We’re just visiting here, so be thankful, don’t cling to stuff, give your heart, and clean up for the next visitors.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved Osho, I feel like a guest on earth, as if I don't really belong here at all. In your beautiful gathering, I feel that I am also a guest, staying here only by your grace or by good fortune. I have nothing really to give, except myself. Is this enough?
Vimal, this is more than enough. The readiness to give oneself is the greatest adventure of life. And it is not only you who does not have anything else to give, we all come naked in the world. We don't bring anything into the world. All that we really have is our own self -- everything else belongs to the world, is not ours. To give money or to give anything else is really to avoid giving yourself. The people who give money to the poor, make hospitals and schools and universities -- and brag about it -- are unaware of the fact that all their giving is just a facade. They are hiding their nudity. They are hiding the fact that they are not courageous enough to give themselves -- because that is the only thing worth giving; that is the only thing that belongs to you. All so-called…
Beloved Osho, what is home?
The stranger said, "That is what I wanted to make clear to you, that they called this their home, and then they had to leave it behind. They could not take it with them. It is a caravanserai. This is an understanding, that many people have been here who thought it was their home, and they are all gone. You will be gone when I come next time! When so many people stay here and come and go, this is a caravanserai!" "And I also wanted to stay for a few days, so what is wrong? You will stay a few days, your father stayed a few days, his father stayed a few days, and this has been going on for centuries. But I am not illusioned: to me it is a caravanserai." I told my father, "One day you will also understand that this is not home, because in…
Beloved Osho, with my friend, meditation, I clean the skeletons from the closet. With my friend, trust, I enter the dark basement and sweep it clean of ancient dust. With my friend, the heart, I open all the windows and allow the fresh breezes in. With my friend, awareness, I light candles in every room. In the kitchen, my friend, patience, prepares the tea. In the garden, I sit with my friend, the master, and wait silently, for I know that the guest will soon be here. Osho, when the doorbell rings, will I be there to answer it?
The guest always comes; its coming is certain. The bell also rings. The door is also always opened, without fail. But the moment you open the door, you are not there. Existence is, being is, but you are not. The way you have known yourself up to now is no longer there, and what is there cannot be named, cannot be defined. It is all and everything... it is the very essence of existence. You will not be there as you think yourself to be. If you are there, then the guest cannot enter in. In fact, the guest can come only when it becomes a certainty that you are ready to disappear. Your disappearance is the appearance of that which you have been seeking all along. This is a paradox: when the sought is found, the seeker is lost. There are these words of Jesus -- in some sense…
I am not the doer. I am not the consumer. I am simply the witness of nature. And just because of my nearness, the body, et cetera, have the feeling of being conscious, and they act accordingly. Beyond a shade of doubt, I am still, eternal, everlasting bliss -- everknowing pure self or soul.
AND I PERVADE ALL BEINGS AS THE WITNESSING SOUL. What is the basic element that remains always the same in you? Only be that, and disidentify yourself from all that comes and goes. But we become identified with the guest. Really the host is so occupied with the guest, he forgets. Mulla Nasruddin has given a party for some friends and some strangers. The party is very boring, and half the night is just lost and it goes on. So one stranger, not knowing that Mulla is the host, says to him, "I have never seen such a party, such nonsense. It seems never-ending, and I am so bored that I would like to leave." Mulla says, "You have said what I was going to say to you. I myself have never seen such a boring and nonsense party before, but I was not so courageous as you are. I…
Georges Gurdjieff used to say That everybody is not born with a soul. He is right. Everybody is born only with The possibility of a soul; Very few actually attain it. To actualize your being means tremendous effort. One has to put one's total energies to the task Only then... One has to risk all, only then... But then life blooms, flowers. It becomes a joy, a fulfilment, a contentment A blessing. Osho asks Gogo, a young German: What is the meaning of your name? Are you a go-go boy? Gogo: IT WAS THE FIRST WORD I SAID WHEN I WAS A BABY. MY PARENTS GAVE ME THE NAME. Osho: No, it is beautiful -- it sounds good! In fact this is the best German name I have come across!