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other; they are not. But if you start thinking in that way -- that getting lost is against that space that sometimes you come to feel and live in -- then you will create very great anxieties for yourself. And that anxiety will be just your wrong interpretation.
Being lost is part of the rhythm. The more lost you are, the deeper you will come back to yourself. The space will be more empty, more deep, if you move further away. So go out as far as you can -- then you will go in as far as it is possible. This is always in proportion. If you go three feet outside, you go three feet in. If you go three miles out, you go three miles in. If you go out to the farthest corner of existence, you go to the innermost core of your being.
This is one of the basic things I want to contribute. Religions have always created trouble because they think that if you go out too much, you become incapable of coming in or you may be lost. So one becomes afraid and goes on avoiding people, relationships, work. One starts condemning all that is extrovert, worldly, this-worldly. One starts keeping oneself in one's inner space. You can remain there but the inner space will remain very shallow because the pendulum has to swing both ways.
If you want the pendulum to stay always at the left, sooner or later you will not be able to even keep it there, because when it goes to the right, then it comes to the left. The bigger the swing the better. So be a swinger !
[Osho said that through moving into opposites, depth would come more easily. He said that if you practice sleeping the whole day so that you sleep better at night, you will find that you cannot sleep at all.
Sleep comes more easily and will be deeper if one has gone as totally as possible to the other polarity of work.
Osho said that this fear of losing oneself in the external world came to everyone who had gone inwards deeply, but that outer things should not be regarded as distractions.]
Nothing is a distraction: this is my message. Every distracting factor has to be used in a creative way.
So when you are lost, be so lost that when you come home you really come home. And never create
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