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sky is very seductive. Sooner or later the child-bird is bound to try it and with a few trials and errors he will be on the wing.
That's what sannyas is all about: it is calling you from the egg, calling you forth to come out, calling you out of your closedness. But it is possible only if you see many people who are open, flowing, joyous. Then suddenly a great inspiration happens, that "If it is possible for others, it is possible for me too," and that becomes the seed of great transformation, a new birth.
Patricia means of noble birth. Today you become Patricia, because this is the noblest birth possible! To be born as a disciple, to be born as a sannyasin, is the real birth. The first birth is only physical, this birth is metaphysical.
Jesus says: Unless a man is born again he shall not enter into my kingdom of God. Feel blessed that you are born again. Feel blessed that you are on the gate of the kingdom of God: just a few steps, a little courage, and you will be able to enter into the temple.
NIYAZ WILL BE STAYING A MONTH.
OSHO: Do a few groups.
Anything to say to me?
NIYAZ HOLDS OUT TWO EMPTY PALMS AND SHAKES HIS HEAD.
Just be available to me... as open as humanly possible. And when I say "humanly possible" the impossible is included in it. That is the dignity of human consciousness: it can do the impossible. And the only impossible thing that is worth doing is the achievement of self-realization, of knowing "Who am I?" -- because in that knowing one knows all. You cannot know anything else before you have known yourself. Without knowing oneself all knowledge is false, remains futile, an exercise in futility. One gathers much information, but no transformation happens; and what use is it if there is no transformation happening?
Knowing is true only when it transforms you, when it takes you beyond yourself, when it helps you to transcend yourself. The greatest glory of man is to surpass himself -- in that glory the impossible becomes possible.
OSHO (TO PATRICK): Bliss is the name given God by the poets and the mystics, and they know what they are doing.
When you say "God," the idea
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