... officers were sitting behind the man who had thrown the knife at me. They immediately surrounded him, in order to arrest him. Unfortunately for the poor man, he was not an archer, or a man who could manage to hit the target. The knife fell almost six feet away from me. What a great man they had found to kill me! If they had told me, I would have sat six feet away from myself! They did not allow my people...

..., I SHALL SAY 'KWATZ!'" SANSHO PICKED UP HIS STAFF, AND THE MONK PUT HIMSELF IN READINESS TO RECEIVE A HIT. SANSHO SAID, "WHEN YOU GO DOWN A SLOPE, THERE'S NO PLEASURE UNLESS YOU RUN DOWN IT," AT WHICH HE STRUCK THE MONK. THE MONK SAID, "YOU ROBBER!" AND WENT OFF. ANOTHER MONK PRESENT AT THE SCENE ASKED, "THE MONK JUST NOW -- HOW CAN HE ENTER?" SANSHO COMMENTED...

... Mahatma Gandhi -- the first murder of its kind in this country. It is perfectly okay in America, but not in India. In America, twenty percent of the presidents have been murdered -- that is routine -- but Mahatma Gandhi's murder was the first of its kind in this country. And the man who murdered him belonged to this cultural, social society. He was a citizen of this city. An attempt has been made on my...

... life in this city, by throwing a knife to kill me! I was informed by the police headquarters, before the morning discourse, that "We have received an anonymous phone call that somebody is going to throw a knife at you and kill you, so allow in twenty high-ranking police officers." But the whole thing was totally different; it came finally to a very different conclusion. Those twenty police...

... to bring a case. Ten thousand sannyasins were present here, eyewitnesses; you could not find so many eyewitnesses for any murder, or any attempted murder anywhere else. But the police officer said, "We are present, we will take the case to the court ourselves. It is a police case. You don't need to bother at all." That was the strategy. They took away the knife also, saying, "We have...

... hates his mother, either he will kill himself or he will kill you." In Japan, to tell somebody that "You hate your mother," you have insulted his dignity. And when the dignity is insulted, humiliated, there are only two ways: either he kills you or he kills himself. But both cannot exist together anymore. So the therapists have been asking me, "What to do? Our whole therapy is...

... THE MONK PUT HIMSELF IN READINESS TO RECEIVE A HIT. Can you find anywhere else in the world, somebody getting ready, bowing down, giving his head to be hit? Nowhere in the world. Either, if you are powerful, you will jump upon the person who is going to hit you; or if you are weak, you will escape in time before he hits you. But this is absolutely Zen. The monk gets ready, on his knees, as if to...

... pray, bowing down, giving his head -- "Hit me." He has not said it, but his readiness says it: "If you hit me... even the hit from a master is a gift, a present which has no value in the marketplace, but which has value in the eternity of time." Sansho said, "YOU GO DOWN A SLOPE.... When I hit you, you go down the slope of the mountain. There is no pleasure unless you run...

... say, "Again? How many times I have convinced myself that this is that same young man, utterly crazy! But you will kill me one day, my heart beats so hard. Suddenly out of the shadows somebody comes, and that too, running backwards...!" In India, the mythology is that ghosts run backwards, that was the trouble. "How to make the distinction that you are really you, not a ghost?"...

... misunderstood me, ran after him! The more I ran, the faster he ran. I said, "It is strange...." The old Sindhi was watching the whole scene. He said, "You will kill him! Why are you following him?" I said, "I simply want to tell him that I am not a ghost." The old Sindhi said, "Nobody will believe it. Ghosts always say that! You just give me those two buckets. In the morning...

... convince him. The old master was saying the same thing to him, but he missed. Now he has gone back to the old master saying, 'You were right. It was just my thickness of intelligence, my hard skin, that nothing penetrated. But Sansho did the job within a minute. He gave me such a hit on the head, and I ran down the whole slope of the mountain.'" He was right. These are symbolic words. Sansho is...

... back under the blanket. He would be shouting, abusing him, and the servant would be beating him, slapping him. This is the situation of the whole of humanity. Maneesha, you all have to live to wake up people even against their will, in spite of them. Don't bother if they hit you, if they cry, if they shout; you go on pulling them. They have to be made buddhas! That's why I don't allow you to go...

