... that nothing can be said about how he will react to your question, to your answer. The disciple comes with many solutions. Those solutions are just so-so -- because a solution is impossible. So even without hearing the solution, what the disciple has brought, sometimes the Master will hit him. Once it happened.... A disciple came. Every day for three months he had been bringing some solution to a...

... koan. He came with the idea that he would hit the wall with his hand. Now this is not a solution. Again you have brought in two -- of course there are not two hands but that is not the point. The Master hits him. And so on, so forth.... Every day he brings something or other. He imagines and thinks that maybe this will work. After three months have passed he comes and he has not uttered a single...

... thing and the Master slaps him. And he says, 'Wait, Sir, I have not even said anything.' The Master said, 'Then it will be too late. If you say something then it will be too late.' And that day something happens to the disciple. He has not said anything. Every day he had been saying something and of course he was being hit -- so it was rational. He was thinking in his mind that whatsoever he was...

... saying was wrong, that's why the Master hit him. Now even that reason is dropped. He has not said anything and the Master hits him. Now it is absolutely irrational. Now the mind cannot cope with it. When the mind cannot cope with something, it drops. When the mind proves to be impotent about something, it drops. A koan is a riddle which cannot be solved -- but you have to think about it. For hours...

... persistent about it. If you have something to see, some object is still there, then this is not the true end. then something is still there to be drilled upon. That's why the great Zen Master, Hui Neng, has said, 'If you meet Buddha on the way, kill him immediately. If you see the patriarch, Bodhidharma, on the way, kill him immediately.' Don't have any mercy. go on drilling. Drill the Buddha too. Unless...

... don't listen to the mind. Says Hui Neng, 'You have been told to abide by the Buddha, by the law and by the SANGHA but I say unto you abide only by yourself.' If you abide by Buddha and then Buddha arises like a lotus flower -- so beautiful, so tremendously beautiful, so celestial, so divine -- Hui Neng says, 'Kill him immediately.' Don't wait a single minute because he is so fascinating you can get...

... place there is no truth to tell you. My duty is to lighten the heavy burden of dead weight on your back. My mission is to destroy all that binds and makes you a slave. And my duty is to kill everything and everybody that stands between you and yourself.' Zen people are really of a different quality. Such utterances you cannot find anywhere else -- such rebellious utterances, such statements, so fiery...

... loved bamboo tremendously because he sings about it in many songs; he paints bamboo in many paintings. RYOKAN LIKED THIS CHARACTER IN THE BAMBOO.  -- this character of emptiness. ONCE, IT IS SAID, A YOUNG GROWING SHOOT BEGAN TO BREAK THROUGH THE FLOOR OF HIS CLOSET. HE TOOK INTEREST IN IT. AT LAST, SEEING IT GROW TOO TALL FOR THE ENCLOSURE HE STARTED TO REMOVE THE ROOF FOR IT. Just think. A...

... bamboo started growing inside the hut. He didn't remove the bamboo, he started to remove the roof because the bamboo needed sky, the bamboo needed more space. The house was not as important as the bamboo -- the empty bamboo growing in it, the alive bamboo growing in it. But then one thing more happened.... HE TRIED TO BURN THE ROOF WITH A CANDLE. Suzuki says: DID HE THINK IT THE EASIEST WAY TO...

... PROSTRATING HIMSELF THE MASTER GAVE HIM A GOOD SWIFT KICK. Humiliating! First you ask him to bow down and then you hit him, you give him a kick, you treat him as if he is a football or a stone in the way. But he kicked rightly. He kicked exactly at the problem. Something happened out of that kick. The kick worked almost like an electroshock. THE UNEXPECTED KICK RESOLVED THE MURKY IRRESOLUTION IN WHICH THE...

... to catch hold of him; otherwise he used to run faster on his four feet than any runner. He could have come first in any Olympic race anywhere; he was a wolf. It would have been more humane to leave him back in the forest. But this is how the unconscious mind functions. Now a girl has been found in Europe and they have immediately started working on her to restore her. They will kill her. I can...

