[osho_flowering] "We are the chosen people of God.

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jothi_suganthi <jothi_suganthi wrote:But ten thousand years of

conditioning has seeped deep into the

blood, into the bones, in the very marrow of humanity.

 

Each religion, each country, each race was claiming, "We are the

chosen people of God. We are the highest; everyone is lower than us."

This is insanity, and everybody has suffered because of it. Jews have

suffered immensely for one single folly that they committed: the idea

that "We are the chosen people of God." Once you have the idea that

you are the chosen people of God, then you cannot be forgiven by

others because they are also the chosen people of God, and how to

decide it? No argument can be conclusive, and nobody knows where God

is hiding so you cannot ask him either; he cannot be brought in the

court to be a witness. Then only the sword is going to decide.

Whosoever is mighty is going to be right. Might has been right.

 

Jews really suffered for centuries, but the suffering has not changed

them. In fact it has strengthened the idea that they are the chosen

people of God. The same people who tell them, "You are the chosen

people," also tell them that the chosen people have to go through

many tests, many fires to prove their mettle.

 

I have heard about an old rabbi -- he must have been a very sane man -

- praying to God. He was praying for years and years and never asking

for anything -- and you know, prayer is a kind of nagging: you go on

nagging God every day, morning, afternoon, evening, night, five times

every day. God must be getting tired, utterly bored....

 

And the rabbi was not asking for anything; otherwise there was a way

out. If he had been asking for something it would have been given and

the rabbi would have been told, "Get lost!" But he was not asking for

anything, just praying.

 

Finally God asked him, "Why do you go on torturing me? What do you

want?"

 

And the old rabbi said, "Just one thing. Is it not time for you to

choose some other people? Please, make some other people your chosen

people. We have suffered enough!"

 

But this is not only so with the Christians, Jews, Mohammedans and

Hindus; it is exactly the same with all the people that have existed

up to now.

 

OSHO.

 

 

 

 

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