“Very truly
I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the door, but
climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the door is the shepherd
of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the door
for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and
leads them out. When he has brought out
all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they
know his voice. But they will never
follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not
recognize a stranger’s voice.”. . . Therefore
Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the door for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and
robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the door; whoever enters
through me will be saved." John 10:1-8
By Osho
There is no
home, there are only houses. We try to make homes out of houses, but in fact,
home is projection – there is only a house – it feels cold. We need a home: we
want something cozy, something that belongs to us, something to which we
belong. Something which is an extension of our being, something which we can
make part of us; something which is not just a place where you live, but which
becomes alive with you. A house is a dead thing; a home is a living entity, but
it is a projection.So those who are searching for a home will find themselves frustrated again and again because they will find again and again that it turns out to be only a house. Home was their idea. It was their illusion, their hallucination. It was their poetry, their romance. They have been weaving and spinning something invisible around the house which nobody else can see – only they can see it. But it is just Man is born homeless, and man remains his whole life homeless. Yes, he will make many houses into homes and he will get frustrated. And man dies homeless.
To accept the truth brings a tremendous transformation. Then you don’t search for a home – because home is something there, far away, something other than you. And everybody is searching for a home. When you see its illusoriness, then, rather than searching for a home, you will start searching for the being that is born homeless, whose destiny is homeless.
There is no way to make a home. And this is a miracle: the moment that you realize that there is no way to make a home, then this whole existence is home. Then wherever you are, you are at home; because now there is no question of making a home – now there is no question of creating an illusion. You have accepted your homelessness, not with any unwillingness, any resistance, but joyously, because it is good that you are born without a home; otherwise that home will be an imprisonment.
Just think, if people were born with a home, they would be born imprisoned. To be homeless is to be free. It is freedom. It means there is no attachment, no obsession with anything outside; that you are not in need of getting some warmth from the outside, but that your warmth is within you. You have the source of warmth inside; you don’t need it. So wherever you are – without a home – you are strangely at home.
The people who are searching for a home are always getting into despair, and finally are going to feel, “We have been cheated, life has cheated us. Somehow it gave us the desire to find a home – and there is no home at all, it simply does not exist.”
Osho (+1990), born in Kuchwada, India in 1931, was a professor of philosophy, spiritual teacher and mystic. He was a Pantheist and did not believe in the nature of a personal God per se.
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