Don't Bite My Finger,
Look Where I'm
Pointing
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Mar. 1978
Pune, India
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    [Osho initiates the new baby of a sannyasin.]

    Deva means divine, sangam means meeting.
    Each child is a meeting of the sky and the
    earth. Each child is a miracle.

    Something happens that should not ordinarily
    happen: the meeting of matter and
    consciousness, the meeting of the visible and
    the invisible. So think of him as a miracle.

    Respect, revere him; don't take him for
    granted. The moment the child is taken for
    granted, we start murdering him. And each
    child is murdered; that's what is happening all
    over the world and has happened down the
    ages: it is a great massacre.

    It is not only that Herod killed all the children in
    Israel, it is happening every day; it was
    happening before Herod and it has been
    happening since him.

    Each child passes through a psychic murder;
    the moment the child is not respected and is
    thought to belong to you like a possession,
    the child has been killed, effaced. He has to
    be respected as a god, because the child is
    the coming of god into the world again.

    Each child is a statement from god that he is
    not yet tired, that he is not yet weary of man,
    that he still hopes, that he will continue to
    create new human beings, whatsoever we
    become -- sinners and saints. Whatsoever we
    do, he still hopes that the real man will be
    created. God has not failed yet!

    That is the declaration in each child's coming
    onto the earth, into existence...

                                                        – Osho
             Don't Bite My Finger, Look Where I'm
             Pointing, ch. 1
    Don't Bite My Finger,
    Look Where I'm Pointing　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Buyao yao wo de shouzhi,
    yaokan wo suozhi de difang

    Chinese traditional:
    不要咬我的手指，
    要看我所指的地方

    Chinese simplified:
    不要咬我的手指，
    要看我所指的地方