My English is poor, pronunciation is further ahead of it. Still I write so that you may get a glimpse towards which I am pointing to, like it happens when you ask a stranger in non-English speaking country about something and he or she tries to explain it. If you are thirsty of this knowledge, so you get it too. The consciousness plays an important role in communicating the point at much higher level where we all are connected because I am writing only from my own experiences or understanding.
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credit: Come Follow to you, by Osho. Vol 1-4. Reflections on Jesus of Nazareth
(When God blessed us with human life, this in itself is a trust on us that we will prove his decision right. When we ultimately find our ‘self ness’ or soul or God or Consciousness or attain to Christ-consciousness or Buddha consciousness or Krishna-Consciousness then only actually we answer God in affirmative or by “Yes. I proved you right and realised my soul as per your wish”.)
Jesus stopped Jews at their temple from doing business and exploiting people. He ransacked their tables etc.
The priest asked him: BY WHAT AUTHORITY DOEST THOU THESE THINGS? Who has given you the authority? — and Jesus remained silent again. Because there are things which cannot be answered.
He is his own authority. And this is his message, that everybody should be his own authority. Be your authority, be an authority unto yourself. (Get enlightened asap because enlightened person becomes an authority).
You are not here to follow anybody; you are here to be yourself. Your life is yours; your love is yours; your innermost core of being is your authority for everything you do. And until you become an authority unto yourself you will be moving astray; you will be following this and that. You will be following shadows, and you will never be fulfilled.
Jesus didn’t say anything. Rather, he told them a parable. He is one of the greatest story-tellers.
AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM.
… A CERTAIN MAN HAD TWO SONS; AND HE CAME TO THE FIRST, AND SAID, SON, GO WORK TODAY IN MY VINEYARD.
HE ANSWERED AND SAID, I WILL NOT:
BUT AFTERWARD HE REPENTED, AND WENT.
He said, “No,” but afterward he repented and went, and in reality said, “Yes.” He said no through his mind, but he said yes from his totality.
AND HE CAME TO THE SECOND, AND SAID LIKEWISE, AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID, I GO, SIR: AND WENT NOT.
He said yes through his mind, and said no from his totality.
WHETHER OF THEM TWAIN DID THE WILL OF HIS FATHER?
asked Jesus. Who did the will of his father? — the one who said, “No,” but transformed his no into a yes, or the one who said, “Yes,” but whose yes was impotent, and whose yes was just a way, a polite way of saying no? Who followed? Who obeyed? WHETHER OF THEM TWAIN DID THE WILL OF HIS FATHER? asked Jesus.
The priests SAY UNTO HIM, THE FIRST.
JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT THE PUBLICANS AND THE HARLOTS GO INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD BEFORE YOU
— because you have been saying yes but doing no. Your yes is just verbal, just skin-deep — it doesn’t come from your heart.
Why is this the way Jesus is answering them? He has not said anything where his authority comes from, but in a way he has said everything. He says, “Because I have said yes to my God (Osho in my case) totally, from there comes my authority: because I have obeyed him, because I have surrendered myself to him.”
He’s not saying that on the surface, but deep down he has asserted his authority. Who has done the will of his father — the one who says yes and never goes to do anything about it? This is what has been done by priests and scholars, by men of learning and knowledge, and by pundits.
The so-called religious people of the world are just like the second son who said, “I go, sir” — and went not. Even an atheist is better because he says no. At least he is true, at least he says whatsoever he feels. He’s authentic; he says, “No, I’m not going.” A man who is authentic will sooner or later become aware. He will become remorseful about the no; he will repent.
Remember this: the world is irreligious because of so-called religious people. It would be better if you were never taught to be religious. It would have been better if you were not conditioned to be religious, because all conditioning can create only a polite yes, but not a transformation, not a mutation. Better to say no — because if you say no, and your no is true and authentic and honest, sooner or later you will have to say yes.
Why? Because nobody can live in a no. This has to be understood — one of the most fundamental things. Nobody can live in a no. No is negative.
You cannot live in negativity; you can live only in the positive. To live in no is to live as if in death. No is absolutely poor; it has nothing in it; it is impotence. It is absence; it is like darkness. It is empty, hollow. To say no is to remain a beggar; to say yes is to become an emperor.
Nobody can live in a no, but if you have said a false yes, you can think you are living, because you say that you have said yes. That false yes can deceive you. A real no is better than a false yes because a false yes becomes a mask.
For example if you don’t love someone, don’t say that you love. It is better to say that you don’t love; better to accept in deep humbleness that you are unable to love; then there is a possibility some day or other that love will arise, because nobody can live in a state of no-love.
-Osho, Come Follow to you, Vol 1-4. Reflections on Jesus of Nazareth
As per my experience I can say that because only an enlightened person knows the reality of the world and so he is able to see that people are living as if they are sleeping. They are living robotic life, they are not even aware of their acts! So an enlightened person becomes an authority due to his clarity of vision.
Awareness meditation (Osho guiding about meditation on YouTube) is the way worked for me, may be you too find it suitable otherwise Dynamic meditation is for most of the people. You may wish to know that the state of meditation is our natural state and “How meditation affects us?”.
There are 110 other meditation techniques discovered by Indian Mystic Gorakhnath about 500years before and further modified by Osho that one can experiment and the suitable one could be practiced in routine life.
My experiences to understand that enlightened person becomes an authority may be of your help in taking only one step in deciding to add value to life. Because everyone has to move forward alone, this is the nature of this journey.
In my life mindfulness or awareness meditation (My experiences shared through a post) helped miraculously. Along with meditation living a simple, authentic and totality in life is very helpful. It is helful even when we are serving people around us with great love and care without discrimination.
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