Hammer on the Rock
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers    Dec. 1975 - Jan. '76
Pune, India
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    (Osho is talking here to a therapy group
    facilitator)

    ...No, then you will not become a real leader --
    and I would like you to become one.

    To be an assistant is one thing, because you
    work like a shadow, and the responsibility is not
    on you. But once you become a leader, the
    whole responsibility is on you -- and then just
    half/half won't help.

    Explode, and explode one hundred percent. Just
    by your explosion people will be helped. When a
    group sees that you are half-hearted, they will
    not even be half-hearted. They will only be
    twenty-five percent if you are fifty percent. The
    group will go only half the limit that the leader
    goes. You have to boil one hundred percent so
    you start evaporating. Only then will they have
    courage to move with you.

    The whole point of all therapies, of all group
    processes, is to create a situation where people
    can dare -- that's all. How you create that is
    irrelevant. You give them an impetus and a
    challenge. You open an abyss before them, and
    you tempt them to jump. The group is needed
    because when they are alone they will never
    dare, they will be much too afraid.

    But when they see that one can jump and still be
    alive -- and not only that, but more alive than
    ever; when they see that the abyss is not death
    but life abundant; when they see that one who
    has opened has gained something, has not lost
    anything, but has become richer and more vital
    -- then they start daring. One dares and another
    follows, then somebody else, and then it
    becomes a simple thing, a very simple
    phenomenon...

                                                      – Osho
                                   Hammer on the Rock, ch. 1
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    Hammer on the Rock　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Qiaoda shitou

    Chinese traditional:
    敲打石頭

    Chinese simplified:
    敲打石头