The Future Belongs to the Creative Man

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"The question you have asked has many implications. It is many questions in one.
"First, you say that at the age of sixty you are a two-year-old child as far as sannyas is concerned. This..."
The Future Belongs to the Creative Man
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"The question you have asked has many implications. It is many questions in one.
"First, you say that at the age of sixty you are a two-year-old child as far as sannyas is concerned. This..."

Osho continues:
"Between their birth and their death is a horizontal line. There are no peaks of delight, no sunlit peaks of ecstasy. There are no depths of love, of peace, of silence. There is just a horizontal, flat routine from the cradle to the grave; nothing happens. They come and they go.

"It is said that most people realize that they were alive only when they die – because life was so flat, so colorless. It was not a dance, it was not beauty, it was not a blessing; there was no gratitude in the heart: 'Existence has chosen me, and not anybody else in my place, that without me existence will be a little less. There is nobody else who can replace me; I am occupying a unique position and I never asked for it, I never deserved it. It is a sheer gift out of the abundance of existence.'

"It happened that Gautam Buddha was having a meeting with one of the most intelligent emperors of those days. Just in the middle of their dialogue an old sannyasin – must have been seventy-five years old – came to touch the feet of Buddha. He asked the emperor to forgive him because he was interfering in their conversation, but it was out of necessity. No Buddhist monk can travel in the night; they can move between sunrise and sunset, but at night they have to remain in one place.

"'I have been ordered to go to the nearest village, and I cannot go without touching the feet of my master. The sun is going down every moment, and your dialogue seems to go on and on – so please just forgive me.'

"Gautam Buddha asked the sannyasin, 'How old are you?'

"The emperor was very much puzzled; what was the need? – just bless him and let him go.

"And the old sannyasin said, 'Forgive me, I have come very late. My age is only four years.'

"The emperor was even more puzzled, and he could not contain himself. He said, 'This is too much! This man might be seventy-five, might be eighty, might be seventy, but not four years of age. Absolutely not!'

"Gautam Buddha said, 'Perhaps you do not know about the way we count age."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 145 mins
File Size 34.31 MB
Type Individual Talks