Mutation is explosion

Love.
When I say mutation I do not mean simply change.
Change is from the known to the known:
a sinner becomes a saint –
then it is change and not mutation.
You can practise change but you cannot practise mutation
because only the known can be practised –
and then any change is going to be only a modified past
because the past will be continuous in it,
and the past also will be the master of it
because it is cultivated by the past.

In other words, change is from this to that,
it is a movement in the known.
But mutation is explosion:
from this to nothingness,
from here to nowhere.
You cannot practise it –
on the contrary, you are the only hindrance.

So what is to be done.
Really nothing can be done.
Be aware of this helplessness,
and remain in this helplessness.
Do not do anything
because any doing
will be escaping from this fact of helplessness.
Do not move at all –
and then there is explosion,
and then there is mutation.

Osho, A Cup of Tea, letter 171