If you say God moves everything, then He also moves the guards and machines—so stop repeating big phrases and understand for yourself.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, when you say that not a single blade of grass moves but by his will, why is there a metal detector and so many security arrangements here?
These ideals have to be dropped; they have to be destroyed completely. And then, Renata, a deep and profound yes will arise from the depths of your being. It will fill you with tremendous fulfillment. And, to me, this is religion. This yes filling your whole being, overflowing you, is religion. Right now you are full of no's thousand and one no's; about everything there is a no, and that's what is making your life a hell. You have to be alert because you have to get rid of all this rubbish that has been poured upon you by your parents, by your society, by your church. And it hurts if something is taken away because you have believed in it for a long time; it has become almost part of your blood, your bone, your marrow. It hurts, although it is just pus and nothing else; but to take…
A friend has asked: Osho, yesterday you said that to know anger completely, one must experience it in its totality. Then how is one to know lust completely? Because the experienced say that lust is never satisfied; the more you indulge it, the more it grows. So how can one go beyond lust?
Surely there is an inherent purpose. And it is this: even these saints could not have been born without lust. They too went beyond only by passing through the experience. They too entered it and found it to be futile. That realization of futility is precious—and it comes only when it happens in your own experience. So do not be in a hurry. Do not rely on borrowed experience. That does not mean you tell the experienced, “You are wrong.” You should simply say, “We do not yet know. We wish to enter and know for ourselves what this lust is. We will know it fully. If it turns out to be wrong, that very knowing will bring liberation. And if it turns out to be right, then there is no need for liberation.” One thing is certain: whoever has known rightly has become free. And another thing is also…
A gentleman has asked: "I want to take sannyas, but a few things become obstacles. For instance, you had said that as long as I wish to remain, even if someone stabs me they will not be able to erase me. And the day I do not wish to remain, then even with a million measures no one will be able to keep me here even for a single moment."
This appealed to him. Perhaps the feeling for sannyas arose then. But now an obstacle has appeared, because here he sees that the sannyasins have arranged for security—everyone is checked at the gate, there are guards. So the obstacle has arisen. Now the intellect has begun to worry: if even stabbing cannot remove me, then why arrange security? He heard only half. We hear only as much as we want to hear. I had said: "I cannot be removed by stabbing me. I cannot be saved by arranging security. I will tell neither those who stab to stop, nor those who provide security to stop. If those who stab are free, why put a hurdle in the way of those who protect?" That much intelligence did not arise in him. In such matters, that kind of intelligence is not in the intellect at all. The intellect is, in truth, unintelligent!…
A friend has asked: Osho, it is said that not even a leaf moves without God’s will. If that is true, then our whole life runs according to His will. Then the good and bad thoughts that arise in us, the good and bad actions that happen—are they also according to His will?! Then what is the purpose of sadhana? What meaning is there in changing oneself?
If this point truly lands, then sadhana has no further purpose. Sadhana has begun. If only this much occurs to you—that whatever is being done, God is doing it—then my sense of doership is finished. All of sadhana is only this: that my ego dissolve. Then He is doing the good, He is doing the bad. Then there is no question of good and bad at all. He is doing it—both are His doing. He gives suffering; He gives joy. Birth is His, death is His. Bondage His, liberation His. Then there is no question of me. There is no need for me to come in between. Then there is no need for sadhana—because sadhana has happened; it has begun. This very understanding becomes the supreme sadhana. This very insight cuts the root of life’s disease. For the whole disease is the ego, the notion that “I am doing.” This…
Osho, if everything is in God’s hands—if even a leaf does not stir without His will—then a person’s freedom becomes meaningless. Please explain.
Maitreya! There is no “person” at all—what freedom? If there were a person, there could be freedom. There is the Whole. The person is a delusion. The person is like a wave in the ocean. If a wave thinks, “I am independent,” it can believe it for a little while; for a little while the illusion of being independent can arise. Because the wave rises toward the sky—a towering wave!—stretching to touch the moon and stars. It seems, “I am free, independent of the ocean; look, I am separate.” It also seems, “I am separate from the other waves—one wave is falling, one is rising, one is dying, one is young, one is growing. I am not falling because another wave is falling—so I must be separate. I am not rising because another wave is rising—so I must be separate.” But is the wave truly separate? Does the wave have…