The Great Nothing
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers    Sept. - Oct. 1976
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
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    [ A sannyasin who is leaving says: I am facing
    new things which I have not faced before. ]

    Very good. This new space is your reality.
    Whatsoever you have known up to now was not
    really you. It was the identity given by others --
    the parents, the society, the world. Now you are
    coming to encounter yourself.

    Sometimes it will be very scary -- so remember it.
    Sometimes you will feel that you are losing your
    identity... getting lost. So remember, that is how it
    has to be -- and go into it. Lose all track of
    yourself, and then for the first time you will be
    back home. You have to dissolve into this new
    space.

    There is going to be a great struggle between
    the old and the new. Ahead there is going to be
    almost a war within you, because the new will try
    to spread all over you, and the old will try to
    resist, to fight it back, not to allow it to happen.

    There is going to be a conflict, a wrestling,
    between you and you, your past and your future,
    that which you have been up to now and that
    which you are going to be from now on.

    So always remember that the past has to be
    dropped and the future has to be chosen. It is
    risky... the past is very secure, comfortable,
    convenient -- but it is dead. It is like a grave. If
    you choose it, you choose death.

    The future is very scary, frightening, but it is
    open. It is alive. It is adventure. Risk is there,
    insecurity is there, but that's how life flowers -- in
    insecurity...

                                                         – Osho
                                         The Great Nothing, ch. 1
    The Great Nothing　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Weida de kong wu

    Chinese traditional:
    偉大的空無

    Chinese simplified:
    伟大的空无