OSHO

The first question: You have said that there are no goals in life, no purpose, yet we are all here with enlightenment as our goal. Please speak on this. If you are here with enlightenment as your goal, you can not be here. Physically you may appear to be here, but you can not be with me. The goal is in the future. I am here. And a mind which is goal-oriented, is bound to be in the future - we will never meet. I know, you are here to attain something. That's why you are missing it. I am here to persuade you to drop the very idea of attaining anything whatsoever. Enlightenment, moksha, nirvana, God-included. If you drop this goal oriented mind, and there is none other than goal oriented mind, there is no other mind. If you drop it, you are enlightened. Enlightenment is not a search, it is a realization. It is not a goal, it is the very nature of life itself. As life is it is enlightened. It needs nothing to be added, to be improved. Life is perfect. It is not moving from imperf