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CHAPTER 10. WHOLENESS They were very disturbed, those soldiers, but they had to report back. Alexander asked what the man had said – Dandami was the name of this man. Alexander in his reports has used the name Dandamas. When he heard Alexander felt annoyed, but this was the last village on the border and soon he would be out of India, so he said, ”It is best that I go and see what type of man this is.” He may have remembered Diogenes – maybe this man was the same type, standing naked near a river. The same thing happened with Diogenes. He also laughed and thought Alexander a fool. So Alexander approached Dandami with a naked sword and said, ”Follow me, or I will cut your head off immediately. I don’t believe in discussion, I believe in orders.” The man laughed and said, ”Cut it off – don’t wait! The head that you will be cutting off, I have cut it off long ago. This is nothing new, I am already headless. Cut it off, and I tell you, that when the head falls down onto the earth you will see it fall and I will also see it fall, because I am not the head. The man of Tao can be burnt, but still the man of Tao cannot be burnt. The form is always on fire. It is burning already. But the formless...the formless is never touched by any fire. From where comes the power, from where comes this vitality? They hide in secret Tao. Tao means the great nature, Tao means the great ocean, Tao means the great source. SO A DRUNKEN MAN WHO FALLS OUT OF A WAGON IS BRUISED, BUT NOT DESTROYED. HIS BONES ARE LIKE THE BONES OF OTHER MEN, BUT HIS FALL IS DIFFERENT. The ego is not there.... HIS SPIRIT IS ENTIRE. HE IS NOT AWARE OF GETTING INTO A WAGON, OR FALLING OUT OF ONE. LIFE AND DEATH ARE NOTHING TO HIM. HE KNOWS NO ALARM, HE MEETS OBSTACLES WITHOUT THOUGHT, WITHOUT CARE AND TAKES THEM WITHOUT KNOWING THEY ARE THERE. IF THERE IS SUCH SECURITY IN WINE, HOW MUCH MORE IN TAO? The Empty Boat 186 Osho
CHAPTER 10. WHOLENESS THE WISE MAN IS HIDDEN IN TAO, NOTHING CAN TOUCH HIM. Watch a drunkard, because the man of Tao is in many ways similar to him. He walks, but there is no walker; that is why he looks unbalanced, wobbling. He walks, but there is no direction, he is not going anywhere. He walks, but the boat is empty, only momentarily, but it is empty. Watch a drunkard. Follow him and see what is happening to him. If somebody hits him he is not annoyed. If he falls down he accepts the falling, he doesn’t resist, he falls down as if dead. If people laugh and joke about him he is not worried. He may even joke with them, he may start laughing with them, he may start laughing at himself. What has happened? Momentarily, through chemicals, his ego is not there. The ego is a construction: you can drop it through chemicals too. It is just a construction; it is not a reality, it is not substantial in you. It is through society that you have learned it. Alcohol simply drops you out of society. That is why society is always against alcohol, the government is always against alcohol, the university is always against alcohol, all the moralists are always against alcohol – because alcohol is dangerous, it gives you a glimpse of the outside of society. That is why there is so much propaganda in America and in the West against drugs. The governments, the politicians, the church, the pope, they have all become scared because the new generation is too involved in drugs. They are very dangerous for society, because once you have glimpses beyond society you can never become a really adjusted part of it. You will always remain an outsider. Once you have a glimpse of the non-ego then society cannot dominate you easily. And if one goes too deep into drugs then it is possible for the ego to be shattered completely. Then you will become as if mad. Once or twice a drug will give you a glimpse; it is just as if a window opens and closes. If you persist and you become addicted to it, the ego may suddenly drop. But this is the problem: the ego will drop, but the non-ego will not arise. You will go mad, schizophrenic, split. Religion works from the other corner, from the other end: it tries to bring up the non-ego first. And the more the non-ego comes up, the more the whole asserts, the more the ego will drop automatically, by and by. Before the ego drops, the whole has taken possession. You will not go mad, you will not become abnormal, you will simply be natural. You will fall outside society into nature. Through drugs you can also fall out of society, but into madness. That is why religions are also against drugs. Society has given you a working arrangement for the ego: through it you manage somehow, you steer your life somehow. But if the whole takes possession then there is no problem – you become a man of Tao. Then there is no need for this ego, you can throw it to the dogs. But you can do otherwise also. You can simply destroy this ego through chemicals. This can be done. Then there WILL be a problem because you will simply become abnormal. You will feel a certain power, but that power will be false, because the whole has not taken possession of you. Many cases of this have been reported. One girl in New York, under lsd, just jumped out of a window on the thirtieth floor because she thought she could fly. And when you are under a drug, if The Empty Boat 187 Osho
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CHAPTER 10. WHOLENESS<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were very disturbed, those soldiers, but they had to report back. Alexander asked what the<br />
man had said – Dandami was the name of this man. Alexander in his reports has used the name<br />
Dandamas. When he heard Alexander felt annoyed, but this was the last village on the border and<br />
soon he would be out of India, so he said, ”It is best that I go and see what type of man this is.”<br />
He may have remembered Diogenes – maybe this man was the same type, standing naked near a<br />
river. <strong>The</strong> same thing happened with Diogenes. He also laughed and thought Alexander a fool.<br />
So Alexander approached Dandami with a naked sword and said, ”Follow me, or I will cut your head<br />
off immediately. I don’t believe in discussion, I believe in orders.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> man laughed and said, ”Cut it off – don’t wait! <strong>The</strong> head that you will be cutting off, I have cut it<br />
off long ago. This is nothing new, I am already headless. Cut it off, and I tell you, that when the head<br />
falls down onto the earth you will see it fall and I will also see it fall, because I am not the head.<br />
<strong>The</strong> man of Tao can be burnt, but still the man of Tao cannot be burnt. <strong>The</strong> form is always on fire. It<br />
is burning already. But the formless...the formless is never touched by any fire. From where <strong>com</strong>es<br />
the power, from where <strong>com</strong>es this vitality? <strong>The</strong>y hide in secret Tao. Tao means the great nature, Tao<br />
means the great ocean, Tao means the great source.<br />
SO A DRUNKEN MAN WHO FALLS OUT OF A WAGON<br />
IS BRUISED, BUT NOT DESTROYED.<br />
HIS BONES ARE LIKE THE BONES OF OTHER MEN,<br />
BUT HIS FALL IS DIFFERENT.<br />
<strong>The</strong> ego is not there....<br />
HIS SPIRIT IS ENTIRE.<br />
HE IS NOT AWARE OF GETTING INTO A WAGON,<br />
OR FALLING OUT OF ONE.<br />
LIFE AND DEATH ARE NOTHING TO HIM.<br />
HE KNOWS NO ALARM,<br />
HE MEETS OBSTACLES WITHOUT THOUGHT, WITHOUT CARE<br />
AND TAKES THEM WITHOUT KNOWING THEY ARE THERE.<br />
IF THERE IS SUCH SECURITY IN WINE,<br />
HOW MUCH MORE IN TAO?<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Empty</strong> <strong>Boat</strong> 186 <strong>Osho</strong>
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