Connection

Osho, sometimes I feel I have received so very much from you, and sometimes I feel I am missing so much of you. Why is it so?

Then you will dance in joy, sing songs of wonder; yet you will not become a dead rock sitting—you will keep moving. More and more new flowers have yet to blossom in you! You have no inkling of your own possibilities. You have no idea of your own being—how much you can be! If one wave stirs, it can become a storm— Even a small ripple, if it stirs... If one wave stirs, it can become a storm— because the ocean is also hidden in the small ripple. If a single flower wishes, it can become a garden. A tiny flower could fill the whole earth with flowers. A single seed can make the whole earth green if it keeps spreading... In one seed are millions of seeds; in those millions, yet millions more! If the earth were given just one seed, the whole earth could turn green. If one…

Beloved Osho, I give you my hands. I am your hands. You are taking my head. How can I become more open to you, closer to you? That's all that matters.

Karuna, you are becoming closer every moment, and there is no how to it. Once the 'how' comes in, you will start getting farther away. There are things which can be done, and there are things which can only be allowed. Coming closer to me is not something that you can do. Nothing can be done about it. You can only allow, you can let it happen. It is a WEI-WU-WEI; it is action through inaction. Don't ask how. And I know the question arises naturally, because the closer you come, the more close you would like to be. But you cannot do anything about it. If you do anything, you will become hard. Doing, ego becomes frozen. Non-doing, you melt, and in melting you come close to me. The moment you start doing something you are again back, the ego is back. And the ego can only take you…

Osho, it is my great good fortune to have had the chance to live near you, and I feel blessed. But it is surprising that, living in your proximity, I sometimes feel I am drifting away from you; why is it so?

The mind has certain laws, certain tricks; one of them is that whatever becomes available, the mind begins to forget it. What is attained starts slipping into oblivion. The nearer something is, the greater the likelihood of forgetting it. The mind remembers what is far away; it cries for what has not been attained. What is attained it slowly begins to forget. The mind’s habit is to be in the future, not in the present. So if you are close to me—you have come with thousands of desires, with so many dreams, with such feeling—but if you stay here near me for long, slowly you will begin to forget me. You will be quite surprised: when you were far away, at home, thousands of miles away, there you remembered so much, you pined so much; now you are close, and a distance starts growing. It is necessary to understand and…

Osho! We very much want to ask you, but questions don’t take shape; we want to meet you, but even meeting isn’t possible; we want to change, but no change happens. How can we get connected with you? Please tell us.

Bharat Rajguru! Meeting me is a simple, straightforward matter. Remember one small word: sannyas! Sannyas is the bridge. And now, apart from it, there is no other way to meet me. Gradually I will live only for the sannyasins. Now all my time, all my energy, and all my joy will be for those who have the courage to be moths. The flame burns for the moths. I too will burn only for them. When the judge asked the religious teacher Matkanath, “If you lie, where will you go?” he replied, “Child, straight to hell.” The judge was very impressed. He asked a second question, “And if you tell the truth, where will you go?” The brahmachari, in a disappointed tone, answered with a single word: “Jail.” I too answer you with a single word—sannyas. Gather that much courage. Without courage nothing is possible. People want cheap, bargain‑basement change; they…