heel al (5)

My whole approach towards life... 

is that of total acceptance. 

Is that of celebration - not of renunciation...

I have no ideals... I have none, I am a non-idealist... I live naturally. And it is very natural to live in comfort and convenience. It is simply stupid, - if comfort is available - not to live in it. 

If it is not available, that is another thing. Then whatsoever is available, live in it comfortably, manage to live in it comfortably. I have lived in many kinds of situations, but I have always lived comfortably. 

When I was a student, I used to walk to the university. Four miles every day. But I loved it. I walked those four miles every day with great comfort: I enjoyed it. 

When I was a teacher, I used to go on a bicycle to the university. I enjoyed that too. Whatsoever has been the situation, whether I have had only a bicycle or a Mercedes Benz, it doesn't make any difference: I have lived in comfort. 

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Comfort is an attitude of mind. 

It is an approach towards life. 

I have lived in very very poor houses. When I became a teacher in a university, I started living in one single room with no windows, no ventilation. The rent was just twenty rupees per month. But I loved it. I enjoyed it. 

It was not a problem at all.

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Whatsoéver the moment allows... 

I have squeezed the moment to its totality. 

I have drunk fully of the moment. I have never repented. And I have never desired for something else. If something else started happening, I enjoyed that too.

You can never say to me that I am a hypocrite. It is impossible for me to be a hypocrite, because I have no ideals to fulfill. No oughts, no shoulds. The 'is' is all that IS. 

and I live in it.

~osho~

unio mystica vol.1

(1978) - ch.8 q.1