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Do you recommend any particular discipline besides dynamic meditation?

Even to move into an undisciplined life you have to follow some discipline. But you must remain the master; it must not become a slavery. The real thing, the end, is always to be spontaneous As we are, we are really conditioned not to be free. Our whole upbringing, our culture, our civilization, our religion, our parents -- they have all conditioned our minds not to be flee, because a free mind is a dangerous mind. Your freedom is really a deception. You are tethered to a pole It allows you a little freedom -- you can move and say that you are free -- but you are still tethered to the pole, so you can only move in a circle. This is man's state of mind. To jump from this state directly into the spontaneous is very difficult. Sometimes it happens, but you need much courage. You require the…

Beloved Osho, when sitting here with you, I try to watch and to be as aware as possible. My mind runs on, wondering if this space is right, whether I should be the watcher or be lost into you. At the same time, I try to relax and ignore all this. Somehow, despite all these gymnastics, a moment comes when melting happens, and I become so soft and receptive, so very simple and flowing. Beloved master, how can I get out of my own way so that I don't waste so much of this precious time with you?

But by the time he was ninety, he was still collecting books. Somebody told him, "Now it is time that you should start reading. The preparation has gone on too long, and you have thousands and thousands of books -- we don't think you will be able to read all of them. Your life is just at the very end, maybe a year or two more." But the man said, "But my collection is not complete yet." So he started collecting more forcibly, put more men into collection, into translation. Finally he fell sick, and the doctor said, "He is not going to survive more than seven days." He called all the scholars who were translating his books: "Now stop translating. You just try to find small summaries from every scripture, because I have got only seven days and I want to know what is written in all the scriptures.…

Question: Osho, you once said that within fifty years, if there are not people like Krishna, Christ, Buddha, and Mahavira on the earth, the whole of humanity could be destroyed. And, like Vivekananda, you said that you are searching for a hundred individuals who can courageously experiment and rise to the highest peaks of the soul; then it will be possible to save this land and all humanity. For this you go from village to village, looking for eyes that can become a flame. You said, I am ready to make the total effort. On my side, the preparation is complete to take one inward. Let me not, at the time of dying, have to say that I was looking for a hundred people and I did not find them. If your readiness is there, come. Please clarify the meaning of “my preparation” and “your preparation.” What preparations are needed?

Osho, is it necessary to live a worldly life to attain self-realization?

The world is fire—vast, blazing. All around you are flames. It is necessary to pass through these flames, for each flame carries a lesson, a teaching, and each will make you stronger. By knowing and knowing again, by falling and rising, one day you will recognize that here everything is insubstantial. The day you know this, the flower of supreme renunciation will bloom in your life. I can tell you, “All is insubstantial,” but will it become insubstantial for you just because I said so? Without tasting, it will not. I can tell you, “Neem is bitter,” but if you have not tasted it, will neem be bitter for you? Even if you trust me, somewhere a doubt will slip in: Who knows, perhaps the man is lying? Perhaps he himself was deceived? Perhaps his tongue is odd, and to him it tasted bitter? Apart from one’s own experience, there…