If you understand that this place is not a home and you are a homeless wanderer
here, a stranger in an unknown land; you have to leave, you have to go... if you
have  penetrated  that  point,  if  you  have  understood  it,  then  you  don't  make  a
home anywhere. You become a homeless wanderer, a parivrajaka. You may even
literally become so; it depends on you. You may really become a wanderer, or
spiritually you may become a wanderer.

My  own  emphasis  is  not  to  become  literally  a  wanderer,  because  what  is  the
point? Buddha's emphasis was not so; let it be clear to you. Buddha has not said
what to do, whether to follow him literally or not. Millions followed him literally
--  they  dropped  out  of  their  homes,  out  of  their  families;  they  really  became
bhikkhus wandering all over the country, begging. I don't insist on that.

If  really  you  understand  then  there  is  no  need  to  do  it  in  such  a  factual  way.
Because  to  me  it  appears  that  when  a  person  does  not  understand  the  idea
completely,  only  then  he  literally  becomes  a  wanderer;  otherwise  there  is  no
need. You can be in the home, you can be with your wife and your children, and
yet remain alert that nothing belongs to you; remain alert that you don't fall into
attachments;  remain  alert  that  if  things  change  you  are  ready  to  accept  the
change, that you will not weep for the spilt milk, that you will not cry, that you
will not go crazy and mad.

To  me  this  seems  to  be  more  significant  than  really  becoming  a  wanderer,
because that is easier. And if there is no home and if you don't possess anything,
then how can you renounce? The very idea of renouncing it makes it clear that
somewhere deep in the unconscious you thought that you possessed it, because
you can renounce only something which you possess.

How can you renounce? Your wife is not yours -- how can you renounce? Your
children are not yours -- how can you renounce? They don't belong to you, so
where is the point to renounce then? You can simply understand that they don't
belong  to  you;  that  we  are  strangers  --  we  have  met  on  the  way,  or  we  have
stayed under the same tree for a few days, but we are strangers.

Understanding it deep in your awareness is enough. My emphasis is to become a
spiritual wanderer. There is no need to drag the body like a beggar; just let your
spirit be that of a wanderer, and that is enough. Don't create bondage for your
spirit.

Osho.

The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol 1
Chapter #3
Chapter title: Only nothing is
23 August 1976 am in Buddha Hall