Homosexuality is not a perversion it is really ...

HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT A PERVERSION IT IS REALLY ...
(it is from yahoogroups )

Wayne Edward Innis has asked:
Osho,
You call homosexuality perversion. That keeps me awake at night and makes me feel like a sick, twisted sinner.

//Osho://
Now, Innis, don't get unnecessarily disturbed. HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT A PERVERSION, it is really a very progressive step. It simply shows inventiveness of human beings. It shows their multidimensionality .

Poor animals, they are always heterosexual -- they don't know that something else can be done. IT SHOWS MAN'S FREEDOM. HE CAN CHOOSE EVEN HIS SEXUALITY: to be heterosexual or to be homosexual, or to be bisexual, or to be celibate, to go beyond sexuality -- all possibilities. You need not be worried.

NOW, HOW YOU ARE GOING TO IMITATE ME? One day, certainly, I said that homosexuality is a perversion, today I change my idea. AND IT IS MY OWN IDEA, I AM ABSOLUTELY FREE TO CHANGE IT. I am not responsible to anybody. I am not answerable to anybody. It is just my idea! That moment it was so, this moment it is not so. AND I CANNOT GUARANTEE FOR TOMORROW.

You cannot imitate me, that's impossible, Anand Dharmesh. You try, and you will find it impossible. I AM SO ILLOGICAL. A certain logic is needed to create following. You have to convince people intellectually that this is the best thing to do. I never convince anybody. I NEVER TRY TO CONVINCE YOU INTELLECTUALLY. Contagious certainly I am, but not convincing.

I AM CRAZY, AND ONLY FEW CRAZY PEOPLE FEEL ATTUNED WITH ME.

What can I do about it? But crazy people are never followers.

CRAZY PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS INDEPENDENT PEOPLE.

In fact, that's why they are thought to be crazy, eccentric. They are so centered in themselves. Others think that they are eccentric because they are not following the mob psychology, the crowd.
They always go astray -- that's what the crowd thinks: they are going astray.
They are simply going on their own way, they are trying to find a new path.

AND IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO FIND YOUR OWN PATH.
Even if you go wrong, it is good to follow a new path than to be right but on a trodden path.
To be on the trodden path, just like on a superhighway, is ugly, it is inhuman. It is destructive of individuality, it destroys your very soul.

IT IS BETTER TO GO ASTRAY, it is better to go into the jungle and get lost, than to follow somebody who pretends to be knowledgeable.

BECAUSE ONE LEARNS BY MISTAKES, one learns by errors.
All that I can suggest to you is: NEVER COMMIT THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE.
Find new mistakes, invent new mistakes, and you will be growing, and you will be flowering.
TRUTH IS FOUND ONLY BY THOSE WHO ARE READY TO RISK, because the only way to truth is via trial and error -- there is no other way. There are no superhighways.

But Hindus, Mohammedans, Jainas, Buddhists, Christians, THEY ALL BELIEVE there are superhighways -- not only that there are superhighways, they say that, "Ours is the only authentic superhighway -- a German autobahn. Others are just muddy tracks."

YOU CANNOT FOLLOW ME BECAUSE I AM NOT SERIOUS.

To create a following you need to be very serious -- and I cannot afford that.
I could have created a great following. It is so simple --

so many gullible fools are available in the whole world.

Millions of fools are available.

You can gather a following very easily. Just few things you have to do: you have to be very serious. That I cannot do, I cannot lose my laughter.
Pope John Paul dies, and he stands in front of heaven's gate calling Saint Peter, the doorman of paradise.
"Who is there?" asks Saint Peter.
"John Paul."
"Which John Paul?"
"Why, the pope! Open at once!"
"What do you mean -- the pope?"
"Well, your successor: the head of Christianity, you know... Rome... Vaticano..."
Saint Peter starts roaring with laughter. He yells to Christ: "Hey Jesus! Do you remember that silly joke we played on the planet earth people two thousand years ago? Well -- they are still into it!"

You cannot follow me. I AM RIGHT NOW SAYING IT IS ALL A JOKE, not after two thousand years -- that will be too late.
God was in the habit of receiving each person coming to heaven personally --
at the gate.
But when Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh died and came to heaven, God changed his habit and sent Saint Peter to the gate to receive him.

Saint Peter was puzzled: "Why this sudden change?"

God was very afraid and said, "If I leave my chair free, this guy will run in, sit there, and I shall never get it back again!"

OSHO
The Wild Geese and the Water
Ch #5: Pure Non-Zense
am in Buddha Hall