..., in my cell I had one Negro partner. He was a very pious fellow, although he was charged with murder and rape and all kinds of things. Pious people do all kinds of things. He used to put his head on the Bible every morning, every evening. He would put the Bible on the bed, kneel down on the ground and put his head on the Bible. He was not educated, so he could not read. And just above the Bible he...

... was hoping that when President Ronald Reagan retired, the new president, George Bush, would prove more human. But the situation is just the opposite. He is now supporting, with three billion dollars, the creating of the greatest death gas, which will kill living people, living trees, living animals, and leave the houses intact, roads intact, cars intact, railway trains intact. Everything will remain...

... intact; the gas will kill only the living beings. Just see this nightmare of the earth: houses and houses, streets and streets, trains standing at the platform and nobody on the platform, airplanes on the runway and nobody in the airport .... No dogs, no peacocks, no swans, no trees - just man-made things which are dead. And the gas will be invisible. It can be simply showered on you and you will not...

... grow up to your full height, which is an uphill task, or the easier way is to destroy the enlightened one - to poison Socrates, to crucify Jesus, to murder al- Hillaj Mansoor. That is easier. Then the whole crowd is satisfied and consoled: "There is nobody who is above us. Everybody is of the same size." An ancient Greek story is: A famous king had made a guesthouse for other kings when...

... religions are old and everything has changed since then: only those scriptures are dead and cannot change. But their ideologies are poisonous, they will kill you. They are killing human beings - their very spirit is destroyed, their radiance has been taken away, their growth stifled. And for all this they are respected as virtuous, honored as saints. The more you cut yourself according to out-of-date...

... - believes it, it must be true. If you say the truth to anybody, nobody is going to believe it: "You! And you have found the truth?" Just keep your mouth shut. If people hear it, they will kill you. But if you give a beautiful lie, everybody enjoys it and it goes on from mouth to mouth immediately, like wildfire. And soon it becomes true. It gathers new information that you had not imparted, it...

... man in this whole city who knows what real truth is." He looked at me - everybody thought that he was a little cracked, a crackpot - and I said, "You are the only religious man in this irreligious city." He said, "Strange that only you recognized me. We are brothers in faith." He hugged me. I said, "Don't kill me!" - because he had been a wrestler. The only safety...

.... He wanted to kill Gautam Buddha, his own brother, and he tried. Once Buddha was sitting on a rock meditating; Devadatta was hiding just behind him up a big hill, and he rolled a big rock down the hill, directed towards Gautam Buddha. It would have crushed the fragile flower of the Buddha. All that is higher is fragile; a lotus flower, a roseflower - they have a certain strength and beauty, but if...

... you put them under a rock they will be destroyed. Of course their fragrance will remain in the air. The story is beautiful. It says that the rock came directly towards Buddha and just as it was going to hit Buddha it changed its route, leaving Buddha alive. It looks just like a parable, but one never knows. Rocks are also alive, they grow, they have a certain sensitivity. Perhaps it is a factual...

... immediately pulled them in, killed them and ate them. They were keeping that elephant just to kill the criminals. Devadatta got the key and asked the man in whose control the elephant had grown up .... Still, even in his madness, the elephant remembered him and always followed him. Wherever the man wanted to take him he could take him; the elephant never harmed him. It is said that elephants have perhaps...

... the greatest memory system, they never forget. If you kill one elephant, a husband, or a wife - they live in couples - never leave the other one alive, otherwise the other one will find a way to kill you, wherever you go. Even twenty years afterwards people have been killed. The same is true about cobra snakes: they live in couples. Never kill one; if you want to kill one, kill both. If you kill one...

... the other will find a way, wherever you go; years may pass, but he will find a way to kill you. Their memory system is very strong. Because this man had raised the elephant from his very childhood, even in his madness the elephant remembered him - his love, his compassion. Devadatta bribed the man and told him to take the elephant towards Buddha, who was meditating outside the city in a mango grove...

.... The man took the mad elephant, who had killed many men; as they reached close to the mango grove his chains were removed. The man who controlled him took him directly to Gautam Buddha. There was every possibility - they had not thought that anything else could happen - that the elephant would kill Gautam Buddha. But the elephant came near Buddha; with his small eyes he looked at Buddha, and then...

