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CHAPTER 5. THREE IN THE MORNING
SO THE KEEPER SAID:
”ALL RIGHT THEN,
I WILL CHANGE IT
TO FOUR MEASURES IN THE MORNING,
AND THREE IN THE AFTERNOON.”
THE ANIMALS WERE SATISFIED WITH THIS ARRANGEMENT.
The total remained the same...but monkeys cannot look at the total. It was morning, so they could
only see the morning. Every morning it was routine to get four measures and they expected four
measures, and now this man says, ”Three measures in the morning.” He is cutting down by one
measure. It cannot be tolerated. They became angry, they revolted.
But this monkey trainer must have been a wise man. If you are not, it is difficult to become a monkey
trainer. I know it from my own experience. I am a monkey trainer.
The monkey trainer said, ”Okay, then don’t get disturbed. I will follow the old pattern. You will get
four measures in the morning and three in the evening.” The monkeys were happy. Poor monkeys! –
they can be happy or unhappy without any reason for either. But this man had a bigger perspective.
He could see, he could add four plus three. It was still the same – seven measures were to be given
to them. How they had it and in what arrangement didn’t matter. The two arrangements were the
same, the number of chestnuts didn’t change, but in one case the monkeys were displeased and in
the other case they were satisfied.
This is how your mind works: you just keep changing the arrangement. With one arrangement you
feel satisfied, with another you feel dissatisfied – and the total remains the same. But you never
look at the total. The mind cannot see the total. Only meditation can see the total. Mind looks at
the fragment, it is near-sighted, very near-sighted. That is why whenever you feel pleasure, you
immediately jump into it, you never look at the evening. Whenever there is pleasure there is pain
hidden in it. This has been your experience but you have not become aware of it. The pain will come
in the evening but the pleasure is here in the morning.
You never look into that which is hidden, into that which is invisible, into that which is latent. You just
look at the surface and you go mad. You do this all your life. A fragment catches you. Many people
come to me and say, ”In the beginning when I married this woman, everything was very beautiful.
But within days everything was lost. Now it has all become ugly, now it is misery.”
Once there was a car accident. The car overturned in a ditch by the side of the road. The man was
lying on the ground completely crippled, almost unconscious. A policeman came along and started
to fill in his notebook. He asked the man, ”Are you married?”
The man said, ”I am not married. This is the biggest mess I have ever been in.”
The Empty Boat 89 Osho