The Further Shore
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   June 1977
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
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    [ A sannyasin says: Just that I hope to make
    more progress with myself. I've been working on
    myself, and I hope I get somewhere with it.... It's
    so joyous being here. ]

    You will grow every day. Just relax and meditate
    and sing and dance and forget the whole world!

    This community is to forget the whole world.
    Now this community is your world and nothing
    else exists, so get lost in it, utterly lost.

    And you will grow.... Growth is very easy if we
    allow it to happen, and the way to allow it to
    happen is to be joyful, cheerful. Growth
    happens in laughter... growth happens in
    innocence. Growth happens when you are
    dancing and singing. When you are moving,
    your spirit moves too. When you are not
    moving, your spirit also gets stuck.

    Spiritual growth is just like a shadow: if you
    dance, it dances; if you become sad, it becomes
    sad; if you laugh, it laughs. So let laughter be
    your goal. Mm? -- that is the virtue to be
    learned. Never be sad! Let there be a thousand
    and one reasons to be sad, but don't be sad;
    find a way to be happy and to laugh. And if one
    is insistent, one can find something to laugh
    about and something to be happy for in every
    situation.

    It is only a question of our choice. The world
    consists of both things: of bliss, of misery. If you
    want to choose bliss, it is available; it is only a
    question of choice. You have to just shift your
    awareness and it is there...

                                                         – Osho
                                        The Further Shore, ch. 1
    The Further Shore　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Bi an

    Chinese traditional:
    彼岸

    Chinese simplified:
    彼岸