According to Osho, when your heart feels uncontrollable, celebrate it—you’ve already dropped control. Let it dance. Control is repression; genius awakens only when it possesses you. Trust existence’s natural order, which manages perfectly without ‘traffic control.’ Live intensely and freely; drop all chains. Just remember: don’t interfere in anyone’s life, nor allow anyone to interfere in yours.
If your heart wants to run and dance, let it—it means you’re alive and can trust life, just don’t bother others or let them boss you.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved Osho, for a few days my heart has been jumping all around the ashram and it feels like I am losing control. Beloved master, how far can I go?
Nirgrantha, you have already gone too far if your heart is jumping all around the ashram! And you are still saying, "It feels like I am losing control." You have lost control long ago; otherwise how can your heart go on jumping all around the ashram? You forget all about control. This place is not for people who control; this place is for people who let their heart dance wherever it wants to dance! Remember a famous proverb: Talent is what you possess, genius is what possesses you. You cannot control genius; you can control talents. Here we are creating the possibility for your sleeping genius to be awake. Once your genius is awake, you are going to be possessed, you will not be in control -- and there is no need to be in control. The sky is vast, millions of stars are moving without crashing, and no traffic…
People become afraid of love, because in love you are possessed. People become afraid of meditation too. They become afraid of anything that goes deeper than their control, beyond their control. Life is beyond your control. You can enjoy it but you cannot control it. You can live it, but you cannot control it. You can dance it, but you cannot control it. It controls you. Ordinarily we say that we breathe, and that's not true -- life breathes us. But we go on thinking ourselves as doers, and that creates the trouble. You just sit here. You come here Asseema. (addresses Gatha again) See how energy can be uncontrolled and wild. (addressing Asseema) Just sit and close your eyes. Raise your hands and allow your energy to go wild. [Asseema, a sannyasin who had just returned to Poona after several months away, sat in front of Osho as instructed.
And once you allow the irrational heart to function, slowly slowly the mind loses its grip. It will take a time, a little time, because the mind has been in power so long; it will condemn you, it will create troubles for you. But listen to the heart and let the mind go on shouting. In India we have a saying that the elephant does not care, it goes on although the dogs are continuously barking. The elephant takes no notice at all, he does not even look at the dogs -- they go on barking, Dogs are great politicians. The elephant is a mystic! (laughter) He goes on without taking any note of the dogs and sooner or later the dogs leave him, because what is the point of staying? They may console themselves that "This animal looks dumb or deaf; he does not understand.
[Osho tells a sannyasin there are some things about his energy that it will be helpful for him to know. You haven't allowed yourself to ever be wild, you've always had a subtle control inside you -- and that can be a hindrance to spiritual growth... ] There is a subtle difference between repression and control. Repression is not having understanding of what you are doing; you simply repress something. Control is a little more intellectual; you feel convinced that this is the right thing to do, so you control. You are not repressed but you are controlled. Intellectually you understand what is the right thing to do and what is not, and you try to do the right thing. By and by that has become a habit, the very style of your life. That's why you are not streaming, not flowing, not dancing.
Beloved Osho, the longer I am your disciple, the less I know and understand. A magic pull brought me to bombay, and sitting in your presence has been like coming home again -- glimpses of two hearts beating together, moments of love and wonder, days of joy and playfulness. Being back in holland there is only this big longing left inside my heart: to sit at your feet again and again and again. Beloved master, my mind is losing control, and my heart starts singing. What is happening?
The mind is a habit. Even if there are moments when the heart is singing and the whole being is full of joy, the mind cannot leave its old habits. It will certainly ask what is happening. Can't you allow things to happen without asking why? what? Do you understand why we ask such questions? The mind asks these questions because it wants to control your lifestyle, it wants to know everything that is going on. Nothing should happen which is beyond it; everything should be in its control. The mind is a great controller. And if everything remains in its control, it will be a tragedy because nothing great can happen to you. Everything that is great, magnificent, is beyond mind. And mind can never get the answer why, what, how. You have to learn one thing: that it is not necessary to satisfy the mind about every experience.…