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CHAPTER 10. WHOLENESS
There are two categories for the ego: the known and the unknown. The known is that part which the
ego has already traveled, and the unknown is that part which the ego will travel: the ego feels that it
is possible to travel, but there is nothing unknowable.
The ego leaves no mystery in the world. And when there is no mystery around you, there cannot
be any mystery within. When mystery disappears, all songs disappear; when mystery disappears,
poetry is dead; when mystery disappears, God is not in the temple, there is nothing but a dead
statue; when mystery disappears there is no possibility of love, because only two mysteries fall in
love with each other. If you know, then there is no possibility of love – knowledge is against love.
And love is always for unlearning. But because he has unlearned:
HIS NATURE SINKS TO ITS ROOT IN THE ONE.
HIS VITALITY, HIS POWER,
HIDE IN SECRET TAO.
HIS NATURE SINKS TO ITS ROOT.... The ego exists in the head, remember, and you carry your
head very high. The root is just at the other pole of your being.
Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu used to say: Concentrate on the toe. Close your eyes and move into the
toe and remain there. That will give you a balance. The head has given you much imbalance. The
toe...? It looks as if they are joking. They mean it, they are not joking. They are right. Move from the
head because the head is not the root, and we are in the head too much.
HIS NATURE SINKS TO ITS ROOT, to the very source. The wave goes deeper into the ocean, into
the one. And remember, the source is one. The waves may be many, millions, but the ocean is one.
You are separate there, I am separate here, but just look a little deeper at the roots and we are one;
we are like branches of the same tree. Look at the bran-ches and they are separate, but deep down
they are one.
The deeper you go, you will find less and less multiplicity, more and more unity. At the deepest it is
one. That is why Hindus talk of the nondual, the one, ADVAIT.
HIS VITALITY, HIS POWER,
HIDE IN SECRET TAO.
And whatsoever vitality comes to the man of Tao is not manipulated, is not created by him, it is given
by the roots. He is vital because he is rooted; he is vital because he has rejoined the ocean, the
one. He is back at the source, he has come to the mother.
WHEN HE IS ALL ONE,
THERE IS NO FLAW IN HIM
BY WHICH A WEDGE CAN ENTER.
The Empty Boat 184 Osho