Existence Takes Care !

Just today Vivek was crying and saying, ”You say that existence takes care, but existence is not taking care.”

It has to be understood because that question may be in many people’s minds.

Whenever we think such things we always have a demand, and if it is fulfilled then existence is taking care.

Vivek gave examples where existence did not take care: ”Socrates, Jesus, al-Hillaj Mansoor...

They were crucified and killed and existence did not take care.

Soon you will be crucified.

How can we believe that Existence takes care?”

The problem is very significant.

I would like to say to you: this is the way existence took care.

Socrates had no demand.

And perhaps this was the best way for Socrates to die – because if he had died in another way his teaching would have died too.

His teaching is far more important than his physical body.

And that physical body was going to die any day; it was not going to last forever.

Perhaps it was going to die exactly the same day without poisoning.

But the poisoning made one thing clear to the whole world – that his teaching will be preserved, that his teaching has been recognized as dangerous to all old rotten lies.

And it is still contemporary.

Many great thinkers have happened after Socrates, but they are not still contemporary.

Existence has taken care – but it takes care in its own way, not
according to your desires, because if you have desires, demands, you are not trusting existence.

Trust simply means that whatever is happening and is going to happen is perfectly right.

Existence is wiser than any individual, because an individual has a small consciousness.

Even if he is enlightened he is still just a dewdrop in this vast ocean of existence.

And what existence feels
is right.

If it feels that al-Hillaj Mansoor should be killed, it is right. If it feels that Jesus should be crucified, it is right.

Trust simply means that whatever happens we are with it, joyously, not reluctantly, not unwillingly –

Then you miss the whole point – but dancingly, with a song, with laughter, with love.

Whatever happens is for the good.

Existence cannot go wrong.

If it does not fulfill our desires, that simply means our desires were wrong.

OshO❤
CHAPTER 3. ENCHANTED WITH THE UNKNOWN
The Path of the Mystic