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are not allowing me to say them. But we will find the situations to say them; we will make every effort. And I don't see that existence will not be supporting us.
Just you see: we have been rejected from Europe -- from one airport to another airport, from one country to another country. It was a calamity if you thought about it at that moment. But now you know: existence has been more protective to us. It was good that they rejected us; now they are sitting under a cloud of death. If they had accepted us we would have been in the same danger.
We should send them thank you notes saying, "You are great! How did you manage to find out that some calamity is going to happen so that these beautiful people should not be put in danger?"
The Path of the Mystic
Chapter #3
Chapter title: Enchanted with the unknown
5 May 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay
Archive code: 8605055
ShortTitle: MYSTIC03
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 102 mins
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
I FEEL LIKE MY MIND IS GOING CRAZY THESE DAYS. IT IS AS IF IT IS TRYING TO GRASP ANYTHING IT POSSIBLY CAN, ESPECIALLY DURING DISCOURSE AS I SIT IN SILENCE WITH YOU. IT FEELS LIKE IT'S HAVING LESS AND LESS TO HOLD ON TO, LESS AND LESS TO THINK ABOUT, SO IT'S CREATING THE CRAZIEST THINGS.
IS THIS PART OF YOUR WORK, OR AM I GOING MAD?
You are going mad!
But that is part of my work too.
Just don't be afraid of going mad, because this is a madness that happens only to very rare individuals; it is not something common. It is not insanity, it is going beyond mind; and the mind feels tremendously afraid, because going beyond means going from the known to the unknown. From the small space which seems to be lighted, going beyond means entering into darkness. And the mind is trained for everything in life. To go beyond and lose grasp of it feels dangerous.
It is the same danger that every child feels when he is born. The pain of the mother is because of the child, because no child wants to be born. He has lived in a cozy home, self-sufficient, without worries, without responsibilities, in
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