According to Osho, worthiness and receptivity become possible when you stop postponing and intellectualizing and begin to live what touches you: act on the inner ‘yes,’ learn through mistakes, and let doing ripen right decision. Practice witnessing without repression, listen without problem-hunting, and don’t escape into cages. Even one embodied drop becomes an ocean—embodiment opens the windows through which grace can enter.
Try small things that feel alive, watch yourself without pushing, and learn from mistakes—this makes you ready to receive.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Please, Osho, what is receptivity?
RECEPTIVITY is a state of no-mind. When you are utterly empty of all thought, when consciousness has no content, when the mirror reflects nothing, it is receptivity. Receptivity is the door to the divine. Drop the mind and be. In the mind, you are miles away from being. The more you think, the less you are. The less you think, the more you are. And if you don't think at all, those are the moments when being asserts itself in its totality. Receptivity simply means dropping the garbage that you go on carrying in your head. And much garbage is there, utterly useless. The mind means the past. Now the past is no more of any use; it has happened, and it is never going to happen again, because in reality nothing ever repeats. Even when you think, feel, that this is the same situation, it is never the same…
Osho, I want to take sannyas. Am I worthy, and has the auspicious moment arrived?
And because I don’t tell you to leave your home, there is an added difficulty. Mahavira did not give his people as much trouble as I am giving you. Buddha did not give as much trouble. I am putting you in a very paradoxical arrangement: making you a sannyasin and not separating you from the home. You will sit at your shop in ochre robes—it will be a great awkwardness. In ochre you can sit in the forest—there is no trouble then. At a shop you do not sit in ochre—there is no trouble then. I am creating a contradiction in your life. I am saying: live in water and be like a lotus. The rose has no such difficulty; it doesn’t live in water. The lotus has the difficulty—to be in water and untouched by water. To be in the marketplace and untouched by the market. To be in…
Osho, when such incredible happiness descends, why do I feel so unworthy?
That's why all the religions emphasize: God is compassionate -- RAHIM, RAHMAN! -- God is compassion. This is just to give you an alternative gestalt so you become focused on His compassion, not on your unworthiness. You may be unworthy -- that is irrelevant -- but God is compassionate. You may be a sinner -- that is irrelevant -- God is compassionate. He gives for no reason at all; He is simply a giver, He knows only giving. And He does not give conditionally, He gives unconditionally. Jesus tells a parable again and again. A rich man called forth a few laborers to work in his garden in the morning. The fruits were becoming ripe and they had to be collected soon. But by the afternoon it was felt that the laborers were not enough; more were needed, so more laborers were called. By the evening it was felt that…
Beloved Osho, over the last few months I have been going through an amazing process of letting go of my attachments, of clearing the way for my heart to expand to you, the divine. Thank you, Osho, for showering me with so much love. Am I worthy of so much?
We are trying to find more and more places, and within two or three months, you all will have places in the ashram. But just my name, and the price of any house goes up three times. So it is a little difficult, but I know you are living in difficulties outside. The same flat that was rented for seventeen hundred rupees per month before our coming back to Poona is now being given to sannyasins for eight thousand rupees per month. Prices have gone seven, eight times higher. But Veena will not feel grateful that she is in the ashram. She will not think that thousands of sannyasins are living outside, paying too much, eight or ten times more than the market price. Two thousand sannyasins are living outside, and she is demanding that she wants a separate room to herself. That means a separate room for her lover…
Yes! Yes! Wake me up! This silly, multi-schizophrenic, leaking, watering can has been deeply affected by these lectures -- but one thing lately is, I am feeling more and more gross. Osho, I want my lotuses to bloom, to feel tao, be worthy of tao, to be tao. I want to fall into love! Will it, can it really happen? Can this real, beautiful soul inside burst into being?
Tao, that's why I have given you the name Tao: there is a message for you in it. Tao means spontaneity, nature. Tao is not a practice, it is not effort, it is not cultivation. It is patience, it is trust, it is waiting for things to happen, even if one has to wait for eternity. Tao needs no work on your part. All that you can do will be an undoing, because the moment the doer comes, nature disappears. The moment the doer takes hold of you, you are possessed by the idea of the ego. And then there is a wall between you and Tao -- or call it God. The doer has to dissolve, and you cannot do anything to dissolve it. How can you do anything to dissolve the doer? Whatsoever you do will go on feeding it. Just a simple understanding that all is taken…