Trust in Today

WORRYING FOR TOMORROW means I don't trust existence, which has provided everything for today. I trust existence will provide for our tomorrow too. WORRYING ABOUT TOMORROW IS LACK OF TRUST IN EXISTENCE, in the cosmic energy. And after all, what can we do? What worth is our own effort?...



IF EACH DAY, EACH MOMENT, EACH ACT IS COMPLETE, IT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A COMPLETE TOMORROW. Tomorrow always comes, but if you complete your today your tomorrow will be new and fresh, not old and stale. It will not be frustrating. But if you leave your today incomplete with expectations for tomorrow, it will frustrate you and your expectations, and you will be miserable on top of it.


THE FUTURE WILL NEVER CONFORM TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS, because the future is immense and your hopes and desires are petty, trivial. The immense, the infinite cannot be controlled and manipulated by the trivial. A drop cannot decide the course of a river -- the river goes its own way irrespective of what the drop wants.


But if a drop has its own desires and expectations, if it wants to go upstream, or go right or left, then it will suffer and suffer immeasurably. This is man's misery. IT IS HOPES AND DREAMS THAT TURN INTO HIS FRUSTRATION AND DESPAIR. One who lives each moment totally knows no anxiety and no frustration, he is contented and blissful and fulfilled.


LET EACH OF YOUR ACTIONS, no matter whether you are peeling a potato or composing a poem, BE COMPLETE IN ITSELF. LEAVE THE RESULT TO GOD. If you do so, Krishna says, you will be released from the bondage that comes in the form of birth. Krishna does not say that birth is bondage. He only says that one who is full of expectations, who is attached to the fruits of action is always in need of tomorrow, future, future life.


ONE WHO LIVES IN DESIRES, in hopes and expectations, ANXIOUSLY SEEKS A NEW BIRTH AFTER HIS DEATH; he cannot escape rebirth. And for such a person birth becomes a bondage; it can never become his freedom. Because such a person is not really interested in life and living, he is interested in his expectations, in the results he expects from it. For him birth is just an opportunity for achieving some results.

And for such a person death is going to be very painful, because death will put an end to all the desires and demands he lived for. Naturally when he is born again he will find his birth to be his bondage. Birth is bondage for one who does not know the life that is freedom. In fact, DESIRING IS BONDAGE, CRAVING AND ATTACHMENT TO RESULT IS BONDAGE.


TO LIVE AND KNOW LIFE TOTALLY IS FREEDOM. And for one who knows this life, there is no birth and death. He is released from both birth and death.
 
--OSHO