You float with the stream !

So a person who goes on asking for his own desires to be fulfilled is going to be frustrated.

Either the desire is going to be fulfilled or not.

Misery will be the outcome.

If you start liking that which is happening, if you don’t put your own will against the whole, if you simply say okay, whatsoever happens you simply say ’Yes’, then you can never be miserable, because whatsoever happens, you are always in a positive attitude ready to receive it and enjoy it.

If it goes just according to your
nature, very good.

If it sometimes goes against your nature, you take it as part of growth.

If it is pleasure, good. If it is pain you accept it as a price to be paid for all the pleasures that are available in the world, the cost to be paid.

If it is pain, a positive, yes-saying person accepts it as a growth pain and is happy about it because through it, growth will happen.

If pleasure happens he accepts it as a gift of God. You cannot make him miserable. On one hand you cannot make a man happy if he is desiring too much and wanting this and that; it is impossible to make him happy.

On the other hand it is just the opposite.

A person may accept whatsoever happens with deep gratitude – whatsoever: good or bad, day or night, summer or winter, it makes no difference.

He simply accepts, because whatsoever God sends must be good, has to be good. ’If I cannot see
good in it then I have to grow into my awareness and see it.

Nothing is wrong in it, something is wrong in me.

So there is no need to be frustrated with it. The need is to grow more, to expand more, to understand more.

Pain is happening because I am still not so alert and aware. If I am really aware then pain becomes impossible.’

Awareness brings you into the rhythm of existence.

You become part of this organic unity. You don’t move alone and separate. You don’t function as an island, you don’t isolate yourself.

You are no more an ego and you don’t try to go upstream.

You float with the stream. 
In fact you become the stream. You have no will of your own; this is what surrender is.

Try this time.

OshO ❤
CHAPTER 27.
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose