And the Blessed One replied: "I am not the first Buddha who came upon earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time another Buddha will arise in the world, a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. He will reveal to you the same eternal truths which I have taught you. He will preach his religion, glorious in its origin, glorious at the climax, and glorious at the goal, in the spirit and in the letter. He will proclaim a religious life, wholly perfect and pure; such as I now proclaim." (The Gospel of Buddha)
"The Buddhists have missed the symbolic meaning. When Gautam Buddha said, ”When I will be coming back,” he simply meant the next time when there is an awakened man – and the quality of two awakened men doesn’t differ. There is not even a bit of difference. So he is perfectly right in saying , ”I will come back."
In fact, each
time a man is awakened, Buddha will be coming back in this sense –
that it is the same consciousness again. Again the same flower has
blossomed, and the same fragrance and the same
message!
And exactly after
twenty-five centuries, Gautam Buddha is not back in one sense, but
is back in another sense. Whenever, wherever anybody becomes
awakened, it is the same taste, the same sweetness, the same joy,
the same bliss, the same
silence."
-OSHO, Light on
the Path
"Christ
is the Western equivalent of Buddha, the Awakened One, the Blessed
One. That is actually the meaning of
Christ."
-OSHO
"Christ is not a person, Christ is a state of consciousness. There have been Christs before Jesus, there have been Christs after Jesus. Jesus is only one of the Christs. Buddha is a Christ, Mahavir is a Christ, Lu-tsu is a Christ, Zarathustra is a Christ. Christ simply means the ultimate state of consciousness; it is equivalent to Buddha. Buddha is not the name of any person, it is a happening."
'So is Christ – it is not Jesus’ name! His name was Jesus. One day Jesus disappeared and the Christ-consciousness descended IN him. He was no more the ego, he became the vehicle of the whole. He could say, ”I and my Father in heaven are one.
Don’t wait for Jesus’ coming. And if you wait for Jesus’ coming you will be wasting your time. He is not going to come, he cannot come. But if you are waiting for Christ’s coming then there is no need to wait – Christ is already here! And those who have waited for Christ – not for the particular form, but the consciousness, the essence of it – have always found Christ somewhere or other. Thousands of Masters have existed in the same consciousness."
-OSHO, “The Secret of secrets”
"The Great Spirit who is at the head of the New Cycle must contain within Himself all SYNTHESIS, all the greatest Images of the past Cycle. That is why the Synthesis of Maitreya includes all the Rays."
(LHR I, p 266)