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CHAPTER 6. THE MAD PROJECTIONIST
To all of this Buddha would say, ”What until the rains are ended. What is the hurry? Why do you
bring these rum ours? What have you to do with them? It is not you who is getting defiled. The one
who is will return after the rains.”
After the rains the monk returned with the courtesan walking behind him. She bowed before Buddha
and said, ”Please make me a sannyasin. The monk has won. I have lost. I did everything that I
could. He objected to nothing. He did not move when I embraced him. When I made him sit on
a velvet cushion he did not object, saying that is was forbidden for a monk. I gave him the best of
foods, and he never complained that it was against his principles, that it might arouse desires in him.
I offered him all kinds of invitations and he never said no; he just sat silent and unperturbed in all
situations, as if nothing had happened. I am immensely moved by his behavior. I want to acquire the
same bliss that he enjoys. I want to be in the same state he is in, where the within and the without
do not matter – such bliss that nothing can destroy.”
Buddha addressed the other monks thus: ”Look! He whose within and without are no more, makes
a sannyasin out of a prostitute. Had you stayed with her you would have become her shadow.”
The good that is afraid of evil is of no value. The sadhu is afraid of the sinner; the true saint is not.
The saint is beyond both. The saint is one whom no circumstances can change. Staying in the world
outside, he is firmly established within himself. The world cannot penetrate within him, even if he
choose to remain in the world.
Buddha said, ”The highest state of sannyas is when you go through a river but the waters do not
touch your feet.” If you are afraid of the river for fear of getting your feet wet, that is not the highest
state; it is a state of fear.
You must keep these sutras in mind. You have to break the mastery of the mind. This happens with
the witness state, which creates the difference between you and the mind.
You have to assert your own mastery, not by hostility but by rising above the mind. Independence
will come. If it comes through opposition it is a false freedom; there will be tension and distress. It
will not be saree, nor will it be spontaneous. In religion there is no place for a warrior. In religion
you have only to rise above. Do not fight, for you will stagnate at that level. Don’t make an enemy of
your mind; you have to go beyond it – transcend it.
The key to going beyond the mind is the ability to witness. As you rise above, spontaneous freedom
results. This freedom is not against anybody or anything. In such freedom you reach a state where,
whether you live within yourself or without, it makes no difference, for the distances have fallen; there
is no within, no without. Samsara and moksha, the world and liberation, are one. All dualities have
ended. All dichotomy is lost. You have reached the non-dual, non-dichotomous state.
The Great Path 121 Osho