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go a little further into the tunnel. One day the tunnel will be finished. You will be in the open sky -- and this will be a new sky, a new space that you have never known before.
[Osho asks a visitor about sannyas and he replies: There is so much in me that is not yet surrendered.]
I know... everybody has to tackle that part which is never ready to surrender. If you wait for the moment when you are ready totally, you will have to wait forever because the mind is never total. That is the very nature of the mind. It cannot be total, because whenever it is total it disappears.
Totality is the death of the mind. It is to commit suicide.
The mind exists in the tension between polar opposites. It is really a tension between contradictions. One part says do this, and another continuously says don't do this. This is how the mind manages itself. It exists between the thesis and the antithesis and it never allows synthesis to happen.
Even if you feel sometimes that the synthesis has happened, that moment it becomes thesis and antithesis again. This is the dialectics of the mind. It has to create the opposite continuously.
If the opposite is not there, the mind simply cannot function. It is just like two pedals of a bicycle. One goes down, the other comes up; the other comes up, the first goes down. That's how they maintain the momentum of the bicycle. Once you understand this, you have to take the jump in spite of the part that says no.
Yes is never going to be total. It has to accept the no and to absorb it. And that's the beauty of the yes: it can also absorb the no. Then yes becomes very strong. Just think of it in this way: if there is no no in you and only yes, that yes will be impotent. It will have no energy because it will have no challenge. If the yes is there in spite of the no, then it is powerful; there is energy.
Never try to kill the no otherwise you will1 lose all energy. You will lose all zest, enthusiasm, all possibility to grow. The yes has not to be total -- in a certain way it has to absorb the no also. It has to understand the no -- to feel it, listen to it and absorb it, because nobody can live
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