Patience Is a Flame Burning Bright

Individual Talk

From:The Beloved, Vol. 2

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Osho,
Why doesn't trust arise out of the decision to trust?

"Trust is not a decision on your part. You cannot decide for it. When you are finished with doubting, when you have..."
Patience Is a Flame Burning Bright
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Osho,
Why doesn't trust arise out of the decision to trust?

"Trust is not a decision on your part. You cannot decide for it. When you are finished with doubting, when you have..."

Osho continues:
"It appears opposite, but it is not – because you cannot destroy light by bringing darkness in. You cannot bring darkness in. There is no way to destroy light by throwing darkness on it. Darkness has never been able to destroy the small flame of a very small candle. The whole darkness of the existence is impotent before a small candle.

"Why is it so? If darkness is opposite, inimical, antagonistic, then it should be capable sometimes to defeat light. It is sheer absence. Darkness is because light is not. When light is, darkness is not. When you put a light on in your room, have you watched what happens? Darkness does not go out of the room; it is not that darkness escapes out of the room. It is found simply not to be there. It never was – it is pure negativity.

"Doubt is like darkness, trust is like light. If you have doubt, then you will decide for trust. Otherwise there is no need to decide for trust. Why decide for it? You must be having tremendous doubt. The greater the doubt, the greater the need is felt to create trust. So whenever somebody says, 'I trust very strongly,' remember that he is fighting against a very strong doubt. That's how people become fanatics. The fanaticism is born because they have created a false trust. Their doubt is alive, their doubt is not finished. The doubt has not disappeared, the doubt is there. And to fight with the doubt they have created a trust against it. If the doubt is very strong, they have to cling fanatically to their trust. Whenever somebody says that, 'I am a staunch believer,' remember, deep down in his heart he is carrying disbelief. Otherwise, there is no need to be a strong believer. Simple trust is enough – why strong? If you say to somebody, 'I love you very strongly,' something is wrong. Love is enough.

"Love is not a quantity. When somebody says, 'I love you very much,' something is wrong, because love is not a quantity. You cannot love less and more. Either you love or you don't love. The division is very clear-cut."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 73 mins
File Size 20.87 MB
Type Individual Talks
Edition/ Version 2