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because your mind will tend to throw all responsibility on me.
That's what you mean when you say: I have surrendered. It is not a surrender of trust -- it is out of decidophobia, out of fear, a fear of being alone. No, I am not here to make your journey comfortable, convenient, because it cannot be made comfortable and convenient. It has to be hard, it is hard, it is uphill. And in the last moment, in the final moment of what Zen people call satori, even I will not be there with you. Only up to the gate can we be fellow travelers. When you enter the gate, you enter alone.
So on the whole path I have to make you capable of being alone. I have to help you drop fear, to help you to become decisive. Trust life -- there is no need of any other trust. Trust life and it leads you spontaneously and naturally to the ultimate, the truth, God -- or whatsoever you want to name it.
The river of life is flowing towar ds the ocean. If you trust, you flow in the river. You are already in the river, but you are clinging to some dead roots on the bank, or you are trying to fight against the current. Clinging to scriptures, clinging to dogmas, doctrines, is not allowing the river to take you with her. Drop all doctrines, all dogmas, all scriptures. Life is the only scripture, the only bible. Trust it and allow it to take you to the ocean, to the ultimate.
Enough for today.
The Search
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Dropping the Why
2 March 1976 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7603020
ShortTitle: SEARCH02
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 76 mins
The first question:
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO, I DON'T KNOW WHY I AM HERE.
Nobody knows -- and there is no way to know it, and there is no need to know it. This constant questioning -- why am I here? why am I doing this? -- this constant hankering for the why, is a disease of the mind. No answer is going to satisfy you, because the why can be asked again. If I say something -- you are here because of this -- the why will be pushed back a little, that's all. You will again ask: Why? The why is nonending.
Once you understand
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