Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

happy with your father, come and be in my palace. Get married to my daughter -- I have only one daughter -- and this kingdom will be yours. But don't move likea beggar; it hurts. You are the only son of your father -- what are you doing?Both these kingdoms will be yours. Come to my home."Buddha looked into Prasanjit's eyes and said, "Just one question. Have youattained to any happiness through your kingdom? Just say YES or NO. If you sayYES, I follow you. If you say NO, then you have to follow me."Prasanjit fell to Buddha's feet and said, "No. I renounce; initiate me. I leave allthis" -- a very different quality of immediacy.The same thing happened to me, the same. One of my father's friends was alawyer, a very cunning lawyer. When I came back home from the university, ofcourse my parents were worried. They wanted me to get married and settle, butthey didn't want to say it directly to me. They knew that to say it directly wouldbe like interfering in my life, and they are very non-aggressive -- silent, simple.So they thought about their friend and they asked the friend to come.He came with all his arguments ready -- he was a lawyer! He said, "If I convinceyou that marriage is a must, will you get married? "I said, "Of course. But if you cannot, then are you ready tc leave your wife andchildren?"The man had not thought of that! He said, "Then I will have to think."He never came back. The quality of the mind has changed -- otherwise there wasan opportunity for him, an opening of the sky. I waited and waited, but he nevercame. He became afraid because everybody knows that life, as you have lived it,has not given you anything. But one needs courage to say that, because just insaying that, a deep renunciation happens. You have already moved on anotherpath once you realize the fact that life, as you have lived it, has been futile,fruitless, irrelevant.Saith Jesus unto him: FOLLOW ME. AND HE AROSE, AND FOLLOWED HIM.What a beautiful world, what a beautiful consciousness! You can have thatconsciousness, and through it everything becomes possible, even the impossiblebecomes possible.Try. Drop the doubts, because whenever you doubt you are destructive. Doubt isdestructive; trust is creative. Doubt kills, doubt is poison. Trust gives you life, lifeabundant, infinite life, because when you trust you relax.In trust there is no fear, in trust there is noht the whole opportunity is lost in who struggle. You let go, you flow with theriver. You don't even swim, the river takes you to the ocean. It is already going tothe ocean. You fight unnecessarily and, through fight, you destroy your energy.Through fight you get frustrated and through fight the whole opportunity is lostin which you could have danced, in which you could have celebrated. The sameenergy becomes a struggle. The same energy can become surrender.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho