7 Be a honey bee

‌CHAPTER 7

Be a honey bee

7 October 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Deva means divine, madhukar means honey bee. And it is a very very pregnant symbol in the East – the honey bee. It represents freedom. It never becomes attached to any flower; it simply goes from one flower to another, collecting honey. But it is never attached, it remains unattached. And that is the way of the sannyasin. He moves from one moment to another moment, from one flower to another flower, from one state to another state but never becomes attached to it. He simply collects the honey and disappears.

So, let it not be only your name, but become that. There is much honey around and there are millions of flowers. Drink to your fill but don’t become attached to anything. And then a man can collect great riches.

The person who becomes attached to something starts denying the whole existence. That small thing becomes his world. He becomes narrow, he becomes small. When you are not attached to anything you remain big, huge, enormous. Then you are as big as the whole existence.

[A sannyasin says she has been getting very violent jerks... if anybody came near her, she felt them strongly.

Osho checks her energy.]

The jerks are settling; they are not as dangerous as they have been before. They will become milder slowly, slowly, and they will disappear. And after that you will feel really relieved of a great burden. Nothing to be worried about.

But now start controlling; don’t go into them. Rather than expressing them, absorb the energy. Rather than shaking the body, just allow the energy to be absorbed; swallow it. Now there is no need to express it. Whenever you feel, just sit silently and swallow it. And you will be able to swallow it. No problem, mm? Within three weeks they will be absorbed.

[The Primal group is present. The leaders say it was a difficult group. The leaders were the only ones that were really doing something, and everybody else was just... sitting there. And then when they started to accept it, something changed in the group.]

Yes, one has to learn non-doing. Doing ;s not the right thing, although in the beginning it is needed. But it is needed only as a step towards non-doing. You have to push in the beginning, you have to force in the beginning; you have to provoke their resistance in the beginning. The more you do, the more they will resist, because egos start fighting. Then the leaders and the group are standing confronting each other. It is a question of the ego. The leader thinks that they have to be forced to explode into a different space, and they resist because nobody wants to give in easily.

So in the beginning it is needed. In the beginning go on forcing, but there comes a moment when nothing more can be done – and that is the moment when things start changing and happening. Then relax and they will drop resisting, because the resistance was created by the effort that you were forcing them to make a move into a certain direction. Once you drop that coercion, they will drop resistance. Then there is a meeting between the leader and the group, and things start changing. There is great affinity, participation, and grace comes.

But I’m not saying that from the very beginning you have to be a non-doer; otherwise nothing will happen. Almost half, or sometimes even more than half the time has to be given to doing. It makes way for non-doing. You should become exhausted by doing and they should also be exhausted – utterly exhausted – then surrender. Leave things as they are, accept things as they are. And in that very moment, the turning.

But always remember, the turning comes because of the fight; otherwise it won’t come. If from the very beginning you just sit there and tell them that you will accept things and nobody is going to do anything, you are non-doers – then nothing will happen.

This is paradoxical, but the whole of life is a paradox. If you want to have a good sleep in the night, do hard work in the day. Exhausted, you disappear into sleep. There is a rhythm between hard work and rest. Both are opposite to each other but somewhere they meet each other. Somewhere they are not opposites but complementaries.

So the doing has to be the beginning part – and your group needs it very much. You have to put all the energy into it that you can, and you have to provoke them to put all their energy into resisting. If somebody half-heartedly drops resistance he will not be benefited by the group.

Don’t be in a hurry. Let them also be exhausted. Let there come a natural point, a crescendo, from where there is no way out anywhere. One simply drops, falls... gives in.

And it is not that only you give in: the group gives in. The whole space will change; the quality, the energy will change. Things will start sprouting and blooming. It has been a good experience.

[A sannyasin who has done Primal and begun rolfing, says she feels very disoriented. Osho checks her energy.]

Perfectly good. This is happening, this continuous change of your space because the old space is still interfering. The new mind allows you beautiful moods but the old mind is against it. And the old mind is still there. It is Lingering side by side, around it. So whenever it can get in you feel disoriented. But the old is going to go. Once the new is born, cooperate with the new, help the new, and drop your co-operation with the old.

When you are feeling happy, then really feel happy! Put your total energy into it. Don’t stand outside; just become the dance. And you can become it; it is there. The more you go into it, the less the old will interfere, less and less will it come in. And when the old mind comes, just neglect it, be indifferent to it. Don’t get into it at all. Drop your cooperation.

This will take only three to four weeks. Put your energy into the new mind, the blissful mood, and don’t put your energy into the old mind. When it comes, accept it; it is there. You feel sad, you feel disoriented, you don’t feel good. It’s okay, but no need to pay much attention to it. The less attention paid to it, the less it will come.

It is like a guest. If you don’t pay much attention to the guest he starts disappearing. Then the guest comes to know that he is uninvited, unwelcomed. That has to be made very clear to the old mind – that it is no more welcome, that it is no more invited. If it comes just because of old habit, okay, it can stay for a while, but you are not going to pay any attention to it. Neglect, ignore. And there is no stronger poison than ignoring!

But things are going really well... faster than I was thinking.

[The sannyasin says she has to return to the West soon to complete her master’s degree in Creative Arts therapy. She’s not certain whether to finish it or not, though she likes the work. It would be good If you can complete it, Osho says, It will be useful, complete it and be here permanently!]

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