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Part VII : People are shocked at Osho's Jokes
Is there any joke that even you would not dare to tell?
I have never come across any such joke yet. If you can find one,
send it to me! To me all jokes are beautiful—the more outrageous
they are the more beautiful—because my work here consists
of shattering all your conceptions, your prejudices. So there
is not a single joke that I have come across which I would not
dare to tell. There is no question of daring—I simply enjoy!
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You say: In the past few days you have told some jokes that
shocked me.
But good—that at least one person is not asleep here. But
you misinterpreted. It is natural because interpretations come
from our own mind. He misinterpreted because he thought that they
are crude and racist, because I joke so much about Jews.
I love Jews! I am myself an old Jew, so it is difficult for
me to forget them. They are the most beautiful people on the earth,
hence so many jokes exist about them. And jokes exist because
Jews are so intelligent. You joke only about a certain community
because you cannot compete with it. The joke is a compensation.
Jews are really intelligent, one of the most intelligent races
in the world, and everybody feels incompetent with them—then
you take revenge in your jokes. Jokes are very indicative. They
don't say anything about the object of the joke, they simply say
who has created the joke; they say something about who has created
the joke. Wherever Jews exist people joke about them—because
there is no other way to take revenge; in actual life they are
far superior. It happens always.
So your interpretation is your interpretation. You think that
I am against Jews or something? I am a lover. But I can understand.
You say, 'These are the stories I told when I was a boy. And when
I told them it was with cruel intentions.' So of course you must
be projecting your own cruel intentions on me. The stories may
be the same, but the storyteller is not the same. Remember that,
don't forget it.
Ordinarily Buddhas have never joked. It is for the first time
a Buddha is joking. It is something very new, so you are a little
puzzled. But to me everything is sacred. There is nothing profane.
From sex to sahasrar, I accept everything. My acceptance is total.
My acceptance is absolute.
So sometimes the joke can look crude, it can look obscene, but
to me, nothing is obscene. Everything is just beautiful as it
is. The obscene is an interpretation of the mind.
Drop your interpretation. The shock is very good, but interpretation
has to be dropped otherwise you will misunderstand me, and you
will miss an opportunity….
All my jokes are there purposefully to shock you, and those people
who are very weak, weaklings, they have disappeared. They don't
come to listen to me, they cannot come. Now only people who are
courageous and who are ready to absorb these shocks can come close
to me. But that is done knowingly. trans106
Are You an anti-Semite?
Levin, me? An anti-Semite? You must be crazy! dh1004
I feel shocked when You use the word 'fuck'. What to do?
It is one of the most beautiful words. The English language should
be proud of it. I don't think any other language has such a beautiful
word.
One Tom from California has done some great research on it. I
think he must be the famous Tom of Tom, Dick and Harry fame….
He says:
One of the most interesting words in the English language today
is the word 'fuck'. It is one magical word: just by its sound
it can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love. In language it
falls into many grammatical categories. It can be used as a verb,
both transitive (John fucked Mary) and intransitive (Mary was
fucked by John), and as a noun (Mary is a fine fuck). It can be
used as an adjective (Mary is fucking beautiful). As you can see
there are not many words with the versatility of 'fuck'.
Besides the sexual meaning, there are also the following uses:
Fraud: I got fucked at the used car lot.
Ignorance: Fucked if I know.
Trouble: I guess I am fucked now!
Aggression: Fuck you!
Displeasure: What the fuck is going on here?
Difficulty: I can't understand this fucking job.
Incompetence: He is a fuck-off.
Suspicion: What the fuck are you doing?
Enjoyment: I had a fucking good time.
Request: Get the fuck out of here!
Hostility: I am going to knock your fucking head off!
Greeting: How the fuck are you?
Apathy: Who gives a fuck?
Innovation: Get a bigger fucking hammer.
Surprise: Fuck! You scared the shit out of me!
Anxiety: Today is really fucked.
And it is very healthy too. If every morning you do it as a Transcendental
Meditation—just when you get up, the first thing, repeat
the mantra "Fuck you!" five times—it clears the
throat. That's how I keep my throat clear! dh1104
One Indian friend has written—his name is Iqbal Kureshi—he
says: Osho, what you say between the jokes is beautiful, religious
and spiritual, but the jokes destroy your image in the public
eye. After all, what is the purpose of all these jokes?
Iqbal Kureshi, that's exactly the purpose: to destroy the image!
I don't want to be known as a saint—that's exactly the purpose.
And I am not worried about what others think of me—I am
not a politician. Only politicians are worried, continuously worried,
about what others are thinking about them, because they have to
depend on others—the others have the votes. I don't depend
on anybody's votes, anybody's opinion. I am simply whatsoever
I am. Why should I be bothered about my image?
The very worry about the image is egoistic, but your saints
are worried, I know that. I have known all kinds of your saints—Hindu,
Mohammedan, Christian, Sikh Jainas, Buddhists—I have come
across all kinds of your saints. They are far more political than
your politicians, because this very idea is politics: what people
are thinking, remain respectable. Respectability is nothing but
nourishment for the ego.
I don't want to be respectable. Either you love me or you don't
love me; respect is simply meaningless. Respect and the desire
for it is egoistic. So those who love me, they will love me as
I am. I am not going to compromise, I am not going to accommodate.
And I could create that accommodation so easily: I could not use
a few words—'fuck' and 'shit'—and I could become a
saint. You see how cheap it is! But I am not interested in such
cheap saintliness. If I am a saint then whatsoever I say is saintly;
if I am not a saint then I may go on reciting the Gita and the
Koran and the Vedas but I am not a saint, I am just a parrot.
I am not interested at all in mirrors. I know my original face—and
the original face is not known through mirrors. Public opinion
is only a mirror.
Iqbal Kureshi must be worried about my image. He says, "It
puts your image upside-down." What is wrong with being upside-down?
That's what they call in yoga sirshasan—the headstand. And
as far as I am concerned, I know that you are upside-down, so
when you see me upside-down that simply means I am standing on
my legs and you are standing on your head!
The whole of humanity is standing upside-down, but because all
are standing upside-down whosoever tries to stand on his feet
will look upside-down—he will be a minority. The Buddha
is always a minority.
Iqbal Kureshi has asked in a friendly way…he must be in
love with me so he is worried. He says: Whatsoever you say between
the jokes is beautiful, religious and spiritual.
I don't think so—that is really bullshit! Only the jokes
are beautiful, religious and spiritual. But we cannot agree. I
cannot agree with you because you are absolutely unconscious,
and you cannot agree with me because I am absolutely conscious.
We are living in totally different dimensions….
He asks: What is the purpose of all these jokes?
I also ask, "What is the purpose of all these religious
and spiritual things that I go on saying?" Just old habit,
I think. Otherwise there is no point! And sooner or later you
will see—I will only tell jokes….
But Kureshi is worried because he thinks the jokes are sometimes
dirty. I have never come across a dirty joke. The idea of the
dirty comes from your interpretation, otherwise what is dirty?
If you think sex is dirty, then any joke which implies some sexuality
becomes dirty. It is your idea that makes it dirty. To me sex
is as sacred as anything else—to me the whole of life is
divine. And these so-called saints have always been telling you
that the whole of life is divine, but it seems they don't mean
it. I really mean it! ultima04
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