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CHAPTER 1. WHEN THE SHOE FITS
The difficult attracts. The more difficult it is, the more it attracts you. It becomes more valuable
because through it, if you conquer, you will achieve a greater ego. Even if you fail, you will achieve
a greater ego because you at least tried, while others have not tried at all.
If you achieve with the easy, nothing is achieved, because the ego cannot feel greater. And if you
fail, much is lost, because everybody will say: Such an easy thing, and you couldn’t achieve it?
Ego is always attracted magnetically to the difficult, but EASY IS RIGHT. So ego is never attracted
towards the right, it is always attracted towards the wrong.
A person becomes a criminal because crime is difficult, a person becomes a politician because
politics is difficult, a person becomes mad about money because making money is difficult. For
anything that is difficult, people will go mad. Not that anything is achieved, but just because it is
there like an Everest, a challenge, it has to be conquered.
Look at your successful people, those who have succeeded. Look at them! What have they
attained? They may have reached Everest, okay, but there is nothing there. One has to come
back. Look at your presidents, prime ministers, Rockefellers, what have they achieved? Nothing!
They know deep down that they have achieved nothing. But one thing they have done, the most
difficult thing – history will remember them.
History always remembers foolish people, because fools make history and fools write it!
Chuang Tzu makes no history, because EASY IS RIGHT. So how can you make history if you are
easy? If you win a war and kill millions of people you make history. If you just brush your teeth in
the morning how can you make history? And EASY IS RIGHT! You take a bath, and you sing a
little song, how can you make history? You eat your food and you silently go to sleep without any
dreams. How can you make history? No! History takes no notice of persons who are easy and
natural. History takes notice of people who are mad, obsessed with something, who create trouble
in some way or the other. And difficult is wrong, easy is right; be easy and don’t try to be in history.
Leave it for fools and mad people, you just stay out of it. Because you cannot have both. Either you
can have life, or you can be remembered in history. If you have life, you will be just an easy and
simple man, doing simple and small things, and enjoying them. You will not create any trouble for
anybody, nobody will take any notice of you; you will exist as if you never existed. That is what easy
is – existing as if you are not existing, existing as if you are not, not in anyone’s way. Nobody will
know about you but there is no need. You will enjoy, you will attain to the highest peak of ecstasy.
EASY IS RIGHT. EASY IS RIGHT. BEGIN RIGHT, AND YOU ARE EASY. And this is the criterion:
Doing anything, if you feel easy doing it, it is right. If you feel uneasy doing it, something is wrong.
If you are tense, it means you are living an uneasy life. If you cannot sleep, cannot relax, cannot let
go, it shows you are living an uneasy life – you are after difficult things, impossible things.
Change your style of life, you are on the wrong path. Begin right and you are always easy, begin
right and you are always at rest – that is the criterion. So always look at what happens when you
do something: if you become peaceful, if you become restful, at home, relaxed, it is right. This is
the criterion, nothing else is the criterion. What is right for you may not be right for somebody else,
remember that too. Because what is easy for you may not be easy for somebody else, something
else may be easy for him. So there can be no universal law about it. Every individual has to work it
When the Shoe Fits 18 Osho