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Osho -
Sannyas happens only to a very few, rare human beings
Question - Beloved Master, Why can't I take sannyas? I go
on thinking and thinking and thinking
Osho - Richard, sannyas has nothing to do
with thinking at all. It is the crazy man's way to enlightenment! By
thinking you can never come to a decision as far as sannyas is
concerned. Thinking, at the most, can only help you to postpone it, and
you can go on postponing it ad infinitum. Thinking, in fact, is a
process of postponement.
Sannyas is not something that you can think about. You don't know it,
you have not experienced it. Thinking moves within the world of the
known; it has no approach towards the unknown, no bridge with the
unknown. And sannyas is unknown for you. You may have seen sannyasins;
that does not mean that you know what sannyas is. By seeing lovers you
cannot know what love is. By seeing meditators you cannot know what
meditation is. There are things which are known only existentially.
Sannyas is not a philosophical phenomenon, it is something existential.
You have to take the jump... then think later on, then think as much as
you want, to your heart's content. But once you have tasted it, then
there is no way of going back. Thinking is part of the head and sannyas
happens in the heart; it is a love affair. It is utterly mad, as mad as
love or even madder, because love happens biologically and sannyas
happens spiritually.
Sannyas happens only to a very few, rare human beings.
Love is ordinary; it happens to animals, to birds, even to trees. It is
nothing special. Religion is absolutely supernatural: it surpasses your
instinctive world. But our hearts are not functioning, and the head
cannot work in the place of the heart.
That's what you are doing, Richard. You can go on doing it, but you will
never arrive in the world of sannyas. The head is impotent; it cannot
act because it is never spontaneous. It is only the heart that acts. The
head only reacts; the head only goes on repeating the past. You have not
been a sannyasin before, so how can you think about it? What can you
think about it? There is no base to begin with.
Only the heart is courageous enough to take a jump into the unknown,
into the unfamiliar. But with the unfamiliar open up millions of
possibilities. With the unknown you start growing. With the known you go
on moving in circles. Be a little heartful, not so thoughtful.
Richard, your name means hard. Transcend hardness, become a little soft,
a little more feminine, a little more round. Losing a few corners will
be of tremendous help. Logic is hard, love is soft. Logic is square,
love is hip! Logic is always a coward; it thinks and thinks before it
acts. And, in fact, by the time it comes to act it is already too late;
the moment has passed.
Life is not static. It won't stand still for you, it won't wait for you.
Who knows? Tomorrow I may stop giving sannyas -- then what? Then you
will have missed the train! And remember, the sannyas I am giving to you
nobody else can give to you. Gather a little courage. Today is the day!
The two skeletons in the corner closet were grumbling
about the heat, the dust, the boredom.
"What are we staying here for anyhow?" one asked.
"Damned if I know," the second skeleton answered. "I would leave in a
minute if I had any guts."
Related Link:
Osho Sannyas - My sannyas is
spontaneity
Osho - What does it mean
to be a disciple?
Osho
- I have not stopped the sannyas movement
Osho on Wearing
Mala and changing one's name in Sannyas
Osho Sannyas - Daily
routine and a discipline for a Sannyasin
Osho - Can you
please speak on your vision of an intelligent person
I have been thinking of
becoming a Sannyasin for at least seven years
My work is a movement not to
create a Religion but to create Religiousnes
Osho on Maturity, Using your intelligence
totally, means the beginning of Maturity
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