Osho's perspective on Expectation
When Osho Spoke About Expectation
Passages from the discourses where this theme comes alive.
Osho, when—at what moment—does the feeling of expectation drop utterly from within a sannyasin-disciple?
Expectation will remain until you have experienced that there is nothing to be gotten from life. Life only gives assurances; it never fulfills them. Life is a deception. From afar the great oases appear; on coming near they prove to be desert. From a distance there seems to be great beauty. The drums heard from afar sound so sweet! On coming close, all becomes ugly. The deeper your experience grows that all beauty belongs to distance, that the whole juice of life is in the future, never in the present—seems like “I’ve got it, got it, got it,” yet it is never gotten; you seem to be approaching but you never arrive—the more you see that this goal keeps receding. Like the horizon, where sky seems to touch earth—seems just a few miles away; you advance, it keeps advancing—the distance remains the same. The day it dawns on you from…
आखिरी प्रश्न: ओशो, कब, किस घड़ी में संन्यासी शिष्य के भीतर से अपेक्षा का भाव पूर्णतया गिर जाता है?
अपेक्षा तब तक रहेगी जब तक तुम्हें अनुभव नहीं हुआ कि जीवन में कुछ भी मिलने को नहीं है। जीवन केवल आश्वासन देता है, पूरा नहीं करता। जीवन एक धोखा है। दूर से लगते हैं बड़े मरूद्यान, पास आने पर मरुस्थल सिद्ध हो जाते हैं। दूर से लगता है बड़ा सौंदर्य। दूर के ढोले बड़े सुहावने! पास आने पर सब कुरूप हो जाता है। जितना तुम्हारा यह अनुभव गहरा होने लगेगा कि सब सौंदर्य दूरी का है, और जीवन का सारा रस भविष्य में है, वर्तमान में कभी भी नहीं है; लगता है मिला, मिला, मिला, मिलता कभी नहीं; पास आते मालूम पड़ते हो, पहुंचते कभी नहीं। यह मंजिल कुछ ऐसी है कि दूर हटती चली जाती है। जैसे क्षितिज है, आकाश छूता है पृथ्वी को, लगता है यह दस-पांच मील के फासले पर छू रहा है; बढ़ो, बढ़ता जाता है--दूरी सदा उतनी ही रहती है। जिस दिन तुम्हें यह प्रतीति होगी जीवन की सर्वांगीण दिशाओं से कि यहां सब सिर्फ निमंत्रण है, आशा है, पूरा कुछ भी नहीं होता, उसी दिन तुम्हारी अपेक्षा गिर जाएगी। अपेक्षा गिरते ही संसार तिरोहित हो जाता है। …
Otherwise, people are always lagging behind. Life is always running ahead and they are far, far behind. They are simply dragging themselves. And they are so far behind that they are bound to be miserable -- because they will be almost dead, and by the time they reach to where life is right now, life has moved again. It is like a river: it is not stagnant, it is dynamic. A sannyasin has to see it clearly that everything changes, nothing remains the same, even for two consecutive moments. Then the whole desire for keeping things as they are forever drops. And in that dropping you are free. Suddenly, a great freedom is felt. Then you are no longer disturbed by anything, nothing can disturb you. Things disturb you because you were hoping for something else and it is not happening that way.
[A sannyasin couple and their baby are present. The man says he expected to come here and feel better, more loving. Instead, he says, in some ways he feels more sad, tense, angry.] Expectation always creates misery. If you expect something, that very expectation will become the barrier. So live a life without any expectations. Your expectations are your demands on life and a demanding mind always becomes miserable. Bliss is where demand is not, because only in a non-demanding state can you relax and receive it. So this is not a problem which is personal to you; this happens to many people. Naturally, you come with great expectation -- that this is going to happen, that is going to happen... many fantasies in the mind. Because of those fantasies you cannot relax; you are always waiting for the result.
Is it difficult for people to drop god because he is their only hope and they focus all their expectations on him? It seems to be very hard to drop an expectation even when one can see it as such and can guess that most likely it will end up in disappointment.
<q>SEKITO SAID, "THEY ALL COME OUT OF HERE...."</q> Remember this word `here'. We were just talking about the same thing. <q>SEKITO SAID, "THEY ALL COME OUT OF HERE, AND THERE IS NOTHING WANTING."</q> Once you are here, there is nothing unfulfilled in you. Everything becomes so fulfilled, such a deep contentment, that you don't need anything anymore. You have actualized your potential. Your flowers have opened their petals, the spring has come. It all comes from here, it all comes from now. Neither can Buddha give it to you, nor anybody else. <q>ON SEIGEN'S DEATH, SEKITO WENT TO MOUNT NANGAKU. FINDING A LARGE, FLAT ROCK, HE BUILT A HUT, AND FROM THENCE FORWARD CAME TO BE KNOWN AS "STONEHEAD," AND LATER, WHEN HE WAS A MASTER, AS "STONEHEAD OSHO."</q> This Mount Nangaku is the place where he had gone to see Master Nangaku. In Japan it has been a tradition…
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