Trust Is a State of Your Being

Individual Talk

From:The Secret

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I am in deep confusion about trust and action. Part of me says, 'If you sit back, nothing will happen. God helps those who help themselves,' while another part of me says, 'Don't do anything. Don't push the river. Just trust and everything will be all right.'
I am neither trusting enough nor active enough. I am caught between the two, or move from one position to the other. Can you say something about this please?
I am in deep confusion about trust and action. Part of me says, 'If you sit back, nothing will happen. God helps those who help themselves,' while another part of me says, 'Don't do anything. Don't push the river. Just trust and everything will be all right.'
I am neither trusting enough nor active enough. I am caught between the two, or move from one position to the other. Can you say something about this please?

Osho continues:
"Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right. Trust knows no future; trust knows only the present. The moment you think of the future, it is already distrust.

"The moment you start thinking, 'Everything will be all right if I can trust,' your mind is active, you are not trusting."

"You are simply trying to manipulate existence, now through passivity, but the manipulation is there. Inactivity is not trust. If this motive is there, that 'Everything has to be all right for me,' you are watching by the corner of the eye. You have not yet understood what trust is.

"You are hanging between activity and inactivity, and activity and inactivity are just two aspects of the same coin. They are not opposites, they are complementaries. And you will go on hanging between those, wavering between those two, because when you will do something, sooner or later you will get tired.

"Each action brings tiredness, and then one starts hoping that something will happen through inaction. If you are in inaction, through inaction you will get bored sooner or later. Every inactivity bores, and then you move to action. This is the duality of action and inaction. You have not yet known what trust is.

"Trust is neither action nor inaction. Trust can act, trust can be inactive. Trust simply means all is already right; there is no need to hanker for something else. 'A' need not be 'B.' Whatsoever you are, you are, and it is good. Relaxing into it does not mean becoming inactive – because you may be an active person, so if you relax in it, great activity will be released. Or you may be an inactive person: if you relax in it, great inactivity may be released. But that has nothing to do with you. You are not deciding whether to be active or inactive; you are simply relaxing into whosoever you are. Then whatsoever happens happens, whatsoever is happening is happening, and all is good, because God is.

"I am not saying, let me repeat again, that you will necessarily become inactive, no. Lao Tzu will become inactive, Krishna will not become inactive, but both are men of trust. Then where do they meet? – because their personalities are totally different, not only different but diametrically opposite. Krishna lives a life of intense activity and Lao Tzu lives a life of tremendous passivity, but both are men of trust.

"Lao Tzu has trusted and relaxed and this is what he finds happening to him, that he falls deeper and deeper into passivity."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 101 mins
File Size 19.51 MB
Type Individual Talks