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CHAPTER 5. THREE IN THE MORNING
He had a bath, got ready, and put on one of the ties she had given him. His wife stared and said,
”What? Do you mean you don’t like the other tie? So isn’t the other tie good enough?” A man can
only wear one tie at one time but whichever tie he had chosen, the same would have happened: ”So
what do you mean? The other one isn’t good enough?”
It is the old habit of quarreling, fighting. It was said about the same woman that every day she
would find something to fight about. And she would always succeed, because when you search,
you will find. Remember this: whatsoever you are looking for you will find. The world is so vast, and
existence is so rich, that if you are really keen to find something, you will find it.
Sometimes she found hair on her husband’s coat, and then she would fight about him going with
some other woman. But once it happened that for seven days she could not find anything wrong.
She tried and tried and there was no excuse to pick a fight. So on the seventh day, when her
husband came home, she started screaming and beating her chest. He said, ”Now what are you
doing? What is the matter, what happened?”
So she said, ”You rascal, you have finished with other women and now you are going around with
bald women!”
The mind is always looking for trouble. And don’t laugh, because this is about YOUR mind. By
laughing you may be simply deceiving yourself. You may think it is about somebody else – it is about
you. And whatsoever I say, it is always about you.
Mind chooses and always chooses trouble, because with choice comes trouble. You cannot choose
God. If you choose, there will be trouble. You cannot choose sannyas. If you choose, there will be
trouble. You cannot choose freedom. If you choose, it will not be freedom.
Then how does it happen? How does God happen, sannyas happen, freedom happen, moksha
happen? It happens when you understand the foolishness of choice. It is not a new choice, it is
simply the dropping of all choosing. Just looking at the whole thing you start laughing. There is
nothing to choose. The total remains the same. In the end, by the evening, the total will be the
same. Then you won’t be bothered whether in the morning you are an emperor or a beggar. You
are happy, because by evening everything has come to the same, everything has been leveled.
Death equalizes. In death nobody is an emperor and nobody is a beggar. Death reveals the total; it
is always seven.
The two arrangements were the same. Remember, the amount of chestnuts didn’t change. But in
one case the monkeys were displeased and in the other case they were satisfied.
THE KEEPER WAS WILLING
TO CHANGE HIS PERSONAL ARRANGEMENT
IN ORDER TO MEET OBJECTIVE CONDITIONS.
HE LOST NOTHING BY IT.
The Empty Boat 95 Osho