Just around the Corner
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   May 1979
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
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    [The new sannyasin says: I'm not sure that all of
    me wants to be here, that all of me wants to be
    a sannyasin.]

    That is natural, that is natural. Never ask the
    impossible from yourself. Those demands are
    violent.

    Even if your major part wants to be here, that's
    enough... and I will seduce you slowly more and
    more! (laughter) Nothing to be worried about.
    Accept that part also that does not want to be
    here, because that too is you.

    And that other part is also important, very
    significant.

    It gives meaning to your yes. Your no gives
    meaning to your yes. Your no becomes the
    definition of your yes. The part that resists
    becomes the background of your surrender and
    trust. The darkness is not against light; in fact
    the light comes loud and clear when it is dark.
    Hence we can only see stars in the night, not in
    the day. They are there in the day too, they
    don't go anywhere, but the background is not
    there, the darkness is not there.

    As the night comes and darkness comes, stars
    start appearing. In fact to say that they start
    appearing is existentially wrong. They have
    always been there, but they start appearing to
    our eyes because the darkness gives the
    background.

    And my approach is not to deny anything, but to
    use everything. So I will also use that part which
    does not want to be here. I will not create a
    conflict in you. I will bridge both the parts, and
    when the opposites meet, great harmony arises.
    That part can be cut but then you will not be so
    rich.

    Your yes will be a little poorer because it will
    come out of helplessness, because you cannot
    say no. But you can say no and yet you are
    saying yes. Your yes has significance, validity. It
    is coming in spite of the no, hence it is
    valuable...

                                                      – Osho
                               Just around the Corner, ch. 1