... psychotherapist's work is to clean your mind. It is a kind of lubricating your mechanism -- it functions a little better and you start becoming a little more understanding about the functionings of the mind, although that does not make any revolutionary change. And it is possible you may solve one problem, but you have not removed the cause. Mind itself is the problem. So you can remove one problem, mind will...

... create another problem... It is just like pruning the trees: you prune one leaf and just out of self-respect and dignity the tree will grow three leaves in the place where there used to be one. That's why gardeners go on pruning; that gives trees more foliage, more leaves. The same is the situation with the mind: you can remove one problem by understanding it -- and it is costly -- but the mind is...

... dimension: you simply watch the mind and in watching you come out of it. And slowly, mind with all its problems disappears; otherwise the mind is going to create strange problems. The other day in England a court released a murderer. It is a very strange case, and it may give impetus to many people to murder. The murderer was in the second world war fighting in Japan. And he pleaded in the court that in...

... it consciously, in awareness. Now to punish him does not seem right, even in a traditional England, where anything new takes years to be accepted. When the whole world will accept it then England will try! The judge must have been a man of great understanding, but he has also opened a door of dangers. Now anybody can kill his wife and say, "What can I do? Japanese were following..." It is...

... understand that in an encounter group if people are fighting it is just playful fighting. They really start fighting and they can become dangerous; they can kill somebody. Different cultures... Japanese have been writing letters to me saying that in the therapies they are telling us that you hate your mother, your father -- and it is absolutely wrong! We will kill the therapist! Japan has a totally...

... different culture. The very idea that you hate your mother -- and the person will commit hara-kiri. He will kill himself because it is so shameful. I have come to know such stories of hara-kiri that you cannot believe. One famous historical case happened three hundred years ago. A very well-known master of martial arts forgot, when he went to meet the emperor, to bow down. In Japan you have to bow down...

... written to me, "The therapist goes on insisting, 'You must hate your mother...' Either I will kill the therapist or I will kill myself if he is right. Because I don't see that I have ever hated my mother." And in fact the situation is different. In Japan almost one-third of the girls don't marry; they remain with their mother. In the rest of the world the situation is different. And what...

... your mother? Have you ever thought in your childhood to kill your father because he was your competitor for the same sex object, the mother?" He cooled down, and he said, "Never. I never thought about these things." I said, "What are you doing now? Imposing on people ideas which are not their problems, are you helping them or destroying their integrity? You are telling them that...

... it, you are just a listener. Even if I hit you on your heads you can always think it is for others, you can always find excuses: "Osho is doing it to others, doing well." You can always exclude yourself. But when you come to darshan in the evening, I am talking to you in particular, Prapatti. Then I hit you and you cannot avoid it. And I know you need many shocks, because there is no...

... other way to wake you. The alarm has to be jarring and hard, and when you would like to sleep, the alarm disturbs you. In fact, exactly in those moments when you would have really liked to sleep, suddenly the alarm goes. Whenever I see any fragment of sleep travelling in your mind, I have to hit you hard. And of course, in darshan you are facing me; it is an encounter, and you feel frustrated. If you...

... understand you will feel fulfilled, not frustrated. If you understand you will see why I hit you so hard. I am not your enemy. It must be out of compassion that I hit you so hard. If you understand me, you will feel grateful that I bother to hit you. Let me tell you a few anecdotes. A man went into a large store and bought some groceries. As he was waiting for his change, he kicked the assistant in the leg...

...?" He: "Yeah." She: "Do you think my lips are like rose petals, my eyes limpid pools, my hair like silk?" He: "Yup." She: "Oh, you say the nicest things." In the morning talk, it is very easy; you can believe whatsoever you want to believe I am saying to you. But in the evening darshan, it is impossible. But remember that I hit you hard to help you. It is...

... out of compassion and love. When a stranger comes to me, I don't hit him, even in darshan. In fact, I don't make any contact, because all contact from me is going to be like an electric shock. Only with sannyasins am I hard, and I am harder when I see that your potentiality is greater. Prapatti has a great potential. She can grow and flower beautifully, and in no time, but she needs great pruning...

