A real Master wants a disciple to become a Master in his own right. But ordinarily you dont want that independence yourself, you want somebody to cling to. You are a clinger. You want somebody to be very authoritative, somebody to sit on a high throne and say to you, You dont worry, I will take care of you. You forget all about everything. I am here so I will take care. You simply come and follow me. But if somebody is like that remember that this is a sure sign -- this authoritativeness, this taking other peoples responsibility -- this is a sure sign that the man himself wants people to depend on him. He is dependent on his dependents. He enjoys it. He loves the idea that so many people are dependent on him. He himself is a dependent, remember; he is not different from you. It is the same trip from the other end. If you all leave him he will suffer as much as you will suffer. Sometimes he may suffer more because his investment is more. If you leave a man like Ichazo, if all his followers disappear, he may go mad or he may commit suicide. He will be very shaky, he will tremble, he will not know what has happened, he will lose all his self-confidence. He gains all his self-confidence when he looks into your eyes and sees that you are looking towards him and you feel that he is right, he is true, he is the Master. When he sees that look in your eyes, when he sees that reflection in your eyes, he feels confident. Yes. It is so. This is a mutual deception. My approach is absolutely non-political, hence it is absolutely individual. And that is the religious approach as such. Religion will remain individual, it will never become a collective phenomenon, it cannot. Politics will always become collective, it will never become individual. Politics is collective, religion is individual, spirituality is universal. Remember it. ~ OSHO : Zen, The Path of Paradox, Vol 1 ~
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 02:33:12 +0000
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