If success is there, enjoy it. If failure is there, enjoy it !

WHAT IS YOUR VIEW OF BEING SUCCESSFUL IN ORDINARY LIFE?
I AM AFRAID YOU ARE AGAINST SUCCESS!

I AM NEITHER AGAINST ANYTHING NOR FOR ANYTHING.

Whatsoever happens, happens.

One need not choose -- because with choice is misery.

If youwant to be successful then you will remain miserable. You may succeed, you may not succeed; but one thing is certain: you will remain miserable.

If you want to succeed, AND you succeed by chance, by coincidence, it is not going to fulfil you -- because this is the way of the mind.

Whatsoever you have got becomes meaningless, and the mind starts going ahead of you. It desires more and more and more -- the mind is nothing but the desire for more.

And this desire can never be fulfilled, because whatsoever you have got you can always imagine for more.

And the distance between that 'more' and that which you have got will remain constant.

This is one of the most constant things in human experience: everything changes,but the distance between that which you have and that which you would like to have remains constant.

So if you want to succeed, you may succeed, but you will not be content.

And what is the meaning of a success if you are not content? And this, I say, is only coincidence that you may succeed; the greater possibility is that you will fail,because you are not chasing success alone -- millions of people are chasing.

In a country of six hundred million people only one person can be the prime minister -- and six hundred million people are wanting to be the president or the prime minister.

So only one succeeds, and the WHOLE crowd fails. The greater possibility is that you will fail; mathematically that seems to be more certain than success.

If you fail you feel frustrated; your whole life seems to be a sheer wastage. If you succeed, you never succeed; if you fail, you fail -- this is the whole game.

You say that you suspect that I am against success -- no, I am not.

Because if you are against success, then again you have another idea of being successful; that is:how to drop this nonsense of being successful.

Then you have another idea...again the distance, again the desire.

Now, this is what makes people monks, makes people move into monasteries.

They are AGAINST success. They want to go out of the world where there is competition -- they want to escape from it all so that there will be no provocation, no temptation; they can rest in themselves.

And they try not to desire success --but this is a desire!

Now they have an idea of spiritual success: how to succeed and become a Buddha, how to succeed and become a Christ, how to succeed and become a Mahavir.

Again an idea, again the distance, again the desire -- again the whole game starts.I am not against success; that's why I am in the world, otherwise I would have escaped. I am not for it, I am not against it.

I say: Be a driftwood -- whatsoever happens, let it happen.

Don't have a choice of your own. Whatsoever comes on your way, welcome it.

Sometimes it is day, sometimes it is night; sometimes it is happiness, sometimes it is unhappiness -- you be choice less, you simply accept whatsoever is the case.

This is what I call the quality of a spiritual being. This is what I call religious consciousness.

It is neither for nor against -- because if you are for, you will be against; if you are against, you will be for.

And when you are for something or against something you have divided existence into two.

You have a choice, and choice is hell.

To be choice less is to be free of hell.

Let things be. You just go on moving, enjoying whatsoever becomes available.

If success is there, enjoy it. If failure is there, enjoy it -- because failure also brings a few enjoyments that no success can ever bring.

Success also brings a few joys that no failure can ever bring.

And a man who has no idea of his own is capable of enjoying everything, whatsoever happens.

OshO 
The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol 3