... in one place. Then it goes deeper; then it becomes stronger. Intimacy is good, and to remain in one commitment is beautiful, but the basic necessity is love. If a tree is rooted in a place where there are only rocks and they are killing the tree, then it is better to remove it. Then don't insist that it should remain in the one place. Remain true to life - remove the tree, because now it is going...

... outside who responds to the inner woman, who vibrates your inner being, and your inner woman which is lying fast asleep, awakes. Through the outer woman, you have to meet the inner woman; and the same for the man. So if the relationship continues for a long period, it-will be better, because that inner woman needs time to be awakened. As it is happening in the West - hit-and-run affairs - the inner...

... Shulhan Aruch Ritual Murder Murdering Children The Fire Burns for the Children The Moloch Sacrifice Climaxes LaCroix on Moloch Judaism Permits Child Sacrifices to Moloch S o-called "Judaism" is nothing but Babylonian Talmudic Pharisaism, which at base is crass paganism concocted through the centuries. Descriptions concocted for this very old satanism, such as "immanence" (Spinoza) "emanation" (Talmudic...

... own tradition." (See Matthew 15) Other practices are condoned in Judaism. Despite Moses’ orders (Deuteronomy 18:10-12): "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or daughter to pass through the fire (see Ritual Murder herein) or that useth divination, or an observer of times [astrology] or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a...

... the supreme scriptures of [page 47] Pharisaic Judaism. (See "Ritual Murder" herein) Jewish Magic Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg, listed in Who’s Who in American Jewry, in his defensive yet illuminating book, Jewish Magic and Superstition (Behrmann’s, N.Y., 1939), writing of the age-long reputation of Jews as practitioners of black magic and all occult demonistic rites, states (Second chapter...

... them three times alternately. One is not permitted to walk four cubits without having his hands washed." (Chapter II) A cubit is about 18 inches - so watch your step! This so-called "handwashing" is not for cleanliness, as previously noted, but a ritual in connection with dislodging demons the "Orthodox" or "pious" Jew may well spend the rest of the time invoking or inviting in. Ritual Murder Over...

... the centuries, and dating from the time of the Pharisee historian Josephus, in the 1st Century, Jews have repeatedly been charged with "ritual murder", that is, murder for purposes of paganistic black magic, charges always vehemently denied. Such denials are understandable, when one considers how loathsome such practices are. Says the 1905 Jewish Encyclopedia: "It may be positively asserted that...

... "theurgic" or wonder-working literature, the manuscripts for which are copied hand to hand. Occasionally one is printed in occult works. Blood, blood, blood is through it all. One of the many charges of ritual murder was in Russia, in 1912, when Mendel Beilis was accused of this crime of murdering for purposes of black magic. The American Jewish Committee succeeded in interesting journalists to such an...

... Book House, Publishers, 1939). In it he seeks to erase the Ritual Murder charges of the centuries, referring to "the constant recurrence of child sacrifice in these trials and the importance of human blood in the witches’ ritual ... the most distinguishing elements in the technique of the sorcerer and the witch, as disclosed to popular view by the campaign of the Church." (page 9) It is...

... "whited sepulchre" of so-called "Judaism," which is actually Pharisee paganism. "Christian divines," now, as formerly, would do well to read up on what the Bible condemns, and find those pagan murder practices have not disappeared from the Earth, nor from the "synagogue of Satan." Burning children to the demon Moloch is permitted today by the supreme legal authority of the so-called "Jewish" religion...

... the fire, but did not give it to Moloch) "he incurs no penalty unless he does both." At this point, does it really matter whether an innocent child has been burned in fire and also "given to Moloch" when its murder by fire is condoned if the latter proviso is excluded? In a footnote to the same Talmud "Mishna" reference (Exhibit No. 66), it is "explained:" "(5) As two separate offenses, proving that...

