Don't Look
before You Leap
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers    July 1978
Pune, India

    Prem means love, renu means dust -- love dust.
    But once dust is of love it is divine. Love
    transforms it: then it is no more dust; it is dust
    only if love is missing. If love is missing then man
    is nothing but dust. Once love enters into life,
    dust becomes aflame with the divine. The only
    transforming force is love...


    Prem means love, shikha means flame -- a love
    flame. Love happens like a flame: it is a flame in
    the heart. It is fire, although cool. It is fire, it
    burns, but it gives a new life too. It is death and
    resurrection both...


    Veet means beyond, manohar means man --
    beyond man. Man is a paradox: he can only be
    man when he surpasses himself. Man is not born
    as man but only as an opportunity. One can be,
    one can miss it too. It is not a certainty, it is not a
    given fact -- it is only a potentiality, and there is
    every possibility to miss it.

    The majority of people miss it, and the
    fundamental reason for their missing is that they
    think that they are already man. Nobody is born
    as man. The form is there, but the soul is not.
    The body is there, but the spirit is lacking.

    So as man finds himself, he has to continuously
    transcend it. In that very transcendence, he
    really becomes a man; that is the paradox. By
    continuously transcending, one arrives at one's
    reality.

    I call it a paradox because the being is revealed
    only through becoming...

                                                      – Osho
                        Don't Look Before You Leap, ch. 1
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    Don't Look Before You Leap　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Zai tiaoyue qian buyao xian kan

    Chinese traditional:
    在跳躍前不要先看

    Chinese simplified:
    在跳跃前不要先看