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CHAPTER 18. NON-ATTACHMENT IS NOT AVERSION
So they conferred among themselves at length. Not even the intimate friends of the dead monk
had a workable suggestion to offer. Then the oldest among them, the one who had read about
someone dying while walking, said that the elder sister of the dead monk – who was a nun – lived in
a neighboring monastery. She could be of some help to them, because she knows her brother well
and whenever he made any trouble in the past she was called to discipline him.
His sister was a ninety-year-old woman living in a nearby village. When she came, she tapped her
brother’s dead body with her staff saying, ”Can’t you give up being naughty even when you are going
to die? Is this the way to die? Die properly!”
Immediately the monk stood on his legs and said to his sister, ”Please don’t be angry; now I will die
properly. It does not make any difference to me.” And he lay on the ground and died.
His sister picked up her staff and left for her monastery. She did not even look back on her dead
brother or his friends.
This man, who can die playfully, knows that life is a play. He can live playfully and die playfully. And
he also knows what action without a motive, without being attached to its fruits is. When one turns
his work into play, his whole life becomes a play. Then he can take everything, including death, as a
play. But it is possible only when you know the real actor within you. You don’t have to act; you are
al, ready acting, and you have only to know the truth of it.
Krishna does not tell you to become an actor, or to practice acting. If you practice you will remain a
doer, and you will become serious about every role. Krishna says you have only to know the reality
of your life. As far as he is concerned, he knows for himself that it is nothing different from acting.
And once you know it for yourself you will cease to be a doer in life. Then your life will turn into a
play, and that is what sannyas is.
Krishna speaks of two kinds of action: one is action without attachment, and another is inaction with
a sense of involvement in action. These are the two ways of sannyas and action, and it depends on
you which way you choose for yourself. Someone can choose doing and yet remain a non-doer, and
another can opt for non-doing and yet remain a doer.
These are really two types of people in the world, and you have to know your own type. As I see it,
a male mind will choose doing and yet remain a non-doer, and a female mind will choose non-doing
and yet remain a doer. There is a basic difference between the two minds – male and female minds.
While the male mind is active, the feminine is passive. If a woman has to do something she will do it
as if she is not doing. And to the contrary a man, even when he is inactive, seems to be active and
aggressive.
These are two broad divisions of the mind – the male mind and the female mind. I call them broad
divisions because not all men are aggressive nor are all women passive. There are men with
feminine minds and women with male minds. Even if a woman wants to do a thing, she does it as
if she is doing nothing. If she loves a man she does not express her love to him directly. She hides
it in every way, she turns her love into a non-doing. A man on the other hand, will show off his love
even if he is not really loving to a woman.
Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy 349 Osho