Total acceptance is the key that fits all the locks

THE MIND IS NOTHING BUT CONFLICT. Just imagine a moment when there is no conflict within and without... nobody to fight with, and nobody to fight. Can the mind exist in that moment? How can the mind exist in a moment of non-conflict? There will be no need. So you are in a vicious circle: you want to get rid of the mind, and the very effort to get rid of the mind feeds the mind. This way you will go on moving in a vicious circle. No, that's not the way to get out of it. ACCEPT IT.
 
TOTAL ACCEPTANCE IS THE KEY. It is the master key... it opens all the doors. There is no lock that cannot be opened by it; IT SIMPLY FITS ALL THE LOCKS, because the moment you accept a certain thing, a transformation has started in your being because now there is no conflict. YOU ARE NOT TWO. IN ACCEPTANCE YOU HAVE BECOME ONE, YOU HAVE BECOME A UNITY.
 
  REMEMBER YOUR UNITY, YOUR COMPLEXITY. It is beautiful. Desires are beautiful. Passion is good -- IF YOU ACCEPT IT, IT WILL BECOME COMPASSION. If you accept the desires, by and by you will see that the same energy is becoming desirelessness. It is the same energy that was involved in the desires. When you accept the desires, by and by you relax, you become non-tense, and energy starts streaming more naturally. You start seeing things as they are. You are not too much involved with this desire or that. You have accepted, so there is no problem.
 
Then your insight starts opening, YOUR THIRD EYE STARTS FUNCTIONING. You have a vision, a total vision of your life... of all the desires, passions, thoughts, dreams, imaginations, fantasies, everything you can see all around you. IN THAT VISION YOU ARE BEYOND IT, BECAUSE YOU BECOME A WITNESS.
 
DON'T MAKE ANY SPLIT WITHIN YOURSELF; YOU ARE ONE -- and take yourself as one. And whatsoever is within you, you have to love it, you have to move into its mystery, you have to known it to the very end.
 
 If desire is there, then the desire has to be penetrated to the very core of its existence -- it has to be known. And only through that knowing, the energy involved in knowing is released; it becomes desirelessness. But it is the same energy.
 
SO ACCEPT YOURSELF, DON'T CONDEMN, and don't create any guilt. There is no need to drop anything. Everything has to be used in a higher unity and nothing is to be dropped. NOTHING IS USELESS.
 
That's my understanding -- that nothing has to be discarded. EVERYTHING MUST HAVE SOME MEANING IN IT. If we don't know, then wait and try to know what it is. But don't be in a hurry and don't throw it, otherwise later on you will repent.
 
If you throw anger, you will never be able to have compassion. If you throw greed, you will never be able to share. They look opposite, they are not. It is the same energy.
 
OSHO
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Ch #19, a darshan diary
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