Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

surrounded by your books you can doubt, there is nothing at stake, but if afarmer working in the field with the earth doubts, he is lost; if a fishermandoubts, he is lost.Living with nature, trust arises. Trust is natural to man just like health is natural;doubt is unnatural just like disease is unnatural. A child is born trusting. I'm nottalking about the modern child -- maybe a modern child is not born trustingbecause he is born in a climate of skepticism.I was reading a story one day: A mother was telling a story to her daughter -- thedaughter was restless, it was getting late, and the mother was telling her abedtime story to put her to sleep. The mother said. "There was a princess -- verycharming, beautiful... and very wise, very loving. The whole court of the kingloved and respected her. She was very kind, particularly to animals.One day she came across a frog in the courtyard. She became afraid thatsomebody might tread on him, so she brought the frog into her bedroom. And inthe morning she was surprised: the frog had turned into a beautiful prince! Andthe prince asked her hand in marriage."At this point the mother looked at her daughter and felt, that she was completelyskeptical. Her eyes, her manner, her face -- everything was saying, "No, I cannotbelieve it." Complete incredulity was on her face. So the mother said, "What? --don't you believe it? "The girl said, "No... and I'll bet the princess' mother didn't either! "Today's climate is one of skepticism. Even a child is doubtful -- doubting,skeptical. In the old days, even old men were trusting; the whole climate was oneof trust, faith. They were healthy people.Watch yourself -- whenever you doubt, something shrinks in you; you becomesmall and tiny. You become hard, you become dead, and you are no longerflowing -- frozen. Whenever trust arises, you are again flowing. The blocks aremelting and you expand, you become vast. Whenever you trust, you reach apeak of being alive, and whenever you doubt, you fall into death.Because modern man is lacking in trust, drugs have started to have so muchappeal for him. There seems to be no other way to have the feeling of anexpanded being and consciousness. Drugs are chemical methods to feel, for afew moments or a few hours, an expansion of consciousness. Trust gives it to youeasily and freely. Trust gives it to you not for a few moments -- it becomes aneternal quality in you. And trust has no side-effects!If you ask me, I will tell you: trust is the only reliable drug if you want expansionof consciousness -- and those who have never known what expansion ofconsciousness is, have not lived yet. Consciousness can expand and can go onexpanding, waves of bliss going to the very corners of existence, expanding withthe infinity of existence. When you expand you become part of the whole; whenyou shrink you become an island.Those people were really simple, trusting:Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho