OSHO International Foundation presents
It’s Time For a New Suit!
Mendel Kravitz
saves up for many years to buy a really fine tailor-made suit,
his very first.
But after he's been out in it for an hour,
he notices that there are things wrong with it.
He goes back to the tailor.
"The arms are too long," says Mendel.
"No problem," replies the tailor.
"Just hold your arms out further and bend at the elbows."
"But the trouser legs are too long," says Mendel.
"Right," replies the tailor.
"No problem, just walk with your knees bent."
"But the collar is too high,
it's halfway up the back of my head!"
says Mendel.
"Okay, just poke your head out further,"
says the tailor.
So Mendel goes out into the world with his first tailor-made suit.
As he's passing a couple in the street, the woman says,
"Look at that poor man!
He must have had polio."
"Yes," her husband replies.
"But he must have a great tailor,
his suit fits him perfectly."
And there are thousands of teachers like this tailor.
They are not concerned with you.
They are concerned with their suits.
They will make you crippled.
They will pull your hands this way and that, your legs this way and that,
they will pull your neck.
They will put you almost on a traction machine
to fit to the suit.
You are made for the suit, not the suit for you.
That's what all the religions of the world are doing.
They are not made for you;
you are made for them.
So you have to behave according to their principles, their criteria, their path.
Otherwise you are wrong.
And I say unto you,
you are not made for any creed, any dogma, any philosophy, any religion.
You are just made for yourself.
And you have to find your own way of living,
your own way of seeing,
your own way of silence,
your own way to bliss.
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