Spirituality

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

But all the religions down the ages have been teaching you to respect your parents. Why? Why do the religions teach that? It is a subtle strategy of exploitation. Your religion has been given to you by your parents, and if you go against your religion, they will be hurt. If a Hindu declares, "I am simply a human being, no longer a Hindu," the parents will be hurt. So the parents have also taught him to respect them and believe in whatsoever they have said -- they cannot be wrong. As if your parents are enlightened people! As if your parents know what they are doing! Their parents did the same thing to them, they have done it to you, and you will do it to your children. This is how diseases go on being transferred from one generation to another generation. Of course the priests will say, "Respect…

Well, I was brought up as a catholic, so how come jesus is a stranger to me?

Jesus is always a stranger. It does not matter whether you were brought up as a Catholic or a Protestant or a Hindu or a Mohammedan. The very being of Jesus is that of a stranger, because he is an outsider. He lives on a different plane, he lives in a different dimension: he lives in God, you live in the world. He talks a different language; he talks about things you have not even dreamt about. You cannot trust him. You cannot even understand him; he is incomprehensible. You may have been brought up as a Catholic; that means you have been taught from your childhood things about Jesus. Those are simply words; you have not been introduced to Jesus, because that introduction is possible only through meditation -- not through any kind of teaching, not through the Catholic catechism. It is all rubbish. In fact, rather than helping…

Question: OSHO, WHY DO INDIANS THINK THEY ARE MORE SPIRITUAL THAN OTHERS? John, PLEASE FORGIVE THE POOR INDIANS. They don t have anything else to brag about. You can brag about other things: money, power, atomic or hydrogen bombs, airplanes, that you have walked on the moon, that you have penetrated to the very secrets of life, your science, technology; you can brag about your affluence. Poor India has nothing else to brag about; it can only brag about something invisible so there is no need to prove it. Spirituality is such a thing you can brag about it and nobody can prove it, nobody can disprove it. For thousands of years India has suffered starvation, poverty, so much so that it has to rationalize it. It has rationalized it so that to be poor is something spiritual. The Indian spiritual man renounces all comforts and becomes poor.

A friend has asked: Osho, Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa walked many different paths and affirmed one destination and one truth. But once he had become accomplished in a practice, how did he start another practice again from A, B, C? After attaining knowledge, did he become ignorant again and then begin anew on a fresh path?

This needs a little understanding. After the ultimate knowing, no one can return. There is no way back—because the destination and the traveler have become one. When the destination and the traveler are one, who would return, and how? But before the ultimate knowing—just before arriving at the destination—one last step remains. We call that knowing. We call it the ultimate knowing when the destination and the traveler dissolve into one. The river has fallen into the ocean; now it cannot return. But a river that has reached the shore and is poised there can still fall into the ocean—or it can turn back. That is the moment of knowing: the seeker has arrived at the very door of fulfillment. From there the whole spread of the ocean is visible. And yet a small distance remains. The seeker has not yet become the siddha. He has come very close—almost equal…