When you travel, you travel with a goal in the mind. When you travel, you are not interested in travelling itself; your whole focus is on the goal, and you miss all that is along the way.
A wanderer is one who is not going anywhere in particular. . . who is simply enjoying the wandering. North is good, South is also good. If he reaches East, good; if he reaches West, good. Wherever he reaches he will enjoy. The whole earth is his; the whole existence is his. He is not going anywhere. He has no mind to go anywhere, so wherever he is, he is totally there.
When you have a mind to go somewhere you cannot be totally in places where you don’t want to be. You have already moved in the mind, in your imagination. Physically you may exist here but in the mind, you have already reached where your goal is. The mind always hovers around the goal. When there is no goal, the mind has no place to abide in.
So in the East the wanderer has been one of the most important devices of sannyas. Buddhists call the wanderer parivragika – one who goes from one place to another. Not that he has to go anywhere; he just enjoys being anywhere, all over the place. He never stays in one place long. He never burdens any place long. He does not make a house anywhere. The tent is his house, so he can fix it anywhere and it becomes his house. He can unfix it any moment and it is on his shoulders. He is a vagabond.
This wandering by and by relaxes one totally in the moment. Then you can enjoy all along, whatsoever is there – the moon, the trees, the birds, the people, strangers, unknown places.
-Osho
Excerpt form Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There, Talk #8
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