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CHAPTER 3. THE NUCLEAR FAMILY – THE IMMINENT MELTDOWN
falling towards the earth is absolutely helpless – the earth’s gravitation will decide its rate of fall. And
the earth is so vast, its power of gravitation is so vast, and we are not even light like a leaf. Even
Nijinsky was surprised, always surprised. He could see himself coming down slowly, not falling – as
if gliding.
People asked him again and again, ”What is the technique, the strategy, the method?”
He said, ”I am as much surprised as you are. I don’t know. And whenever I try to do it, it never
happens. It happens only once in a while, when I have completely forgotten about it. When the
dancer disappears, when there is no Nijinsky – it happens. I am just a watcher, just as you are a
watcher. I see my body falling down. I have tried it in private, tried it in every possible way. Neither
can I jump that high, nor can I fall that slow. I have tried in front of friends, my lovers, but whenever I
have tried, it has simply escaped from my hands.
”So I have learned one thing: there are things which you cannot try. There are things which are not
possible through any method, any technique, any strategy. There are things which happen; you only
have to allow them to happen. And the way to allow them is not to interfere; so much so that you are
not even present, because your presence will also be an interference.
You know it. Now physics has come to discover a strange fact.... We have known it about human
beings. You are in your bathroom making faces in your mirror, knowing perfectly well that there
is nobody watching you. But suddenly you become aware that somebody is watching through the
keyhole. Everything changes. You stop making your faces, you start arranging things and start
doing something relevant, rational. You have been caught red-handed. You start looking busy – and
just a moment before you were not busy at all.
Modern physics has come to discover that it is very difficult in the first place to observe the behavior
of electrons, how they behave. But now we have instruments through which you can observe the
behavior of the electron. But the trouble is, the moment you watch, the behavior changes – exactly
the same keyhole story. The electron starts behaving in a different way. Just now when you were not
observing, it was behaving differently. Physics has not come to any conclusion – what to conclude
about it? But the fact is so clear that the electron is as conscious as you are conscious. There is no
other way; otherwise, how can the electron become aware of your being aware of it?
Nijinsky said, ”The moment I am not – not present at all – suddenly it happens. And while it is
happening I am only a watcher. At that moment if I even start looking around to see how it is
happening, things get disturbed. I have fallen in the middle of a jump so fast that I have broken my
legs. Because I came in, the happening disappeared, and the gravitational pull was so much that I
fell with a thump on the ground.” Otherwise he used to come down like a feather. He would not even
make a sound when he came to the ground.
There are born poets, there are born dancers. In fact, everybody is born to be something. Those
who somehow happen to find what they are born to are the most blissful people on the earth. Those
who start moving into directions which are not for them, they are the most miserable.
The politician is a certain type. It is the same type as the criminal. The criminal is one who could
not succeed in being a politician. Both are power-seekers, both are dominated by the will-to-power.
From Ignorance to Innocence 30 Osho