Osho: Be realistic plan for a miracle   The sacred is adventure. It is risky—but there is no other way to live. Danger is the only dimension.   If you don't like anything, whatsoever it is, to remain in it even for a single moment is suicidal. Then whatsoever the risk, come out of it. Because it is not only a question of coming out of it —it will release your energy, and you will be able to commit it somewhere else. When you close one door, another opens. If you don't close this door, no other door opens —because it is the same energy which has to open the other door.

Introduction by Deva Deep

I noticed that several of my female friends, aged between 34 and 43, are going or have gone through the same kind of moods, through which I also was going in that period of my life.

The common ‘symptoms’ are not being happy with your job or your relation or both. Or losing your job or your partner. It can also manifest itself as low energy, depression or burn out.

From an astrological viewpoint this is caused by major Uranus and Pluto transits, which we all have around this time period. These energies are so strong that you can’t ignore them. Really you don’t have a choice here. If you go with this energy miracles become possible, if you try to keep everything ‘normal’ of course these energies will also work out by seemingly outer circumstances: You are fired or you partner walks suddenly away. Making it much harder to cope with this strong energy and if you still refuse to change and want more or less to continue in the old way, illness and depression can follow.

In my life period from 35 to 40 years I have been in the same Uranus-Pluto energy. I decided to go with the energy. In this way Osho came in my life and a vision of a new kind of life, became clearer. I had the strong feeling to start a complete new life, leaving everything behind. I had a very good well paid job, friends, a wife, kids and all the material possessions, and so on. But at the same time I had the strong feeling that this is not all, this is not my destiny in life.

To leave everything behind you and make the jump into the unknown is not easy, as I see with some of my friends too. But if you make the inner decision to go for it, the outer circumstances will adjust to it and start creating new possibilities and start guiding you.

During that time 1978, there was almost nothing about Osho in the Netherlands. I walked into town, went into a bookshop and the first thing I saw was a book of Osho: Be realistic plan for a miracle. The book started with the same question I had and the answer gave me strength, resolveance and dedication. Yes, this is it: Be realistic plan for a miracle and this is the Master I am going to be with, and no force in the world can prevent me. And yes this is such a powerful force (in that time Star Wars was popular: May the force be with you!) that suddenly miracle after miracle started happening. In 1977 I did a psycho synthesis group with a wonderful woman named Grace Stern and at the end we had to make a list of ten topics, which we really wanted in our lives, if everything would be possible and miracles could happen. Of course at that point I thought, this can not happen. Ten years later I found this list again and EVERYTHING had been realized. Indeed: Be realistic plan for a miracle.

The outcome depends strongly on how dedicated you are. Lukewarm will not do. The spiritual pathless path is for the courageous one, the dare devils. Therefore trust is so important. Trust that existence cares for you and guides you.

A sannyasin who was leaving Poona to return to London told Osho that he was not really happy in his work as a dental surgeon, but that he didn't know what he could do as an alternative, and that, in a way, he was reluctant to let go of it as it was easy for him. He said that there was a similar situation in a relationship he was having with a woman. Though it wasn't particularly good, he was reluctant to let go of that too. He then added...

MANGALAM

. . . It's   crazy that I should ask you   these things. . . I've got my own mind.

OSHO:

No, you ask. . .that is a way of making up your mind, mm? Now you are part of me and I am as much involved in you as you are —even more. So don't think that you are crazy.

Just tell me. Even telling me will be of much help.

I cannot decide for you, but I can help you to decide. These two things. . .something else? There must be a third thing also.

Well . . . I have a tendency to be negative, critical, low energy. . . .

Mm mm . . . because that third is the most basic, and these two are coming out of it.

If you feel a basic low energy, then you cannot make any decision. That is the problem for a low energy person, mm? You cannot decide —you go on thinking and thinking and wavering your whole life. But remember one thing —whether you decide or not, a decision is continuously being taken. Even if you can't decide —that too is a decision.

For example, if you don't decide to leave this woman, you are deciding to be with her. The other is also as much a decision. Sometimes for a low energy person, the decision that looks like a no-decision becomes the only decision in life.

So what I will suggest is that you don't think that you have to change your profession.

Rather than think whether you have to do it, decide whether you are to remain a dentist. Do you want to remain a dentist? Don't decide the other thing. . .decide this.

And if you are not decisive, don't continue in it. Sit and meditate, and if you cannot decide, remain suspended. You follow my point? If you cannot decide this, then the same has to be done with the other —because it is the same problem. The problem is the third.

That's why I insist that there is a third problem, more basic. These two are just off-shoots. And it always happens that off-shoots look like real problems. The real problem — that you cannot face this reality of your being low energy, that you don't want it, that you don't like it—is hiding somewhere else.

