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Article Title :The Goose is Out

The Very idea of getting lost utterly, ultimately, absolutely, is demanding too much. Be a little more human, don’t aspire to the impossible. The impossible has been driving people to unnecessary hysteria, and we have been burdened with impossible value for centuries. We have learned these words and we go on repeating these words parrot-like without even taking in the significance.

Be human, don’t aspire to perfection in any way because all perfectionism is neurosis. Be human and accept all the frailties and limitations of human beings. Why should you want to be lost utterly? For hat? What are you going to gain from it? if it can be managed –it is good that it cannot be managed- but for argument’s sake I am saying if it can be managed, you will come again with: “Now I am feeling very lonely, utterly lost, absolutely lost, ultimately lost!” you will start hankering to go back, to have a little more of the spice of life.

It is good to meet and merge, but why make it something ultimate? Why bring in such meaningless words? Is it not enough to melt for a moment and then be back home? Then there is a rhythm: you melt, you enjoy the melting, then again you are back. It creates a rhythm, and rhythm is always richer. If you are simply dissolved forever there will be no rhythm, no music, no dance. It will really be death, not life.

My whole approach is to teach you to be human. For centuries you have been told to be superhuman. I rejoice in your human-ness. To me, human-ness is synonymous with godliness.
It is perfectly beautiful to be lost once in a while and found again, so that you can lose yourself again.  Create a rhythm of getting lost, of finding yourself again. Life is music, and the music is possible only if both things continue, otherwise it will be monotonous.

I cannot help you to get lost absolutely, ultimately, utterly. I love the moment, I love the immediacy of the moment, I am very averse to words like “ultimate”; they are faraway words, they don’t have much meaning in them; they are pretentious words.

The absolute is not of any significance; a rose flower is of far more significance, it is not absolute: in the morning it grows, by the evening it is gone. That’s its beauty- it is momentary. It is a miracle! The ultimate rose will be synthetic, plastic; it will be there forever, but because it will not be able to die it will not be alive either.

You have to learn this losing yourself, then coming back to yourself and losing yourself again- the closeness of love and distance. Each distance in love again creates a longing to be close. If you are stuck together and you cannot separate, your love life will become a nightmare.


Author: Rajneesh (Osho)

Reference: http://www.oshoworld.com





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