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were in vain and that, please, no one should go again on that path.
No. Rather than doing this, rather than repenting, rather than declaring to the world that they have failed, they go on teaching the same path to other people. They go on calling others too, saying that they have arrived -- come!
From the false there is no way to the real. From the real, there is a way to the real. So real anger is better -- at least it is real. Real anxiety is better -- at least it is real. I am not in favour of anxiety or anger, but I am all in favour of the real. At least something is in it that is true. And if you understand your real anger, anger will disappear by understanding and the truth will remain. This is what is known in the east as sorting out the chaff from the wheat.
Wherever there is chaff, don't be in a hurry to burn it. There is a possibility that the wheat may be hiding somewhere. First take the wheat out.
In anger, anger is the chaff and compassion is the wheat. In sex, sex is the chaff, love is the wheat, and so on and so forth.
[A sannyasin says: My parents are very beautiful people and they are concerned about my being with you. They need to feel that I'm growing in christ.... And I'm not totally resolved with this.]
That need not be a problem -- you are growing in christ. Being with me is being with christ. Just let them understand this. Give them all the christ books.
Don't feel guilty and don't feel in any way that you owe some explanation to them. Just express the situation -- that you are growing in christ... because christ is not a person at all. It has nothing to do with jesus and it has nothing to do with rajneesh. It is a state of ultimate flowering. In the east we call it buddha, in the west you call it christ, but it doesn't matter.
Of course you are not growing in christianity -- that is true -- and that has to be made clear, because by'christ' they may mean'christianity'. Then tell them that it is not growing.
I am against christianity, against hinduism, but I am all for christ. In fact you cannot find any christian who is more for christ than I am. But the idea of christ has to be
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