... was not a criminal. Even a rock moved, changed its course. But Devadatta was much more unconscious than the elephant and the rock. He continued for Buddha's whole life to try to kill him. There is every suspicion ... Buddha died of food-poisoning but nothing is on record; there is every possibility that Devadatta's hand was behind his death. The food was given to him by somebody else, mixed with...

... poison. Maneesha, man could have grown to immense heights, to the Himalayan peaks of consciousness, but because of the unconscious, stupid majority of people, evolution is delayed continually. You kill one Socrates, you have delayed evolution perhaps for one thousand years. You kill a Buddha by poisoning, you have again delayed evolution for another thousand years. You kill al-Hillaj Mansoor and you...

.... Terrorism simply symbolizes that to destroy human beings does not matter, that there is nothing in human beings which is indestructible, that it is all matter -- and you cannot kill matter, you can only change its form. Once man is taken to be only a combination of matter, and no place is given for a spiritual being inside him, then to kill becomes just play. The nations are irrelevant because of nuclear...

... may be happening far away, but they are excited. Something in them feels an affinity. A war that should have happened somewhere between Date: Fri, 1955 and 1960 00:00:00 GMT X-Location: has not happened, and man is burdened with the desire to kill, with the desire to destroy. It is just that he wants good names for it. Terrorism is going to become bigger and bigger, because the third world war is...

... easily. In fact they love bloodshed; they don't have the courage to say so. In one of the existentialist's novels, there is a beautiful incident which can almost be said to be true. A man is presented before the court because he has killed a stranger who was sitting on the beach. He had never seen the stranger. He did not kill him for money. He does not yet know how that man looked, because he killed...

... four o'clock, alone, even without a sword, no guards, no other companion. This man seems to be strange -- he could do anything. And what does he mean that he will kill the self forever? He can kill me, but how will he kill the self?" The whole night he could not sleep. He changed his mind again and again -- to go or not to go? But there was something in the man's eyes, and there was something in...

... his voice, and there was some aura of authority when he said, "Just come at four o'clock sharp, and I will finish this self forever! You need not be worried about it." What he said looked absurd, but the way he said it, and the way he looked were so authoritative: he knows what he is saying. Finally Wu had to decide to go. He decided to risk, "At the most he can kill me -- what else...

... of you. "The moment you find, inside, your self, catch hold of it so I can kill it. Just catch hold of it tightly and tell me that you have caught it, and I will kill it and it will be finished. It is a question of minutes." Wu was a little afraid. Bodhidharma looked like a madman; he is painted like a madman - - he was not like that, but the paintings are symbolic. That's the impression...

... hour passed, two hours passed and the sun was rising, and Wu was a different man. In those two hours he looked inside himself, in every nook and corner. He had to look -- that man was sitting there; he could have hit him on his head with his staff. You could expect anything; whatever.... He was not a man of etiquette, manner; he was not part of Wu's court, so he had to look intently, intensively. And...

...;Open your eyes -- it is not there. I don't have to kill it. I am a nonviolent man, I don't kill anything! But this self does not exist. Because you never look at it, it goes on existing. It is in your not looking for it, in your unawareness, that it exists. Now it is gone." Two hours had passed, and Wu was immensely glad. He had never tasted such sweetness, such freshness, such newness, such...

... like Ma Tzu, would have beaten the monk to give him a little glimpse beyond the mind. When thoughts stop, when suddenly one hits you, the whole world is in a whirl. Thoughts stop and you are shocked. Even breathing stops: "I was asking a relevant question and what kind of mad master is he? He hits me..." And before you have opened your mind, he hits you again. Once Ma Tzu hit a person sixty...

...-six times.... Because he was hit, he was shocked and still started opening his mouth. Again another hit... until he stopped opening his mouth, until he understood that this opening of the mouth is creating the whole trouble. But Ma Tzu was a totally different master, very loving and very compassionate - he had the right to hit. And as the man became silent, Ma Tzu closed his eyes, the man closed his...

... eyes. Nothing was asked, nothing was said, and everything was understood. Those sixty-six hits brought the man to the edge of the mind. He must have been an authentic seeker. He did not bother that his head might be broken... He did not care, but went on insisting for another hit until he found some glimpse that prevented him from speaking. Seeing that he had found some glimpse, and was not going to...

... speak, Ma Tzu closed his eyes. They sat for hours together in silence. In that silence is the transfer, the transmission. The man bowed down, touched the feet of Ma Tzu, and he said, "If there were more people like you, so compassionate to hit sixty-six times, the world would have become enlightened." It was a totally different atmosphere where the hit was not thought to be an insult, it was...

... thought to be a message. What words cannot say, the hit was saying. The hit was saying: "Keep quiet. Be silent. Be utterly silent." And the master goes on hitting. He is saying, "Go on digging deeper and deeper. As I hit you from outside, you hit yourself inside until you reach the life source itself." Hyakujo depended more on simple dialogue. His contribution is that he did not...

... behave like a mad Zen master, he behaved very normally. He has brought Zen from the mountains to the marketplace. Naturally he has to behave according to the manners of the market. So the questions all are stupid. Each question needs a good hit. To answer, what Hyakujo has replied is that they are concurrent causes. They appear to be very close but they are not one. They can go separate ways; there is...

... waited for somebody to get up, then it was a virtue to pull him down, hit him one or two slaps - there was no other way. These people loved me, not because they understood what I was saying, but just because of the way I was saying it. They loved my presence but they were not seekers. They had just taken an opportunity. Soon I became tired. It was utterly useless because they were listening with one...

...: Question 3: OSHO! KILL ME, O LORD, KILL ME! KILL ME, I CRAVE DEATH. KILL THAT DEATH OSHO DIED AND SAW. I AM SUCH A STONE, I CAN NOT COMPLETELY MELT. I AM UPSET. WHAT SHOULD I DO? Sudhir Bharti, what you have written is lovely, but full of misunderstanding. You have given a new form to Gorakh's couplet, but Gorakh's couplets cannot be given new form. It is complete just as it is, it cannot be altered...

.... Understand Gorakh's statement again: Die, O yogi, die! Die, sweet is dying. Die that death Gorakh died and saw. You have made a very big change. You say: Kill me, O lord, kill me! No one else can kill you, it is not possible. Someone can kill your body, but no one can kill your ego. For this only you are capable. Not even god can kill your ego, otherwise he would have killed it. You say god is omnipotent...

..., all powerful. Even he has a limit of power - he cannot kill your ego. If your ego existed god could kill it. The ego does not exist, it is only an illusion. The illusion is yours. Only you can drop your illusion, how can I drop your illusion? You insist that two plus two equals five. No matter how much I insist that two plus two equals four, what will happen? - as long as you don't believe two plus...

... I cannot light your lamp. You will have to light it. This is why Buddha said, a buddha indicates the path, you yourself will have to walk. No buddha can walk for you and reach the destination, and even if he reaches, he will reach the goal, you will remain just where you are. Truth cannot be borrowed. Don't change Gorakh's couplet. You have said it well: Kill me, O lord, kill me! Kill me, I crave...

... die, I cannot kill you. If I could kill you, anyone could reawaken you. If you yourself die, then no one will be able to bring you back to life. Once one has consciously awakened and dispersed the ego inside himself, there is no power in the whole world that can make him fall back into the trap of ego. So don't say, Kill me, O lord, kill me! Kill me, I crave death. No one dies by craving. One who...

... within you, what remains is samadhi. It is not something that happens through craving. And you say, Kill that death... Even your killing is conditional. You say, 'Yes, certainly kill but it should be that death - the same that you attained, from which you saw, let it be no other death. Even in dying you have made conditions. In the middle of the process you will open your eyes to see that no wrong...

... death is happening. A Zen monk had given one of his disciples a meditation koan to resolve: what is the sound of one hand clapping? Does one hand ever clap? He thought long and worked hard. He was a man of deep thought. He brought many statements, such as the sound of one hand clapping is like the thundering of the clouds. And the master hit him a hard one saying, "Idiot, is this the sound of one...

