Words of Adi Shankaracharya

1.      Its rare to find a Human Body
2.      Even rarer is to have the desire to realize one self.
3.      Even more Rarer is to have grace of awakened master who helps in realization.

Sutras of Gautam Buddha

1.      It is only a favoured few that get aquainted with a Buddhist Sutra.
2.      It is by rare opportunity that a person is born in the age of a Buddha. It is by rare opportunity

Osho explains Buddhist sutras:

It is only a favoured few that get aquainted with a Buddhist Sutra.
Buddha says it is very few, a very favoured few, a fortunate few, a chosen few, a blessed few, who become aquainted with the wisdom of a Buddha.

Because to be in contact with a Buddha, you have to pass through a few experiences that life is illusory, that death is certain. Unless your illusion about life is shattered completely, you will not listen to a Buddha. He is irrelevant, he does not exist for you.

Buddha exists for you only if you have become alert that this life is fleeting, slipping by; that this life is just a shadow, not a reality... a reflection in the mirror. When all your dreams about life are shattered, then you become interested in a Buddha. And when you become interested, only then is there a possibility to understand buddhist wisdom, the wisdom of an awakened man.

Who is an awakened man? One who has come to know what is dream, one who has come to know what is not dream. When you are asleep, dream looks real. In the morning when you awake, then you know that it was unreal. A Buddha is one who has awakened -- awakened out of this so-called life and has come to realize that it is a dream.

If you are also feeling the pain, the frustration, the misery of this dream life, this futile life, only then you start moving towards a source of light; otherwise not. Buddha says those are the few favoured ones.

It is by rare opportunity that a person is born in the age of a Buddha.
It is by rare opportunity... Yes, it is so, because a Buddha is rarely there. Thousands of years pass, then a person becomes a Buddha. And even then it is not necessary that he will start teaching. He may not teach at all. He may simply disappear into the unknown. There is no necessity that he should become a master. So, Buddhas are few, and then Buddhas who become masters and help people on the way are even fewer.

It is by rare opportunity that a person is born in the age of a Buddha. So if you can find a person who is awakened, if you can find a person who is a little different from you, if you can find a person in whose eyes you don't see the clouds of sleep and around whom you can feel the aura of awakening, then don't miss the opportunity, because it may not be for many lives that you will come across such a man again.

Source: The Discipline of Transcendence Vol 2 - Osho

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