Jesus – Son of God or Mystic?
I Say Unto You introduces a dynamic, compassionate, intelligent, loving Jesus, who speaks in a plainand simple way that everyone can understand. Osho looks with a crystal-clear perception at Jesus work, revealing the parables and miracles as metaphors of the inner world.
He gives insight into Jesus own search, and his journeys to the ancient mystery schools of Egypt, Kashmir and Tibet that transformed him into one of the most evolved masters of the paths of love and meditation. His insights are so relevant for todays societies where the sharp functioning of the mind is more valued than the intelligence of the heart.
“I Say Unto You”, talks on the Sayings of Jesus
In het boek “I Say Unto You” wordt de vraag gesteld: “Hoe zou het zijn als Jezus niet als een 
bovennatuurlijk wezen opgevat zou worden, maar als een echte mens die het ontwaken van zijn bewustzijn heeft ervaren wat in het Oosten als verlichting bekend staat?”
Dit regel-voor-regel commentaar op enkele van de meest bekende Evangeliën van Mattheus en Johannes uit het Nieuwe Testament test de hypothese dat Jezus een mysticus was en geen wonderdoener van bovennatuurlijke origine. Osho overtuigt met verve dat de verhalen over het leven van Jezus nooit bedoeld waren als weergave van een ware historische toedracht, maar eerder leerparabels zijn die speciaal ontwikkeld werden om de komende generaties spirituele begeleiding te geven.
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Impression of “I Say Unto You”
What if Jesus were not a supernatural being conceived by a virgin, but a real human being who had experienced the awakening of consciousness known as Enlightenment in the East? This extraordinary line-by-line commentary on some of the best-known New Testament Gospels from Matthew and John tests the hypothesis that Jesus was a mystic, not a miracle worker of supernatural origin. Osho convincingly makes the case that the stories of Jesus’ life were never meant to be a factual record of history, but rather are teaching parables designed to provide ongoing spiritual guidance for generations to come.
Excerpt from Chapter 3 of “I Say Unto You”
First Be Reconciled.
Moses brought law to the world; Jesus brings love. Moses is a must before Jesus can be possible. Law is enforced love; love is spontaneous law. Law is from the outside; love is from the inside. Law is without; love is within. Love can happen only when a certain order, a certain discipline, a certain law, exists. Love cannot exist in the jungle. Moses civilizes man; 
Jesus spiritualizes man. That’s why Jesus says again and again, “I have come not to destroy, but to fulfill.” Moses gives commandments, Jesus gives insight into those commandments. One can follow the commandments on a formal, superficial level. One can become a righteous person, a puritan, a moralist, and deep down nothing changes: all remains the same. The old darkness is still there, the old unconsciousness is still there. Nothing has really changed; you have just painted your surface. Now you are wearing a beautiful mask. Nothing wrong in wearing a beautiful mask – if you have an ugly face it is better not to show it to others. Why be so hard on others? If you have an ugly face, wear a mask – at least it will save others from seeing you. But the mask cannot change your ugly face. Never forget for a single moment that the mask is not your face. You have to transform your face too. Moses gave a very crude discipline to society. He could not have done better – there was no way. Human consciousness existed in a very, very primitive way. A little bit of civilization was more than one could expect. But Moses prepared the way, and Jesus is the fulfillment. What Moses started, Jesus completes. Moses has laid the foundation; Jesus raises the whole temple. Those stones in the foundation have to be crude and ugly. Only on those crude and ugly stones can a beautiful marble temple be built. Always remember this: Jesus is not against Moses. But the Jews misunderstood him, because Moses talks about law and Jesus talks about love. To the Jews, particularly the priests, the politicians, it appeared that the law would be destroyed by Jesus; hence they were angry. And they were right too. The law would be destroyed in a sense, because a higher law would be coming in. The lower law would have to go. The lower has to cease for the higher to come. Law depends on fear, law depends on greed, law punishes you. The central idea of law is justice, but justice is not enough, because justice is crude and hard, violent. Only compassion can allow your being to bloom, can help you come to your highest peak – not justice. Law is better than lawlessness, but compared to love, law itself is lawlessness – compared to love. It is relative, because law depends on the same evils against which it fights. Somebody murders, then the law murders him. Now, it is the same thing you are doing to the person that he has done to somebody else. It is not higher, although it is just. But it is not religious, it has no spirituality in it; it is mathematical. He has killed somebody and the law kills him. But if killing is wrong, then how can the law be right? If killing in itself is wrong, then the law is very much lacking. It depends on the same evil – remember it. When Jesus started talking about love, the people who had been law-abiding became very much afraid. Because they knew that if the law was dropped, then the animal hidden inside them would come up, and would tear down the whole society. They knew that their faces were only beautiful on the surface – deep down, great ugliness. And when Jesus said, “Drop all masks,” they became afraid, they became angry: “This man is dangerous, this man has to be punished and destroyed before he destroys the whole society.” But they misunderstood. Jesus was not saying just to drop the mask. He was saying: “I have brought you an alchemy, so that your real face can be beautiful. Why carry the mask? Why this weight? Why this false plastic thing? I can give you a higher law that needs no fear, that needs no greed, that needs no enforcement from the outside but arises in your being because of understanding, not because of fear.” Remember, that is the difference: out of fear is law; out of understanding is love. Moses is a must, but Moses must go also. Moses has done his work, he has prepared the ground. When Jesus appears, Moses’ work is fulfilled. But the Jews were angry. It is very difficult for people to stop clinging to their past. Moses had become very, very central to the Jewish mind. They thought Jesus was against Moses. And this has been so down the ages: the misunderstanding.