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. . . I Celebrate Myself
Last November, after visiting Taiwan for the first time, I promised to post some pictures of my trip on these pages, but there simply wasn’t enough time to get it all together before my tours to India and Brasil. But the pictures arrived, and finally I found time to work on them. I have chosen ones that Marga, centerleader of the Osho Shukra Center sent me. They are of the beautiful sannyas celebration at our event in the city of Taichung. I feel these pictures convey the essence of my trip more than anything I might say with words. |
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"To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible. To be a sannyasin means to live without the mind, and the moment you live without mind you live without society. The mind has created society, and society has created the mind; they are interdependent. To be a sannyasin means to renounce all that is false but not to renounce the world, to renounce all that is unauthentic, to renounce all the answers, to be responsive, spontaneously responsive, and not to think about the reasons, but to be real. This is difficult: there is much investment in falsity, in the masks, in the faces,
in the games you go on playing. To be initiated as a sannyasin means now you will try to be authentic; whatsoever the consequences, you will accept them and live in the present. You will sacrifice the future for the present; you will never sacrifice the present for the future. This moment will be the totality of your being, you will never move beforehand. This is what sannyas is: to kick the pot and walk out and not to wait for the results. Results will take care of themselves, they will follow you."
A Bird On The Wing, Chapter 5 |
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