Don't Just Do
Something,
Sit There
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Sept. 1977
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
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    Prem means love and patanga is a special
    moth that is very much attracted to fire, flame,
    and whenever there is flame the moth will
    come and jump into it. Its only love is fire. And
    hence the name 'patanga' has become a
    metaphor in the east -- a metaphor for the
    lover.

    A lover has to be like the moth -- ready to
    jump into fire, ready to die, ready to
    disappear. God is the flame and the seeker
    has to be the moth....

    [The new sannyasin says: I have been
    dancing since I was nine years old, but I never
    felt so much energy as here. When I danced
    here it was incredible!]

    That's true! Here the whole energy is of
    dance. And now your quality of dance will
    change: you will get more into it. It will not be
    just a profession; it will become a vocation.
    And when one can do something with great
    love, devotion, then each thing in life becomes
    meditation. And dance is such a beautiful
    phenomenon. There is nothing like dance as
    far as meditation is concerned.

    So you have one of the most blessed
    vocations available to humanity. Your very
    work can become your meditation. So now
    dance with the idea that it has to be not just
    technically correct -- that's okay; technically it
    has to be correct. But it has to be meditative.
    Bring a quality of silence into it. And while you
    are dancing, rather than manipulating
    yourself, relax; relax into it, let things happen...

                                                  – Osho
          Don't Just Do Something, Sit There, ch. 1
    Don't Just Do Something, Sit There　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Shenme ye buyao zuo, zuo zai nali

    Chinese traditional:
    什麼也不要做，坐在那裏

    Chinese simplified:
    什么也不要做，坐在那里