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Osho: I Am A Threat, Certainly
The people of Western Australia want to know about you, about your people,
could you tell them what sort of person you are?
I don't know at all.
I just live moment to moment,
so you cannot
confine me
into a personality.
You cannot define me,
you cannot predict me.
I don't know even myself what I am going to do tomorrow morning.
I am simply as open as the existence,
and as indefinable as the existence itself.
So people have to figure out whatsoever they want.
I am available.
There are people who love me,
there are people who would like to kill me.
They have chosen different parts of me.
They have focused their eyes according to their prejudices.
But I am not concerned in any way
about the opinion of others.
I don't have any opinion about other people,
any judgment about other people.
Are you a threat to their existence and their futures?
Many people have been told you are.
Perhaps.
If you don't
understand what I am saying,
I am a threat, certainly.
But if they understand what I am saying,
they will rejoice, there is no threat.
In fact, I want to make these people contemporaries.
They are not.
Somebody is hanging two thousand years back
with Jesus Christ,
somebody is hanging even more...
farther back with Moses or Buddha.
These people
certainly will feel me a threat because I belong to the present.
And I want them
to come to the present,
otherwise
there is no hope for humanity.
These people are simply walking corpses,
burdened with the whole load of the past --
ugly,
superstitious.
Certainly I am a threat to their superstitions.
I am a threat
to their
rotten theologies.
I am a threat
to their
concepts about
morality,
God,
religion,
about everything they have that is out of date.
Certainly they will feel threatened
because that's how they have become identified in their own eyes,
and it is always difficult to change.
You certainly challenge people's traditional values, and
that's one of the things I believe, makes your job more difficult.
Do you think that you could be a little bit more moderate,
and look for the end result
rather than the immediate reaction?
I don't care about the
end result.
My whole concern is,
not diplomatic,
nor political.
I'm simply responding with my totality,
to anything that comes in front of me.
I cannot be cunning.
What you are saying to me:
"be a little more cunning".
I cannot be.
You're not a politician, are you?
I'm not a politician.
That is the ugliest thing that can happen to a man.
I'm not diplomatic.
I do not want people
to be manipulated,
politely.
I'm not a hypocrite.
I simply say the truth as it is.
If it hurts,
it is your problem.
If it creates enemies,
I'm not worried about it.
Because being enemies is
the first step to becoming my friends.
They have already
recognized me.
In their hate
they have already recognized their defeat and death.
Now nobody can save them.
They cannot ignore me.
If they can ignore me,
then there is no threat for them.
That's why I have to be intense,
fiery,
and I have to hammer hard on each traditional value.
Because the only thing that I would not like is: to be ignored.
You certainly won't be ignored, I can assure you of that.
That's....
thank you for the compliment.
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