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minutes. Just say 'Yes! yes! yes!' -- let it be your mantra. And then take a good shower. It will uproot all the negativity, and it will give you a new glimpse of saying yes. And to come to saying yes is what religion is all about. We have been trained to say no -- that's how the whole society has become ugly.
So this will cleanse you completely. You have energy, but all around the energy you have negative rocks, and they don't allow it out. Once these rocks are removed you will have a beautiful flow. It is just there, ready to come out, but first you have to go into negativity. Without going deep into the no, nobody can attain to a peak of yes. You have to become a no-sayer, then yea-saying comes out of that.
[Some time ago in a lecture Osho was asked why it was that the closer one got to him, the further away he seemed to recede. He replied that this is how it is -- that when one comes close to the master, one is approaching a fire, a death, so naturally one will feel this... ]
I am there and yet I am not there. If you are far away from me, I am there. If you come close, I am not there. Deep within me you will not find anybody there -- just a nobodiness, a nothingness, a deep emptiness.
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
Chapter #8
Chapter title: None
23 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7603235
ShortTitle: PLAN08
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[A sannyasin who is leaving says: I'll try to be back in the winter, but I've no plans.]
There is no need to plan for the future. But if you have just a nucleus in the mind -- that you have to do a certain thing -- leave it there. Just put the thought there and it creates its own energy. It crystallises. It becomes a seed. It evolves and creates and brings about situations in which it can sprout.
Thoughts become things -- once you leave them alone. And that's a great art. If you put a seed in the earth and you go every day in the morning and take it out and see whether it is sprouting or not, it will never sprout. Leave it. You have given it the right soil; now forget all about it. In its own time, its own season,
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