, beg, and God is compassionate: if you pray honestly, it will be given to you. But no prayer has ever been answered -- not even Jesus Christ's prayer. On the cross he was waiting…

Osho, yesterday you said, “Those who search will lose.” And one of your famous books says, “Jin khoja tin paiyan” (“Those who searched, found”). Which is true? Please explain.

Later, when people asked Buddha, “How did you attain?” he would say, “It’s a troublesome question. Because what I did did not bring it. On the day I did nothing, it happened. Yet it is also true that if I had not done all that I did, the state of non-doing would not have been possible.” Understand this well. Those six years of austerity did not directly give truth. But without those six years, had Buddha sat beneath the tree, that hour of effortless rest would not have come. You can go and sit—even now the tree is there in Bodh Gaya. You may think, “Forget six years of effort; what is the point? He got it by sitting.” So you sit. Outwardly you may sit like Buddha, steady and still; but inwardly? That hammer-blow, pounded day after day for six years—“doing is futile, nothing comes from doing”—that realization would…

Beloved Osho, jesus says, "seek and you will find." does a desireless search exist?

Bernd, Jesus was in a very unfortunate situation: he had learned all the secrets in the East and he was introducing something that had never existed in the Jewish tradition before -- that was his crime. The orthodox, the traditional, the conventional mind could not understand him. Lao Tzu was far more fortunate -- he had the right people to talk to. Buddha was blessed -- he could say things in as subtle a way as possible. In that sense Jesus was hoping against hope. It was a great challenge and he took the risk -- he sacrificed his life. But he was misunderstood: it was bound to happen, it was inevitable. Whenever you introduce a new truth, you have to suffer for it, but it is a joy to suffer in the service of truth. Jesus could not even say the whole truth -- that would have been too…

Question: WHILE VISITING GASAN, A UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASKED "HAVE YOU EVER READ THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE?" "NO, READ IT TO ME," SAID GASAN. THE STUDENT OPENED THE BIBLE AND READ FROM ST. MATTHEW: "AND WHY TAKE YE THOUGHT FOR RAIMENT? CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD, HOW THEY GROW. THEY TOIL NOT, NEITHER DO THEY SPIN, AND YET I SAY UNTO YOU THAT EVEN SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY WAS NOT ARRAYED LIKE ONE OF THESE.... TAKE THEREFORE NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW, FOR THE MORROW SHALL TAKE THOUGHT FOR THE THINGS OF ITSELF." GASAN SAID: "WHOEVER UTTERED THOSE WORDS I CONSIDER AN ENLIGHTENED MAN." THE STUDENT CONTINUED READING: "ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU, SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND, KNOCK AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU. FOR EVERYONE THAT ASKETH RECEIVETH, AND HE THAT SEEKETH FINDETH, AND TO HIM THAT KNOCKETH, IT SHALL BE OPENED.