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‌CHAPTER 3

3 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

[A sannyasin, leaving for the west, says: The whole thing about leaving does not come from within; it comes from without – conditions and situations... But to stay comes from within.]

I know... That too is true. And as far as the within is concerned, you are staying; only the without is going. No need to worry about it. Your heart will be here.

[The sannyasin asks: It’s possible to surrender without surrendering physically?]

Yes, it is possible, it is possible. The reverse is not possible. Physically you can surrender, but if you don’t surrender inwardly then surrender is not possible. But the vice versa is possible: you can surrender from the within, you may not surrender from without. That does not make any difference because the body is not very essential. The essential being is your consciousness. If from there surrender is happening, it has happened. then you can be anywhere in the world and you will be here.

But don’t take it seriously – that you are going or you have to go away. you are not going... and it will be a great experience that physically you can be far away and yet very close. It may have something to contribute to you.

Turn it into an opportunity to learn something – and that has to be remembered always: whatsoever the situation use if for growth. Even negative situations have to be used for positive growth. Ordinarily people go on using even positive opportunities for self-destruction. Even where yes was very simple, it seems impossible for a few people.

So learn! This too is good!

[Osho asks when he is coming back. It’s according to the flow, he replies; it’s hard to make deadlines. Osho agrees that there is no need to make deadlines but if one just plants the seed of an idea in the unconscious, it goes deep and functions as a centre. Then if things come about according to that idea, you feel happy; if they don’t, you aren’t frustrated because you weren’t willing it anyway. Once something enters the unconscious the whole universe cooperates with it because the unconscious is universal while the conscious is individual.]

It is almost like a man making love to a woman and the woman becomes pregnant... Now nobody is doing anything, nobody is trying to do anything – nobody can do anything about it – but once the woman is pregnant the seed has taken root. Now, on its own, the seed will grow. That’s what lao tzu means when he says that man is like the conscious mind and woman is like the unconscious mind.

One of the most ancient books in china is The Secret of the Gold Flower. It says man is the conscious, the woman is the unconscious. Man can only trigger off the process and the woman can only receive. Once the man has triggered off the process he has nothing else to do. Once the woman has received the seed she has nothing to do; now things happen on their own. And exactly in the same way every idea becomes a reality.

So just keep it there. No need to make it an ego trip, that you have to do it – no need to do that. And no need to move to the other opposite. If you can keep in the middle you will learn a great secret. It is not only about this; this is just a small thing.When you are coming does not matter;

Monday or Tuesday or Friday, this month or that, January or February, doesn’t matter, this year or the other year. I am just using this opportunity to say this to you so that in vital matters of life you can remember it.

[Osho gives him a box.] Keep this with you, and whenever you need me, just remember and meditate. Good!

[A sannyasin asks if she should visit the shrine of Meher Baba.]

You can go and see but there is nothing there. You can go and see but the light is gone and there is nothing left.

Once there was great light, but once a master is gone he is gone forever and then only very ordinary people surround the place. But if you have some idea to, you can go and seebut don’t be in a

hurry. Go after one month; it is very close by – you can go and see it. There is no need to repress the idea. Go and see: you will also find that it is empty.

The shrine is there but the god of the shrine is no moreAnd that is one of the greatest miseries

that happens always: by the time people come to hear about a master he is gone, and by the time people start coming the shrine is empty.

Christians came when christ was gone. Only very few people were with jesus; someone has counted and says that not more than five hundred people were ever impressed by him. Five hundred is not a numberand those five hundred also were only so-so. Only twelve were the real disciples, and

even from those twelve one betrayed and sold jesus for thirty rupees. Once jesus went, by and by a great crowd gathered; now half the earth is christian.but meaninglessly!

It is good to be a christian when christ is there, it is good to be a buddhist when buddha is there. It is good to be with any master, but when the master is gone then it is like a lamp with no light. You can worship it but you will not be enlightened by it.

But for two months feel me so that you become aware what the presence of a master means, then go and see: the shrine is empty. But he. was a very very... one of the greatest men ever, so your love, affection, is perfectly good. But go after two months, mm ? Good.

[A sannyasin couple ask about their relationship. The man was always shy of approaching a woman he was attracted to, and envied other couples. Since they married the wife has been very jealous if the man looked at another woman, so he has repressed doing this. Since being in Poona he no longer wishes to suppress his feelings. When a woman seduced him recently, his wife had a big fight with him.]

Mm! things are really going nicely!

[Osho tells him that his feelings are perfectly okay and he should not feel guilty, but he needs to help his wife because women have been conditioned to think that they are monogamous and men are polygamous. Both are polygamous, both like to move with others.

She should feel free to move with other men and not cling to just him, Osho says. The more you experience other people, the richer your love will become. If you lose interest in other men, you will lose interest in your husband – because he is a man! Osho says to the wife that this is a future society here. If she were at the Vatican her feelings of jealousy would be supported and the husband condemned as immoral. But this is not the Vatican and here the support will be for freedom to move.

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[A primal group member says: There is a saying in Lao Tzu’s teaching that anyone who is disturbed by the five colours, five tastes, five sounds, cannot reach truth. But I wanted to eat something delicious and I felt like listening to really good music or singing a song... and then I felt like starting to paint.]

Very good! Lao tzu is not your master. I am your master! You can enjoy; there is no problem.

Being in a joyous relationship with one’s senses is not a disturbance. If you repress then disturbance comes in. If you want to eat delicious food, eat. Just remember one thing – the taste of the food should become the taste of god. Eating food, remember you are eating god. Be respectful: eat with reverence and awe. Listening to music, you are listening to god; all sounds are his sounds. All forms are his forms, all beauty is his, all bodies are his. So you forget that old man, lao tzu!

It is good, perfectly good... enjoy as much as you can! Never make a distinction between the world and god, never divide: it is all one. And my teaching is not for fasting, my teaching is for feasting! I am not for celibacy. I am for celebration!

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