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like me but it is not alive. And if it were me, it would have come out of the frame to give you a kiss. It is certainly not me."
Are you really yourself, or just pretending to be somebody that the crowd around you wanted you to be? As far as I am concerned, a seeker of truth should begin by dropping all that is false in him, because the false cannot seek the truth. The false is the barrier between you and the truth. If all that is false is dropped, you need not seek the truth -- truth will come to you. In fact, it is only words when I say, "Truth will come to you." When all that is false is dropped, you are the truth.
Nothing comes; nothing goes.
There is no journey.
Question 2
BELOVED OSHO,
AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING RIDICULOUS, IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS GLOOM ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD, I HONESTLY DON'T CARE IF THE WORLD ENDS TOMORROW. SO WHAT IS THE POINT OF TALKING ABOUT IT AND FUELING THE ALREADY MASSIVE FIRE OF DOOM WHICH SEEMS TO BURN ETERNALLY IN THE DEPRESSING MIND OF MANKIND? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S "NOW OR NEVER, "SO LET'S DO IT NOW. LET'S DANCE!
Vimal, it is easy to say "I do not honestly care about the world," but let your heart feel it. The world is not something that is only outside you; the world is within you too. You are the world.
And this issue of the darkness that is coming closer and closer has to be given significance, so that your choice becomes "now" and you stop postponing. It is true -- "Now or never" -- but there are so few people in the world who live now. They are always living either in yesterdays or in tomorrows.
Why am I insisting that there is, for the first time, a possibility that there will not be any tomorrow at all? There is an old proverb: Tomorrow never comes. But the old proverb has been only a proverb and in spite of that proverb, tomorrow has kept on coming. It may not come as tomorrow; it will always come as today -- in that sense the proverb is right.
But today the situation is totally different:
Tomorrow really may not come.
I want it to sink deep in your being that we have come to the very end of the road -- and there
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