Surrender

People's SANITY IS SUPERFICIAL -- just a little SCRATCH and they will GO INSANE.

I don't want you to be superficially sane. I want you to DROP ALL SUPERFICIAL SANITY.

Everybody will think you are crazy, but YOU ARE SIMPLY BEING NATURAL, AND NATURE IS NOT CRAZY. To be NATURAL is the AUTHENTIC SANITY.

THE MORE NATURAL YOU BECOME, the BIGGER will become THE DISTANCE WITH the artificial society and THE ARTIFICIAL PEOPLE -- but you will becoming MORE AND MORE SANE.

When you reach THE VERY CORE OF YOUR BEING you have attained the FINAL SANITY -- but in the eyes of other people you will look absolutely mad.

PEOPLE HAVE CREATED THEIR OWN GAME OF SANITY, and if you BREAK THEIR RULES, immediately THEY CONDEMN YOU AS CRAZY.

I am not here to condemn you, but to transform you. Your CRAZINESS is THE BEGINNING OF YOUR AUTHENTIC SANITY.

DON'T BE WORRIED WHAT PEOPLE SAY -- remember only how you feel yourself. If you are feeling joyous -- drunk with blissfulness -- THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANY CONTROL.

Control is dangerous -- because CONTROL MEANS you are NOT ALLOWING YOUR NATURE ITS FLOW. Control means you are cutting off... TRYING TO FORCE YOURSELF TO BE a certain way, THE WAY OTHERS EXPECT YOU TO BE.

PEOPLE GIVE RESPECTABILITY AND HONOR TO THOSE WHO ARE FOLLOWING THE RULES OF THEIR GAME.

THEY WILL NOT GIVE YOU RESPECTABILITY, and they will not give you HONOR. But to be crazy and natural is so valuable that these bogus values of honor, respectability, reputation, don't have any meaning.

You cannot fly out of control -- it is simply not possible. It is just that you have always remained in control. So just relaxing a little you become afraid.

It happened in the religious class of a small school: the teacher was telling the students to draw, according to them, the concept of God. She had been explaining to them the Christian concept of God. The bishop had come to see how things are going in the class, and the teacher wanted to show something from the small boys and girls. They had all drawn pictures, and one small boy had drawn a picture of an airplane with four windows. Even the bishop was struck: what kind of an idea of God he has? And from every window something looking like a man...?

The teacher said, "What is this? This is your idea of God?"

The boy said, "You have told us that God is a trinity: the first is God the Father -- you can see... with the beard of ancient old age. In the second window is the son -- you can even see the cross -- Jesus Christ. In the third you don't see any face because it is the holy ghost -- just something like a whirlwind."

The bishop and the teacher together asked him, "What about the fourth? From where the fourth has come?"

The little boy said, "The fourth?... Pontius the pilot. Without him the airplane will go out of control."

Don't be worried -- nature itself takes care of you. You RELAX...

And that is THE MEANING OF SURRENDER: that you relax and YOU ALLOW NATURE TO TAKE YOU WHEREVER IT WANTS TO TAKE YOU. You don't have any plan, you don't have any guidebook, you don't have a certain goal; you
don't have any desire to reach somewhere. Wherever nature takes you will be your home, will be your destiny.

OSHO
The Rebellious Spirit
Ch #21: Attention is invisible nourishment
pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium