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centre of the question is the answer. The question is just a capsule in which the answer is hidden, a hard shell that protects the soft answer within. It is just a crust that surrounds a seed.
[The sannyasin then says: Just one thing -- I feel that maybe I need to move more on the outside. I feel blocked from the inside at the moment.
Osho checks his energy.]
You are right, mm? A little outward movement will be helpful, that will give balance.
It is always good to have balance in life -- a little in, a little out. One should not become fixed to anything, in or out, because we are neither in nor out, we are both.
In is also ours and out too is ours. We are transcendental to this duality of in and out, so if you are trying to be in too much, you will become blocked. If you are out too much, then too you will become blocked. So neither be an extrovert nor be an introvert; both are perversions -- excess is always a perversion.
Be in the. middle, so you are available to both the sides. When you need to go out you can go, the in will not hold you; and when you want to go in, the out will not hold you. This is freedom.
A person who is not free to move according to the moment and the situation is a slave. There are two types of slaves: the extroverts and the introverts. The extroverts are the slaves of the outer: they cannot go in, they don't know how to go in, they have completely forgotten the route. If you talk about going in they simply look at you, bewildered. They don't understand what you are talking about; you talk nonsense, it seems to them. It is nonsense to them -- it makes no sense to them, so it is nonsense.
A person who has become too introverted starts losing relatedness, responsibility, activity, and misses much. He becomes closed in himself, he is like a grave.
The extrovert becomes the politician, the introvert becomes an escapist -- and both are ill, both are neurotic.
The really healthy person is not fixed anywhere. He exhales, he inhales; he exhales freely, he inhales freely. In and out are just like breath coming in and going out, breath coming in and going out, and he is free in
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