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Wandering : When you travel, you are not interested in travelling itself

Wandering

 

 

When you travel, you travel with a goal in the mind. When you travel, you are not interested in travelling itself; your whole focus is on the goal and you miss all that is along the way.

 

A wanderer is one who is not going anywhere in particular... who is simply enjoying the wandering. North is good, South is also good. If he reaches East, good; if he reaches West, good. Wherever he reaches he will enjoy. The whole earth is his; the whole existence is his. He is not going anywhere. He has no mind to go anywhere, so wherever he is, he is totally there.

 

When you have a mind to go somewhere you cannot be totally in places where you don't want to be. You have already moved in the mind, in your imagination. Physically you may exist here but in the mind you have already reached where your goal is. The mind always hovers around the goal. When there is no goal the mind has no place to abide in.

 

So in the East the wanderer has been one of the most important devices of sannyas. Buddhists call the wanderer 'parivragika' -- one who goes from one place to another. Not that he has to go anywhere; he just enjoys being anywhere, all over the place. He never stays in one place long. He never burdens any place long. He does not make a house anywhere. The tent is his house, so he can fix it anywhere and it becomes his house. He can unfix it any moment and it is on his shoulders. He is a vagabond.

 

This wandering by and by relaxes one totally in the moment. Then you can enjoy all along, whatsoever is there -- the moon, the trees, the birds, the people, strangers, unknown places.

 

-Osho, "Don't Just Do Something, Sit There, #8“

 

 

 

 

Life is a wandering, it is not a home. It is a search for the home, but it itself is not the home. It is an inquiry, an adventure. It is not necessarily that you will succeed -- success is very rare, because the search is very complex and there are a thousand and one difficulties on the way.

 

-Osho, "The Book of Wisdom, #17“

 

 

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Osho Dictionary

A Spiritual Dictionary for the Here and Now

List of Articles
No. Category Subject
47 W Waiting : Meditation is waiting without prospect, waiting for waiting's sake.
46 W Waking up : All that you are is your self-creation. In a single moment, you can awake.
» W Wandering : When you travel, you are not interested in travelling itself
44 W War : The greatest wars have been fought in the name of peace.
43 W War : War is basically irreligious. But Christians, Mohammedans, and all other religions say that if you die in a religious war, your reward will be great in the other world.
42 W Warmth : To remain warm is very natural to life. Life is warmth: death is cold.
41 W Watch the Mind : It is not a thing, it is just a process
40 W Watcher : You are the watcher, you are the witness
39 W Watching : The real silence happens when you start watching the noise of your mind.
38 W Watching : Watching is the key of meditation
37 W Water : Water remains pure if it moves and flows; it becomes impure, stagnant, if it becomes dormant.
36 W Weakness : It is weakness that wants to be strong, it is inferiority that wants to be superior
35 W Weakness : You feel weak because there is a craving for more strength. It is comparative, it is relative.
34 W Who Am I? : It is unanswerable.It is a device, not a question. It is used as a mantra.
33 W Wholeness : Health is in wholeness.
32 W Wholeness : To be whole is to be holy.
31 W Wholeness : When your body, your heart, your intellect all fall in tune. I have called that the new man
30 W Why : The question 'why?' has to be dropped; that's the meaning of trust.
29 W Wife : To reduce a woman to a wife is ugly! It is immoral!
28 W Wilderness : I don't see anything wrong in being wild. To be too much civilized may be dangerous
27 W Will : To conquer the world will is needed; to conquer God will is not needed.
26 W Winning : The whole idea is absurd. A wave trying to win over the ocean
25 W Wisdom : A very relaxed state of being.
24 W Wisdom : Knowledge brings information, wisdom brings transformation.
23 W Witch : on Pain of Witch and Beauty of Witches
22 W Within : It is an absolute law: one who goes within, finds it - finds the kingdom of god, the perfect bliss, the absolute truth.
21 W Witnessing : This simple word is the whole of religion
20 W Woman : The Age of the Woman
19 W Womb : All comfort is, deep down, womblike.
18 W Wonder : If you can live in wonder you will be capable of celebration. Don't live in knowledge, live in wonder.
17 W Wonder : Knowledge kills wonder
16 W Wonder : The moment you think you know, wonder stops arising.
15 W Wonder : Wonder means you function from a state of not knowing.
14 W Words : The people who live in words are really ridiculous!
13 W Words : Words are not just words. They have moods, climates of their own.
12 W Work : Always try to reach more than you can grasp
11 W Work : If you can change your work into meditation, that's the best thing.
10 W Work and Workaholic : Existence is not a work, it is a celebration
9 W Worry : Drop worrying. There is nothing to worry about; all is taken care of.
8 W Worry : If you start trying to stop worrying, you create a new worry
7 W Worship : Crucifixion and worshipping are not different because the basic purpose is the same
6 W Worship : Out of fear you go on following others.
5 W Wound : If we look at our mind, it is nothing but wounds and wounds. Hence life becomes a hell; we collect only thorns.
4 W Wound : Wounds heal only when they are open - wounds never heal when they are protected, defended.
3 W Wound : You always think the other is responsible, that he has wounded you. No, you carry your wound.
2 W Wounds : Don't smile if your eyes are full of tears. Don't be inauthentic, because by being inauthentic you are simply protecting your wounds from being healed.
1 W Wrong : The danger is - and hence the fear - that the wrong is always easier to do.
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