You are the most precious joy ever to have come into my life upon this earth.
Is it possible that I could really feel this way about my own being?
Read it again.
You are the most precious joy ever to have come into my life upon this earth.
Is it possible that I could really feel this way about my own being?
If you have not felt it
about your own being
-- the preciousness, the ecstasy,
the joy --
how can you feel it about me?
It is not possible.
You are projecting,
you are imagining.
And this is the trouble.
Now
think of your words -- that's why I said, Read it again.
It was not for me, it was for you.
You say you have
come upon the most precious
experience upon the whole earth.
What do you know of the whole earth?
There are four billion people on the earth.
Have you experienced all four billion people?
Don't make exaggerated statements.
You may not even have experienced
the five thousand sannyasins who are here in Rajneeshpuram.
You have not even experienced yourself.
When you write a question, be very alert what you are writing.
People
are always
get
misled by beautiful words.
This is your projection.
But just think,
tomorrow you come to my room
and you find me smoking,
or just drinking champagne.
What will happen to your question?
You will say, My God!
All your great
ideas will disappear.
On the contrary,
you will move to the other extreme.
Again that will be a projection.
It is unnecessary to make
any opinion about me.
What is the use?
Why waste time? --
because I don't know what you have projected on me.
My mother was saying to me,
that this is too much
you have been shocking people all your life from your childhood,
and now you are dancing with girls on the stage!
Now, she is
an old-fashioned, simple Indian woman,
with a mind conditioned by centuries.
She cannot conceive of Buddha dancing with girls,
naturally. You cannot conceive of it either.
Can you conceive Jesus dancing with girls?
But you can conceive of Jesus drinking wine,
because that's what he was doing.
So you are conditioned for that.
But nobody in India can
conceive Buddha drinking wine.
Opinions are yours,
and I am a stranger,
unpredictable;
I can do anything
which can go against your expectations.
Then you will feel frustration,
then you will move to the very opposite extreme.