Notes From Osho's Courage

Notes From Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

by OSHO

Don't call it uncertainty – call it wonder

Don't call it insecurity – call it freedom

I know you come here seeking certainty, security. I would like to make you less secure because that is the way life is, that's how God is. When there is more insecurity and more danger the only way to respond to it is by awareness.

There are two possibilities: Either you close your eyes and become dogmatic, - attach to a dogma, the more strict the better.Then you become like an ostrich. It does't change your life; it simply closes your eyes. It simply makes you stupid. It simply makes you unintelligent and in your unintelligence you feel secure – all idiots feel secure. In fact only idiots feel secure. A truly alive human will always feel insecure. What kind of security can there really be?

Life is not a mechanical process; it cannot be certain. It is an unpredictable mystery. Nobody knows what is going to happen in the next moment. Not even God who you think resides in the seventh Heaven, if He is there, knows what is going to happen because if he knows what's going to happen then life is just bogus, then everything is written beforehand and everything is predestined beforehand. If God knows what's going to happen in the next moment then life is just a dead mechanical process. Then there is no freedom and how can life exist without freedom.

No nothing is secure because a secure life would be worse than death. Life is full of insecurities and surprises and that is it;s beauty. You can never come to a moment where you can say “I am certain.” When you say certain you simply declare your death.

Life goes on moving in a thousand and one uncertainties. There is freedom. Don;t call it insecurity.