Lao Tzu has said: “Seek and you will miss. Do not seek and you will
find.”
Now, this is one of the most significant statements ever made. In
the very seeking you have missed. If you seek, you have taken a wrong
standpoint. In the very seeking you have accepted one thing: that you
don’t have that which you seek. That is where the fault lies. You have
it: you already have it. The moment you start searching for something,
you will become neurotic, because you cannot find it - there is nowhere
to look, because it is already there.
It is like a man who is searching
for his glasses. His glasses are already on his eyes, on his nose, and
he is looking through those glasses and searching! Now he will never
find them, unless he remembers that all search is futile unless he
remembers: ‘if I can see, then my glasses must be already there in front of my eyes, otherwise how could I see?’
In our very seeing, the truth is hidden. In our very search, the
treasure is hidden. The seeker is the sought; that is the problem, the
only problem that human beings have been trying to solve and about which
they have been growing more and more puzzled. The sanest attitude is
that of Lao Tzu. He says:
“Stop searching and be. Just be, and you will
be surprised: you will find it!”
- Osho
