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-- and when one feels more and more empty... when the hand is empty, then one is capable; then nothing is beyond one's reach. When the hand is empty, then everything is within your reach -- even god! Everything is within reach of an empty hand.
So join karate and join sufi dancing, mm? and continue morning and evening meditations. You are here for five months so you can go slowly. And remember, you have to end with vipassana. Then it will bring tremendous insight.
It is a great method. Buddha himself developed it. That's his contribution to the world -- but it works only in a particular moment. Mm? so let us first bring that moment, and then things fit....
[Osho gives a seeker sannyas.]
This will be your name... and don't let it be just a change of name -- let it really become a radical change. It can become one -- it depends on how one takes it, because everything is a question of attitude.
A few people miss sannyas even if they become sannyasins. They take sannyas almost in sleep, not alert... doing something as if not meaning it... doing something because this is the thing to be done... doing something because everybody is doing it. They simply become imitative -- then they miss.
Sannyas is a great adventure, and every step has to be taken in tremendous awareness. You have the possibility for great awareness, hence I say this.
Let this moment become of great decisive value. Let it be momentous -- as if from this moment you are broken away from the past... a clean break, with no hesitation... in a single stroke of a sword. Remember, I say'in a single stroke' -- with no hesitation. Then suddenly the whole Fast disappears and the energy that is involved in the past becomes available. It is great energy -- and for the first time you feel available to the present and to the future.
The past is a dead weight, and if we are too much involved in the past we cannot live in the present and we cannot move into the future. So one has to completely get out of the past.
Hence I give you a name: veet asmita.
Veet means beyond, asmita means ego; beyond the ego. And the ego is the past. Whatsoever you know
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