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CHAPTER 6. SYMPHONY FOR A SEABIRD
The Prince ordered a solemn reception – because a Prince is a Prince, and he thought that a king
among birds had come, and just as other princes have to be received so this bird which was so
beautiful had to be received with equal honour. But how to receive a bird? The Prince had his own
ways.
THE PRINCE ORDERED A SOLEMN RECEPTION, OFFERED THE SEA BIRD WINE IN THE
SACRED PRECINCT, CALLED FOR MUSICIANS TO PLAY the COMPOSITIONS OF SHUN,
SLAUGHTERED CATTLE TO NOURISH IT. DAZED WITH SYMPHONIES THE UNHAPPY SEA
BIRD DIED OF DESPAIR.
Although everything was done to receive the guest, nobody bothered who the guest was. The guest
was received according to the host, not according to the guest, and that killed the poor bird.
Many of you are simply dead because of the host. Nobody looks at you. A child is born and the
parents start thinking what to make of him. Even before he is born they start thinking.
I was staying in the home of a friend. The friend is a professor in a university, and his wife is also a
professor. Both are very intelligent persons with gold medals and certificates and Ph.D.’s. I saw their
daughter – they have only one daughter – playing on the piano, weeping and crying. So I asked her
mother: What is the matter? The mother said: I always wanted to be a musician and my parents
wouldn’t allow it. This is not going to happen again to my daughter – she has to be a musician. I
have suffered so much because my parents wouldn’t allow me, they forced me to be a professor. I
am not going to force my daughter to be a professor, she is going to be a musician!
And the daughter was crying and weeping!
You are so confused because of others: your mother wants you to be one thing, your father
something else. It is bound to be so because they never agree, fathers and mothers, they never
agree.
Mulla Nasrudin’s son told me: I would like to be a doctor but my mother insists that I have to be an
engineer. So what can I do? I said: You do one thing. You spread the rumour that your father wants
you to be an engineer. So now he is a doctor
They are always opposed, father and mother, and their opposition goes deep within you, it becomes
an inner conflict. Your father and your mother may be dead, no longer in this world, but they are
within your unconscious – still fighting. They will never leave you in peace. Whatsoever you do, your
father says do it, then your mother says don’t. Your inner conflict is your parent’s conflict. And then
there are uncles and brothers and sisters and many relatives and you are alone amidst so many
well-wishers. And they all want you to be something according to them. They destroy you. And then
the whole of your life becomes a confusion – you don’t know what you want to be, you don’t know
where you want to go, you don’t know what you are doing and why you are doing it. Then you feel
miserable. Misery comes if you cannot grow to be a natural being; if you cannot grow according to
yourself.
This happened to that sea bird and this has happened to all sea birds – you are all sea birds.
One day you landed in a womb in the capital of Lu, you were received with great pomp and show.
When the Shoe Fits 85 Osho