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CHAPTER 6<br />

Renunciation: mortgage <strong>to</strong>day for a <strong>to</strong>morrow that never <strong>com</strong>es<br />

4 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove<br />

Question 1<br />

OSHO,<br />

IS THERE REALLY ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE FOR RENUNCIATION IN YOUR RELIGION? THE<br />

QUESTION ARISES BECAUSE SINCE I CAME IN CONTACT WITH YOU, MANY THINGS IN MY<br />

LIFE HAVE DROPPED AWAY. I CANNOT EVEN RELATE TO MY OLD SELF.<br />

THERE is really absolutely no place for renunciation in my religion.<br />

I can understand the question, and the difficulty of the questioner. He has not been able <strong>to</strong> make a<br />

distinction between dropping things, and things dropping by themselves.<br />

Renunciation is the enforced dropping of things. And whenever you do anything with force, nothing<br />

really drops away.<br />

It simply goes deeper in<strong>to</strong> your unconscious. It be<strong>com</strong>es more of a problem than it was before. Now<br />

it will try <strong>to</strong> <strong>com</strong>e up in different ways, garbs, masks, and you may not even be able <strong>to</strong> recognize it.<br />

But it is going <strong>to</strong> assert itself, and with force. You have given it that force by forcing it deep down in<strong>to</strong><br />

the unconscious.<br />

When you force something, you are giving force <strong>to</strong> it.<br />

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