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[A new sannyasin says he has no idea how long he will stay here.]

 

 

Mm mm, that's right -- that's perfectly right. One day that idea will also disappear! When you have found your real home that idea will disappear.

 

Everybody has a deep longing for the home but it has nothing to do with the physical home. The physical home has become just an object for a deep longing for the home -- it is just an excuse. Because we don't know the real home we create a small home and we cling to it. This gives a sort of consolation, it makes one feel that one has a home. In fact, we don't have any home on this earth. The home exists not here -- the home is somewhere inwards, very deep in the innermost core of your being, but to go there is a long journey and arduous and dangerous.

 

This is simple, to create a home and to feel that one is at home. And in this world you are never at home ! To convert a house into a home is a psychological trick -- it helps; it is like a tranquilliser. It is like the blanket of linus: it helps one to feel secure, to feel that one is not uprooted, that one has roots, that one has somewhere to go, that one belongs somewhere. Hence we create countries, nations, motherlands, fatherlands, churches, temples and a thousand and one things, but the search is for the home... and you cannot find it anywhere outside.

 

One day that idea will also disappear; when you start looking for the right home all ideas about the outside disappear.

 

And I am not saying that you have to leave your outside home -- there is no need -- but one comes to know that this is not the home. It is perfectly good as a house, comfortable.... Make it as comfortable as possible. I am not ascetic at all and I am not against the world, I am all for it. But still the truth remains that the home is not there outside: the home is some inner thing, inner phenomenon... the kingdom of god is within.

 

-Osho, "Far Beyond the Stars, #24“