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Chapter 22 - What more do you want?
But such is our unconsciousness. We are behaving like drunkards, not knowing what we are doing, not knowing what is happening to us, why it is happening to us. And even when we are very close to something great -- we go on missing.
Just be a little more alert, a little more aware. You have the key and that key will work to open all the doors of the mysteries of your inner being.
A nervous young priest, about to deliver his first sermon, asks an older priest how he might calm down a bit. He advises the young priest to fill his water jug with martinis.
Well, the new priest preaches up a storm and afterwards, he asks the older priest what he thought.
"You did very well, but I have just a few criticisms: there are ten commandments, not twelve; there are twelve apostles, not ten. David slew Goliath, he did not kick the shit out of Goliath. Next week, there is a toffee- pulling contest at St. Peters, not a peter-pull at St.
Toffee's. The Holy Cross is not to be referred to as the 'Big T'. Please do not refer to our savior Jesus Christ and the apostles as 'J.C. and the boys'. And restrain yourself from calling the father, the son, and the holy ghost, 'Big daddy, junior and the spook.' And lastly, kindly do not call the Blessed Virgin Mary, 'Mary with the cherry.'"
Question 2 BELOVED OSHO
THERE IS IMMENSE TRUST INSIDE ME THAT BEING WITH YOU EVERYTHING
HAPPENS SO RIGHT THAT THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO DO BUT LET IT HAPPEN.
SO I'M NOT FORCING ANYTHING AND MORE AND MORE THERE IS ONLY THIS
SWEET, PAINFUL LOVE FOR YOU AND MORE SILENCE AND MORE LAUGHTER
AND MORE LOVE. YET SOMETIMES WHEN YOU SPEAK ABOUT "DOING
EVERYTHING FOR ENLIGHTENMENT," A DOUBT ARISES IN ME THAT MAYBE I'M
CHEATING MYSELF: AM I NOT DOING ENOUGH?
Shantam Shivano, your question is "There is immense trust inside me." But immense trust does not mean absolute trust. Howsoever immense it may be, there is space enough for doubts. So first you have to understand: just trust is enough. Don't make it immense.
Just trust is absolute.
And remember, trust is not belief. Belief is in ideas, in ideologies, in doctrines, in theologies, in philosophies. Trust is just the purest form of love; it has nothing to do with any ideology. Doubt can arise if you have a belief -- these are subtle connections -- doubt is connected with the belief. Doubt has no possibility in trust.
In fact, belief is nothing but a method of repressing doubt, and when you repress a doubt then there is always a possibility: any weak moment, and the repressed will spring up with great vengeance and destroy your whole belief system. But trust is not repressing any doubt.
Trust has no connection with any kind of belief system.
Trust is falling in love -- not the biological love, but the love that can exist between two beings, two souls, two consciousnesses.
Osho - The Hidden Splendor 225
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