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that I am saying is: drop your personality, drop your ego. Be humble, and be open. Be silent, be alert and conscious, and miracles are bound to happen to you.
And remember: I will not be responsible for those miracles. You yourself will be responsible for your miracles. You need not even feel thankful towards me. Your gratitude has to go towards the whole existence. I was just a stranger who met you on the way, and we talked a little, gossiped a little -- I don't have gospels, but only gossips -- and then we parted, you on your own way, I on my own way.
There is no need for me to know you personally, nor is there any need for you to know me personally. What is needed is an essential bridge between your being and my being. In silence that happens automatically.
Okay, Vimal?
Yes, Osho.
The Razor's Edge
Chapter #2
Chapter title: The new man: a citizen of the world
26 February 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8702260
ShortTitle: RAZOR02
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 112 mins
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
ONE OF THE TITLES OF THE MASTER'S PRESS IS A "HISTORY OF THE FUTURE". IT IS A BOOK THAT PUTS TOGETHER ALL THE VIEWS OF THE KNOWN PROPHECIES ABOUT OUR FUTURE, AND TRIES TO SHOW WHAT OUR WORLD WILL BE LIKE IN TWO HUNDRED YEARS. SINCE YOUR VIEWS OF THE HUMAN RACE AND THIS PLANET ARE VERY SPECIFIC, WE WOULD LOVE TO INCLUDE YOUR VIEWS OF WHAT MAN WILL GO THROUGH AND OF HOW HE WILL GO THROUGH IT.
Veet Niten, the first thing to be remembered about my attitude about the future is that all predictions are guesswork. The future remains always unknown and takes strange turns which no one would have ever conceived.
Moreover, my approach to life is to not be bothered with past and future. The past is no more, the future is not yet -- all that we have got in our hands is this moment. The past is dead and the future is unborn.
Keeping this approach in mind, I would like to say a few words. First, there is every possibility that there will be no future as far as life is concerned. We are coming closer to a dead-end street. It is sad
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