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an opportunity to learn something -- and that has to be remembered always: whatsoever the situation use if for growth. Even negative situations have to be used for positive growth. Ordinarily people go on using even positive opportunities for self-destruction. Even where yes was very simple, it seems impossible for a few people.
So learn! This too is good!
[Osho asks when he is coming back. It's according to the flow, he replies; it's hard to make deadlines. Osho agrees that there is no need to make deadlines but if one just plants the seed of an idea in the unconscious, it goes deep and functions as a centre. Then if things come about according to that idea, you feel happy; if they don't, you aren't frustrated because you weren't willing it anyway. Once something enters the unconscious the whole universe cooperates with it because the unconscious is universal while the conscious is individual.]
It is almost like a man making love to a woman and the woman becomes pregnant... Now nobody is doing anything, nobody is trying to do anything -- nobody can do anything about it -- but once the woman is pregnant the seed has taken root. Now, on its own, the seed will grow. That's what lao tzu means when he says that man is like the conscious mind and woman is like the unconscious mind.
One of the most ancient books in china is The Secret of the Gold Flower. It says man is the conscious, the woman is the unconscious. Man can only trigger off the process and the woman can only receive. Once the man has triggered off the process he has nothing else to do. Once the woman has received the seed she has nothing to do; now things happen on their own. And exactly in the same way every idea becomes a reality.
So just keep it there. No need to make it an ego trip, that you have to do it -- no need to do that. And no need to move to the other opposite. If you can keep in the middle you will learn a great secret. It is not only about this; this is just a small thing.... When you are coming does not matter; Monday or Tuesday or Friday, this month or that, January or February, doesn't matter, this year or the other year. I am just using this opportunity
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