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CHAPTER 30. SURRENDER: THE EGO UPSIDE DOWN
He said, ”How did you manage to know? I am mad about roses; the only flower that attracts me is
the rose.”
The woman said, ”Why are you standing outside? Come in. I will show you my roses. I am also mad
about roses, and you will not come across such big rose flowers as I have got” And he was invited
in. They went around her big garden, full of beautiful roses. And he was all praise, and all the poetry
that he knew.... The woman was so immensely impressed that she said, ”You seem to be such a
wise man that I want to ask you one question. What do you think about insurance?” – because she
was tortured by these insurance agents continually, and they were being thrown out.
He said, ”For that I will have to come again because I will have to think it over and do a little research
on it. I never advise anybody unless I am certain.”
The woman said, ”That is right. You are the first man who is not too eager to advise. That is the
sure sign of a fool: too eager to advise.”
He said, ”No, I will have to look at the whole matter. Perhaps it will take a few days.” And during
those few days he used to come every morning and stand outside the fence.
And the woman said, ”Now there is no need to be standing out there – I have told all the servants that
for you the doors are open twenty-four hours a day. Whenever you want to come into the garden,
you can come. If you want to come into the house, you can. It is your house, don’t be shy.” And
within a few days he came with all the forms, the files and everything. He said, ”I have worked out
the whole thing. In fact I had to become an agent of an insurance company to find out absolutely all
the details, the inside story, because from the outside you cannot know much. Now I am absolutely
certain that this is the thing for you.”
Now, this is the way the whole of humanity functions: reaction.
You just do something that you know how the other unconscious being is going to react to. And it is
very rare that an insurance agent will meet an awakened man, a rare possibility. In the first place the
awakened man will not have anything to be insured. Only with the awakened man will Dale Carnegie
fail, because he will not react, he will respond. And about response you cannot be predictable.
The man of awareness is unpredictable because he never reacts.
You cannot figure out beforehand what he is going to do.
And each moment he is anew.
He may have acted in a certain way in a certain moment. The next moment he may not act in the
same way because in the next moment everything has changed.
Every moment life is continuously changing; it is a moving river; nothing is static except your
unconsciousness and its reactions, which are static.
I was expelled from one college – I was expelled many times. I loved it, I enjoyed it; I am not
complaining. I have no complaint against anything in my life. Everything has been tremendously
From Ignorance to Innocence 454 Osho