Nothing To Lose
but Your Head
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Feb.- Mar. 1976
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
Osho Books—Darshan Diaries

    [ A visitor asked what the agreement of sannyas
    meant. ]

    That you are no more. It is a total surrender. No
    agreement -- because in an agreement there
    are two parties. You simply surrender. Much
    courage is needed...

    It is not an agreement because it is not a legal
    thing. It is just a love affair... you fall in love. It is
    not an agreement because it is not a marriage.
    So if you feel love for me you take the jump and
    of course it needs courage, the greatest
    courage. All other courages are nothing
    compared to it, because before you were
    moving on familiar ground.

    Even if something new was there, it was not
    absolutely new. You knew it somehow; it had a
    context in your past, with your mind, with your
    intellect. You simply move in deep trust.

    Much happens through it -- and there is no
    other way of happening -- because once you
    put yourself aside, all barriers drop. Suddenly
    you are open, vulnerable. That is the meaning
    of courage -- to remain vulnerable. Whatsoever
    happens, one remains open. Storms may come,
    but still one never closes the doors. Once you
    close the door, it is closed against the enemy. It
    is also closed against the friend. A closed door
    makes no difference between the enemy and
    the friend.

    In fear we close ourselves. Of course we close
    ourselves against death -- but life is also left
    outside. This is the risk: if you want to live, you
    have to live with death constantly...

                                                     – Osho
                  Nothing To Lose but Your Head, ch. 1
    Nothing To Lose but Your Head

    Chinese pinyin:
    Chu le ni de naodai, mei shenme diu le

    Chinese traditional:
    除了你的腦袋，沒什麼丟了

    Chinese simplified:
    除了你的脑袋，没什么丢了