Don't Let Yourself Be Upset by the Sutra, rather Upset the Sutra Yourself”*

Don't Let Yourself Be Upset by the Sutra, rather Upset the Sutra Yourself”*

   1:03 AM       shrikant rathod

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There is no need to be worried, no need to be obsessed by the idea of sin, no need to be afraid of committing errors and mistakes, because God is a god of love and you can depend on his compassion. 

You can commit as many mistakes as possible, still you are forgiven; you are already forgiven.

Committing mistakes is a way of learning; without mistakes nobody can learn.

Committing mistakes is a way of growing; without mistakes nobody can grow. 

So commit as many mistakes as possible, but remember only one thing: don't repeat the same mistakes again and again, because then you don't learn. 

Then the mistake becomes mechanical, it starts repeating itself. That is sin. 

In my vision, that is the definition of a sin: when a mistake becomes so ingrained in you because you have repeated it so many times that now you need not do anything for it; it repeats itself, it has become autonomous. Then it is a sin.

A mistake committed unconsciously many times, repeated many many times, becomes second nature; then it is sin. 

Otherwise each mistake is beautiful. 

If done once, and done consciously, you always become more rich than you were before you committed the mistake. You are richer for it: you are more alert, aware. 

You have seen more of life and slowly slowly as you grow, less and less mistakes... 

The moment your growth has reached to the point of the explosion called enlightenment, then no mistakes are committed. 

Then life is spontaneous, a simple flow... very ordinary, yet very extraordinary too.

*Abridged From:*

*“Don't Let Yourself Be Upset by the Sutra, rather Upset the Sutra Yourself”*

Talks given from 01/8/79 to 30/9/79

A Darshan Diary

*OSHO*