... also, Mohammedans also. All these religions are Jewish, the source is the Jew, and the Jew is the perfect businessman. So God came to ask, he came to the Hindus and asked, "Would you like to have ten commandments?" The Hindus said, "What is the first? We must have a sample. We don't know what these ten commandments are." God said, "Thou shalt not kill." The Hindus said...

... respect to me." Hakuin laughed and said, " You, a samurai? You look like a beggar." The samurai's pride was hurt, his ego hammered. He forgot what he had come for. He took out his sword and was just about to kill Hakuin. He forgot that he had come to this master to ask where is the gate of heaven, to ask where is the gate of hell. Then Hakuin laughed and said, "This is the gate of...

... conscious, there is the gate of heaven. What happened to this samurai? When he was just about to kill Hakuin, was he conscious? Was he conscious of what he was about to do? Was he conscious of what he had come for? All consciousness had disappeared. When the ego takes over, you cannot be alert. Ego is the drug, the intoxicant that makes you completely unconscious. You act but the act comes from the...

... happened if you had been the warrior, if you had been the samurai, sword in hand, just about to kill. A single moment more and Hakuin's head would have been severed; a single moment more and it would have been separated from the body. And Hakuin said, "This is the gate of hell." This is not a philosophical answer; no master answers in a philosophical way. Philosophy exists only for mediocre...

..., unenlightened minds. The master responds but the response is not verbal, it is total. That this man may have killed him is not the point. "If you kill me and it makes you alert, it is worth it" -- Hakuin played the game. If a single moment had been lost this man would have killed him. But at the right moment Hakuin said, "This is the gate." You may not have heard about samurais. Say you...

... are about to kill a samurai: your sword is in your hand, it is just about to touch his neck. He is standing before you, unprotected, without any weapon. Samurais have a particular sound, a mantra. He will just say a single word so loudly that all your energy will go. You will become as if dead, a statue. He may simply say, "Hey!" You will become static, your hand will not move. That sound...

... will hammer the heart, which controls everything. Your hand will become static, your mind will be shocked; all activity will disappear. You cannot kill a samurai, even if he is without weapons. A sound becomes a protection. If you have a gun, your hands cannot move or you will miss the aim. It is just a sound, a sound that has to be made in a particular way, so that it goes deep into your heart and...

... are not truthful; you smile, you paint it on, you hide it -- you show something else. Then you cannot be made alert that this is the gate of hell. This warrior was like a child -- he became totally angry. He became so angry he was going to kill this man he had come to as a disciple. He had come in search of a master and he was going to kill this man. He was total. This totalness helped. If you are...

... deceived; you are deceiving yourself trying to escape, trying to hide. That warrior was a true man; this untruthfulness was not there. He was ready to kill or to die; he became so inflamed he was a fire. The door was open. Your door is never completely open -- you sneak through the holes. Your heaven is also never open -- you enter from the back door. To be total is a basic thing for any seeker, for...

... sanity. Release it! Inside, it will become poisonous. Throw it out, remove it from your system totally. Expression is what is moral. And to do this catharsis, you have to approach it in a very systematic, methodical way because it is becoming mad with a method - consciously mad. You have to do two things: remain conscious of what you are doing, and then do not suppress anything. In our minds...

... deep down and hits the sex center. The sex center can be hit in two ways. The first is naturally. Whenever you are attracted to a member of the opposite sex, the sex center is hit from without. And really that hit is also a subtle vibration. A man is attracted to a woman or a woman is attracted to a man. Why are they attracted? What is there in a man and what is there in a woman? A positive or...

... negative electricity hits them, a subtle vibration: it is a sound, really. You may have observed in birds that they use sound for sex appeal. All their singing is sexual; they are repeatedly hitting each other with particular sounds. These sounds hit the sex centers of birds of the opposite sex. Subtle vibrations of electricity are hitting you from without. When your sex center is hit from without, your...

... energy begins to flow out That causes reproduction, birth: someone else will be born out of you. This "hoo" is hitting the same center of energy from within; and when the sex center is hit from within, the energy starts to flow within. This inner flow of energy changes you completely. You become transformed; you give birth to yourself. You are transformed only when your energy moves in a...

