Ihave heard.… When Pompei was burning and the whole town was rushing out, people were carrying whatever they could carry — jewels, gold, silver, valuable things.…
They were all crying and weeping because they had much that they couldnot carry — somebody has missed his child, somebody has missed his wife. It was a mad crowd. It was 3:00 am — only one man was coming out of the town quietly, silently, as if nothing had happened. He was a mystic. He had only a walking stick. Many people looked at him and said, ‘You look undisturbed.’
He said, ‘For what to get disturbed? I have nothing else — just this walking stick; and this is my time to go for amorning walk. So, for what?… Ihave nothing to lose!’ Live here in such a way that the ‘here’ does not become too important for you. When the time comes to leave, one should be able to go without looking back.
So, live here, my brother, that you may cross with ease to that other shore. And that other shore is not very far away, the other shore surrounds you everywhere. If you start living rightly — following these four steps: be here and now, learn to transform your poisons into honey, share your positivity, and be nothing — in 24 hours, you will cross many times from this shore to that — many times God will radiate within you.
Abridged from The Divine Melody, Talk #9, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com
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