If you cannot make a decision, remain suspended —and that suspension will help. It will help you to come out of it, or end it. Either way it will help . . . but you will have to take a decision.

What I am insisting is that it is going to be a very healthy exercise for you to decide. If you remain a dental surgeon, then it has to be your decision, not otherwise. It should

not be like a no-decision . . . that's bad. You have been asking the question from the wrong side, and that's a trick of the mind. So always remember that a no-decision is also a decision.

For nine years you have continued to be a dental surgeon and you don't like it. That's suicidal. Nothing is wrong with dentistry. If you like it, it is beautiful. If you don't like it, it is poisonous. Anything that you don't like and you continue against yourself is going to create a very suicidal situation. And the more you remain in it, the less you will be capable of coming out of it, because habits become stronger and stronger. You will become more and more involved in it. And you will lose courage —because the more you are in a profession, settled, comfortable, the more risky it becomes. For a dentist to become a musician after nine years is difficult.

After twenty years it will become impossible, because then the risk is too much; then you are moving onto the streets. So don't waste time!

If you don't like anything, whatsoever it is, to remain in it even for a single moment is suicidal. Then whatsoever the risk, come out of it. Because it is not only a question of coming out of it —it will release your energy, and you will be able to commit it somewhere else. When you close one door, another opens. If you don't close this door, no other door opens —because it is the same energy which has to open the other door.

If you go on clinging to one woman and you don't want her and you don't feel good, it is a constant trouble. It is not only poisonous to you, it is poisonous to her. If you are not kind to yourself, at least be kind to her; at least be human to her. Because it is not only that you are crippling yourself; you are crippling her also.

Any relationship that becomes miserable is going to cripple both the participants. Not only this relationship . .. if you remain in it too long it will cripple your future relationships also. It will affect them because it will become part of your past ... it will hang around you. There is every possibility that you will again find the same type of woman — and you will again get into trouble and go on repeating the same pattern.

So whenever you feel a relationship is not going well, I don't say come out of it— I say jump out of it! Don't waste a single moment. There are millions of other women . . . one door closes, all other doors open. And the moment you move, another door will become possible for her also.

If you don't fit, that doesn't mean that you will not fit with anyone else. If she doesn't fit with you, that doesn't mean that she will not fit with anybody else. But you can be related to a person who doesn't fit. Neither you nor the other person is wrong. You simply don't fit . . . you are not made for each other.

You cannot do anything which will make you fit. If you try too hard to, you may start adjusting—which is not fitting.

That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a relationship—when two persons settle for adjustment. And if you are long enough in a difficult relationship, what can you do? You have to adjust. Then you settle for something that is not worthwhile. You drop all the romance of life and all poetry. Your life will lose all significance and grandeur. It will become very ordinary, very mundane ... in fact, profane. It will lose the dimension of the sacred.

The sacred exists with the romantic, with the poetic. The sacred is adventure. It is risky—but there is no other way to live. Danger is the only dimension.

Both your relationship with this woman and your profession come from your deep-rooted inability to decide. So you go on clinging; whatsoever the case, you will cling. But still, there is a possibility—you have not settled yet. That's good. You are not yet adjusted . . . that's good . . . that gives hope.

But don't waste more time in it. Just take the jump out of it. At least at the most you can be a beggar, that's all

(a chuckle). What is wrong in being a beggar? You can play on your guitar, sing, and you will be as happy as a king. ¹⁾

You can become rich by being a dental surgeon, and you can earn enough money to have a beautiful house and a beautiful car . . . but you will become ugly. Be realistic: plan for a miracle!

So go back, and immediately drop out of it. There is nothing to worry about. At the most one can become a beggar. At the most death can happen—which is going to happen anyhow, mm? Take courage. . . . And I am coming with you.

Don't give it a single thought again—just get out of it. All thinking is bourgeois. It is mediocre, middle class. Thinking is always cowardly. So don't think. Simply go and close all the old doors . . . and don't look back.

And if there is any trouble, come back, mm? This ashram is yours, so come back. Don't be worried ... I can find you one of the best women in the world (laughter). Mm? I manage all sorts of things! ²⁾

Source: Osho Be realistic plan for a miracle. Dharsan diary March 13^th 1976.

Notes:

 ¹⁾ What is wrong in being a beggar and you will be as happy as a king. Indeed living in a simple bamboo hut, without water and electricity or any material comfort has been one of the happiest periods of my life.

²⁾ ... I can find you one of the best women in the world (laughter). Mm? I manage all sorts of things! Not one, several women. See also Real Female Beauty and Power: Kindness. And not only that, but also being at the top of the world in the major search engines with many girls/women related terms.

And coming back to the Netherlands in 1981 possessing nothing, only some clothes at the age 44, I got a beautiful 22 years young dream girl, a house in one of the loveliest places in the Netherlands at the sea side. (I love being close to the sea) and much more.