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CHAPTER 1. THE TOAST IS BURNED This is why I told you that story. The prince became friendly with the man. He was afraid of other doctors, learned experts, because they were trying to change him, cure him, and he was not mad. He did not think that he was mad, no madman ever thinks that he is mad. If a madman ever comes to realize that he is mad, madness has disappeared. He is mad no more. So all those wise men who were trying to cure the prince were foolish, and only this old sage was wise. He behaved foolishly. The court laughed, the king laughed, the queen laughed and said, ”What? How is this man going to change the prince? He himself is crazy and seems to be deeper in madness than the prince. Even the prince was shocked. He said, ”What are you doing? What do you mean?” But this man must have been an enlightened sage. Chuang Tzu is talking about this type of phenomenon, this phenomenal man. TO ALL APPEARENCES HE IS A FOOL. HIS STEPS LEAVE NO TRACE. You cannot follow him. You cannot follow an enlightened man – no, never – because he leaves no trace, there are no footprints. He is like a bird in the sky: he moves and no trace is left. Why does a wise man not leave traces? So that you should not be able to follow. No wise man likes you to follow him because when you follow you become imitators. He is always moving in such a zig-zag way that you cannot follow. If you try to follow him, you will miss. Can you follow me? It is impossible, because you don’t know what I am going to be tomorrow. You cannot predict. If you can predict, you can plan. Then you know where I am going, then you know the direction, then you know my steps. You know my past, you can infer my future. But I am illogical. If I am logical you can conclude what I am going to say tomorrow. Just by looking at what I have said in my yesterdays you can conclude logically what I am going to say tomorrow. But that is not possible. I may contradict myself completely. My every tomorrow will contradict my every yesterday, so how are you going to follow me? You will go crazy if you try to follow. Sooner or later you will have to realize that you have to be yourself, you cannot imitate. HIS STEPS LEAVE NO TRACE. He is not consistent. He is not logical. He is illogical. He is like a madman. HE HAS NO POWER. This will be very difficult to follow because we think that the sage has power, that he is the most powerful of men. He will touch your blind eyes and they will open and you will be able to see; you are dead and he will touch you and you will be resurrected. To us a sage is a miracle-worker. But Chuang Tzu says: He has no power, because to use power is always part of the ego. The ego wants to be powerful. You cannot persuade a wise man to use his power, it is impossible. If you can, The Empty Boat 22 Osho
CHAPTER 1. THE TOAST IS BURNED it means some ego was left to be persuaded. He will never use his power because there is no one to use and manipulate it. The ego, the manipulator, is there no more, the boat is empty. Who will direct this boat? There is nobody. A sage is power, but he has no power; a sage is powerful, but he has no power – because the controller is there no more. He is energy – overflowing, unaddressed, undirected – but there is no one who can direct it. You may be cured in his presence, your eyes may open, but he has not opened them, he has not touched them, he has not cured you. If he thinks that he has cured you, he himself has become ill. This ’I’ feeling – I have cured – is a greater illness, it is a greater blindness. HE HAS NO POWER. HE ACHIEVES NOTHING, HE HAS NO REPUTATION. AND SINCE HE JUDGES NO ONE, NO ONE JUDGES HIM. SUCH IS THE PERFECT MAN – HIS BOAT IS EMPTY. And this is going to be your path. Empty your boat. Go on throwing out whatever you find in the boat until everything is thrown out and nothing is left, even YOU are thrown out, nothing is left, your being has become just empty. The last thing and the first thing is to be empty: once you are empty you will be filled. The all will descend on you when you are empty – only emptiness can receive the all, nothing less will do, because to receive all you have to be empty, boundlessly empty. Only then can the all be received. Your minds are so small they cannot receive the divine. Your rooms are so small you cannot invite the divine. Destroy this house completely because only the sky, space, total space, can receive. Emptiness is going to be the path, the goal, everything. From tomorrow morning try to empty yourself of all that you find within: your misery, your anger, your ego, jealousies, sufferings, your pain, your pleasures – whatever you find, just throw it out. Without any distinction, without any choice, empty yourself. And the moment you are totally empty, suddenly you will see that you are the whole, the all. Through voidness, the whole is achieved. Meditation is nothing but emptying, becoming nobody. In this camp move as a nobody. And if you create anger in somebody and you collide, remember, you must be there in the boat, that’s why it is happening. Soon, when your boat is empty, you will not collide, there will be no conflict, no anger, no violence – nothing. And this nothing is the benediction, this nothing is the blessing. For this nothing you have been searching and searching. Enough for today. The Empty Boat 23 Osho
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