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A man who can sell his master for thirty rupees, can you think of him feeling so guilty that he should commit suicide? Impossible. Why should he bother? No, he had simply followed an order from the master. He could not say no -- that was part of surrender. He had to say yes.
If some day I tell you, 'Kill me,' you have to say yes. That is what surrender is. 'No' cannot be said to the master.
It was planned. There is a reason in it: it is only through the crucifixion that Jesus' message has lived in the world. There would have been no Christianity without the crucifixion. That's why I call Christianity 'crossianity'. It is not Christianity -- because just Christ won't do, the cross was needed for it to happen.
When you see the interelatedness of things, then Judas also becomes part of the game Jesus is. Then the bad is part of the good. Then the Devil is nobody but an angel of God -- and I don't call him a fallen angel. Maybe on a great mission in the world, sent from God himself -- maybe his closest disciple.
The word 'devil' comes from 'divine'. That is very indicative. Yes, the Devil is also divine.
Sasaki relates: When my teacher was speaking to me about this, about this TATHATA, he said, 'Now think about yourself. You think you are a separate being, an island. But you are not. Without your father and mother you would not be. Without their fathers and mothers they would not have been and you would not be.'
And so on, so forth -- you can go to the very beginningless beginning. You can go on moving backwards, and you will find everything that has happened in existence up to now, had to happen for you to happen. Otherwise you would not happen. You are so interconnected. You are just a small part of a long infinite chain. All that is is involved in you, all that has passed is involved in you. You are the apex, at this moment, of all that has preceded you. In you the whole past exists. But this is not all. From you will come your children, and their children's children... and so on, so forth.
From your actions will come the resulting actions, and from the resulting actions other results, and from other results other
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