☆WHY DO YOUR STATEMENTS SEEM TO ME TO BE ARROGANT?☆ IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SO. It will always be so. When Jesus said, I and my father are one, do you think people thought he was a very humble man? When Jesus said, I am the truth, the way, the door, do you think the rabbis came rushing and fell at his feet and said, Such a humble man! Never seen before. They said, This man is arrogant. This man is egoistic. And logically, they look right - this looks like arrogance! When Krishna said to Arjuna, SARVA DHARMA PARITYAJYA MAMEKAM SHARANAM VRAJA - leave all the religions aside and come and fall unto my feet, do you think people thought this a humble statement? Leave all religions aside and fall unto my feet! This is pure arrogance. And you will be surprised. It is said that the first words of Gautam the Buddha were... the legend has it that when Buddha was born he exclaimed, Above the heavens and below the heavens, I alone am the honoured one - I alone am the honoured one. When he was born, just a child, the first assertion - not that he became Buddha, then he declared this. The legend is beautiful! The first-day child, the first moments assertion, expression, he declared to the world, Above the heavens and below the heavens, I alone am the honoured one. What do you think about it? That it is sheer arrogance? Truth is truth. It is neither arrogant nor humble. It has to be declared as it is. It can appear humble to you if you understand; it will appear arrogant to you if you dont understand. And if you dont understand, then there is no need to go to such statements which apparently look arrogant. People who dont understand or dont want to understand can find arrogance anywhere. Once it happened, I read these words of Lao Tzu to a professor: When the superior man hears of the Tao, he practises it; when the ordinary man hears of the Tao, he ignores it; when the inferior man hears of the Tao, he laughs at it. If it were not laughed at it would not be the true Tao. And do you know what the professor said? He said, How arrogant of Lao TZU - who does he think he is to know? He thinks himself the superior man? the sage? that he knows? How arrogant of him to claim that he knows Tao! So Lao Tzu thinks, he said, he is one of the superior who really understands the Tao, while lesser people ignore or laugh at it? How arrogant! Now it is not very apparent. You could not have thought this way, but it can be interpreted this way. Just to see the resistance of the professor, I quoted Jesus to him.Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And what did he say? He said, These words are also arrogant. Who does this guy, Jesus, think he is, taking such a superior, condescending, arrogant, forgiving attitude? Now, it is not apparent, but it can be found. If you search, you can say this man is arrogant - who does he think he IS? Father, forgive them.... Who are you to forgive? Thats exactly what Friedrich Nietzsche used to say against Jesus, He was the most arrogant man. He is saying to God: Forgive these foolish people because they know not what they do - they are all foolish, forgive them! He is insulting them. He does not even allow them the dignity of knowing what they are doing; he does not think them human beings. He is treating them as if they are worms - forgive them - this holier-than-thou attitude. Friedrich Nietzsche used to say that Jesus has said that when somebody hits one of your cheeks, give him the other. And Nietzsche said this is very very inhuman, because that makes you look very superior. Looked at from Nietzsches viewpoint, when somebody hits your face and you give him the other cheek, this is inhuman. The human way is: Hit him back! At least give him that much respect that You are also a human being, as much as I am; we are equals. Giving him the other cheek means you have reduced the man to a worm. This is really insulting. This way it can be interpreted. My statements are neither arrogant nor humble, because they cant be arrogant and they cant be humble. Ordinarily you think humbleness is opposite to arrogance. It is not. Humbleness and arrogance are both the same. They are like hot and cold - degrees of the same energy. The humble person has as much ego as the arrogant person. The arrogant person claims the ego, the humble person denies the ego - but the ego is there. The arrogant person says, I am special, and the humble person says, I am nobody, sir - just the dust underneath your feet. One is claiming, the other IS ALSO claiming in a different way. When you really see your nature, ego disappears, and with ego disappear arrogance and humbleness - BOTH disappear. Jesus is neither humble nor arrogant. Buddha is neither humble nor arrogant. They simply state the fact. Now, it depends on you how you interpret it. You say: WHY DO YOUR STATEMENTS SEEM TO ME TO BE ARROGANT? There must be something in you that is creating the trouble, something in you that is resisting, fighting. Look deep inside yourself. And once you have seen what is creating this idea in you, you will be free of it. Then things will be very simple. OSHO...♡♡♡ Take It Easy Vol # 1
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:52:12 +0000
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