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CHAPTER 8
8 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
[Osho invites someone to take sannyas. He replies: I don’t know yet. I wait and see.]
But it is getting ready there; I can feel it in your heart, it is already there. There is no need to wait and see... be and see! That will be more relevant. How can you see from the outside? There are things which can be seen only from the inside. From the outside you will see sannyasins but not sannyas. And there are all kinds of mad people here. That will not give you the idea of what it is. It has to be tasted.
It is like water: when you drink you know the coolness of it. From the outside the river goes on flowing but you don’t know the coolness of it.
But if you want to wait, you can. My suggestion is: take the jump! It is something very very beneficial to be non-calculating, to be illogical, to be mad. But I leave it to you. If you feel like waiting you can wait; it will take seven days then!
If you have already decided to wait a little more, that is for you. You can wait forever – that is your decision; if you decide that is no problem. If you leave it to me it can happen right now. If you leave it to your heart it will happen in seven days. If you leave it to your head it will never happen. It depends from where you are going to start.
If you leave it to me it will happen in your guts; if you leave it to your heart it will happen a little higher than the guts... not so deep. If you leave it to the head, and even if sometime the head decides to take it, it will be happening very superficially.
Sannyas is valuable, has a different quality, when it comes like an explosion, when it happens like a leap... not a well-rationalised conclusion. But you wait, mm? Even if you become a sannyasin you
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will be a superficial sannyasin; it will never be very deep. And this must have been your very way of life up to now: in everything you must have been calculating and thinking, thinking, watching. By the time you decide, the moment has passed.
This is an opportunity... a life’s opportunity. And if you can be courageous in it you will be courageous in many more things. You will learn the joy of courage, the joy of a gambler. If you want to be a businessman you can be, but my suggestion is: be a gambler. I am all for gambling! It is good to risk. There is nothing to lose in the first place; what can you lose? You have nothing to lose!
But you think, mm? What should I do? – should I also wait and see? Mm? Tell me!
I am also puzzled. If I listen to your heart I feel like giving you sannyas, and if I look at your head I feel it is better for you to wait. You are confusing me! (much laughter) Mm?
[The Tantra Yoga group is present. The group leader says that one member did not participate in the group structure and acted crazy. She was unsure whether to throw him out of the group.]
He was not harming anybody?
Only that has to be thought of: if somebody becomes violent and you see that he can harm somebody, and that too not small harm... If he hits somebody, that’s okay, but if he strangles or tries to kill somebody, only then has he to be taken out.
If he is harmlessly mad, perfectly good! Mm? nothing to be worried about.
... You can enjoy him.
If somebody is really going into it then let the whole group participate in his craziness and let the whole group go crazy with him for half an hour. He will be brought back immediately... because those people who try such things are really hankering for attention, nothing else. They want to be special there so everybody has to pay attention.
If somebody is going crazy, give freedom to the whole group for half an hour to be crazy with this man. Let him lead! He will be immensely happy and he will become very normal soon. Only one thing has to be remembered, that nobody should be harmed, that’s all. Nothing to be worried about. Good!
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