Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

You have to learn everything. I think sooner or later you will have to learn howto breathe. It is possible because you follow many other things in the same way.You have to ask how to sleep, how to relax. They were natural one day, just likebreathing. Go and ask a primitive: he will simply laugh if you ask, "How do yougo so deeply into sleep?"He will say, "What a foolish question! I simply put my head down and go tosleep. There is no HOW to it."But you will say, "Still, there must be a trick because I try hard and nothinghappens. You must be knowing a secret which you are hiding."He is not hiding anything; that's how it happens. He simply puts down his headand goes to sleep. There is no gap between these two states.One day or another, man is going to ask how to breathe and then, if you say,'You just breathe; there is no HOW to it," he will not believe you. How to love,how to live, how to laugh, how to be happy -- these are all simple things, noHOW is needed. These are natural things, they are not techniques.This is how Jesus is. He loves the way he says his parables. He loves it! He knowshe has an intrinsic knack of telling parables.A parable is not arithmetic. It should not be too clear, otherwise the point is lost.It should be a persuasion, it should not be an advertisement. It should not arguebecause then the point is lost -- then why not argue, why say a parable? It shouldnot give proofs, it should only supply hints; and that, too, not completely. Just afew hints so that your being is challenged, you become alert.I have heard about Chuang Tzu that he was talking to his disciples and many ofthem were fast asleep, as disciples are. It must have been late at night and theywere tired, and Chuang Tzu was saying difficult things that were beyond them.When something is beyond you, it seems better to rest and sleep than to botherwith it.Suddenly Chuang Tzu became aware that many of the disciples were fast asleepand it was useless. They were even snoring and disturbing him. So he told aparable. He said: "Once it happened that a man had a donkey and he wastravelling on a pilgrimage towards some holy place. But he was very poor, and itcame to pass that he was hungry. No money was left, so he sold the donkey, onwhich he was riding, to another traveller who was rich. But the next afternoon,when the sun was very hot, the first owner rested in the shadow by the side ofthe donkey."The second owner said, 'This is not good. You have sold the donkey.'"The first owner said, 'I have sold the donkey, but not the shadow.' "Everybody became alert -- nobody was asleep, nobody was snoring. When youtalk about donkeys, donkeys hear it immediately! Chuang Tzu said, "I amfinished with the story. Now I come to my point."But they all said, "Wait! Please finish the story."Chuang Tzu said, "It was a parable, not a story. You are more interested indonkeys than you are in me".Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho