Buddha said, ”Look at this man. He has killed his father and mother both!” - Uprooting the whole conditioning - Osho.

Once it happened that a great king, Presenjit, came to see Gautam Buddha. When he was sitting in front of Buddha, a man came, touched Buddha’s feet – a very old man, one of his disciples, a sannyasin – and he said that, ”I am going now on a long journey to spread your message. Bless me.”

Buddha looked at Presenjit and said, ”This man is the answer to your question.”

Presenjit was asking that, ”I would like to become a sannyasin, but my old mother may feel hurt – she is too old.”
Buddha said, ”Look at this man. He has killed his father and mother both!”

Presenjit was very much disturbed: Killed? Father and mother? And Buddha is appreciating the man! When the man left, Presenjit said, ”I don’t understand! You praised that man and you said he has killed his father and mother!”

Buddha said, ”Yes, psychologically. Not really, not physically, but deep inside he has dropped the clinging with the father and the mother.”

One should kill... not the mother on the outside, but the clinging in your inner world.

That’s what Jesus says to his disciples, ”Unless you hate your parents you cannot follow me.” He does not mean that hate your father and mother: he means deep down you have to uproot the whole conditioning, the whole clinging, the whole attachment. Only then you can become mature, centered, grounded. Only then you can be an individual in your own right. But mind goes on finding subtle strategies to avoid reality.