According to Osho, completeness arises not by forcing renunciation but by deep, nonjudgmental understanding of life's 'colors and melodies.' Live your present stage consciously; as understanding matures, attractions naturally fall away, and wholeness and detachment appear together—like water boiling into steam. Egg and chicken are one process: let awareness ripen and the longing exhaust itself; completeness unfolds simultaneously.
Pay attention to your joys without judging or forcing yourself to quit; when you truly understand them, they loosen and you feel whole.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, is it not true that as long as a person is incomplete, imperfect, the rhythms and melodies of life will not stop pursuing him? The question is: how is he to become complete?
If Buddha says it, it must be right. But don’t accept it as your belief. If Buddha says it, it must be right—there is no reason he would be wrong. He has passed through your state, gone beyond you; he too played with these games and toys. So whatever he says is likely to be right. But that is Buddha’s statement; do not make it your creed. You try to understand this play. In the very understanding of the play you will slowly see for yourself that Buddha is right. His rightness will become your experience. Suddenly you will find: the toys are slipping away, lying in a corner. One day every child’s toys lie in a corner; then they go to the trash heap; then they are not even remembered. Years pass, and you don’t even remember what happened to those toys without which even sleep was impossible. Surely…
Osho, we are incomplete. However much we search outside or inside, how will the Whole ever be seen? How will we find the Whole?
It’s true. You are incomplete; all your seeking will remain incomplete. But non-seeking can be complete. Whatever you seek, you will be the seeker; it will be a search of your own hand, it will be like you. Whatever you make will carry your imprint. Whatever you construct, whatever you create, will be incomplete. If the maker is incomplete, how can the creation be complete? Quite right. Whatever you think will be incomplete. Whatever ideas you entertain will be fragmentary. Whatever conclusions you draw can never be whole and total. If you have faith, it will be incomplete; if you doubt, that too will be incomplete. You go into the world—half-and-half; you enter the temple—half-and-half. Because you are incomplete. That’s right. Then is there no way? God is complete and you are incomplete. And whatever you do will be incomplete—prayer incomplete, sadhana incomplete, samadhi incomplete. So how will you find…
It is not a difficult process because the process of looking is the same, just the object changes: you start turning your consciousness upon yourself. You may have seen many pictures of snakes swallowing their own tails. Those pictures are very ancient symbols of mystery schools; they represent this inner transformation. When your consciousness starts turning upon itself you become a circle, and the moment you are a circle you are no more the same old person. Your life starts having a new grace, a new beauty, a new beatitude. You become golden, you become precious. For the first time you have a contact with god, and that contact is a magical transformation. It is sheer magic and a miracle. Enjoy the trip, don't be too fixated on the target, Osho said in conclusion. Bliss is not a pond, it is a river. It is not static.
Osho, entangled in the hope of becoming something, nothing happened. Only the awareness remained that I am. Neither wealth came, nor a house was built, nor music arrived, nor did I become a scholar. Even living itself did not suit me. After coming here, unknowingly I gave life a new direction. The past has been spent in wandering, the present in sannyas, and you decide the future—what will it be?
Deepak Bharti! In life there is only one entanglement, the one and only—and it is there in everyone’s life without exception—the hope of becoming something. You are what you are; you cannot be otherwise. The very effort to be otherwise is anxiety, gloom, anguish. In that effort a vicious circle is born. Then with your own hands you raise new whirlpools; you sink and you rise, you sink and you rise. Your life becomes a long series of dreams—and of every dream’s shattering. If a rose wants to become a lotus, madness is certain. If champa wants to become jasmine, illness is certain. What is, as it is—its acceptance is sannyas. Sannyas means: tathata, thusness; to embrace oneself totally—not in defeat, not as a consolation, not as a sop, because that would be false; but with understanding, with awareness, by seeing this truth: a rose is a rose, and as…
Osho, when you speak of completeness, does one have to make distinctions within it?
One does have to make distinctions, because a person may be complete in experience and yet have no expression at all. Many have known and remained silent; they did not say anything. They could not find a way to speak. They simply could not find it. As I said yesterday: suppose you go now to Dal Lake and behold its beauty. It may happen that you have a complete experience of beauty—but that does not mean you can come back and make a painting in which you paint Dal Lake. It doesn’t mean that. And it may also happen that someone with less experience than you comes back and paints it, because the skill of painting is a different matter. You get my meaning, don’t you? The skill of painting is entirely different from the skill of experiencing. You may go to Dal Lake and be soaked through with the…