... asked about the sound of one hand and I just collapsed. I had become completely hopeless, so I just fell down. And that day the master was happy and put his hand on my head - he didn't hit me with his staff that day - he said, 'Son, get up, the one hand has clapped!'" In this falling down, his ego fell away. In this falling all his thoughts fell away - despairing, despairing, despairing...

... me to say that you have become enlightened. It is not so cheap." You say, Kill such a death... At least let go completely. Say this much at least, Kill me as you will... Even this you did not let go of. You have made your conditions. Even your surrender is conditional. And is surrender ever conditional? The meaning of surrender is - let go of all conditions. Fall at the feet, now what will...

... and thoughts continue, death can never happen. And remember, the master cannot kill the disciple. The master can teach the disciple the art of dying. Dying you will have to do. When you eat your stomach will be filled. When you drink water your thirst will be quenched. By my drinking water, your thirst cannot be slaked. By my eating, your hunger cannot be destroyed. By my breathing, your heart will...

... anxious, they become very nervous, who knows whose turn has come. Even more surprising is that if you cut one tree then all the nearby trees are in agony. And it is not that they are afflicted only by cutting trees. If you kill a bird, all the trees are afflicted. From killing a bird! What do the trees have to do with it? But the bird is theirs too. It builds its nest on them. It gives a dignity to the...

... would never have known he eats meat. Mahavira must have seen that to harm trees is possible only when you are not sensitive, when you become stonelike. It is possible to kill animals for food only when your heart has died, and your soul has become completely gross. This is just what Gorakh said yesterday, you remember, no? You worship stone and you have become stone. Your temples are stone, your idols...

.... Huna saw a man kill a wasp. Said he to him, 'Have you wiped them all out?'20 Our Rabbis taught: If one chances upon snakes and scorpions, and he kills them, it is manifest that he had chanced upon them in order to kill them; if he does not kill them, it is manifest that he had chanced upon them that they should kill him, but that a miracle was performed by Heaven on his behalf. 'Ulla said: &mdash...

...: For R. Abba, son of R. Hiyya b. Abba, and R. Zera were sitting in the anteroom of R. Jannai's academy, [when] something issued from between them.25  [So] they asked R. Jannai: May one kill snakes and scorpions on the Sabbath? Said he to them: I kill a hornet, how much more so snakes and scorpions! But perhaps that is (only] incidentally,26  for Rab Judah said: One can tread down saliva...

.... And a mouse is the same as excrement. Which stands apart. Which was usually in the street. It is now assumed that this refers to the excrement, not the dung heap. Rashi: that kill. A district of Assyria between the rivers Lycus and Caprus. Supra 12a, 31b; the present killing falls within the same category. I.e., R. Joshua's statement refers to this case. But in the Baraitha they are not pursuing him...

..., and it is taught on R. Simeon's view. Heb. hasidim. Here probably no particular sect is meant. Weiss, Dor, I. 109, maintains that the early hasidim are probably referred to. Sarcastically. I.e., you have achieved nothing, and should not have done it on the Sabbath. Otherwise it is not to be assumed that they were meant to kill him. Rashi, a Jew from Nabatea. This was on a Sabbath. Did Rabbi speak...

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...] Hammer, Nr. 274 (1913). [22] Hammer, Nr. 271 (1913). [23] Die Judenstadt von Lublin [The Jewish City of Lublin], 1919 -- Jüdischer Verlag, [Jewish Publishers], Berlin (p. 30 loc. cit., p. 40). At that time in Poland, but especially in Lublin, Jews were brought to court every year on charges of child-murder. (Concerning this see: Tentzel, Monatl. Unterr., 1694, p. 127 etc. -- see also p. 46 etc. in our...

... officials and clergy. In the 18th century, the Voivod of Cracow received 7000 Gulden payed out [to him]! The fact that, with these [kind of] sums, the charges of ritual-murder were nipped in the bud, is obvious! [24] Nr. 35, 29 August 1913. [25] Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums [General Times of Judaism], Nr. 35, 1913. [26] 20 October 1913 -- (Semigothaismen). [27] Nr. 26, 1913. [28] It no longer emerges...

...Jewish Ritual Murder, Schramm...

... speaking a borrowed truth cannot have such authority. To the chief judge Socrates says, "You can kill me, but remember one thing: your name will be remembered in history for just one thing - that you decided to kill Socrates; otherwise you have nothing to contribute. And all these judges and all these people who are going to decide about me will be forgotten as if they had never existed. You can...

... kill me, but you cannot kill my spirit." They decided to kill him, but they were certainly impressed because they could not give any counter- argument; and whatever he said was so clear, so truthful, there was no way to put him in the wrong - he remained always in the right in court. Still, it was a democracy - truth was being decided by a majority. And the idiots who made the majority may not...

... the whole crowd that was going to decide his fate. You can see the strength. The judges were affected by the strength. They had to concede to the majority but they made a few conditions, just to help Socrates. They said, "If the majority decides to kill you by giving poison, we cannot do anything. But we can suggest a few alternatives - that is within our powers. One is that you can leave...

... become known to the world - the more you are gathering friends and lovers - you are also creating enemies. "I don't want to leave you alone, because who knows? - the man may not be a friend. And you are so vulnerable that anybody can kill you very easily. To follow you is very difficult, to kill you is very easy; because in following you one has to kill one's own ego - which is a difficult task...

... - but to kill you... a fragile man, so delicate: I will not leave you alone in privacy with anybody, without exception." When an elder brother asks these things - or anything - in India, the younger simply accepts. And a man like Buddha simply laughed. He said, "That's perfectly okay. Your conditions are accepted." Only once, just one time in his whole life of forty-two years with...

... this jail; so that whatever you want to do to me.... You can do any harm, you can even kill me. And there will be no trace where I disappeared because there is no entry for me - in this jail I never entered - and you can just fill out a bogus form that David Washington is released." So I told them, "You write - I cannot write with my own hand anything illegal. You fill in the form, I will...

... more going to be the celebrity she has been. On the other hand, all these people are going to bring all the complaints that have accumulated in their minds for three and half years. She simply escaped. And now so many things are coming, it seems* are most inconceivable. She has tried to poison people, to kill people. Just today somebody has sent me the message that one of my most important sannyasins...

... a dose and he died. And they just threw him out of Rancho Rajneesh. If they can do that.... They tried my own personal physician to kill by giving him slow doses of poison. They were against three persons very much because those three persons were very close to me and they were afraid that those three persons may be giving me information that they don't want me to know. I was in isolation and...

... mathematically. And whatever they have left in the rubbish, we have found literature how to make bombs, materials out of which bombs are made, materials on poisons, in what doses poisons can kill and how they should be given. We have also found that the fire that had happened in Wasco County in one of the offices was the work of this group. Because they had the papers against them and they wanted to burn all...

... love your wrong actions. For your wrong actions you will have to face the courts. And for your wrong actions we are not going to help you. As far as you are concerned, our love remains the same." I make a clear distinction between the action and the person. Action is a small thing. For example, for thirty years you were a perfectly nice person and one day you murder. Nobody could have conceived...

.... And after that day you may not murder ever. But our legal systems are blind. Because you have murdered, they will murder you. This is a strange, primitive law. If murder is wrong, then punishment to murder the person is also wrong -- more wrong. Just because it is being done in the name of society, civilization, culture, law, court, does not make it right. To me, the murderer as a individual is as...

... respectable as the magistrate. His action of murder is wrong, which is a small thing considered to the personality of the being, his whole life. I would like every wrong person, illegal person, criminal person, to be sent not to imprisonment but respectfully, with dignity, to a psychiatrist camp, to a hospital where he can be treated, because murder is basically something psychological. Rape is something...

... future is open. Why you should destroy his future? You should help that the same thing does not happen in the future, so whatever steps are needed should be taken: medically, physiologically, psychologically -- everything should be done to get this person off this instinct to murder or rape or do... to do something wrong. I will call that a cultured society. So I will to see*. Even they come back...

