Doing

Osho, will doing become weak—that is what one is to accept? But like a wheel, the outer wheel will go on turning.

Yes, yes, that will go on turning—and it will turn faster, it will turn to the maximum, to the very maximum. Because the deeper you descend into non-doing within, the more intense the sense of doing around you will be. And then, for you, doing will be what we would call an expression, not a mad need. Your doing will be an expression to create and to share what has happened within you. It will take many forms. Such a person will be active twenty-four hours a day, but inside absolutely inactive; inside, nothing will be happening.

He said: I am doing nothing. You have recognized rightly—I am trying somehow to do something, because without doing, the mind gets very frightened. And how long can one sleep? If you think about yourself, you will find the same condition—something or other. If everything were arranged for you for three months and you were told: sit empty for three months, you would say: I’ll jump from the roof, hang myself. Three months, you say? Three hours are very difficult! Those imprisoned do not suffer from the jail itself. The real suffering is from becoming without work. That is why in prison people write commentaries on the Gita, compose The Secret of the Gita—God knows what all they do. Something is needed to do. People in prison read books, write books. Some work—emptiness is very hard. And one who cannot be empty cannot enter meditation.

Beloved Osho, I am such a doer. How can I become more open and available to you without doing? How to find the balance between doing and non-doing, to reconcile your two statements: "you have to act without will," and, "effort is also needed"?

You will be surprised to know that when I entered the university, I was doing so much exercise -- running, swimming, jogging and other exercises -- that a few other students became interested. They started following me, to go for a run. I had never thought that there was any problem in it, but the man who owned all the restaurants and the mess at the university came to see me and said, "I will give you a totally free pass as far as food is concerned, but please don't help these people to run and jog and swim, because I am going to be bankrupt! "Before you came I had never seen people eating thirty-five chappattis at a time -- and your followers are doing that. At the most four chappattis are enough. But if everybody starts eating thirty-five chappattis at a time, seventy chappattis in a day, then…

A friend has asked, Osho, if all human beings become non-doers, accept the Gita’s teaching, then what juice would be left in life and in the world?

What juice is there in life right now? Right now you are doers, contrary to the Gita—what juice is there in life? And if life is already juicy, then what need is there to read the Gita? What need to hear it? If life is already juicy, why even raise the question of religion? Why talk of God, liberation, meditation, samadhi? If there is juice in life, the matter is finished. Juice itself is God. Then nothing remains to be done. Then become even more of a doer so that you get even more juice. Plunge deeper into the world so that you find deeper sources of juice. And if, by being a doer, you are already getting juice, then offer the Gita and the rest into the fire. There is no need. And do not listen to Krishna and the others—otherwise they will destroy your juice. You are in…