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CHAPTER 4. APOLOGIES Truth needs no explanation. The more you lie, the more explanations are needed. There are so many scriptures because man has lied so much, then explanations are needed to hide the lie. You have to give an explanation, then this explanation will need further explanation, and it goes on and on. It is an infinite regression. And even with the last explanation nothing is explained, the basic lie remains a lie – you cannot convert a lie into a truth just by explaining it. Nothing is explained by explanations. You may think so, but it is not the case. Once it happened that Mulla Nasruddin went on his first air trip, and he was afraid but he didn’t want anybody to know. It happens to everybody on their first flight: nobody wants this to be their first. He wanted to behave nonchalantly so he walked very bravely. That bravery was an explanation: I always travel by air. Then he sat down in his seat and he wanted to say something just to put himself at ease, because whenever you start talking, you become brave; through talk, you feel less fear. So Nasruddin spoke to the passenger next to him. He looked out of the window and said, ”Look, what terrific height! People look like ants.” The other man said, ”Sir, we have not taken off yet. Those ARE ants.” Explanations cannot hide anything. Rather, on the contrary, they reveal. If you can look, if you have eyes, every explanation is transparent. It would have been better if he had kept quiet. But don’t try silence as an explanation. As an explanation it is of no use. Your silence will be revealing, and your words will reveal – it is better not to be a liar! Then you need not give any explanations. It is better to be truthful – the easiest thing is to be true and authentic. If you are afraid, it is better to say, ”I am afraid,” and accepting the fact your fear will disappear. Acceptance is such a miracle. When you accept that you are afraid and say, ”This is my first trip,” suddenly you will feel a change coming over you. The basic fear is not fear, the basic fear is the fear of the fear: I don’t want anyone to know that I am afraid, I don’t want anyone to know that I am a coward. But everybody is a coward in a new situation, and in a new situation to be brave is foolish. To be cowardly only means that the situation is so new that your mind cannot supply any answers, the past cannot give the answers, so you are trembling. But this is good! Why try to supply an answer from the mind? Tremble, and let the answer come from your present consciousness. You are sensitive, that is all; don’t kill this sensitivity through explanation. Next time you try to give an explanation, be aware of what you are doing. Are you trying to hide something, trying to explain away something? Nothing like this will be of any help. A man who had become newly rich went to a beach, the most expensive, the most exclusive, and he spent madly just to influence the people around him. The next day, while swimming, his wife drowned. She was carried to the shore and a crowd gathered, so he asked, ”What are you doing now?” A man said, ”We are going to give your wife artificial respiration.” The rich man said, ”Artificial respiration? Nothing doing, give her the real thing. I’ll pay for it.” Whatsoever you do, whatsoever you don’t do, whatsoever you say, whatsoever you don’t say, reveals you. Everywhere mirrors are all around you. Every other person is a mirror, every situation is a mirror The Empty Boat 70 Osho

CHAPTER 4. APOLOGIES – and whom do you think you are deceiving? If deception becomes a habit, ultimately you will have deceived yourself and no one else. It is your life you are wasting in deceptions. Chuang Tzu says: Explanations show that you are not true, you are not authentic. IF AN ELDER BROTHER STEPS ON HIS YOUNGER BROTHER’S FOOT HE SAYS, ”SORRY,” AND THAT IS THAT. Two brothers...when the relationship is more intimate, when you are close, the other is not a stranger. Then no explanation is needed, the brother simply says sorry. He accepts the blame. He says, ”I have been unconscious.” He is not shifting the responsibility onto somebody else, he accepts it and that is that. The relationship is closer. IF A PARENT TREADS ON HIS CHILD’S FOOT NOTHING IS SAID AT ALL. There is no need, the relationship is even more intimate, closer. There is love, and that love will do. No substitute is needed, no explanation, no apology. THE GREATEST POLITENESS IS FREE OF ALL FORMALITY. PERFECT CONDUCT IS FREE OF CONCERN. PERFECT WISDOM IS UNPLANNED. PERFECT LOVE IS WITHOUT DEMONSTRATIONS. PERFECT SINCERITY OFFERS NO GUARANTEE. But all these perfections need one thing – and that is spontaneous awareness; otherwise you will always have false coins, you will always have false faces. You can be sincere, but if you have to make any effort then that sincerity is just formal. You can be loving, but if your love needs effort, if your love is of that type which Dale Carnegie talks about in How to Win Friends and Influence People, if that type of love is there, it cannot be real. You have been manipulating it. Then even friendship is a business. The Empty Boat 71 Osho

CHAPTER 4. APOLOGIES<br />

– and whom do you think you are deceiving? If deception be<strong>com</strong>es a habit, ultimately you will have<br />

deceived yourself and no one else. It is your life you are wasting in deceptions.<br />

Chuang Tzu says: Explanations show that you are not true, you are not authentic.<br />

IF AN ELDER BROTHER<br />

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

HE SAYS, ”SORRY,”<br />

AND THAT IS THAT.<br />

Two brothers...when the relationship is more intimate, when you are close, the other is not a stranger.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n no explanation is needed, the brother simply says sorry. He accepts the blame. He says, ”I<br />

have been unconscious.” He is not shifting the responsibility onto somebody else, he accepts it and<br />

that is that. <strong>The</strong> relationship is closer.<br />

IF A PARENT<br />

TREADS ON HIS CHILD’S FOOT<br />

NOTHING IS SAID AT ALL.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is no need, the relationship is even more intimate, closer. <strong>The</strong>re is love, and that love will do.<br />

No substitute is needed, no explanation, no apology.<br />

THE GREATEST POLITENESS<br />

IS FREE OF ALL FORMALITY.<br />

PERFECT CONDUCT IS FREE OF CONCERN.<br />

PERFECT WISDOM IS UNPLANNED.<br />

PERFECT LOVE IS WITHOUT DEMONSTRATIONS.<br />

PERFECT SINCERITY OFFERS NO GUARANTEE.<br />

But all these perfections need one thing – and that is spontaneous awareness; otherwise you will<br />

always have false coins, you will always have false faces. You can be sincere, but if you have to<br />

make any effort then that sincerity is just formal.<br />

You can be loving, but if your love needs effort, if your love is of that type which Dale Carnegie talks<br />

about in How to Win Friends and Influence People, if that type of love is there, it cannot be real. You<br />

have been manipulating it. <strong>The</strong>n even friendship is a business.<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Empty</strong> <strong>Boat</strong> 71 <strong>Osho</strong>

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