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will bring people to me, because once something real happens you hanker for more. When you have tasted something, even a small bite, you hanker for more; then unreal things cannot satisfy you. So EST is going to help many people to come to me. Werner was here a few days ago....
[Another sannyasin says: I have to learn much.]
That's true! Everybody has to learn much... and it remains true always. You can learn as much as possible and still it will remain true that one has to learn much; it is never finished.
Life is such an inexhaustible energy that you can go on learning and learning and learning and still the infinite remains there to be known; it is never finished! And that's why it is so beautiful -- because the exploration can go on and on forever, one can remain in wonder forever. Yes, you have to learn much!
If one is ready to learn, one can learn much. In fact people create all kinds of obstacles against learning, because to learn one thing is needed very basically, and that is humbleness. And that is difficult; the ego goes on saying 'You know it already.' The ego goes on saying that there is no need to be humble, there is no need to show that you don't know. The ego goes on pretending knowledgeability.
One has to be humble, open, vulnerable, and then life itself becomes the teacher, and life teaches in mysterious ways. Start meditating, do a few groups, mm ? And much is going to happen!
[A visitor said that when she first read Osho's books in the west she fell in love with him, but since she has been here she feels further away -- the ashram, groups, and sannyasins seems to come between her and Osho.]
I understand. In fact, reality never conforms to your imagination, and it has no obligation to, either.
When you arr far away from me and you have only heard about me, it is your imagination, your dream; I am not responsible for it. You visualise your own dream, you put in your own colours. Those colours come from your desires; they have nothing to do with me. For example, if you have been missing a father-figure you will create a father-figure of me. If you have been missing a lover you will create a
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