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come; never desire them. When they come, simply go with them, and when they disappear, let them disappear; don't cling. They come on their own, they go on their own. They are beyond our will -- those moments, those spaces, those blows are beyond our will; we cannot manipulate them. They are happenings; you cannot do them. You can't do a thing about them. Man feels utterly helpless for the first time when things from the beyond start happening... when one is simply a passive witness and utterly helpless. You cannot prevent, you cannot call forth, you cannot provoke, but that is a good experience because that's how one starts dropping the ego. One sees the futility of the ego. It is utterly meaningless, pointless, to carry the burden of it. That's when let-go happens. Then one lives according to the will of god or according to tao. One lives will-lessly. One simply lives not knowing why, not knowing even what, not knowing from where and to where, not knowing at all. Then one lives innocently, and that is the way....
So be around -- the stomach will settle within a few days. If you want to hang around, hang around; if you want to work, go to Laxmi and find some work.
[Osho speaks to a sannyasin who just arrived to take care of his wife who lies very ill in a local hospital.]
She will survive -- just wait; help her. You have come, that's very good. Just be as loving to her as possible. And death, when it is around, or when one feels that it is around, is a great opportunity to be loving, because when we think the other person is going to live we are miserly in love, because we can love tomorrow or the day after tomorrow; and the mind always postpones. The mind is afraid of love because love is too much and the mind cannot control it; love overwhelms it. Love creates a chaos and the mind is always trying to create some order. So the mind goes on postponing love. But when one starts feeling death around -- and death is always around; anybody can die any moment.... But when it is felt that somebody is seriously ill -- and the person may not die, but when we start feeling the shadow of death -- then there is no way to postpone. Love has to happen right
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