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CHAPTER 9. MEANS AND ENDS WHERE CAN I FIND THE MAN WHO HAS FORGOTTEN WORDS? HE IS THE ONE I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO. THE PURPOSE OF A FISH TRAP IS TO CATCH FISH.... You have forgotten the purpose completely. You have gathered so many fish traps and are so constantly worried about them – that somebody might steal them, that they might get broken or go rotten – that you have completely forgotten the fish! THE PURPOSE OF A FISH TRAP IS TO CATCH FISH, AND WHEN THE FISH ARE CAUGHT THE TRAP IS FORGOTTEN. If you cannot forget the trap it means that the fish is not yet caught. Remember, if you are continuously obsessed with the trap, it shows that the fishes are not yet caught. You have forgotten completely about them and become so entangled with the fish traps that you have fallen in love with them! Once I had a neighbor, a professor, a man of words. He purchased a car. Every morning he worked on cleaning it. It always stayed in showroom condition, and he never took it on the road. For years I watched. Every morning he would take much trouble, cleaning, polishing it. Once we were traveling in the same railway compartment, so I asked, ”Is something wrong with the car? You never bring it out. It is always in your drive.” He said, ”No, I have fallen in love with it. I love it so much that I am always afraid that if I take it out something may go wrong – an accident, a scratch, anything can go wrong. And it is unbearable even to think of it.” A car, a word, a trap, they are means not ends. You can fall in love with them and then you never use them. I used to stay in a house. The lady of the house had three hundred sarees but she always used two – she was preserving the others for some special occasion. When will that special occasion come? As far as I know, and I have known her for fifteen years, that special occasion has not come yet. It is not going to come, because she is growing older every day; sooner or later she will die and those three hundred sarees will live on. The Empty Boat 162 Osho
CHAPTER 9. MEANS AND ENDS What happened? Fallen in love with sarees? You CAN fall in love with things. It is difficult to fall in love with persons, it is very easy to fall in love with things because things are dead, you can manipulate them. Sarees will never say, ”Wear us! We would like to go out and have a look around.” The car will never say, ”Drive me, I am getting bored.” With persons it is difficult. They will demand, they will ask, they would like to go out, they have their own desires to be fulfilled. When you fall in love with a person there is always conflict, so those who are clever never fall in love with persons, they always fall in love with things: a house, a car, clothes. They are always easy, manageable, and you always remain the master and the other never creates trouble. Or, if you fall in love with a person, you immediately try to convert him into a thing, a dead thing. A wife is a dead thing, a husband is a dead thing, and they torture each other. Why do they torture each other? What is the point of it? Through torture they make the other dead so the other becomes a thing, manipulatable. Then they are not worried. Two matrons were looking at a bookshop window. One said to the other, ”Look, there is a book entitled How to Torture Your Husband.” But the other was not interested. She didn’t even look at the book – she said, ”I don’t need it, I have a system of my own.” Everybody has his own system of torturing the other, because only through torture and destruction can a person be changed into a thing. It happened once that Mulla Nasruddin walked into the coffee house looking very angry, very aggressive and dangerous, and he said, ”I hear that someone has called my wife an ugly old hag. Who is this guy?” A man stood up, a very tall, strong, giantlike man. He said, ”I said that about your wife, and what about it?” Looking at the person, Nasruddin immediately calmed down; he was dangerous. He went up to him and said, ”Thank you, this is my feeling too, but I couldn’t gather the courage to say so. You have done it, you are a brave man.” What happens in a relationship? Why does it always turn ugly? Why is it so impossible to love? Why does everything become poisoned? ...Because the mind is always happy to manipulate things, because things never rebel: they are always obedient, they never disobey. A person is alive, you cannot predict what he is going to do. And you cannot manipulate...the other’s freedom becomes the problem. Love is such a problem because you cannot allow the other the freedom to be. And remember this: if you really love, real love is possible only when you allow the other total freedom to be himself or herself. But then you cannot possess, then you cannot predict, then you cannot be secure, then everything has to move moment to moment. And mind wants to plan, to be secure and safe. Mind wants life to run along a track because mind is the most dead thing in you. It is as if you are a river and a part of the river is an iceberg. Your mind is just like the iceberg, it is the frozen part of The Empty Boat 163 Osho
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CHAPTER 9. MEANS AND ENDS<br />
WHERE CAN I FIND THE MAN<br />
WHO HAS FORGOTTEN WORDS?<br />
HE IS THE ONE<br />
I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO.<br />
THE PURPOSE OF A FISH TRAP<br />
IS TO CATCH FISH....<br />
You have forgotten the purpose <strong>com</strong>pletely. You have gathered so many fish traps and are so<br />
constantly worried about them – that somebody might steal them, that they might get broken or go<br />
rotten – that you have <strong>com</strong>pletely forgotten the fish!<br />
THE PURPOSE OF A FISH TRAP<br />
IS TO CATCH FISH,<br />
AND WHEN THE FISH ARE CAUGHT<br />
THE TRAP IS FORGOTTEN.<br />
If you cannot forget the trap it means that the fish is not yet caught. Remember, if you are<br />
continuously obsessed with the trap, it shows that the fishes are not yet caught. You have forgotten<br />
<strong>com</strong>pletely about them and be<strong>com</strong>e so entangled with the fish traps that you have fallen in love with<br />
them!<br />
Once I had a neighbor, a professor, a man of words. He purchased a car. Every morning he worked<br />
on cleaning it. It always stayed in showroom condition, and he never took it on the road. For years I<br />
watched. Every morning he would take much trouble, cleaning, polishing it.<br />
Once we were traveling in the same railway <strong>com</strong>partment, so I asked, ”Is something wrong with the<br />
car? You never bring it out. It is always in your drive.”<br />
He said, ”No, I have fallen in love with it. I love it so much that I am always afraid that if I take it<br />
out something may go wrong – an accident, a scratch, anything can go wrong. And it is unbearable<br />
even to think of it.”<br />
A car, a word, a trap, they are means not ends. You can fall in love with them and then you never<br />
use them.<br />
I used to stay in a house. <strong>The</strong> lady of the house had three hundred sarees but she always used two<br />
– she was preserving the others for some special occasion. When will that special occasion <strong>com</strong>e?<br />
As far as I know, and I have known her for fifteen years, that special occasion has not <strong>com</strong>e yet. It<br />
is not going to <strong>com</strong>e, because she is growing older every day; sooner or later she will die and those<br />
three hundred sarees will live on.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Empty</strong> <strong>Boat</strong> 162 <strong>Osho</strong>
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