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means people stop around twelve. The body goes on growing old but the mind is stuck; it goes on moving in the same groove, like a stuck gramophone record. Very few people go on growing. But you are fortunate: you are growing and the growth is still going to continue. You are going to make it even when death is happening.
That's my whole purpose here: to help you to the very end. If you can be silent, loving, positive, affirmative, in death then you have really lived your life as it should have been lived. Then there is no grudge, no complaint. One is fulfilled, one is ripe, one is ready to fall and rest....
[A sannyasin, returning to the West to earn money to return to the commune forever, says: It's very hard for me to leave you.
Osho tells her: Yes, it is hard for me too! You don't understand my trouble: every day so many sannyasins leave me; just think of me!
And come back soon, you continue; the commune will need you. Try to come back as soon as possible. If you find it very difficult, write to me after six months. I will send the message: come without money!]
[A sannyasin wants to do a masters degree in theatre at the university being set up in the ashram, but asks if she should do something more humble. Osho checks her energy.]
Good. You do it, mm? It is nothing like an ego-trip. It is just very spontaneously coming into you. Go into it. It is the humblest thing to do. Whatsoever comes naturally is humble. Never impose anything; imposed things become egoistic.
For example, right now if you drop this idea which is very spontaneously coming into you and you try to do something humble, that will be real ego. You follow me? -- because that will be effort, and behind that humble act will be really a great gratification of the ego: 'I am doing something humble' and the 'I' will be more strengthened through it. In fact the humble people have the biggest egos in the world. Egoists have nothing compared to humble people.
So always remain spontaneous and then you remain humble without any humbleness. With no self-consciousness of humbleness, one remains humble. One does not know that one is humble. If you know
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