Osho – Whenever a buddha appears you are very much annoyed by him, by his presence9

Osho – Desire makes a fool of everybody. But because everybody else is also in the same boat you never become aware of it. And if, once in a while, a Buddha appears in your boat, you throw him out of the boat because he becomes a disturbance, a nuisance. He starts telling you that “This is nonsense! This is stupidity!” He is intolerable.

It is a very strange phenomenon that the real benefactors of humanity look dangerous and the really dangerous people — who go on poisoning your minds and your beings — appear to be benefactors. The politicians and the priests and the pundits, these are the poisoners; but they are great leaders, great guides. They guide you — they guide you into bigger and bigger ditches, they guide you into more and more darkness! You can look at the world and you will be convinced of the fact.

Whenever a buddha appears you are very much annoyed by him, by his presence. because he starts talking about light. He starts talking about opening your inner eyes. He starts talking about your subjectivity, your consciousness. And these are things you have not heard about. These are things you are not interested in, because nobody else seems to be interested in them. You are interested in money, and a buddha talks about meditation.

Sometimes people come to me and they say, “If we meditate, will we become wealthy?”
And there are frauds who say “Yes.” Maharishi Mahesh Yogi says to people, “If you meditate you will become wealthy, you will become rich — because a meditator attracts money.”

No wonder he has such a great appeal in America, because who would not like to sit for just fifteen minutes in the morning and in the evening and attract money? A magic secret to become more rich, more powerful — you can become the president, the prime minister, just by doing Transcendental Meditation, morning and evening. Twenty or thirty minutes does not seem to be a wastage; it seems to be worth it.

People come to me too, to ask, “Will it help us to become rich, to become more powerful?” Even if you become interested in meditation you become interested for wrong reasons. Your meditation is also a wrong meditation, not a right meditation.
If you become interested in samadhi, you ask, “What will be the gain? What we will get out of it? What kind of paradise will become available to those who have attained to samadhi?”

And there are religions which go on giving you ideas about paradise, that you will have this and you will have that — rivers of wine, beautiful women, golden trees, paths studded with diamonds and emeralds. All that you desire, they are ready to provide you. And then you become interested in samadhi. That is a wrong samadhi. That is not a right approach towards religion.

Buddha is right. He says, “YOU will not be there, your mind will not be there. None of your desires will be fulfilled. All your desires will evaporate, disappear. There is no way to say anything to you about that ultimate state because you are bound to misunderstand it. It will be discontinuous with you. You will cease, totally cease, and there will be a totally new kind of life about which nothing can be said in your language, in the language that you can understand.”

Those who followed Buddha must have been really courageous people, people with guts. It has always been so and it will always be so. Those who are with me are courageous people, people who are ready to risk all: their desires, their egos, their very existence. But if you can risk all, all becomes available to you. Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember these two key words: meditation and surrender. Meditation will take you in, and surrender will take you into the whole. And this is the whole of religion. Within these two words Buddha has condensed the whole essence of religion.

Source – Osho Book “Dhammapada, Vol 7″