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CHAPTER 8. THE TURTLE
I also say to you that Buddha may have attained enlightenment – it may have been easy for his
nature to sit under a tree – but if you follow Buddha you will become just stones, Chuang Tzu will be
better for you.
Just be ordinary. For Buddha that may have been ordinariness... to sit. Hence he attained. But as
I know you, and the common human man, the common humanity, the vast humanity, Chuang Tzu
is better. And when I say better, I am not making any comparison, I am simply saying that he is so
ordinary that you can easily be with him without becoming neurotic. If you follow Buddha you may
get neurotic. If you follow Chuang Tzu you will become more and more natural.
CHUANG TZU WITH HIS BAMBOO POLE WAS FISHING IN THE PU RIVER. THE PRINCE OF
CHU SENT TWO VICE CHANCELLORS WITH A FORMAL DOCUMENT: WE HEREBY APPOINT
YOU PRIME MINISTER.
Politics is of the ego, it is the ego-trip, the ego-game. But Chuang Tzu was known far and wide as a
wise man, there was no need to advertise it. When wisdom exists it is such an illumination that you
cannot hide it, even a Chuang Tzu cannot hide it. You cannot hide ordinary love. If a young man falls
in love, or a young woman falls in love, you can tell just by their very walk that love has happened.
You cannot hide it because every gesture changes, becomes illuminated; a new quality enters, you
cannot hide it.
How can you hide being in love with the whole existence? When prayer exists, how can you hide it?
Even a Chuang Tzu – who says hide it – cannot hide it, it is impossible, people will suspect.
How can you hide light? If your house is lighted, the neighbours will come to know because the light
will show from your windows. No, you cannot hide it, but the effort to hide it is good.
Why does Chuang Tzu say hide it when the inner lamp is burning? He says it just to bring you
from exactly the opposite pole, because you would like to advertise it. There are people whose light
does not yet exist, whose flame is not yet there, whose house is dark, empty, but they would like
to advertise that they have become wise. Ego would like to pretend even about wisdom. Hence,
Chuang Tzu says: Don’t say anything about what you are, who you are; just hide yourself. Those
who have eyes, they will seek and follow you themselves; they will come to you. You need not go
and knock at their doors, the very phenomenon will attract them, and seekers will follow you and
seek you, wherever you are. And those who are not seekers, don’t bother about them, because their
coming is of no use. They will just be a disturbance, and they will create hindrances for those who
are seeking. Hide the fact. But still people will come to know.
The Prince must have come to know that Chuang Tzu had become enlightened.
THE PRINCE OF CHU SENT TWO VICE-CHANCELLORS WITH A FORMAL DOCUMENT: WE
HEREBY APPOINT YOU PRIME MINISTER.
In the old days prime ministers were not chosen by the vote of the people, because how can you
choose by the vote of the people? How can people choose their leaders? They would like to, but
they are not capable. Democracy is just a dream, it has not happened anywhere, it cannot happen.
And wherever it happens, it creates trouble; the medicine proves more dangerous than the disease
itself.
When the Shoe Fits 112 Osho