... pulled to the higher and you are like a saint, and the next moment you are behaving like an animal; you are pulled down. Now the mind becomes confused. You cannot be an animal wholeheartedly because of the higher possibility. The seed is there and it goes on hitting you and challenging you. So you cannot be at ease with the animal, but you cannot remove the animal. It is there, it is your heritage. So...

... defeated continuously because of her higher civilization. People were more at ease, not in the mood to fight, they were enjoying life. Those who are not enjoying life, they are ready to fight. If life is beautiful, you can bless everyone. If your life is in difficulty, in turmoil, you can kill, you can become destructive. So hippies are right when they say, "Make love, not war." They are very...

... everyone thinks these are truths. The moment you say you are suffering because of a particular lie, society will kill you because then you are taking away the whole foundation. Society wants that one should not suffer and also that its lies should not be challenged. But that is not possible, so you cannot be helped. This is my experience: every day I come across people, and they come and they say they...

... been invented by de Bono. But he said po, he actually did it. He said to these people, to the crowd, that the scripture is right: one who has committed sin should be stoned to death. But..."Only those people amongst you who have never sinned, and never thought of committing sins, you should come forward. You should take stones in your hands and kill this woman." Now there was not a single...

.... By and by the crowd started disappearing. People who were standing in front disappeared to the back - the legal leaders of the society, the prominent citizens of the town, started disappearing. This man had used a third alternative. He didn't say yes, he didn't say no. He said, "Yes, kill the woman" - but only those who have never committed sin or thought about it, they should kill her...

... taken the first step. But just the opposite has been happening on this unfortunate earth - people love God, and kill human beings. In fact, they say because they love God so much, they have to kill. Christians kill Mohammedans, Mohammedans kill Christians, Hindus kill Mohammedans, Mohammedans kill Hindus, because they all love God - in the name of God, they kill human beings. Their gods are false...

...' difference between Buddha and Bodhidharma. Bodhidharma says: "First go and kill your father and mother, then come to me. First, be finished with your father and your mother and then come to me. Otherwise go somewhere else - I am not for you." How you are going to explain it? And I say to you that what Jesus says is just hocus-pocus. What Bodhidharma is saying is pure psychology. He is not saying...

... that you should kill your father and mother, but in a certain way you have to kill the father that has entered you, and the mother that has entered you. That is your family inside, which is surrounding your being, which won't allow any ray of light to reach your innermost corner. The crowd has gathered there, and because of that crowd the inner center is in darkness. Bodhidharma brings Buddha's...

... is very raw; he simply calls a spade a spade. Why bother about sophistication, hate, and this and that - simply kill. And I say to you, without killing you cannot get out of the prison. So when I say disobey, I mean disobey everything that is not coming from your own self. Obey that which is your nature. Now, this man is saying that this means he cannot obey me. That's why I called him a born...

... principal suggested to them, "Don't come out of your home; and be careful, very careful because the whole village is mad. The whole of Punjab is in madness, and you are only two - the crowd can kill you." And that day, the whole day the crowd was moving around the city to find some Sikh to kill. They knew those two Sikhas were there, but where had they disappeared to? By the night as the sun set...

... escaped into a nearby forest; in the darkness it was difficult to find him. But the other one was caught. He has written the letter to thank me, because when the crowd took hold of him, somebody in the crowd said, "This is not a Sikh, this is a Rajneeshee!" So they said, "It is useless to kill this man - he is no longer a Sikh." So he writes to me, "Osho, you saved me; otherwise...

... they would have cut me into pieces." I have never thought that somebody would be saved by me, but strange things in this world always happen! This is simply a strange thing. You can be killed in my name, but you cannot be saved. It was a strange situation: they were going to kill a Sikh, but seeing orange clothes and the mala and my photo, they said, "This man is already no longer a Sikh...

