Uncertainty

Osho, you relish the process of becoming; through it we can enter new situations with courage and joy. But what about the uncertainties that our actions will also generate?

Uncertainty is a very good thing. My point is: certainty is not a sign of life. Uncertainty—that very uncertainty—is the element of life. The glamour of uncertainty. Yes, that uncertainty is so juicy that we should create it. It becomes a mystique. Yes, absolutely a mystique. And we should create it. The simple truth is: security is absolutely false; life is insecurity. And the art of living depends on how much we can savor that insecurity.

Beloved Osho, in these times of uncertainty, the best -- and the worst -- seems to be coming out in those of us who are around you. Would you comment on this?

So many sannyasins will be in a state of defeatism, will find it very difficult to make another effort again. They will feel, "What is the point? We will put in our energy, our expectations, our hopes, and who knows? -- tomorrow everything is destroyed just by any small thing." They will feel it is better not to hope, it is better not to dream. It is better to get lost in ordinary life where people don't dream, where people don't hope, where people don't create, where people go on living a day-to-day life. In that life you don't come across such frustrations. Such frustrations come only when you try to reach the moon. And when you have almost reached, suddenly the moon disappears and you are further away from it than you have ever been: further away than before you had started the journey. I can see that it…

Beloved Osho, referring to the present situation of the world and of humanity, the famous psychiatrist, r.d. Laing, asks himself the question: "what to do when we don't know what to do?" can you please answer him and all of us?

SITTING SILENTLY, DOING NOTHING, THE SPRING COMES AND THE GRASS GROWS BY ITSELF. He has said everything about meditation, all the essential ingredients. It is not something that you have to do; it is something that happens. You have just to wait; it happens in its own time. When the spring comes, the grass grows by itself. And just sitting won't do, because you can sit and your mind can go on wandering around the world. Hence, he has added: "Doing nothing" -- neither with your body, nor with your mind. Just sitting like a stone statue of Gautam Buddha, and waiting for the spring.... There is no impatience: it always comes, and when it comes, the grass grows. The world has come to a point... and it has been brought to this point by the Western attitude of action, and always action, and condemnation of inaction. Now the East…

Question: OSHO, EXACTLY HOW DO YOU NOT DO IT? So there are only two types of non-doers in the world: one who by sheer understanding relaxes and finds the state of non-doing, of peace, of silence; and the other type, who will go thousands of miles, torture themselves in every possible way, do yoga exercises, stand on their head and fast, starve, renounce, repress, pray, go into the monasteries and do all kinds of stupid things. And finally, simply by being tired, exhausted, they sit down -- and suddenly it is there. Perhaps they may think it has come because of all their doing. That is not the case -- it has come in spite of all their doing. Otherwise, they are such practiced doers that it was possible they might have continued still, because the more you run, the better your running becomes.