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beauty, in its joy, that it is worth it to drop everything and become an innocent child again.
My definition of sannyas is: the struggle to become a child again. Of course, the second childhood has a great difference from the first childhood: the first childhood was ignorant, and the second childhood is innocent. The demarcation point is very difficult. But once understood, it is simple.
The ignorant child looks innocent but he will lose his ignorance soon. He will have to become knowledgeable. As he grows, he will have to attain all kinds of knowledge just to survive in the society.
But the second childhood comes after you have known everything and known the futility of it and have dropped it. It is not ignorance -- it is just a totally different kind of consciousness.
It is awareness.
You will not fall again into the trap of knowledgeability. The first was only negative; the second is something positive.
Ignorance means absence of knowledge.
And innocence means presence of wonder.
A young woman is going to marry a Greek man. The night before the wedding, her mother takes her aside. "Now look," the mother tells her daughter, "Greeks are a little strange. If he ever tells you to turn over, I want you to get out of bed, pack your clothes and come back home to me."
So the couple get married and everything is fine for the first two years.
Then one night, while they were in bed, the man says to the woman, "Sweetheart, roll over now."
She gets very upset, gets out of bed, puts her clothes on and starts packing her suitcase. As she's ready to leave, the confused man says, "Darling, wait a minute. What is the matter?"
Holding her tears back, she says: "My mother told me that you Greek men are strange, and that if you ever told me to roll over I was to get my clothes on, leave you and go home to her."
"But honey," says the man, "don't you want children?"
Question 2
BELOVED OSHO,
AGAIN, YOU INVITE US TO KILL THE BUDDHA WHEN WE MEET HIM ON THE PATH. YOU SAID THAT THE MASTER IS THE LAST ATTACHMENT AND YOU WANT ME TO DROP THIS TOO, IN ORDER TO BE TOTALLY FREE. OH
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