Choicelessness

It is just like music. You hear some music: there are notes, sounds, and after each sound there is
silence, a gap. Because of that gap, that interval of silence, and the sound – because of both the
opposites – music is created. If you say, ‘I will choose only sounds and I am not going to take the
gaps,’ there will be no music. It will be a monotonous thing, it will be dead. Those gaps give life to
sound. This is the beauty of life – that through opposites it exists. Sound and silence, sound and
silence – that creates music, the rhythm. The same is with life. Suffering and happiness are two
opposites. You cannot choose.
If you choose you have become a victim; you will suffer. If you become aware of this totality of the
opposites and the way that life functions, you don’t choose – the first thing. And when you don’t
choose there is no need to cling, there is no meaning in clinging. When suffering comes you enjoy
the suffering, and when happiness comes you enjoy the happiness. When the guest is at home you
enjoy him, when he has gone you enjoy the suffering, the absence, the pain. I say enjoy both. This
is the path of wisdom: enjoy both, don’t choose. Whatsoever falls upon you, accept it. It is your fate,
it is how life is, and nothing can be done about it.

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 321 Osho
CHAPTER 24. CHOICELESSNESS IS BLISS