.... To kill him is pointless." And they left. But basically I had put that picture there so that it hangs around your neck and irritates everybody, and you cannot go anywhere without being noticed. One of my sannyasins in Bombay... he took sannyas, and after two, three days he came back and said, "I am in a real trouble. Will you give sannyas to my wife too? I have brought her." I said...

..., "Why?" He said, "The problem is, wherever I go with her people say, 'What kind of sannyasin is this? Sannyasins are not supposed to move around with women.' And I cannot say that she is my wife, because if I say that, they will kill me. A sannyasin having a wife? So it is very awkward; what to do? It is better you give sannyas to her." I said, "I will give sannyas to her but...

... East you cannot kill anybody. There may be a dog spreading sickness and disease, but you cannot kill it - killing is sin. It happened.... I am drifting - just remember! In Lucknow there is a temple of Hanuman, the monkey god. Strangely enough that temple is surrounded by big trees, and all the trees are full of monkeys - you will never see so many monkeys together. Perhaps it is for the simple reason...

... slowly slowly. First the devotees started coming with sweets and offering the sweet to the monkey god, and then the traffic started again.... But you cannot kill. You cannot kill dogs; killing is not allowed. But these religions have been killing each other. They cannot kill a dog, they cannot kill a monkey, but they can kill a man. That is very strange. I have been asking Hindus, Mohammedans, "...

...;You cannot kill animals but you can kill men without any problem, as if man has no life?" No, the thing is business. Man can be converted to be a Mohammedan - a dog cannot be. Dogs are beyond the reach of your preachers and missionaries. Professor Mackwan told me, "This is my father and mother. They would have died like dogs and the municipal truck would have thrown them out of the city...

... you have become defensive, continually defensive... always afraid somebody is going to cheat you, somebody is going to kill you, somebody is going to mistreat you, humiliate you. And in a way you are right, because this is what has been happening to everybody in society. You have to be always on guard. But if you meet a Master, then don't be on your guard. That is the secret of being with a Master...

... absolutely thankless job. I have to hit you, I have to hurt you, I have to remove so much cancer in your consciousness. And you go on watering it. I am trying to remove it some way, and you are trying somehow to grow it. Even in the name of egolessness the ego comes in. Now Somendra is spreading all over Europe the news that he is declared enlightened. Just now he has gathered one hundred and fifty people...

...; They said, "We have lost one of our friends. We were ten, now we are only nine. One person has been taken away by the river." The man must have been a very nonserious, joyful man. He said, "You just do one thing. Stand in a line and count the way I tell you. I will hit on one person's head and he has to say 'one'; then I will hit twice on the second person's head, he has to say 'two...

...'; then I will hit thrice on the third person's head, he has to say 'three'...." They said, "This is perfectly right." And of course there were ten. They all fell at his feet and said, "You saved us." This is an ancient story, in perhaps one of the most ancient collections of stories, Panch Tantra. You know in the West Aesop's Fables; they are derived from Panch Tantra. All the...

... entered the river, it is strange that after getting out of the river they forgot how to count! You tell me how they came to know that they were ten." Now he was in shock. How did they come to know? If somebody else had counted, then too they would have known how the counting was done. Later they knew - they got hit on the head by a man - then they knew what was missing: they were not counting...

... enough to kill you - and they had all the religions after you! And these boys were small: Krishnamurti was nine years old when they caught hold of him, Nityananda was eleven years old. At that time both used to take a bath in the Adyar River near the headquarters of the theosophy movement. Nearby their father lived, who was a very poor man. Their mother had died, and the father was in great difficulty...

... make anything out of them. One boy was killed now; the other was there and they would kill him too. These people were strange, and what went on in their inner circle, which was not known to anybody outside...? Krishnamurti was not even allowed to meet his father, because a world teacher should be above all attachments; he has no father, no mother. That's how Jesus behaves with his mother. His mother...

.... He can remain without breathing. He can drink any kind of poison that can kill a person immediately it touches their tongue; he can drink as much poison as you want. And yogis have been photographed, X-rayed; the poison simply does not touch them at all, it simply goes through their system without affecting the system at all. Because they know what to do with the system, they have prepared the body...