Nobody has ever come home by seeking. Seeking means going astray.
Only non-seekers come home. But to become a non-seeker one has first to become a seeker. Seeking is a part, a part of attaining non-seeking.
Even a Buddha has to seek and go astray and suffer. That pain is a must. That is the price we pay. Then one day, when you have sought in every direction, in every dimension, and nowhere have you found anything that you wanted, when your frustration is utterly total, in that very moment of frustration all seeking drops. Suddenly you are back home.
To come home one has to knock on many doors.
So I am not saying you should drop your seeking – unless you are utterly confused, utterly frustrated. If you are still hankering, if there is still hope lurking somewhere in your mind that you can find by seeking, then seek, seek by all means – even though nobody has ever attained by seeking. I will say, ’Seek. Seek by all means – so that you can be frustrated, so that you can recognise the hopelessness of the very effort.’ In that hopelessness is hope, in that frustration dances a totally new existence – the world of being. Seeking is the world of becoming.
When you are seeking, you cannot look inside yourself. Seeking means you have moved into the future; seeking means you have already gone to the goal; seeking means you have already reached where you believe you have to be. It is a projection, it is a fantasy trip, it is a mind-journey. Non-seeking means that mind has stopped; non-seeking means that there is no movement inside you.
Sitting silently,
Doing nothing,
The spring comes
and the grass grows by itself.
(OSHO - Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol 2)
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