What does it mean to feel that life is just an accident?

Question: Second question: Osho, I feel my life is just an accident. What do you say? Subhash! Until you awaken, life will remain an accident. Not just yours—everyone’s life is a mere accident. Because how do you live? You have no sense of direction. Leave direction aside—you don’t even know who you are. You don’t know where you come from, what you are doing, why you are doing it—nothing. You just keep moving, pushed by the crowd. Wherever the crowd goes, you go. Like a log carried away by a current—that’s your life. An accident. Look back at whatever you have done in life so far. You’ll be astonished. You’ve simply been doing things like leaves blown by a gust of wind. Someone said something—you did it. Someone else said something—you did that. You saw an advertisement in a newspaper—you followed it.

Question: Third question: Osho, for many days I have been feeling that my life is an accident. I find myself incapable of doing anything. Because of this I am suffering greatly. Please show me the way. Before answering the question—whenever I say something to you, my intention is one thing, and you take it to mean something else. I say, flowers are needed, so that you set out in search of flowers and a rain of fragrance may fall upon your life. But you do not go in search of flowers; you fill yourself with the pain of thorns. I tell you the lotus must blossom; therefore cleanse the water, purify the lake. But you drop concern for the lotus and sit beating your chest on the bank of this stagnant water, crying, “The water is rotten—what can we do now?

Question: YOU SOMETIMES USE THE WORD 'ACCIDENT' OR 'ACCIDENTAL' TO DESCRIBE AN EVENT. ARE THERE ANY ACCIDENTS IN LIFE IN REALITY? In reality there are only accidents and accidents, and nothing else. The factual world is the world of cause and effect; the world of truth is the world of freedom. Freedom means that causes don't work at all. Freedom means that now everything is accidental, now everything is possible. Nothing is impossible in the world of reality. From the moment you become enlightened everything becomes possible. Now no cause and effect have any hold on you. But I understand your question. It comes again from the same ideology -- that how can anything be accidental? The world is confined to cause and effect. Everything can be reduced to cause and effect. Nothing happens as a miracle. That is the scientific approach. That's why men like B. F.

Question: OSHO, ARE THERE ANY MEANINGLESS COINCIDENCES, OR IS EVERYTHING A GIGANTIC, PRECISE MECHANISM? As far as ninety-nine point nine percent people are concerned everything is meaningless, just coincidences and coincidences. Only for the very few rare people -- the Buddhas, the awakened ones, the Krishnas, the Christs, the Zarathustras -- only for those very few people who can be counted on fingers the world is not coincidental. But unless you become awake it remains coincidental You are in a deep sleep, groping in your somnambulism How can there be any purpose, any significance? How can there be any sense of direction? You are just walking like a drunkard -- not knowing where you are going, not knowing from where you are coming, not knowing exactly who are you... A German once sat in zazen, Asked "Who am l?" again and again.

Question: Osho, ... that in bringing something into being we search out an idea and make a plan, and still there will be one thing we cannot plan for... this is an... accident. No. I ask because, in fact, any such event only tells us this: what life is, how it unfolds, and how it comes to an end. We do not know it, nor do we seem to have any ultimate authority over it — that is all the event reveals. Only this much — so negative.