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ridiculous have a space within you. And by and by, rather than planning what to become, just be. Whatsoever is the case, enjoy it. Be joyous in it, celebrate it.
And this is a box for you....
[Osho hands hera small wooden box, one of which he gives to sannyasins on leaving Poona. Each box usually contains several hairs from Osho's beard.]
This is an empty box. There is nothing in it -- or there is only nothing in it... the great nothing I have talked about to you. I have given many boxes to people, but this is the first empty box that I am giving to you. So whenever you forget, just open it and look at the emptiness of it, the nothingness of it. Let that be your meditation.
So whenever you forget and start dreaming and desiring, just open the box and look at it. It is empty. You also be empty looking at it. Let the great nothing happen to you, and through it everything happens on its own accord.
Man has just to become a non-being -- then being arises. Man has to cease for God to be.
The Great Nothing
Chapter #2
Chapter title: None
20 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7609205
ShortTitle: GREATN02
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[A sannyasin says: I choose to be on my own to work, but then when I am alone I can't bear it. I'm just tension and terror.
I've struggled for so many years with my neurosis, trying to survive, trying to make creative use of it -- and everything's gone.]
Your problem is that you don't have any problems -- you create them. You have got into the habit of creating them -- and you enjoy them. This is the problem: if one starts enjoying problems, it is very difficult to get out because you have much investment in them. Otherwise you can get out right this moment. Not for a single moment do you need to wait, because they are your created problems.
There are people who have real problems, there are people who have imaginary problems. Your problems are imagination. There is nothing wrong in their being imagination. You are an imaginative person, a creative person. You not only write novels -- you have created
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