What Is, Is,
What Ain't, Ain't
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Feb. 1977
Pune, India
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    This will be your new name... and the end of the
    old life and the beginning of the totally new. Let
    it be totally new. Sometimes a thing is new, but
    not totally new -- then it doesn't work. Then it is
    just a modification of the old, a continuity with
    the past. Only the discontinuous works --
    absolute discontinuity with the past; only that is
    radical.

    Sannyas is a radical change from the very
    roots... a decision to commit suicide as far as
    the past is concerned, and a decision to be born
    again as far as the future is concerned. It is a
    vital decision of tremendous import -- but
    everything depends on you.

    So be very understanding about it -- that from
    this very moment your past is dropped, that it
    doesn't belong to you any more, that it was
    fictitious, that it was a dream you were passing
    through, that it was a projection of the mind, that
    you are awakened from that dream.

    And the new has to be totally new. Totally new
    means that which you cannot recognise. If you
    can recognise it, that means it is something of
    the old -- otherwise from where will the
    recognition come?

    So from this moment be a stranger, an outsider,
    as far as this world is concerned. Move in the
    world but don't be of it. Remain aloof... remain
    alert.

    And I am giving you a very significant name:
    Swami Veet Kalpu. It means beyond imagination.
    Veet means beyond, kalpu means imagination...

                                                       – Osho
                         What Is, Is, What Ain't, Ain't, ch. 1
    What Is, Is, What Ain't, Ain't

    Chinese pinyin:
    Shenme shi, shi,
    shenme bu shi, bu shi

    Chinese traditional:　
    什麼是，是，
    什麼不是，不是

    Chinese simplified:
    什么是，是，
    什么不是，不是