Will

Beloved master, gurdjieff said that in order to attain to real will one would have to surrender one's false will first. Is this also true here?

Peter Markee, it is true everywhere. It is true forever. Truth is universal: time makes no difference, place makes no difference. And this is one of the most fundamental truths of spiritual growth: the false has to be given up because the false is the barrier. You remain deluded by the false; hence the search for the true never starts. You believe the false to be the true. Then why should you endeavor to realize the true? If you think that darkness is light, then where is the necessity to search for light? If you think this life is all, then there is no question of seeking and inquiring about another life. If time is your total reality, then eternity never becomes a quest for you. The false will means the ego; the true will means egolessness. The false will is yours; the true will is God's. The false will…

How to see what is my will and god's will?

There is a Chinese saying: Man is a puppet when he acts, a poet when he describes. All that you think is your freedom is nothing but your poetry. An unconscious man cannot be free, cannot have any freedom. Freedom comes as a consequence of consciousness, freedom is the function of consciousness. An unconscious man exists like a machine, like a robot. You may not know, but you are continuously functioning as a robot. Somebody abuses you and anger arises. It is almost like when you push the button and the fan starts moving. Somebody pushes the button and you become angry. What kind of freedom is this? You don't have any choice, to be angry or not to be angry. If the choice is not there there is no freedom. Freedom means freedom to choose -- you can decide whether to be angry or not, then you are free.…

Osho, there is a longing to disappear, to become a mere instrument, and let my life flow only according to His will. I have also had a few small glimpses of this. But on many occasions I fall into conflict and confusion: is it His will or my will?

“And let my life flow according to His will…” If it is His will, then what “life of yours” is left? Let His own life flow. His will, His life—why do you come in between? But no—then the fun evaporates. If it is all His will and His life, and you do not come in at all, the ego loses all its juice. “I have had a few small glimpses…” So long as the ego remains, even the “glimpses” will be imagination. And if a glimpse of That truly happens, will you still hold on to the ego? If diamonds and jewels appear before you, will you go on clutching pebbles? Will you then come and ask me, “How to drop the pebbles? How to empty the bag so I can fill it with diamonds?” You will drop them yourself. You won’t even come to ask; you won’t come to…

Osho, when you say that not a single blade of grass moves but by his will, why is there a metal detector and so many security arrangements here?

These ideals have to be dropped; they have to be destroyed completely. And then, Renata, a deep and profound yes will arise from the depths of your being. It will fill you with tremendous fulfillment. And, to me, this is religion. This yes filling your whole being, overflowing you, is religion. Right now you are full of no's thousand and one no's; about everything there is a no, and that's what is making your life a hell. You have to be alert because you have to get rid of all this rubbish that has been poured upon you by your parents, by your society, by your church. And it hurts if something is taken away because you have believed in it for a long time; it has become almost part of your blood, your bone, your marrow. It hurts, although it is just pus and nothing else; but to take…