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Chapter 15 - This is the last dance
Nothing comes; nothing goes. There is no journey.
Question 2 BELOVED OSHO,
AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING RIDICULOUS, IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS GLOOM
ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD, I HONESTLY DON'T CARE IF THE WORLD
ENDS TOMORROW. SO WHAT IS THE POINT OF TALKING ABOUT IT AND
FUELING THE ALREADY MASSIVE FIRE OF DOOM WHICH SEEMS TO BURN
ETERNALLY IN THE DEPRESSING MIND OF MANKIND? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S "NOW OR NEVER, "SO LET'S DO IT NOW. LET'S DANCE!
Vimal, it is easy to say "I do not honestly care about the world," but let your heart feel it.
The world is not something that is only outside you; the world is within you too. You are the world.
And this issue of the darkness that is coming closer and closer has to be given significance, so that your choice becomes "now" and you stop postponing. It is true -- "Now or never" -- but there are so few people in the world who live now. They are always living either in yesterdays or in tomorrows.
Why am I insisting that there is, for the first time, a possibility that there will not be any tomorrow at all? There is an old proverb: Tomorrow never comes. But the
old proverb has been only a proverb and in spite of that proverb, tomorrow has kept on coming. It may not come as tomorrow; it will always come as today -- in that sense the proverb is right.
But today the situation is totally different:
Tomorrow really may not come.
I want it to sink deep in your being that we have come to the very end of the road -- and there is nothing left except dancing and rejoicing. To make it NOW , I am destroying your tomorrow completely. I am taking it away from your mind
-- which is deeply involved with tomorrows. Even if you say you understand that perhaps tomorrow the world will end, deep down your mind goes on saying, "There have been thousands of wars, and the world has survived. One war more is not going to make much difference."
Mind is very clever in finding excuses, that something or other will prevent the destruction. And I am not saying that the destruction should not be prevented. What I am saying is that in your mind, there should be no excuse left for postponement -- so your whole energy gathers in the now; it is not spread in the future. And if the whole energy is concentrated in this point, then this moment can become the moment of enlightenment.
Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point --
now and here.
You are saying, "Enough is enough." No, Vimal. Looking at the human mind, nothing is enough. People will go on living in their old unconscious ways -- hoping against hope that although there have always been people like Jesus and Buddha predicting the end of the world, the world is still there. But this time the situation is totally different. I am not Osho - The Hidden Splendor
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