I love human beings but not humanity. Humanity does not exist, only concrete human beings exists, someone here someone there but it is always someone.
Humanity is a empty word and just like that is Christ. Jesus exists sometimes in Gautam the buddha, sometimes in Mohammed the prophet, sometimes in Krishna the flute player, somewhere here, somehwere there ... but it is always a concrete phenomenon.
Christ is abstract, it only exists in the books of philosophy and theology. Christ has never walked on earth or we can say it in another way Christ is the son of God, Jesus the son of man. Let me talk about Jesus the son of man, because only the son of man is real and only the son of man can grow and become the son of God. Only man can grow and become God. Because man is the seed, the source. God is the flowering.
God does not exists anywhere. When you flower God comes in existance. It comes into existence and disappears, comes into existence and disappears. When Buddha was here God existed. When Jesus was here God existed. When Jesus disappears God disappears, just when a flower disappears it disappears.
God is not somewhere.. always existing. Whenever a man realizes his essence, whenever a man really exists, whenever a man exists in totality, God exists in those rare moments.
So when you come and ask me "Where is God?", I can not show you. Unless you prove him into your own being, he will not be there. Untill you become him he is not. Everybody has to realize him in his own inner most shrine, in his own being. You carry him as a seed. It is up to you to allow it to grow and become a great tree."
OSHO
A beautiful saying by Abu Yazeed Bastami-
I made four mistakes in my preliminary steps in this way:
I thought that I remember Him,
that I know Him,
that I love Him,
and that I seek Him;
but when I reached Him,
I saw that His remembering of me preceded my remembrance of Him,
that His knowledge about me preceded my knowledge of Him,
that His love towards me was more ancient than my love towards Him,
and that He sought me in order that I would begin to seek Him.”
I thought that I remember Him,
that I know Him,
that I love Him,
and that I seek Him;
but when I reached Him,
I saw that His remembering of me preceded my remembrance of Him,
that His knowledge about me preceded my knowledge of Him,
that His love towards me was more ancient than my love towards Him,
and that He sought me in order that I would begin to seek Him.”
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