THE UNPLANNED (UN-PROGRAMMED) LIFE There is no planning in existence. An unplanned life has tremendous beauty, because there is always some surprise waiting in the future. The future is not just going to be a repetition; something new is always happening, and one can never take it for granted. Secure people live a bourgeois life. A bourgeois life means getting up at seven-thirty, taking your breakfast at eight, at eight-thirty catching the train to the town, returning home at five-thirty, taking your tea, reading your newspaper, watching TV, having supper, making love to your partner without any love, and going to bed. Again the same thing starts the next day. Everything is settled, and there is no surprise: The future will be nothing but the past repeated again and again. Naturally there is no fear. You have done these things so many times that you have become skillful. You can do them again. With the new comes fear, because one never knows whether one will be able to do it. One is doing always for the first time, so one is always shaky, uncertain about whether one is going to make it or not. But in that very thrill, in that adventure, is life-aliveness, let us say, rather than life, because life has also become a dull and dead word - aliveness, the flow. osho
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:36:23 +0000
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