... Auditorium Archive Code: 8709150 Short Title: PILGR18 Audio Available: Yes Video Available: Yes Length: 121 mins Question 1: BELOVED OSHO, WHAT DO YOU SEE IN MY EYES NOW, AFTER YOU HIT MY HEAD SO HARD? OH BELOVED MASTER, THE BLESSING OF YOUR SWORD HAS LEFT ONLY ONE WOUND, THAT EVEN THE SILENCE BLOSSOMED OUT OF THIS MEDITATION HASN'T HEALED: HAVE I really BEEN DISRESPECTFUL IN MY UNAWARENESS? FOR I WILL...

... RATHER CUT MY TONGUE BEFORE SAYING ANYTHING AGAINST YOU, AND I WILL KILL MYSELF WITH JOY RATHER THAN BE UNLOVING TO YOU. Sarjano, I know your heart. I know your love. I know your deep gratitude and respect -- but it is human, once in a while to slip from the path. And it happens from a necessary psychological principle: you start taking me for granted. This is one of the ancientmost diseases of the...

... of my people what I have received from existence. But the moment you take me for granted, immediately you forget, become unconscious, create distance. I don't want to hit anybody, but except hitting you I cannot wake you up when you have fallen asleep. Consciously, whatever you say is absolutely right, that you would rather cut your tongue than say a word against me, that you would rather die than...

... more you love me, the more you should remember that at any time I can hit you. I have told you the most beautiful story in Zen, about a master thief. He was no ordinary thief, because in his whole life nobody had been able to catch him red-handed. Even the emperor was amazed at his craftsmanship, his art in stealing. The man was so perfect... but he was getting old. The situation had come to the...

... the last person to be disrespectful, and it does not matter to me whether you are disrespectful to me or not. The point is, I don't want your unconscious mind to sabotage the beauty that has arisen in your consciousness. Below is unconscious, above is no-mind, or super-conscious. I will hit you if I see that the unconscious is pulling you down, and I will hit you if I see that you are not moving...

... fast enough from the conscious to the super-conscious. Those are the two times when I will hit you. It does not matter... I have not hit you because you were disrespectful. Remember it -- because I have been condemned my whole life: from my very childhood I don't know a day when I was not condemned for doing things not in the way people wanted. I have become so accustomed and at ease with...

..., remember it is your unconscious that is feeding the idea to you. Otherwise, whatever you said is so beautiful, Sarjano, I would like to read it again so that everybody understands clearly. It is not only a question, it is a statement from the very deepest core of his heart. " BELOVED OSHO, WHAT DO YOU SEE IN MY EYES NOW, AFTER YOU HIT MY HEAD SO HARD?" I see your eyes. I see you -- the same as...

... you were before the hit, after the hit. But if you were not hit you would not have been so full of love, with tears of joy in your eyes. "WHAT DO YOU SEE IN MY EYES NOW, AFTER YOU HIT MY HEAD SO HARD? OH BELOVED MASTER, THE BLESSING OF YOUR SWORD HAS LEFT ONLY ONE WOUND, THAT EVEN THE SILENCE BLOSSOMED OUT OF THIS MEDITATION HAS NOT HEALED: HAVE I REALLY BEEN DISRESPECTFUL...?" No, you...

...; it is only a means, which the conscious mind can use, the unconscious mind can use, the super-conscious mind can use. I am using it; it is a perfect mechanism to convey things which cannot be conveyed. And finally, you say, "And I will kill myself with joy, rather than be unloving to You." That is easier, to die for someone. The real difficulty is to live for someone. Many have died in...

... the rock. And I can see -- I have never seen such a deep valley. It must be the very hell! Forgive me...." The old man said, "Then what kind of archer are you? The real archery is not to hit the target; the real archery is that you should be unwavering. Your unwavering is the real qualification of being an archer. Then your target cannot be missed." The old man came back, helped the...

... are against themselves; they are completely closed. They are open to any kind of stupidity, but they are not open to sanity. They are ready to do everything for destruction, but they are not ready to make this small life a life of pure joy and dance -- and that was my whole effort. But the people for whom I wanted it to happen and for whom I worked my whole life are the people who would like to kill...

... from Greece, without being given any reason. They just told the Greek sannyasins, "The archbishop of the Greek orthodox church does not want him in the country, because he can destroy young people's minds. We cannot help. He has to leave, although his visa is still valid for fifteen days, and we don't have any legal right to cancel it unless he has committed some murder or some heinous crime. He...