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CHAPTER 6. THE NEED TO WIN
The master said, ”It is because of you. You were sitting by my side and I was divided. You were
looking at me and I was target-oriented, it was not fun. When you were not there, I relaxed. I felt
that nobody was looking and I became whole. This design I have not done, it has come by itself. For
three months it would not come because I was the doer.”
WHEN AN ARCHER IS SHOOTING FOR FUN
HE HAS ALL HIS SKILL.
...Because his whole being is available. And when the whole being is available, you have a beauty,
a grace, a totally different quality of being. When you are divided, serious, tense, you are ugly. You
may succeed, but your success will be ugly. You may prove that you are somebody but you are not
proving anything, you are simply creating a false image. But when you are total, relaxed, whole,
nobody may know about you, but you are.
And this wholeness is the benediction, the beatitude, the blessing, that happens to a meditative
mind, that happens in meditation.
Meditation means wholeness.
So remember, meditation should be fun, it should not be like work. You should not do it like a religious
man, you should do it like a gambler. Play, do it for fun, like a sportsman not a businessman! It should
be fun, and then all the skill will be available, then it will flower by itself. You will not be needed. No
effort is needed. Simply your whole being has to be available, your whole energy has to be available.
Then the flower comes by itself.
IF HE SHOOTS FOR A BRASS BUCKLE
HE IS ALREADY NERVOUS.
If he is in a competition just for a brass buckle, if something is to be achieved, some result, he is
already nervous, afraid. Fear comes in: ”Will I succeed or not?” He is divided. One part of the mind
says, ”Maybe you will succeed”; another part says, ”Maybe you will fail.” Now the whole of his skill
is not available, now he is half and half. And whenever you are divided your whole being becomes
ugly and ill. You are diseased.
IF HE SHOOTS FOR A PRIZE OF GOLD
HE GOES BLIND
OR SEES TWO TARGETS –
HE IS OUT OF HIS MIND.
Go to the market and see people who are after gold. They are blind. Gold blinds men as nothing
else does, gold covers the eyes completely. When you are too anxious for success, too anxious for
the result, too ambitious, when you are too anxious for the gold medal, then you are blind and you
start seeing two targets. You are so drunk you start seeing double.
The Empty Boat 112 Osho