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CHAPTER 8. THE USELESS
Mulla Nasruddin was teaching his small son, who was seven years old, how to approach a girl, how
to ask her to dance, what to say and what not to say, how to persuade her.
The boy went away and half an hour later came back and said, ”Now teach me how to get rid of her!”
That has to be learned too, and that is the difficult part. To invite is very easy but to get rid of is very
difficult. And you know well through your own experience: to invite a girl is always easy, to persuade
a girl is always easy, but how to get rid of her? Then it becomes a problem. Then you don’t go out
anywhere, then you forget whistling completely.
Remember, the useless has its own attraction. If you are so very troubled by the useful, you may
move to the other extreme too much. You may lose your balance.
To me, a sannyasin is a deep balance, standing in the middle, free from all the opposites. He can
use the useful and he can use the non-useful, he can use the purposeful and the nonpurposeful,
and still remain beyond both. He is not used by them. He has become the master.
Enough for today.
The Empty Boat 151 Osho