If Jesus is planning to come back I want him to be aware of the situation.
This time they won't kill you, they will keep you alive, but they will inject you with chemicals, they will give you electric shocks, insulin shocks, and if you are still dangerous they will give you tranquilizers, they will make you very very sleepy.
They can force you to live almost in a coma, to vegetate, which will be far more ugly than to crucify a man.
When you crucify a man you cannot humiliate him. He can keep his pride, he can keep his head high: "Okay, you crucify me, so you crucify me -- but you are not forcing me to change my spirit or my ideas or my vision of life. I am ready to sacrifice."
One can die with dignity -- Socrates died with dignity, Jesus died with dignity -- but the USA, if Socrates is born, or Jesus, or Buddha, no dignity will be available.
In fact nobody will ever hear about them. They will be forced to live in a mental asylum. Doctors will take care of them, and nobody will ever hear what they wanted to say, what their message was.

OshO


And the people who followed Jesus have created something absolutely against Jesus.
If he comes back he will 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."

OshO


Man has not evolved as far as consciousness is concerned. Thousands of years have passed; man's stupidity remains the same. Jesus has promised to come back, but I assure you he will not come. One experience with you was enough. Who wants to be tortured and crucified again? Who wants to be sold by the same people he loved? -- the same people for whom he was working his whole life, and he sacrificed himself. And that, too, for thirty pieces of silver.

OshO


A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be befooled by others." And he was not befooled, so others had to crucify him, because he was not part of the game.
Socrates had to be poisoned and killed, Mansoor had to be murdered.
These are people who have escaped from the prison, and whatsoever you say you cannot persuade them to come back. They will not come into the prison. They have known the freedom of the open sky. Remember.
Be mindful and alert. If you are alert, if your actions become more and more aware, whatsoever you do will not be done sleepily. The whole effort of society is to make you automatic, is to make you an automaton, is to make you a perfect efficient mechanism.

OshO

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