What happens when patience grows out of trust?

Beloved Osho, I find myself in a po position. More and more deeply I can see myself, but I still don't find the way through. Is the patience that grows out of trust all that is needed? Could you comment, please?

Let them come on their own. And remain alert when you have reached -- don't think that it is time to rest. It is not the time to rest, it is the time to pull all your energy together and take the final jump. Before existence moves and things change, you have to merge yourself with the truth you have been seeking so long. And the miracle of miracles is that what you will find is your own being. It has always been at the innermost core of your existence, but sometimes it takes a very long, circuitous route to come back to your own home. When Ford made his cars, his first model had no reverse gear; nobody had thought about it. But a problem arose: if you had gone a few feet away from your house and you wanted to come back, you had to go around the…

Osho, the other day you said that for union with the Lord the thirst must be utmost intense and at the same time patience must be boundless; are these two states not incompatible?

Then too, that “thirst” is not thirst, it is lust. You are mistaken again. Then it is your greed. Just as you want to acquire other things of the world, you also want to acquire God. As you have seized other things and clenched your fist around them, you want to show the world: Look, not only is a big car in my fist, God is too. Not only a big house, not only wealth—God also has been tied to my post; he too is enlisted in my service. Then what you are calling thirst is not thirst; it is greed, it is lust. What is the difference between thirst and greed? In thirst, you burn and the ego melts. A moment comes when in the fire of thirst you become utterly empty. The ego melts away completely. In lust, the ego grows, becomes stronger. The more lust is gratified,…

At times I feel like I can just silently sit and wait for eternity -- and other times like sobbing with the futility of sitting outside a gate I cannot even see -- frozen between action and inaction. Does one miss by demanding? Is impatience a lack of trust?

So waiting has to be with no idea for what. A real waiter cannot answer the question for what he is waiting; he can only shrug his shoulders, he can say 'I don't know.' But one thing is certain: that waiting is infinitely beautiful, waiting is infinitely joyous. When the whole turmoil disappears and it is all silence, it has a beauty of its own. You ask me: DOES ONE MISS BY DEMANDING? Certainly, absolutely. Demand has to be dropped. IS IMPATIENCE A LACK OF TRUST? Yes, certainly, absolutely. Impatience simply means you can't trust existence, you have to do something. You can't just sit there and trust that it will happen when you are ripe; that when spring comes, the grass will grow of its own accord. You cannot trust; you have to pull the grass from the earth. You cannot wait like a farmer who has thrown his…

On a certain passover before the sedar celebration, rabbi yisakhar baer called his guest, the rabbi of mogielnica, a grandson of the maggid of koznitz, to the window -- and pointed to something outside. 'do you see, rav of mogielnica?' he said. 'do you see?' after the feast was over, the rabbi of mogielnica danced around the table and sang in a low voice: -- 'the holy old man, our brother, has shown me a light. Great is the light he has shown me. But who knows? -- who knows how many years must pass, how long we still must sleep before it comes to us, before it comes to us?'

Herrigel learned the whole art of archery. He was hitting his targets one hundred percent. But the Master was not satisfied. The Master would say: 'You are still not in the right posture.' And what is the right posture? The right posture is that when you pull your arrow back your muscles should be relaxed. But this is absurd. Because when you pull the bow the muscles are bound to become tense. But the muscles should be relaxed. Herrigel went many times and touched the Master's muscles when he was pulling the bow -- and they were relaxed. So you cannot say that relaxation cannot happen. They were as relaxed as a child's hand and arm -- no tension. The Master said: 'The arrow moves by itself when you are relaxed. Then God moves it; you are not the mover. You simply create the situation and then it happens. You…

Question: BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF PATIENCE? Patience has been exploited by people. There has been poverty for centuries and people have been told just to be patient, "It is a test of your trust in God." They have been told just to be patient, "It is only a question of a few years and then you will be entering into paradise." Patience has been used as part of an exploitation of people in every field, but patience itself is a beautiful quality. You should not allow your patience to be exploited. But to be patient, to me means trust -- trust in nature, trust in existence, trust in yourself. Things are going to be better every day; whatever happens, your patience finds in it something better for you. It is a very great alchemy; it changes suffering into blessing.