一个新门徒告诉师父，在西方她是一名推销员。
OSHBuddha：
推销员？也开始卖我！这是需要的……
这是需要的……还有很多人在挨饿，他们需要这个。这非常关键。无数人在错过它，他们不知道怎么寻找，他们不知道要去哪里。事实上，他们甚至不知道自己是否需要它。
最大的问题，是人意识不到自己的基本需要。如果你知道你饿了，你就会做些什么——找些吃的，你会找到一些东西，但是如果你甚至都意识不到自己饿了，你会饿死的。
想象一下，一个人饿了，但因为某些机制的阻碍，他意识不到自己饿了。他注定会挨饿、饿死，他永远也意识不到，进食的话他就能活下来。
饥饿在，他在，但饥饿跟他的头脑之间有些东西没有连接上。这就是发生在我们对上帝的需要和我们头脑之间的。你一直都有怀疑，有些东西缺失了……但那是什么？渐渐的，我们开始适应了这种感觉，有些东西缺失了。我们倾向于忘记它，因为它令人不适，不舒服。
它是需要的。你会成为我的移动推销员！这就是为什么我创造出了门徒。其目的在于，把这些人送到挨饿、完全忘了自己在挨饿的人那里去。
仅凭看到你，看到你的喜悦，看到你的开心，有些东西就会搅动他们的心。他们会开始探寻，一旦他们开始探寻了，他们就被逮住了。
那份探寻开启了他们的旅程。如果我们能帮助人们去探寻，这就足够了。然后他们会开始求索。有些东西响了，他们的头脑开始感受到自己的需要，接着他们开始知道缺失了什么。
古代从不这样。每个人都知道，是上帝缺失了，每个人都在尝试、寻找、探寻。现在人们仍然在尝试，但他们尝试的是别的东西——一所好房子，一份好工作，更多的钱，这个那个，他们认为自己缺失的是这些东西。一旦他们拥有了这些东西，就不会有问题了。但他们活的很愚蠢。
一旦那些需求得到满足，突然，第一次，真正的问题来了。现在他们有了好房子，好家庭，一份安稳的工作，钱跟一切。突然，一切都没达到预期，他们发现，缺失的东西仍然是缺失的。现在甚至缺失更多了，因为现在一切都有了，他们常以为那些东西会带来满足。东西都有了，却没有满足。
在这个世界上，没有什么比成功更失败：一旦你成功了，你就来到了失败的边缘。那些不成功的人继续盼望着，但成功的人要盼望什么呢？有什么是一个洛克菲勒好盼望的？他拥有你能盼望的一切……他连做梦都想不到。现在还有什么？
这就是为什么，当人们变得富有一点的时候，他们变得虔诚……当一个社会变得富裕了一些。我有更多来自德国的欧洲门徒，这不是偶然——因为现在他们是全欧洲最有钱的人。这不是偶然。一旦富有了，突然一个人开始觉得，有钱并不够，他们感受到了真正的需求。
所以德国人需要很多男销售员，很多女销售员
A new sannyasin tells Oshbuddha she is a salesman in the West.
Oshbuddha：
Salesman? Start selling me too!…
It is needed!…
It is needed… many more people are hungry and they need it. It is very essential. Millions are missing it and they don’t know how to find; they don’t know where to move. In fact they don’t even know whether they need it or not.
The greatest problem is that man is unaware of his own basic need. If you know that you are hungry you will do something- to find something and you will find something or other, but if you are not even aware of your hunger you are going to die.
Just think of a person who is hungry and by some mechanism is prevented from being aware of hunger. He is bound to starve himself and die, and he will never become aware that he could have lived if he had eaten. The hunger was there, he was there, but something was disconnected between the hunger and his mind. That’s what has happened between our need for god and our mind. A lingering suspicion is felt that something is missing… but what is it? By and by we start becoming adjusted to this feeling that something is missing. We tend to forget it because it is inconvenient and uncomfortable.
It is needed. You will become my walking salesman! That’s why I create sannyasins. The purpose is to send them to people who are hungry and who have forgotten completely that they are hungry. Just seeing you, seeing your joy and seeing your happiness, something will start stirring in their hearts. They will start enquiring, and once they enquire, they are caught. That very enquiry starts their journey. If we can help people just to enquire, that’s enough. Then they start groping. Something clicks and their minds start feeling their need; then they start knowing what is missing.
In the ancient times it was never so. Everybody was aware that god was missing and everybody was trying and searching and finding. Now people are still trying but they try something else — a good house, a good job, more money, this and that, and they think these are the things that are missing. Once they have these things there will be no problem. But they are living in a fool’s land.
Once these needs are fulfilled, suddenly for the first time there is the real problem. Now they have a good house, a good family, a secure job, money, everything. Suddenly everything falls flat and they recognise that the thing that was missing is still missing. It is missing even more so, because now all is there that they used to think would be a fulfillment. It is there and there is no fulfillment.
Nothing fails like success in the world: once you succeed you have come to the brink of failure. Those who are not successful can go on hoping but what is there for the successful to hope for? what is there for a Rockefeller to hope for? He has all that can be hoped for… more than he could have ever dreamed. Now what?
That’s why it happens that when people are a little richer they become religious… when a society becomes a little affluent. It is not just accidental that I have more Germans from Europe than anybody else — because they are now the richest people in Europe. It is not accidental. When there is richness, suddenly one starts feeling that richness won’t do; then the real need is felt.So Germany needs many salesmen and many saleswomenBrother翻译
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