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their inside is just empty, there is no self, no ego, no claim, no word, no knowledge, no scripture -- just emptiness, pure sky, spaciousness. 'Blessed are the poor in spirit for THEIRS is the kingdom of God.' It is theirs RIGHT NOW! It is not said that they 'will have', there is no postponement, there is no time element involved. If you are nothing, THIS very moment you are God. If you are nothing, you are God! Between nothingness and God, there is no gap to be crossed -- there is no gap. From one side it is nothingness, poverty of spirit, from the other side it is the kingdom of God.
A very paradoxical statement: Those who are poor -- they will become kings; and those who think they are kings -- they will remain poor. Lose if you want to gain; gain if you want to lose. Possess if you want to remain a beggar; dispossess if you want to become a king. Don't possess anything at all -- not even yourself. That's what is meant by 'poor in spirit'. Theirs is the kingdom of God here and now, right away. It is not a promise for the future, it is a simple statement of truth.
The other Beatitudes are not so deep. If this is understood, then there is no need to read ahead. If this is not understood -- and this must not have been understood, that's why Jesus continues -- then he makes the truth more diluted, understandable.
Then he says
BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN: FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED.
Now the future comes in. The disciples have missed, otherwise there would have only been one Beatitude because it contains ALL. There is no need to elaborate it. Jesus has said everything. This is his ultimate sutra. But he must have looked around into the eyes of the disciples, and he must have seen that they had not been able to understand it -- it is too high. He has to come a little lower, he has to bring the future in.
The mind can understand the future, the mind cannot understand the present. The mind is absolutely incapable of understanding the present. If I say to you 'Right now you are Buddhas and Christs' you listen to me but you say 'What are you saying? I -- and a Buddha? and just last night I was gambling. And, Osho, you don't know
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