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CHAPTER 4. TO BE DEAD DO NOTHING
more difficult and painful to step outside the mind. If getting up at six in the morning is so difficult,
how will you jump out of the wheel of life? If you are not even prepared to drop the small habit of
sleeping late... for a day or two you may fell lazy. But you allow laziness to win over you. It shows
that you value your laziness more than meditation. If this were not so you would never have brought
up the whole matter.
Somebody comes and complains that the four meditations you do during the camp are too tiring.
”Why can’t we only do two each day?” But then, why do two? Forget about all four. If four meditations
tire you, two will tire you half, but you are bound to get tired. And I know if I say that two will be all
right, you will promptly return with the request to do only one, because it is the same mind up to its
old tricks. Even two meditations will make you fell tired to some extent.
If this is the way you approach things then you will eventually become more and more lazy. Effort
is required for everything. Remember, life is effort; death is rest. If you want to be dead you need
do nothing. If you want to live you will have to do something. If you want to live life to the fullest you
will have to make a great effort. If you want to attain God such small bits of efforts will not do. Your
whole life should turn into one gigantic effort. You must stake everything that you have. If you hold
back even a little bit of yourself, then you will miss. You have to stake yourself totally; only then will
you be saved. That is why so few attain. The reason is nothing but laziness.
While doing the active meditations you are so very careful not to hurt yourself or fall on somebody
or tire yourself. Why do it all? Who asked you to do it? You are not clear within yourself and that is
the trouble. You live in a haze where everything is foggy and misty. You are not even clear as to how
you came here and why? Somebody was coming and you just came along with him – just to look at
what was going on.
You have been pushed and pulled about like this for infinite lives, but you will never reach your
destination this way. You will never get there by blind chance. You will not reach the destination
accidentally. It requires a well directed effort. You reach the destination when all the currents in
your life flow in one direction. Destination is your concentrated will power. As soon as you are fully
resolved, your energy accumulates at one point and your mind flows in a single stream. This energy
within you is unbounded. So if you feel that you do not have sufficient energy, you will get tired very
soon, you are mistaken.
There are three layers of energy in your body. The uppermost layer is for day-to-day living; it is like
the small change you carry in your pocket. It is not all the money you have. It is just the pocket
money you use for minor expenses.
Mulla Nasruddin was going through a village when four men jumped on him. The night was dark but
the Mulla fought them so ferociously that he outwitted all four of them. With great difficulty they could
overpower him, but when they searched his pockets they found only seven paise! One of them said,
”You are limit Nasruddin! ”I don’t know what made you fight so hard for only seven paise.”
Nasruddin replied, ”I didn’t think that you were fighting for seven paise in my pocket. I have hidden
five hundred rupees in my shoe!”
But now the thieves would not dare to attack him. If he could fight so dangerously for only seven
paise...!They said, ”Good bye! maybe next time.....”
The Great Path 75 Osho