Is it true that some sannyasins need to pursue paths outside of the community?

Beloved Osho, gurdjieff said, "blessed are those who remain where they are. Blessed are those who walk on the way, and go to the end -- but woe to them who stop in between." Osho, your world tour, especially to europe, is a turning point for many of us. It seems that without you we've stopped in between.

If it can be fulfilled in a commune, the commune is good. If it can be fulfilled only in smaller groups, then smaller groups are good. If it can be fulfilled better when you live individually, alone -- so that then you have to work only six hours a day, five days a week, and the remaining time is totally free for you.... And to make it feasible I have allowed that you can now use any color of clothes; you can use the mala or you may not use the mala, as the situation permits.... Because if it comes against your job, if just because of your orange clothes you are thrown out from a school where you had a good job -- where almost six months were holidays, and each year you have longer two-month holidays, when you could have always come to me.... And that was happening…

Question: First question: Osho, Searching for you I have wandered who knows where. Neither heaven says a word, nor does hell open its gate. I look into every eye, feeling for your picture, and I have wandered who knows where. Are these just the gaps between breaths, or only distances upon distances? You too say nothing—your lips never open. How long must I keep walking, groping about in everyone’s heart? Where are you and where am I? Searching for you I have wandered who knows where. I could not meet you on the earth, nor could I fix your address in the sky. I searched everywhere for you and yet did not find you. Now, in searching, I set out after myself—who knows where I strayed. Ah, what is this? Your address is found: your image in my eyes, like musk that dwells within the deer.

Those who listen to me, who read me, have been continually going to these monks and saying, “What you are saying—it's exactly the same.”

The Jains have a big difficulty, because God should not have desire. Since God must be without desire, the Jains do not accept that God created the world. Then how did the world arise? By itself? That lands them in even more trouble: how did things come into being by themselves? A watch doesn’t just make itself. You’re walking in a desert and come upon a watch—could you even imagine that it made itself, that lying there, the sand somehow, over thousands of years, formed into a watch, hands appeared, it began telling time, ticking away? If a watch cannot make itself, how did such a delicate phenomenon as life get constructed? And by what order is it running? Then why this creation? What purpose? What goal? And if souls were not created, where did they come from? So the Jains had to invent a doctrine: Nigod. Nigod means a…

Osho, sannyas was born in this land; it was granted the dignity of Gaurishankar (Everest). But today its honor has become merely superficial. Inside, the individual and society alike are afraid of it. Why have sannyas and the sannyasin lost their meaning? Please explain.

In my sannyas there is no prohibition—no “leave this, run from that.” Awakening is enough. Cowards run. Those who awaken remain where they are and are free there. My sannyas does not want to give you knowledge; it wants to give you meditation. Meditation means emptiness; it means: I do not know. Life is such an ultimate mystery that nothing definitive can be known about it. And I want to give sannyas a new posture—creativity. I will call him a sannyasin who sings a new song; who strikes a new music from the veena; who dances a new dance; who makes this world a little more beautiful, brings a little more blessedness to the earth. Then sannyas can regain its dignity. And I would have the sannyasin not imitate. Listen, understand, contemplate—but live from your own individuality. Therefore I give my sannyasins no codes of conduct—only processes to awaken the…

Beloved master, let us see you get out of this one, you tricky rascal! You tell us often that sannyas does not mean renouncing the world, but the ego. Yet when we decide to stay with you we end up renouncing our homes, jobs, money and possessions; our private space, sometimes our family and friends too. We don't make any formal renunciation, but it happens anyway, and we flourish and are perfectly happy. You are so devious, it is beautiful!

And then the crop was cut and he was very puzzled. There was no wheat at all -- just empty husks with no wheat in them. What happened? Such big plants -- plants big enough to have given wheat four times bigger than ordinary wheat -- but there was no wheat at all. And suddenly he heard laughter from the clouds. God laughed and he said, "Now what do you say?" The farmer said, "I am puzzled, because there was no possibility of destruction and all that was helpful was provided. And the plants were going so well, and the crop was so green and so beautiful! What happened to my wheat?" God said, "Because there was no danger -- you avoided all dangers -- it was impossible for the wheat to grow. It needs challenges." Challenge brings integrity; otherwise a person remains hollow, empty. If all facilities are provided…