Trust....

JESUS said unto his disciples, 'Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.'

Their hearts are troubled. THEIR MASTER IS GOING TO DIE, THEIR MASTER IS GOING TO BE TORTURED TO DEATH. They will be lost into this dark night of existence, their light will no more be with them. One who has been guiding them, one who has been taking them out of the wilderness, one who was their path, one who was their guide, one who was their friend, will not be any more. And they have become so dependent on him that they cannot think of life without Christ. Their hearts are troubled. It is natural, it is human.

Jesus says, 'Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.'

He says, 'You know what belief is...' Belief is not the right translation for the Hebrew word. The right translation will be trust. 'You know what trust is...' TRUST MEANS THAT GOD TAKES CARE, THAT WE NEED NOT WORRY, THAT SOMEBODY IS BEHIND THE SCENE CARING FOR US, THAT EXISTENCE IS MOTHERING US, FATHERING US -- THAT WE ARE NOT ORPHANS. That's what trust means: that we are not orphans, that we are not strangers in this world; this is our home because this is our God's home -- it belongs to us.

'...Ye believe in God...'

'You know what trust is,' he said. 'If you know what trust is you can trust in me too, because it is not a question of whom you trust. Once you know the quality of trust, you simply trust.'

It is not a question of whether you trust in God or you trust in Jesus or in Buddha -- remember it. IF YOU TRUST, YOU SIMPLY TRUST. If a Christian says 'I trust only in Jesus not in Buddha', he has not known what trust is -- because TRUST KNOWS NO DISTINCTIONS. If you have trusted in Christ you will trust in Buddha too, because you will not see any difference. Maybe the languages are different, maybe their ways of expression are different, but trust will be able to go directly to the heart of the matter, to the very core, and will see that CHRIST AND BUDDHA EXIST ON THE SAME PLANE. It is the same consciousness, the same awareness, the same enlightenment. If you trust Buddha, you will trust Krishna and Mohammed. If you trust me, you will trust Christ, you will trust Zarathustra.

TRUST KNOWS NO ADDRESS. It is not addressed. Trust is an inner quality. If it is there, it is there. It is like you bring a light, you bring a lamp into the room. Now the light will not fall only on the table, it will fall on the chair too. And it will not fall only on the chair, it will fall on the walls too, and on the paintings hanging on the walls. It will not fall only on the walls, it will fall on the floor and on the roof too. When you bring light into the room, light simply falls on everything that is there.

So is trust; it is a light. If trust is kindled in your heart, then it makes no difference. You trust God, you trust Christ, you trust your wife, you trust your husband, you trust your son, you trust your friend. you trust your enemy. You trust nature, you trust death, you trust insecurity. In short, you simply trust.

OSHO