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CHAPTER 5. THREE IN THE MORNING
It is said that those who know will never marry. But how can you know what happens in marriage
without getting married? You look at a person, at the fragment, and sometimes the fragment will
look very foolish when you think about it in the end.
The color of the eyes – what foolishness! How can your life depend on the color of your or somebody
else’s eyes? How can your life be beautiful just because of the color of the eyes? – a small pigment,
three or four pennies’ worth. But you get romantic: Oh, the eyes, the color of the eyes. Then you go
mad and you think, ”If I am not married to this woman life is lost, I will commit suicide.”
But you don’t see what you are doing. One cannot live by the color of the eyes forever. Within two
days you will become acquainted with those eyes and you will forget them. Then there is the whole
of life in front of you, the totality of it. Then starts misery. Before the honeymoon is finished, misery
begins; the total person was never taken into account – the mind cannot see the total. It just looks
at the surface, at the figure, the face, the hair, the color of the eyes, the way the woman walks, the
way she talks, the sound of her voice. These are the parts, but where is the total person?
The mind cannot see the total. The mind looks at fragments, and with fragments it gets hooked.
Once it is hooked, the total comes in – the total is not far away. Eyes don’t exist as separate
phenomena, they are part of a whole person. If you are hooked by the eyes, you are hooked with
the whole person. And when this whole emerges, everything becomes ugly.
So who is responsible? You should have taken account of the whole. But when it is morning the
mind looks at the morning and forgets the evening completely. Remember well – in every morning
the evening is hidden. The morning is constantly turning into evening and nothing can be done
about it, you cannot stop it.
Says Chuang Tzu:
THE TWO ARRANGEMENTS WERE THE SAME –
THE NUMBER OF CHESTNUTS DID NOT CHANGE,
BUT IN ONE CASE THE MONKEYS WERE DISPLEASED,
AND IN THE OTHER CASE THEY WERE SATISFIED.
Monkeys are your minds; they cannot penetrate the whole. This is the misery. You always miss, you
always miss because of the fragment. If you can see the whole and then act, your life will never be a
hell. And then you will not be bothered about superficial arrangements, about morning and evening,
because then you can count – and it is always seven. Whether you get four or three in the morning
makes no difference – the total is seven.
I have heard that a small boy came home from school very puzzled. His mother asked, ”Why do you
look so puzzled?”
The boy said, ”I am in a muddle. I think my teacher has gone crazy. Yesterday she said that four plus
one make five and today she told me three plus two make five. She must have gone mad, because
when four plus one is already five, how can three plus two be five?”
The Empty Boat 90 Osho