Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

oats together and they are moving in different dimensions, diametricallyopposite. You want to be yourself, and you would like to have a new life also.You ask the impossible. You want to cling to whatsoever you have and youwould like to grow also -- and that very clinging is preventing you from growth.Both are not possible together.When you wait for my glance you wait as you are, but when I come and knock atyour door, I have come to destroy you as you are, because I know that only thenwill the hidden within you be released. Then you become afraid.People like freedom, but they are fearful also. When the freedom is not there theythink about it, they dream about it, they fantasize, but when freedom comes theybecome afraid because freedom brings with it many more things than they everthought about. Freedom brings insecurity. Freedom brings adventure, butinsecurity also. Freedom brings a bigger sky, it gives you wings, but the biggersky can be dangerous also. Freedom is very dangerous. To live in freedom is tolive dangerously.You come to me, you seek freedom, but deep down I see you are also saying,"Don't make us free, please don't push us into freedom. Let us cling to you, let usdepend on you." And you go on asking and praying, "Give us freedom." Withone hand you ask, with another hand you deny; one part of you says yes,another part of you goes on saying NO.Have you watched your mind? You say yes/no together. Maybe one is a littlelouder and the other is not so loud, maybe you are very cunning and you don'tlisten to one when you say the other, but just be a little watchful. Whenever yousay yes; just by the side lingers the NO. Then you are in a constant conflict.You would like for me to come to your door, but then you close the door becauseI will come as I am, not as you expect me. I will come as I am, not according toyour dreams.Always remember to find small causes for the things that happen in you andaround you. Sometimes you start asking for very deep and great reasons whichare not there -- particularly in the West because of the two hundred years ofpsychology and the training in psychology and psychiatry. The knowledge ofpsychology has become common knowledge, everybody knows about it -- aboutsmall things which have nothing much in them, simple facts. People go ondigging deep and they go on bringing things up which are not at all connected.Just this morning I was reading an anecdote. A psychoanalyst and a friend werestanding, looking at the sky through the window, and discussing something. Thepsychoanalyst said, "Remarkable! Look!" Some work was going on. A buildingwas to be demolished and a few laborers were working with barrows. He said,"Look, twelve persons are working with barrows -- eleven are pushing them infront of them and one is pulling it. Eleven pushing, one pulling: there must be anexplanation for it. There must be some deep-rooted inhibition in that man. Orsomething happened in childhood with his parents, something to do with aCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho