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D.H. Lawrence once proposed...

that if for one hundred years all the universities and colleges and schools were closed, humanity would be benefited immensely.

I agree with him totally. These two persons - Friedrich Nietzsche and D.H. Lawrence - are beautiful people. It was unfortunate that they were born in the West... Hence they were not aware of Lao Tzu, of Chuang Tzu, of Buddha, of Bodhidharma, of Rinzai, of Basho, of Kabir, of Meera...

It is unfortunate that they knew only the Jewish and the Christian tradition. And they were very much offended by the whole Jewish and Christian approach towards life.

It is very superficial.

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Friedrich Nietzsche used to sign with 'Anti-Christ, Friedrich Nietzsche'. First he would write 'Anti-Christ'... He was not really anti-Christ ('anti-Christian' of course, because in one of his saner moments, he said that the first and the last Christian had been crucified...)

He wás, Jesus Christ, the first and the last... But in his name, something absolutely false is existing... And the day Christ was denied by the Jews, they became false. Since that ugly day, they have not lived truly.

How can you live beautifully, if you reject your own climaxes? What Moses had started - a beautiful phenomenon - came to a climax in Jesus Christ, and the Jews rejected Jesus Christ! That very day, they rejected their own flowering, their own fragrance!

Since that day, they have not been living rightly.

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And the people who followed Jesus...

have created something absolutely agaínst Jesus.

If he came back, he would be nauseated, disgusted, seeing the Vatican and the Pope and all that goes on in the name of Christ!

My own feeling is... somebody was asking me: "Jesus promised to come back again, will he come back?" -- I told him: "If he comes back this time, you will not need to crucify him, he will commit suicide himself!"... Just seeing the Christians will be enough. Enough to commit suicide. 

Hence my feeling is, that he is not going to come. 

Once is enough, twice will be too much!

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But these two men, Nietzsche and Lawrence... 

were imménsely misunderstood in the West. 

They also provided reasons for being misunderstood, they were helpless, they were groping in the dark... Of course their direction was right... Had they been in the East, they would have become buddhas. They had the potential, great potential, great insight. 

I agree with them on many points...

~osho~

dhammapada v

(1979) - 6 (2)