Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

In ordinary human relationships, privacy is needed. And when you ask aboutthe relationship of a Master and disciple, even more privacy is needed because itis a transmission of the highest energy possible to man. It is the highest peak oflove, where one man pours himself into another and the other becomes areceptive womb. Even a slight disturbance -- somebody watching -- will beenough of a barrier.Secrecy has its own reason to be there. Remember that, and always rememberthat you will behave very foolishly in life if you become completely public. It willbe as if somebody has turned his pockets inside-out. That will be your shape --like pockets turned inside-out. Nothing is wrong in being outward butremember, that is only part of life. It should not become the whole.I am not saying to move in darkness forever. Light has its own beauty and itsown reason. If the seed remains in the dark forever and ever, and never comesup to receive the sun in the morning, it will be dead. It has to go into darkness tosprout, to gather strength, to become vital, to be reborn, and then it has to comeout and face the world and the light and the storm and the rains. It has to acceptthe challenge of the outside.But that challenge can only be accepted if you are deeply rooted within. I am notsaying to become escapists, I am not saying to close your eyes, move within andnever come out. I am simply saying: go in so that you can come out with energy,with love, with compassion. Go in so that when you come out you are not abeggar, but a king; go in so that when you come out you have something to share-- the flowers, the leaves.Go in so that your coming out becomes richer and is not impoverished. Andalways remember that whenever you feel exhausted, the source of energy iswithin. Close your eyes and go in.Make outer relationships; make inner relationships also. Of course there arebound to be outer relationships -- you move in the world, business relationshipswill be there -- but they should not be all. They have their part to play, but theremust be something absolutely secret and private, something that you can callyour own.That is what Marilyn Monroe lacked. She was a public woman -- successful, yetcompletely a failure. While she was at the top of her success and fame, shecommitted suicide. Why she committed suicide has remained an enigma. Shehad everything to live for; you cannot conceive of more fame, more success,more charisma, more beauty, more health. Everything was there, nothing couldbe improved upon, and still something was lacking. The inside, the within, wasempty. Then, suicide is the only way.You may not be daring enough to commit suicide like Marilyn Monroe. You maybe very cowardly and you may commit suicide very slowly -- you may takeseventy years to commit it. But still it will be a suicide. Unless you havesomething inside you which is not dependent on anything outside, which is justyour own -- a world, a space of your own where you can close your eyes andCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho