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Escape

In the dance of love and joy, fear becomes the shadow that tempts us to flee; yet, by embracing the ebb and flow of these emotions and cultivating inner awareness through meditation, we find that the urge to escape gracefully dissolves into trust and maturity.

Osho's perspective on Escape

When Osho Spoke About Escape

Passages from the discourses where this theme comes alive.

Ka Sovai Din Rain · Discourse 4Question 7 1978-04-03 Pune Translated from Hindi by Osho Live

Osho, I want to go very, very far away from you. It feels that if I stay close, you will erase me.

People are afraid of love, have always been afraid. That is why the earth has become loveless. That is why master and disciple have been lost; only the names remain, only the words remain. In place of masters there are teachers; in place of disciples there are students. Between student and teacher there is no dying, no love—it is a matter of transaction. The student buys something from the teacher, gives something in return—the matter is finished. There is no exchange of life-breath. O heart, do not revive the tale of worn-out love; do not entangle the people of the gathering in this thorn-thicket. People have begun to fear. They think love is a thorn, a thicket in which, if you get caught, you won’t be able to free yourself. People walk around it. Ordinary love entangles so much—what then to say of extraordinary love! When the thought arises in…
ओशो के मूल हिंदी शब्द · Osho's original Hindi

आखिरी प्रश्न: ओशो, मैं आपसे बहुत-बहुत दूर चला जाना चाहता हूं। लगता है कि पास रहा तो आप मिटा कर रहेंगे।

आदमी डरता है प्रेम से, सदा से डरता रहा है। इसलिए तो पृथ्वी प्रेम-शून्य हो गई है। इसलिए तो गुरु और शिष्य खो गए हैं, नाम ही रह गए हैं, शब्द ही रह गए हैं। गुरुओं की जगह अध्यापक बचे हैं, शिष्यों की जगह विद्यार्थी। विद्यार्थी और अध्यापक में कोई मृत्यु नहीं घटती, कोई प्रेम नहीं घटता, लेन-देन की बात है। विद्यार्थी गुरु से कुछ खरीद लेता है, गुरु को कुछ दे देता है। बात खत्म हो गई। प्राणों का आदान-प्रदान नहीं हो पाता।

Ami Jharat Bigsat Kanwal · Discourse 12Question 1 1979-03-22 Pune Translated from Hindi by Osho Live

Osho, accept my tears! I am leaving your city. How I am leaving—only you can know. My life was nothing but sorrow. I cannot imagine when and how it happened that fountains of joy are bursting forth within and without! You have filled my begging bowl with your happiness. Yet there is a deep sadness in my heart, and at the thought of leaving my breath seems to stop. You are present every moment in every fiber of my being. Give me strength that, until your call comes, I may live away from you.

You said, “You are present in every pore of my being. Give me strength that until your call comes, I may remain away from you.” But the call has already been given. There is no need now to remain far. Even distance will not feel like distance. There is one kind of nearness of the body—and it can be that you sit close to someone, bodies touching, and yet you are thousands of miles apart. And it can also be that there are thousands of miles between you and yet there is no gap at all. Life is such a mystery; it is not solved by straight arithmetic. Lovers are close even across thousands of miles; and those with bodies pressed together, if they are not in love, remain far. Love is nearness. And the love has been born in you. So how far can you be? Nearness will remain.…
ओशो के मूल हिंदी शब्द · Osho's original Hindi

पहला प्रश्न: ओशो, मेरे आंसू स्वीकार करें! जा रही हूं आपकी नगरी से। कैसे जा रही हूं, आप ही जान सकते हैं। मेरे जीवन में दुख ही दुख था। कब और कैसे क्या हो गया, जो मैं सोच भी नहीं सकती थी; अंदर-बाहर खुशी के फव्वारे फूट रहे हैं! आपने मेरी झोली अपनी खुशियों से भर दी है। मगर हृदय में गहन उदासी है और जाने का सोच कर तो सांस रुकने लगती है। आप हर पल मेरे रोम-रोम में समाए हुए हैं। मुझे बल दें कि जब तक आपका बुलावा नहीं आता, मैं आपसे दूर रह सकूं।

