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CHAPTER 4. FIGHTING COCK
The Emperor went on insisting because the day for the competition was coming nearer and nearer
and the Emperor’s cock must win. And this man went on delaying – and the excuses that he was
giving looked just absurd
Whenever there is a man of Tao his statements will look absurd. They are, because they don’t fit
in with your mind. He says again after ten days: ’NOT YET. HE FLARES UP WHEN HE HEARS
ANOTHER BIRD CROW’. He is still immature, childish. This is not the way of a warrior, this is the
way of a coward. This is not the way of a fearless man, a fearless cock, no! It is not the way of those
who ate fearless.
When anybody – when any bird is crowing – why do you feel that it is meant for you? Why do you
feel that the challenge is for you? Why do you take the whole world as your enemy? If you take the
whole world as your enemy it means that somewhere, deep down, you have not hit upon the source.
Otherwise the whole world would be felt as friendly, friendliness would be the main note. If enemies
happen that would be an exception. Now enmity is the main note and if friends happen that is an
exception. And you can never know, and you can never even believe in a friend, because you know
enmity so much.
It happened that Mulla Nasrudin was made a Justice of the Peace. It has to be done because
there are mischievous people. If they are very, very mischievous, you make them governors. If
they are even more mischievous, you send them abroad as ambassadors. If they are just ordinarily
mischievous, local, then you make them Justices of the Peace. They have to be given something to
do so that they don’t make too much mischief.
Mulla Nasrudin is a mischievous person, but not very big; if you will allow me to say so, a very small
V.I.P.not a big gun, just a local gun. So they make him a J.P. – Justice of the Peace. He changed
his drawing room into a court, engaged a clerk and a watchman, got up in the early morning, and
waited and waited but nobody turned up. By the evening he was very depressed and he said to the
clerk: Not a single case! No murder, no robbery, no crime committed in the town. If things continue
in this way then it will be a very boring job. I was very excited, but not even a traffic offence, nothing
has turned up. Said the clerk: Don’t be so depressed, Mulla, just trust in human nature. Something
is bound to happen sooner or later. I still have got enough trust in human nature.
What type of human nature is this clerk talking about? He says that he still has enough trust,
something is bound to happen. Just you wait, things will happen.
Your courts, your judges, your governments depend on you, on your nature. This whole nonsense
is run because of you, and at the base it is because you are always ready to fight. If the society
really becomes more and more natural, the government will disappear. It is a disease. The courts
will disappear, they are not good signs. The policeman is there because the criminal is there, and
the whole structure exists just because of one thing – because you are always ready to fight, to flare
up. Because of your ego the government exists, the court exists, the magistrate exists. If ego is
dropped the whole of politics disappears. All politics exist because of the ego.
Said he: ’NOT YET. HE FLARES UP WHEN HE HEARS ANOTHER BIRD CROW’.
AFTER TEN MORE DAYS: ’NOT YET. HE STILL GETS THAT ANGRY LOOK AND RUFFLES HIS
FEATHERS’. He is getting silent, growing, becoming more and more mature, but not yet. As yet, he
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