Do unto others what you would like to be done to you.
Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?” and Jesus remained silent, because silence is truth and truth is silence. But the governor-general could not understand it and Jesus got into trouble by not answering. Jesus gave his life for us; he gave it for the message and he gave it for the mission for which he was sent“...for I am from him, and he hath sent me.” Osho’s talks on the sayings of Jesus in the backdrop of selected versus from the gospels of Mathew and John ( Mathew Ch:13,14,16,21, 22 and John Ch:7 ) are transcribed in this third volume.
The disciples asked : “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? ” Jesus said unto them, "Love thy God with all thy heart, all thy mind, and all thy soul. This is the first and great commandment.” And the second is, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Jesus brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis of the society and that was his crime; that’s why he was crucified. In Osho’s words, “ he was destroying the whole basis of this criminal society; he was destroying the whole foundation rock of this criminal world, the world of wars, and violence, and aggression.”
The scriptures say, “When Jesus comes nobody will know from where he comes.” Those people of Jerusalem knew all, but “...when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.” Jews rejected Christ because they thought he didn’t follow all the predictions of the old prophets.
On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying: “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” Osho says, “Jesus is water of eternity, a divine well. He can quench your thirst. But people are not aware even of their thirst. They have forgotten their thirst; they have suppressed it.”
Osho’s responses to questions from seekers and disciples are compiled in alternate chapters. Following are some of his observations:
No other religion has created as many wars as Christianity, and all its preaching is about love. Nobody else has created as many wars as Islam, and the very word Islam means peace.
Perfectionism is a neurosis; it is an illness. And the more you try to become perfect, the more frustrated you will become.
Whatsoever you do, you can always imagine that it could have been better.
Only the false needs certificates; the real is self-evident.
Osho says that there always exists a third possibility in solving a problem and here he reminds us of an old story:
A merchant, very old man, was in heavy debt, and the moneylender was a very dangerous man. The money lender came to the merchant’s house. The merchant was sitting outside in his small garden. Where he was sitting the garden was paved with white and black pebbles.
His young and beautiful daughter was also sitting by his side. The money lender had come to threaten that if the man was not going to pay the money within a certain limit of time, he would be thrown into prison for at least twenty years. But he softened a little on looking at the beautiful girl. He proposed. He said, “I know that you cannot pay your debts, and I know that legally you can be thrown into prison for at least twenty years. You are almost seventy: that will be the end of your life. But I am kind and I have always been kind to you. I will give you an opportunity, and this is my proposal: I will take two pebbles, one black and one white, and put them in my bag, and then your daughter has to take one pebble from my bag. If she takes the white pebble out, you are freed of your debt, and nothing happens to your daughter. If she takes the black pebble out, then you are freed of your debt, but your daughter will have to marry me.”
Very reluctantly the father and daughter agreed, because there was no other possibility. The moneylender took two pebbles. When he was taking the two pebbles, the old merchant could not see, he was almost filled with tears, but the sharp eyes of the young girl could see that he had taken two black pebbles.
What did the girl do? She didn’t expose him; she didn’t argue about the fact that he had taken two black pebbles. She withdrew one pebble out of the bag, fumbled, dropped the pebble on the path - it was lost. There were many pebbles and it could not be recognized. Profusely, she wanted to be excused, forgiven. And then she suggested a solution: “Look at the other pebble that is left inside. If it is black, then the one that I withdrew must have been white. If it is white, then the other was black.” and the old moneylender could not do anything. The failure was absolute.
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