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in loneliness. 'Monastery' comes from the same word, 'monk' -- a person who renounces the world and lives alone
'Monopoly' comes from the same word, and 'monogamy' also comes from the same word. They all mean one -- one husband to one wife, monogamy. 'Monopoly' means one person possesses power over the whole thing.
My sannyasins are not monks, they are non-monks. My sannyasins are not nuns. I don't destroy people. A nun is a ruin of a woman. A monk is a caricature of a man. I enhance their humanity, I enhance their life and their love. But naturally when a Buddhist monk comes he thinks, when a Catholic monk comes he thinks, "What is the point?"
Just a few days ago there was a Catholic monk here.
Living in a Catholic monastery for twelve, thirteen years, he escaped somehow. Now he was afraid. He said, "Now I am very much afraid! I am afraid of you, Osho, because you are appealing to me so much that I fear I may become a sannyasin. And just now I have escaped, and I don't want to get into any other system again."
It is natural, we can understand, but the natural is not necessarily true. There are situations when you are facing something so new, something that you have never faced before, but your eyes are full of the past. They interpret in the old, rotten ways.
JUST AS IT HAD CROSSED EVERY OTHER BARRIER...
It had crossed mountains, it had crossed plains, it had crossed valleys. The stream had crossed many, many things. Coming from the high mountains, from some unknown source, it had travelled long, it had been on a great pilgrimage. It had many experiences of how to cross over the hard rocks; it had always been victorious. Now all that experience will become a barrier.
THE STREAM TRIED TO CROSS THIS ONE TOO -- THIS DESERT -- BUT IT FOUND AS IT RAN INTO THE SAND, ITS WATERS DISAPPEARED.
It was a new situation. Intelligence consists in seeing the fact that when a situation is new, never try the old. When the situation is new, be new! Be inventive! Just drop the past! Look anew! Let your consciousness respond to the new. Mirror it! And don't be afraid of errors and mistakes, because in a new situation the
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