What is the difference between waiting for Godot and waiting for God?

What is the difference between waiting for godot and waiting for god?

It is as if the sun has risen in the morning and you are sitting in your room with closed doors and windows, in darkness. Open the doors, you become available to the sun. The sun was already available -- just the meeting happens. You cannot wait for God. All waiting is for Godot. Godot means the one who never comes, who CANNOT come, whose arrival is impossible. And the only impossible thing is that which has already happened -- how can it happen again? You are alive, and you are waiting for life, Now, this is ridiculous. The real man of religion does not think in terms of God. He thinks in terms of life or, even better, of living -- because life can again become an abstract idea. Living, moment-to-moment living. In that very living, one knows what God is, because one knows who one is. Your idea…

A young rabbi complained to the rabbi of rizhyn: -- 'during the hours when I devote myself to my studies, I feel life and light, but the moment I stop studying, it is all gone. What shall I do?' the rabbi if rizhyn replied: -- 'that is just as when a man walks through the woods on a dark night, and for a time another man accompanies him who has a lamp, but at the crossroads they part and the first must grop his way on alone. But if a man carries his own light with him, he need not be afraid of any darkness.'

The false religion, the church, the organization, they have always been supplying intoxicants, drugs. They may be against the modern drugs, but they are not against drugs. They are always for the old; the old is always better for them. I am against all drugs, old and new. I am even against yoga -- because that too is a way to change the chemistry. Then what to do? -- because unless you attend to your own growth, this story will remain true. I will read it. <q>TO WALK WITH ONE'S OWN LIGHT A YOUNG RABBI COMPLAINED TO THE RABBI OF RIZHYN: 'DURING THE HOURS WHEN I DEVOTE MYSELF TO MY STUDIES, I FEEL LIFE AND LIGHT, BUT THE MOMENT I STOP STUDYING, IT IS ALL GONE. WHAT SHALL I DO?'</q> It is possible. If you listen to me, it may happen. Listening to me you may sometimes feel light and…

Osho, I turn at every sound to see if he is there. There is a great waiting full of joy inside me. Osho, where is the beloved one?

PARMITA, HE IS EVERYWHERE! HE IS ALWAYS. He is here in me, in you, in all the people who have gathered here. But you must be looking for some God which is not of this world. You must be looking for some God -- Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan. But you are not really looking for the beloved. The beloved is ALWAYS here. He is the breath in your heart, he is the beat in your heart. He is the green in the trees, and he is the red in the flowers. He is in the waves of the ocean. And he is in the stars in the night. And he is the silence of the darkness. And he is the joy of light. But you must have some idea of God. You can go on looking for that idea and you will never find it -- you will wait in vain.…

Beloved Osho, I have done or had everything of this world that I have ever wanted. I seem to have run out of ambition to achieve anything further. Even enlightenment appears to be a remote and impossible goal, outside the realm of my understanding. I love to see you and to be with you and I love to sail. Apart from these, it feels like I am simply waiting and biding my time. There is nothing to do and nowhere to go. However I have a sense of sadness and a feeling of unfulfillment.

Jay, it is one of the most significant moments in the life of man, when he feels that he has run out of ambitions and is simply waiting, not knowing for what. This is the moment when enlightenment is nearest. Enlightenment is not a goal. It is not there, far away, that you have to reach to it. You cannot make an ambition of enlightenment: that is the sure way to miss it. Enlightenment happens in this gap, when all your ambitions are finished, you don't know what to do, where to go. In this silence -- because there is no turmoil of desire, no hankering for ambition -- enlightenment happens of its own accord. It is a by-product, not a goal. And that's why you are feeling sad, unfulfilled; although all the ambitions are finished... why should one feel unfulfilled? There must be something in life which is not…

Osho, are surrender and enlightenment simultaneous events? If yes, then what does it indicate when even a surrendered disciple has to pass through years and years of practice?

A neighbor got tired of hearing this. A joke occurred to him: he will not take less than a hundred—there is no risk. So he put ninety-nine rupees in a pouch and, while Mulla was praying “I won’t take less than a hundred,” climbed up onto the roof and dropped the pouch through the thatch. The pouch fell. Mulla said, “Fine. First I’ll count. I never take less than a hundred.” He opened the pouch, counted—there were ninety-nine. He said, “Ah, You are quite the trickster—you deducted one rupee for the pouch. No problem.” Now the neighbor was worried. He had only intended a prank. But Mulla was saying, “You’ve cut one rupee for the pouch—no harm, it’s business, it makes sense.” If such a God even comes, wearing a peacock crown and standing at your door, understand an actor has slipped away from a play. Or a circus performer…