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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 3861686" data-attributes="member: 120286">Osho on Jesus.. for AchiraThere are two types of questioning: one is out of knowledge, and then it is useless because thenonly a debate is possible, not a dialogue. But when you ask out of ignorance, knowing well that youdon’t know, when you know that you don’t know, and ask, you have become a disciple. Now it is notgoing to be an argument. You are just thirsty and you ask for water; you are hungry and you ask forfood. You don’t know and you ask; you are ready to receive. A disciple asks knowing well that hedoesn’t know. When you don’t know you are humble. When you know you become egoistic, and aJesus cannot talk to egos.THE DISCIPLES SAID TO JESUS – ’disciples’ means those who are fully aware that they don’tknow –TELL US WHAT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE.Jesus continuously talked about the kingdom of heaven, and that created much trouble. The veryterminology created much trouble, because the word kingdom is political and politicians becameafraid. He was crucified because they thought, ”This man is talking about some kingdom which iscoming on earth, and this man is saying, ’I am the king of that kingdom.’ This man is trying to createa revolution, to overthrow the government. This man wants to create another kingdom!”The king, the viceroy, the officials, the priests, they all became scared. And this man was influentialbecause people listened to him; and people not only listened to him – whenever they listened tohim they were transformed, they became aflame, they were totally new, something happened withinthem. So the priests, Pontius Pilate the viceroy, Herod the king, the whole government – both thesecular government and the sacred government – all became scared of this man. He seemed tobe dangerous. Such an innocent man there never had been, yet he looked dangerous. He wasmisunderstood.But there is always the possibility of a Jesus being misunderstood. The problem is that he has touse your language because there is no other language. Whatsoever he says he has to say in yourwords. There are no other words and your words are already overburdened: they carry too muchmeaning already, they are too loaded. He was talking simply of the kingdom of God, the kingdom ofheaven. But ’kingdom’? – that word is dangerous. ’Kingdom’ gives a hint of politics.Jesus was not a revolutionary of this world. He was a revolutionary, a master revolutionary – butof the inner world. He was talking of the inner kingdom. But even the disciples were not aware ofwhat he was saying. When you come to a master there is a meeting of two different dimensions.The meeting is just like the meeting of the sky and the earth... just on the boundary. If trust is thereyou can move into the sky; if trust is not there you cling to the earth. If trust is there you can openyour wings and move, but if trust is not there you cling to the earth. This man brings a danger toyou. What is the kingdom of heaven? What type of kingdom? This kingdom is absolutely opposite,diametrically opposite the kingdom of this world. And Jesus explained and explained but it wasdifficult to make people understand. He said, ”In my kingdom of God the poorest will be the richest,the last will be the first.” He talked exactly like Lao Tzu, and he was a man like Lao Tzu. ”The lastwill be the first in my kingdom of God.” He was saying that the humblest will be the most significant,the poorest will be the richest, and one who is not recognized at all here will be recognized there –all upside down. It has to be so.If you stand near a river and the river is silent, there are no ripples and you look at your reflection,it is upside down. A reflection is always upside down. In this world we are really upside down, andif we are to be put right, everything has to be put rightside up. But that will look as if everything isgoing to be upside down. A state of chaos is needed.Buddha became a beggar – the last man of this world. He was a king, but the kingdom of Godbelongs to the last. He left the kingdom of this world, because the kingdom of this world is justuseless, it is a meaningless burden. You carry it but it is not a nourishment. It destroys you. It is apoison – although it may be such a slow poison that you cannot feel it.One man was drinking and another was passing by, a friend. So the friend said, ”What are youdoing? That stuff is slow poison.”The man said, ”It’s okay – I’m not in a hurry.”Whatsoever you call life is a slow poison because finally it comes to death. It kills you, it never doesanything else. You may not be in a hurry, but that doesn’t make any change in the quality of thepoison. It may be slow, you may not be in a hurry, but still it will kill you. The kingdom of this worldbelongs to death, but the kingdom of heaven belongs to eternal life. So Jesus says: ”Those who areready, come to me. I will give you life abundant.”Jesus was passing through a village. He was thirsty and he came to a well. A woman was drawingwater from the well and Jesus said, ”I am thirsty, give me a little water to drink.”The woman said, ”But I belong to a very low caste and it is not allowed, I cannot give you water.”Jesus said, ”Don’t worry. Give me water, and in exchange I will also give you water – from my well.Once you drink out of it you will never be thirsty again.”he Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus -OshoCHAPTER 1. THE MUSTARD SEED</blockquote>

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