The Joy of Having a Vision
Beloved Osho,
When I hear you speaking of your vision, I can't help but feel that
those few daring people around you will live to experience the new
man. But it feels more like a hundred years away before man at large
will come to see and live the genius of your ways. Is this true?
It is true. Even if
it happens in a hundred years time it will be soon.
But the question is significant in a totally different way. It is
not the realization of the vision, the coming of the new man, a new
humanity... that will come in its own time. The more important thing
is to be able to visualize it.
Everything great that has happened in the world has been an idea
first. Sometimes it took hundreds of years for it to become a
reality, but the joy of having a vision, an insight into the future,
is immense. The people who are with me should rejoice that they can
see a possibility of the old rotten world disappearing and a new
fresh human being taking its place.
Just the vision will change you at least, will shift your being from
the past to the future. In a certain way you will start living the
new man, who has not yet come. You will start living the new man in
small ways, and each moment of that living will be a blessing. And
as you become acquainted, within yourself, with the explosion of the
new and the destruction of the old, you are changing, you are going
through a revolution.
I am interested in you. Who cares about what is going to happen
after a hundred years? Something must be going to happen, but it is
not our business. And when I talk about the new man I am really
talking about you, for you to become aware of the possibility,
because that very awareness will change you. I am not interested in
the future; I am simply interested in the immediate present.
The future will go on for eternity, but if your mind can be cleaned
of the past rubbish, and if you can see the faraway rising sun... I
am not interested in the sun, I am interested in your vision, in
your capacity to see, in your understanding, in your hope that it is
possible. That very hope will become a seed in you.
The new man will come whenever it has to come.
But the new vision can come right now.
And with the new vision you participate in a subtle way with the man
who has not come yet, with the humanity who is still in the womb.
You start having a synchronicity, a certain relationship. Your roots
from the past start dropping, and you start growing your roots into
the future.
But my interest, I repeat, is basically in you. Neither am I
interested in the past, nor in the future. I talk about the past so
you can get rid of it; I talk about the future so you can remain
open to it. But you are the point of my emphasis.