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Discourse 7
Existence Is Celebration
Existence Is Celebration
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One day, Sekito announced to everybody that the next day they
would weed the grass in front of the Buddha Hall. The following day,
all the monks gathered with sickles in their hands, but only Tanka
came with a tray filled with water. Before coming there he had
washed his hair, but it was not yet shaven. Now he kneeled down in
front of Sekito, and seeing him, Sekito laughed, and shaved Tanka’s
head. As the master usually did, Sekito gave Tanka some specific
commandments, but as he did so, Tanka walked away covering his
ears with his hands.
Tanka then left for Kosei to see Ma Tzu. Arriving at the monastery,
he went into the hall and, climbing on the statue of Manjushri, sat
there. The other monks were astonished and told Ma Tzu, who
came in, looked at him and said, “My son is Tennen.”
Tanka came down, made a bow and said, “Thank you for giving me
a dharma name.”
Ma Tzu then asked, “Where do you come from?”
Tanka said, “I come from Sekito.”
Ma Tzu said, “The path on the stonehead is slippery. Did you fall
over?”
Tanka replied, “If I had fallen over, I wouldn’t have come here.”
Friends,
First the questions….
The first question:
Osho,
It seems that never has any God-oriented religion been more
anachronistic than it is today; yet curiously, Christianity at least
seems to be blooming. Born-again Christians, Jesus freaks, and
fundamentalist Christians are rife.
Are we seeing the phenomenon you have described when
something is about to die? You have compared it to a candle going
out, having a last, final spurt of energy before it splutters into
extinction.
It is exactly what has happened. Not only is Christianity going out of
existence, all religions as such are already out of date. They are
living a posthumous life.
Whatever they have been teaching to humanity has been found
criminal. Their God is a fiction, a lie. They all have been telling
people to be truthful, and they are teaching lies about heaven and
hell and God. They have made the whole of humanity hypocrite.
The misery that you see all over the earth is created by your
religions. Once you make a man feel guilty he cannot enjoy life, he
cannot rejoice in existence. You have cut his roots, the very roots
that nourish your joy, your blissfulness.
All the religions have been against humanity. They are bound to go
into extinction. The sooner they disappear from the earth the better.
Man needs to sing with the birds, to dance with the trees. Man
needs to rise to the heights of a Gautam Buddha.
The religions have not been helping any evolution of
consciousness; on the contrary they are the greatest obstacles.
Religion has become a business in the hands of the priests. And
certainly an authentic religiousness has nothing to do with business.
It has something to do with your blossoming, it has something to do
with your initiation into eternity, into truth, into beauty, into good.
Religiousness has no way to make humanity spiritually slave – but
that’s what religions have done. Everybody is enslaved, oppressed,
exploited, and everybody is being poisoned by the religions, forced
to be unnatural. And the moment you force somebody to be
unnatural you are committing the greatest crime against existence.
From Osho, I Celebrate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now Here,
Chapter 7
www.osho.com
Copyright © 2010 OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland. All
Rights Reserved
would weed the grass in front of the Buddha Hall. The following day,
all the monks gathered with sickles in their hands, but only Tanka
came with a tray filled with water. Before coming there he had
washed his hair, but it was not yet shaven. Now he kneeled down in
front of Sekito, and seeing him, Sekito laughed, and shaved Tanka’s
head. As the master usually did, Sekito gave Tanka some specific
commandments, but as he did so, Tanka walked away covering his
ears with his hands.
Tanka then left for Kosei to see Ma Tzu. Arriving at the monastery,
he went into the hall and, climbing on the statue of Manjushri, sat
there. The other monks were astonished and told Ma Tzu, who
came in, looked at him and said, “My son is Tennen.”
Tanka came down, made a bow and said, “Thank you for giving me
a dharma name.”
Ma Tzu then asked, “Where do you come from?”
Tanka said, “I come from Sekito.”
Ma Tzu said, “The path on the stonehead is slippery. Did you fall
over?”
Tanka replied, “If I had fallen over, I wouldn’t have come here.”
Friends,
First the questions….
The first question:
Osho,
It seems that never has any God-oriented religion been more
anachronistic than it is today; yet curiously, Christianity at least
seems to be blooming. Born-again Christians, Jesus freaks, and
fundamentalist Christians are rife.
Are we seeing the phenomenon you have described when
something is about to die? You have compared it to a candle going
out, having a last, final spurt of energy before it splutters into
extinction.
It is exactly what has happened. Not only is Christianity going out of
existence, all religions as such are already out of date. They are
living a posthumous life.
Whatever they have been teaching to humanity has been found
criminal. Their God is a fiction, a lie. They all have been telling
people to be truthful, and they are teaching lies about heaven and
hell and God. They have made the whole of humanity hypocrite.
The misery that you see all over the earth is created by your
religions. Once you make a man feel guilty he cannot enjoy life, he
cannot rejoice in existence. You have cut his roots, the very roots
that nourish your joy, your blissfulness.
All the religions have been against humanity. They are bound to go
into extinction. The sooner they disappear from the earth the better.
Man needs to sing with the birds, to dance with the trees. Man
needs to rise to the heights of a Gautam Buddha.
The religions have not been helping any evolution of
consciousness; on the contrary they are the greatest obstacles.
Religion has become a business in the hands of the priests. And
certainly an authentic religiousness has nothing to do with business.
It has something to do with your blossoming, it has something to do
with your initiation into eternity, into truth, into beauty, into good.
Religiousness has no way to make humanity spiritually slave – but
that’s what religions have done. Everybody is enslaved, oppressed,
exploited, and everybody is being poisoned by the religions, forced
to be unnatural. And the moment you force somebody to be
unnatural you are committing the greatest crime against existence.
From Osho, I Celebrate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now Here,
Chapter 7
www.osho.com
Copyright © 2010 OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland. All
Rights Reserved