Right and wrong go on changing continuously

A sannyasin from Ethiopia said he had difficulty in communicating with friends, as he felt that they tended to make him feel in the wrong, so that he would doubt himself even when he felt himself to be right sometimes.

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THE FIRST THING: THERE IS NOTHING LIKE RIGHT OR WRONG. It depends. It depends on the standpoint. There is not something very solid about which one can decide that this is right and that is wrong -- there are no such values.

THE SAME THING CAN BE RIGHT TO ONE PERSON AND WRONG TO ANOTHER, because it more or less depends on the person. The same thing can be right in one moment for a person and in another moment it can be wrong... BECAUSE IT DEPENDS ON THE SITUATION.

BUT WE ALL CARRY A HANGOVER, a hangover which has been implanted in us for centuries, as if there is something right and something which is wrong. You have been taught in Aristotelian categories: this is right and that is wrong. This is white and that is black. This is God and that is Devil.

These categories are false. LIFE IS NOT DIVIDED INTO BLACK AND WHITE -- a lot of it is more like gray.

AND IF YOU SEE VERY DEEPLY, white is one extreme of gray and black is another extreme, but the expanse is of gray. So one can see it as white and one can see it as black. It is as if a glass is there, half full, half empty. Somebody says it is half full and this is the truth and somebody says it is half empty and this is the truth... and they start fighting. ALL ARGUMENTS ARE MORE OR LESS LIKE THAT. Reality is more gray -- it has to be so because it is not divided anywhere. There are no watertight compartments anywhere. This is a foolish categorization, but it has been implanted in our mind. We always say that this answer is right and that answer is wrong.

This whole evaluation is absurd and nobody has the right to decide -- neither you nor your friends. YOU HAVE TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF AND THEY HAVE TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES -- so don't interfere in their life and don't allow them to interfere in your life. I am not saying that you will do something today and that tomorrow you won't feel that it is wrong. But I still say that yesterday it was right. You understand me?

Just the moment afterwards you can feel that it was wrong -- but this is not you of the moment before. ONE MOMENT HAS PASSED, NOW YOUR STANDPOINT IS DIFFERENT. Now you are looking at it in a different way. You have become more experienced. At least you have that experience that you did not have before you decided. It may look wrong. Tomorrow again it may look right.

So, RIGHT AND WRONG GO ON CHANGING CONTINUOUSLY.

Then what to do? If somebody wants to decide absolutely, he will be paralyzed, he will not be able to act. IF YOU WANT THAT YOU ACT ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE AN ABSOLUTE DECISION ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, YOU WILL BE PARALYZED. You will not be able to act in life. One has to act and to act in a relative world. There is no absolute decision, so don't wait for it. Just watch, see, and WHATSOEVER YOU FEEL IS RIGHT, DO.
 
OSHO
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
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