Can we make a stand for the rest of our lives?

Today I remember the Guru saying:

“The satori is when you discover what you are here to offer. But people don’t want to offer and give, because then you have to transform. There is always more to give, you will see you cannot remain the same. And also the one who receives has to transform, you cannot receive without being able to give. So almost everyone went to trade. If there is no transformation, there is no satori, and then there is no zest for life. What is your offering? If you offer for real you are not separate, you offer you.”

“Is there a rule here, that giving is only when the other is not taking? You have to pass through all the feeling of you not receiving, believing you will lose all if you give, and so on.”

Here the Master also reminded of Osho’s quote, “give thy pearls to swines,” for all that matters is in giving, as a response to those who say that you shouldn’t give pearls to swines. Could it be that Osho is pointing to not stopping being a giver? We have also heard the Master say that the whole attitude, the whole way of being, is to be giving—regardless of whether people are receiving or not. And at the same time, it must be true that one can turn to a new person or a new place to give, if others are not receiving or if they are taking?

“See if you can have a satori in this, if you understand. The Masters will contradict each other. They say it is not two.”

I’m not sure if this was a satori, but an insight arose today: if the offering is the struggle to be with the more—or rather, the struggle not to separate from the more—and when being with the more real giving can happen. And then, at the same time, receiving also happens. When being with the more, giving and receiving seem simultaneous. They are not two, since the more is not two?

“Master came to a point where he did not care about who or what is giving or receiving. And the blessed was me.”

“Maybe the key error we do in the world today is we judge the other for a preset value. How we can use each other.”

“What can I do for the rest of my life? What is that I bow, beyond relief. Thinking you are better than everyone else, it’s a relief. We are all tainted by being somebody else’s relief. We were never encouraged to strive. Can you recognize that striving as your life?”

This question about what to do for the rest of life often brings discomfort and hesitation, perhaps because quitting has become so familiar. Yet one possibility keeps returning: the striving to be real, to be natural. If there is something we can do for the rest of life, it may be this—striving to be for real. Because if we are not for real, what life is there?

“Can you finally take a position and rest in it? The ego wants to keep the options open, it’s biology for mating. A satori may be beyond you, but this is up to you. This you can do.”