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you feel almost impotent against it. But the power is given by you; no habit is powerful in itself. You cooperate, it becomes powerful. Drop the cooperation and suddenly it is empty.
I understand what is happening. There are many people, almost millions, who are in that trap. Whenever something is possible, they become afraid because they have become accustomed to living in a wasteland. Now they are afraid that if something sprouts, then their whole past, their wasteland, will disappear. People become accustomed to living in misery, so that whenever they feel that something is possible and misery can be dropped, their whole mind will recoil; they will shrink away. And this is automatic, robot-like. It is not that you do something -- but your mind begins to shrink because it feels that death is approaching. The death of the mind is your life, and the life of the mind is your death .
Do whatsoever you like; there is no hindrance from my side. Go wherever you want to go -- Nepal or to the moon (laughter); there is no problem about it. But go somewhere, always seeking, searching, positive. Don't escape from situations, otherwise all effort will be useless.
Do one thing. Just go a little back and put both your hands on the navel. This is a small experiment you have to do to feel certain things. You have to feel yourself centred near the navel -- almost two inches below the navel -- that is the point called hara. People who are negative in their life are too hung up in their head, and people who are very very positive, almost cursed by their positivity, are too much in their feet. If you are too much in the feet, you will have to move towards the head, and if you are too much in your head, you will have to move towards your feet. It is like a pendulum, a constant swing. Exactly at the hara, the centre exists -- the middle of your body and your being.
There is the balance and the deepest core of experience, of feeling, and of everything that life is.
[Osho gives her an 'energy darshan']
[A sannyas couple talk about their relationship; he says: There's an old saying: The loving is easy, it's the living that's hard -- and that's
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