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CHAPTER 3. THE OWL AND THE PHOENIX Baal Shem laughed, and said, ”You are still doubting me, not doubting yourself. Then do this.” In his vision Hertz saw a big mountain, all aflame, like a volcano, fire all over, rocks splitting, and the whole mountain breaking into fragments. Said Baal Shem, ”Or do this. Let the mind be thrown into an abyss, let the mind be burnt up completely.” And the story goes that Hertz said, ”I will think it over.” Whenever you say, ”I will think it over,” you have started doubting. Doubt thinks, not you. And when there is no doubt, faith acts, not you. Doubt thinks, faith acts. Through doubt you can become a great philosopher; through faith you will become a Chuang Tzu, a phoenix which never grows old, which is undying. Through doubt you can penetrate the mysteries of time; through faith you will enter the door of eternity. I have heard about two men who were once lost in a forest on a very dark night. It was a very dangerous forest, full of wild animals, very dense, with darkness all around. One man was a philosopher and the other was a mystic – one a man of doubt, the other a man of faith. Suddenly, there was a storm, a crashing of the clouds, and great lightning. The philosopher looked at the sky, the mystic looked at the path. In that moment of lightning, the path was before him, illuminated. The philosopher looked at the lightning, and started wondering, ”What is happening?” and missed the path. You are lost in a forest denser than that of the story. The night is more dark. Sometimes a flash of lightning comes. Look at the path. A Chuang Tzu is lightning, a Buddha is lightning, I am lightning. Don’t look at me, look at the path. If you look at me, you have already missed, because lightning will not continue. It lasts only for a moment, and the moment is rare when eternity penetrates time; it is just like lightning. If you look at the lightning, if you look at a buddha – and a buddha is beautiful, the face fascinates, the eyes are magnetic – if you look at the buddha, you have missed the path. Look at the path, forget the buddha. Look at the path. But that look happens only when there is no doubt, when there is faith; no thinking, no mind. Chuang Tzu has not to be thought about. Don’t think about him. Just let this story penetrate you and forget it. Through this story the path is illuminated. Look at the path, and do something. Follow the path, act. Thinking will not lead you, only action, because thinking goes on in the head. It can never become total; only when you act, it is total. Enough for today. The Empty Boat 62 Osho

13 July 1974 am in Buddha Hall IF A MAN STEPS ON A STRANGER’S FOOT IN THE MARKETPLACE, HE MAKES A POLITE APOLOGY AND OFFERS AN EXPLANATION: ”THIS PLACE IS SO CROWDED.” IF AN ELDER BROTHER STEPS ON HIS YOUNGER BROTHER’S FOOT HE SAYS, ”SORRY,” AND THAT IS THAT. IF A PARENT TREADS ON HIS CHILD’S FOOT NOTHING IS SAID AT ALL. 63 CHAPTER 4 Apologies

13 July 1974 am in Buddha Hall<br />

IF A MAN STEPS ON A STRANGER’S FOOT<br />

IN THE MARKETPLACE,<br />

HE MAKES A POLITE APOLOGY<br />

AND OFFERS AN EXPLANATION:<br />

”THIS PLACE IS SO CROWDED.”<br />

IF AN ELDER BROTHER<br />

STEPS ON HIS YOUNGER BROTHER’S FOOT<br />

HE SAYS, ”SORRY,”<br />

AND THAT IS THAT.<br />

IF A PARENT<br />

TREADS ON HIS CHILD’S FOOT<br />

NOTHING IS SAID AT ALL.<br />

63<br />

CHAPTER 4<br />

Apologies

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