Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

That's the problem. You ask, "Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything? "Because your parents, your society, are still after you.If you are really with me, drop all that nonsense that has been forced on you.There is only one religion in the world and that religion is to be happy.Everything else is immaterial and irrelevant. If you are happy, you are right; ifyou are unhappy, you are wrong.Every day it happens, people come to me -- the wife comes or the husband comesand the wife says she is very unhappy because the husband is doing somethingwrong. I always tell such people that if the husband is doing something wrong,let him be unhappy. "Why are you unhappy? The wrong itself will lead himtowards unhappiness -- why are you worried?"But the wife says, "But he is not unhappy. He goes to the pub and he enjoys. Heis not unhappy at all."Then I say, "Something is wrong with you, not with him. Unhappiness is theindicator. You change yourself; forget about him. If he is happy, he is right."I tell you, if you can go happily to a pub, that is better than going unhappily to atemple -- because finally one comes to discover that happiness is the temple. Sowhat you do is not the question -- -what quality do you bring to it while doing it?Be happy and you are virtuous; be unhappy and you are committing whatreligious people have called sin. You must have heard them say that the sinnerwill suffer some day in the future, in some future life, and the saint will be happysomewhere in the future, in a future life. I say that is absolutely wrong. The saintis happy here and now, and the sinner is unhappy. Life does not wait for so long;it is immediate.So if you feel yourself unhappy, you have been doing something wrong withyourself. If you cannot enjoy -- if some hesitation comes in, if you feel afraid,guilty -- it means somewhere by the corner the shadows of your parents are stilllurking.You may be enjoying, or trying to enjoy, ice cream, but deep in the unconsciousthe shadow of the mother or the father is lurking. "This is wrong. Don't eat toomuch, this is going to harm you." So you are eating, but the hesitation is there.The hesitation means that the contradiction is there.Try to understand your hesitation and drop it. And this is one of the mostunbelievable phenomena: that if you drop the hesitation it may come to pass thatyou stop eating too much ice cream automatically (because eating too much maybe part of it). Because they have denied it, they have created a certain attractionin it. Every denial brings attraction. They have said, "Don't eat it," and that hascreated a hypnotic, a magnetic, attraction to eat it.If you stop having any hesitations, you drop all the parental voices, all theupbringing that you have been forced to go through. You may suddenly see theice cream as just an ordinary thing. Sometimes one can enjoy it, but it is not afood. It has no nutritious value -- it may even be harmful. But then youunderstand. If it is harmful you understand it, you don't eat it. And you canCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho