People have asked me, what is the right way to provide a loving atmosphere that can help a child grow without interfering in his natural potentiality. Every way to help child is wrong. The very idea of helping is not right. The child needs your love, but not your help. The child needs nourishment, support, but not your help. The natural potential of the child is unknown, so there is no way to help him rightly to attain his natural potential. You cannot help when the goal is unknown; all that you can do is not interfere. And in fact, in the name of "help" everybody is interfering with everybody else; and because the name is beautiful, nobody objects... All that you can do is to be loving, nourishing. Be warm, be accepting. The child brings an unknown potential, and there is no way to figure out what he is going to be. So there is no possibility to suggest, 'in this way you should help the child'. Each child is unique, so there cannot be a general discipline for every child. The right way is not to help the child at all. If you have real courage then please don't help the child. Love him, nourish him. Let him do what he wants to do. Let him go way he wants to go. Your mind will be tempted again and again to interfere, and with good excuses. The mind is very clever in rationalising. Osho ©KhaultiSyahi "Child is the father of Man " #Childhood #child #childhood_memories #Grow #think #live
