Osho, Christianity: The Deadliest Poison, and Zen: The Antidote to All Poisons, Talk #4

THE FIRST WOMAN (PART 1)

God created the world, and in every church you will hear that he created Adam and Eve after he had created everything else.

That's a lie. He created first Adam and Lilith, but it is not being told to people. There are reasons for not telling it. God created Adam and Lilith with the same mud. It is a myth, but it carries tremendous meaning. And this shows the utter stupidity of God, that he created a small single bed, only one bed, with the male chauvinist idea that Adam will sleep on the bed, and Lilith will sleep on the floor. The woman cannot be equal to the man.

From that very point the whole of Christianity has been against equality. If even God is against it, then equality, equal opportunity for all, cannot be accepted. That's why Christianity is against communism, against anarchism.

And I say that God was utterly stupid, because when you create a couple, you should at least create a double bed. The first night was the beginning of a struggle that continues even today. Lilith wanted to sleep on the bed, and Adam wanted to sleep on the bed, and the bed could not contain the two. So Adam threw Lilith down, then Lilith jumped on Adam and she threw Adam down -- just because of a stupid God, who could not think that a double bed was needed!

The whole night the fight continued -- the fight for equality that continues even today in every bedroom. Even though now there are double beds available, the fight continues, the pillow fight!

Next day Adam asked God not the right question -- 'Why don't you give us a bigger bed?' -- which would have been so simple, logical. He asked God, 'I cannot tolerate this woman who wants to be equal to me.' And God killed Lilith, his own daughter. Neither was Adam asking for a bigger bed, nor did God suggest to him, 'There is no problem. I have created the whole world, I can create a double bed. Just like that [Osho snaps his fingers]...a double bed!'

But God was also a male chauvinist. He favored Adam, although it was unjust to Lilith, and the injustice goes even to the point of murder -- murdering his own daughter because she was asking for equality.

To me, asking for equal opportunity is a fundamental religious principle. I don't say people are equal, I say people need equal opportunity to grow into their unequal uniquenesses.

But a double bed! -- that proves absolutely that God was a Jew, and it is not an accident that he has chosen the Jews as his own people. Rather than making a double bed, he chose to kill his own daughter. But it is not only killing Lilith, it is killing the very idea of equality....

God killed Lilith, and this time he did not make Eve from the same earth as he had made Adam, because that same earth had created the idea of equality.

So this time he put Adam in a coma and took out -- the first surgery in existence -- a rib bone, and out of the rib bone he created Eve. She will never claim to be equal to man; she is just a rib bone. She will serve man, surrender to man, obey man, worship man.

Osho, Christianity: The Deadliest Poison, and Zen: The Antidote to All Poisons, Talk #4