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CHAPTER 1. THE DARKNESS INSIDE
allow you to sit down. The energy inside keeps you going. Then whatsoever you do it produces
contrary results.
People come to see me and they say, ”We never did any wrong deeds, we were always good to
others but received wickedness from them in return.” But it is not possible that you may do good
but receive evil back from them. It is impossible that you may sow the seed of mango and the tree
would give in return the bitter fruit of a neem tree. This is impossible. The only thing possible is that
in your unconscious state instead of sowing the seed of the mango you must have sown the seed of
the neem tree. Because why would the tree lie? You must have mistakenly sown the wrong seeds.
So even when you do good, your intention is never the same.
Even when you speak the truth, you do so to hurt the other person. You speak the truth to insult the
other person. You speak truth as if to use it as some kind of a deadly weapon. Your truths are bitter.
Truth doesn’t have to be bitter too. But you find pleasure in making the truth sound bitter. You have
no interest in the truth itself really. Your lie is always sweet; your truth is always bitter. What’s the
matter? Is bitterness the nature of truth? Is sweetness part of a lie?
No, the fact is, you want to make your lie passable, therefore you make it sound sweet. You know
very well it won’t work otherwise. You know that in the first place a lie is difficult to promote unless
accompanied by sweetness. It works the same way as giving a bitter pill but sugar coated, to a child.
He swallows it taking the pill to be a candy. Before he can feel the bitterness, the pill goes already
in.
You make the lie sound sweet because you want to promote the lie. You make the truth sound bitter
because you are interested not in promoting the truth but in using it for the purpose of hurting others.
You speak the truth only when you want to use it in a way so as to make it even worse than a lie.
You are unconscious. You are totally unaware of your actions. You need to look at yourself with a
little more alertness. Did you speak what you intended to say, or was it something else? Was what
you said on your mind really?
Mark Twain returned home one evening. His wife asked, ”How did your speech go?” He said, ”Which
one? The one I had prepared, or the one that I delivered? or the one that I had wished to deliver?”
The speech one prepares and the speech he delivers are always very different. Moreover, while
coming home the speech he thinks he should have given is altogether different.
Are you in your right senses? You go on missing all the targets; have you ever hit a single target in
your life? Even a man with a blindfold may sometimes manage to hit his arrow on the mark, but not
you.
I have heard it said that even a stopped clock shows correct time twice in twenty four hours, but you
can spend a lifetime without being correct even twice. Are you worse than a stopped clock? A man
may someday succeed in hitting the target even if he were to go on throwing his arrows in the dark.
You throw your arrows with open eyes, in the light, and yet never do you ever hit the mark. What
could be the reason?
The Great Path 16 Osho