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of saying yes too: yes to existence, yes to yourself, yes to all that is.
To say yes is to be religious. It has nothing to do with belief in a god or belief in a church or belief in a dogma. To be religious you need not have a Bible, a Koran, a Gita: all that you need is a wholehearted yes, a total yes, so that not even a small fragment of no remains somewhere in the heart. When you can say a total yes the yes becomes a flame, a light into you, and it starts guiding your path. No outer guide is needed then; the outer guide is needed only to help you light the candle within.
I am ready to do it. From your side, only one thing is needed: cooperation.
Even Bein' Gawd Ain't A Bed of Roses
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 October 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7910045
ShortTitle: GAWD04
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TOSHO AND THREE-YEAR-OLD SON, FOREST.
OSHO (TO TOSHO): One cannot achieve contentment directly; one can try but one is bound to fail. The more you try to be contented directly, the more discontented you will become because if something is a by-product there is no way to reach it directly; it has to be achieved in an indirect way.
Achieve love and contentment comes as a shadow. Become love and you will find contentment following you. You need not chase it -- it chases you.
(TO FOREST): The forest gives you a sense of primitiveness, of something very ancient. So it is with bliss. Yet paradoxically, the forest is every moment new, fresh, young. So is bliss: as old as possible, as new as possible, eternally new and eternally ancient.
And the forest is always humming -- the hum of the birds, the hum of the insects, the hum of the trees, the wind passing through the pines. The forest is always humming with joy, always singing -- so is bliss.
And paradoxically again, the forest has a silence in it, a silence that is not disturbed by all the singing that goes on there. On the contrary, the humming joy, the singing birds, the wind passing through the pines, all enhance the silence of the forest. They become the background, the contrast. So
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