तूने कहा: ‘आप हर पल मेरे रोम-रोम में समाए हुए हैं। मुझे बल दें कि जब तक आपका बुलावा नहीं आता, मैं आपसे दूर रह सकूं।’ बुलावा तो दे ही दिया गया है। दूर रहने की अब कोई जरूरत भी नहीं है। दूरी अब दूरी मालूम होगी भी नहीं। एक तो निकटता होती है शरीर की। और यह हो सकता है कि तुम किसी के पास बैठे हो, शरीर से लगा है शरीर, और फिर भी हजारों कोस का फासला हो! और यह भी हो सकता है कि हजारों कोस की दूरी हो और फासला जरा भी न हो। जीवन ऐसा ही रहस्य है। यह सीधे-सीधे गणित से हल नहीं होता। हजारों मील की दूरी पर भी प्रेमी पास ही होते हैं और शरीर से शरीर लगाए हुए लोग भी अगर प्रेम में नहीं हैं तो दूर ही होते हैं। प्रेम निकटता है। और वैसे प्रेम का तेरे भीतर जन्म हो गया है। …

Nam Sumir Man Bavre · Discourse 8Question 3 1978-08-08 Pune Translated from Hindi by Osho Live

Osho, if love has so much glory, then why am I afraid to love?

Exactly for that reason—because it has so much glory. And your conditionings keep you from rising to such glory. Love is vast, and your conditioning has made you petty, small, mean. Love is celebration and your conditioning has taught you renunciation. Love is bliss and your conditioning says, “Become indifferent.” Love is nectar—rasa—and your conditioning is anti-rasa. That is why you are afraid. And you are afraid also because on the path of love the ego must be sacrificed. You have to cut off your head and offer it. You have to lose yourself. As a drop falls into the ocean, so must you fall into the ocean of love. Then fear arises: love is so immense, such a great sky! And you have become accustomed to living in a cage. Have you seen? Even if you open the door of a caged bird, it does not fly out. I…
ओशो के मूल हिंदी शब्द · Osho's original Hindi

तीसरा प्रश्न: ओशो, प्रेम की इतनी महिमा है तो फिर मैं प्रेम करने से डरता क्यों हूं?

इसीलिए, क्योंकि इतनी महिमा है। और तुम्हारे संस्कार तुम्हें इतनी महिमा तक जाने से रोकते हैं। प्रेम विराट है और तुम्हारे संस्कारों ने तुम्हें क्षुद्र बनाया है, छोटा बनाया है, ओछा बनाया है। प्रेम भोग है और तुम्हारे संस्कारों ने तुम्हें त्याग सिखाया है। प्रेम आनंद है और तुम्हारे संस्कार कहते हैं, उदासीन हो जाओ। प्रेम रस है और तुम्हारे संस्कार रस-विपरीत हैं इसलिए तुम भयभीत होते हो। और फिर तुम इसलिए भी भयभीत होते हो कि प्रेम के रास्ते पर अहंकार की आहुति देनी होती है। अपने सिर को काट कर चढ़ाना होता है। अपने को खोना होता है। जैसे बूंद सागर में गिरे, ऐसे प्रेम के सागर में गिरना होता है। फिर भय लगता है कि प्रेम इतना विराट है, इतना बड़ा आकाश! और तुम पिंजड़े में रहने के आदी हो गए हो। तुमने देखा कभी? पिंजड़े में बंद पक्षी को अगर तुम दरवाजा भी खोल दो तो बाहर नहीं निकलता।

Be Realistic Plan For A Miracle · Discourse 6Para 25 1976-03-18 Chuang Tzu Auditorium English
One should desire it. But people desire it when it is not there, and when it starts coming they become shaken and afraid. Then they start finding little excuses -- those are meaningless. The real thing is this -- that you are feeling alone. Not that before you were not alone and now you have become alone... before you were a little less aware. You have become a little more aware. Before you were more immature, and you were believing in toys. Now you have become mature, and the toys are -- toys. You can play with them, but they are of not much use. So when for the first time the child suddenly becomes aware that these are toys that he is playing with, he feels emptiness. The toys are gone -- as you say, everything is going -- and the real things have not come up.
It’s when you try to run from your own problems by calling it ‘spiritual,’ instead of staying present, loving, and fixing what’s in front of you.
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Escaping means running away from the hard truth that could crack your old habits, instead of staying and letting it change you.
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When you feel like running, it’s just fear; keep your heart open, make more inner room with meditation, and love will keep returning.
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Going away doesn’t break real love; if your heart stays connected, distance helps you remember and grow.
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