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CHAPTER 7. THE LAST MILESTONEThe problem is, the people who have gone in, the deeper they go in, the farther away the outerreality becomes. But the outer reality has its own existence. Its existence needs a mind, and theinner reality has a far greater and far more majestic existence. For it no-mind is needed. So it is adouble-tier world: mind has its world, and no-mind has on top of it a very beautiful, a very majesticworld.My effort has been to convince all kinds of people. There are people who deny any inner world –just the objective world is the only reality; all the inner is just dream. And on the other hand thereare people who say that everything inner is real, and everything outside is just a dream. But theyboth agree on one point, that they are denying one reality.I want to accept both realities. How can the inner exist without the outer? And how can the outerexist without the inner? That’s why I started calling sannyasin restaurants and their discos, Zorbathe Buddha. Zorba represents the outside reality.Kazantzakis, in his great book, ZORBA THE GREEK has given something of immense value to theworld. He has given Zorba. It has become almost a reality, not just a fictitious name. Zorba is happyin mediocre things, in anything – drinking, dancing, loving – a very vibrant, a very alive person.The Church of Greece expelled him from the church because he created Zorba the Greek. Amritois here from Greece. She has received a letter from Kazantzakis’ wife saying that she would like tobe the director of our World Academy. Kazantzakis suffered very much because of the OrthodoxChurch of Greece.When I say Zorba the Buddha, I am trying to bring the inner and outer closer. There is no needthat Zorba should remain only a Zorba. It is perfectly good, but it is not the highest point whereconsciousness can rise to greater realities, to greater mysteries.Zorba has to become the Buddha.Zorba is the seed of the Buddha.You are all born as Zorbas – liking the ordinary things of the world, carrying your buddha inside,ignoring it. But even if you realize the buddha, I will not deny the outside world. I am absolutelyscientific in the sense that whatever is true; it may be outer, it may be inner. The inner may be ahigher reality; the outer may be a lower reality. But as far as reality is concerned, there are tworealities: a reality which is perceived by the mind, and a reality which opens its doors to the no-mind.Now it is Anando time....Old Buffalo Grass, the ageing hippy, is bopping down the street puffing away on a couple of reefers.To his amazement, he finds himself standing in front of a barber shop.”Far out!” he says to himself, scratching his big beard. ”I haven’t had a haircut for thirty-two years.”So, in a cloud of smoke, he walks in, and sits down in the barber’s chair.”How much is a haircut?” asks Buffalo.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 106 Osho