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CHAPTER 1. THE LANGUAGE OF SUDDENNESSManeesha was asking something else. She was trying to inquire about me, what my response wasto this suddenness. That’s why Avirbhava was not disturbed. She was the main part of the horse;Anando was just the back part. Avirbhava proved to be more alert and conscious, seeing that thequestion did not have anything to do with the coming in early. In fact the early coming was verygood: it surprised everybody except me. But I am crazy anyway.Nothing surprises me....For thirty-five years continuously I have been looking for something to surprise me. Nothingsurprises me. Even when a man a few years ago threw a knife at me, it did not surprise me. Ijust looked at the knife and I continued what I was doing. The man must have been surprised. I didnot even report the case. I did not go to the court. The court had to send their representative just toask me had such a thing happened?I said, ”It was not much, just a rotten old knife, and it has not hurt anybody. So fundamentally,nothing has happened, except the sound of the knife falling on the ground. Do you call it a crime?”The man said, ”You are strange. The police are putting the case before the court, and I have comehere as a representative of the court because you refused to come.”I said, ”In any case I would not be there. If the knife had killed me, I would not be there in the court.Now that the knife has not killed me, why should I be in the court?”The man said, ”What am I to say to the court?”I said, ”You just write down – I will sign it – that this case really happened: A man threw a knife; Iheard the noise. For a moment I stopped speaking so that the hassle with the man and the policeofficers stopped. They took him away. I continued my work.”The horse coming as a surprise to everybody – I really enjoyed it. The real Kalki, the Hindu whitehorse which is going to come within twelve years, the coming twelve years – any time – will not givea warning to you. It will come as suddenly as Avirbhava’s horse came. So it was absolutely proper– but Anando was hurt.But I can understand Avirbhava’s hurry. You should just imagine somebody inside a horse – onewants to get out as quickly as possible. And now she is going to bring elephants and crocodiles...and she will have to be inside them! Obviously she was in a hurry because the horse might havebroken in the middle. So as quickly as possible... It was a perfect performance.Anando was not exactly disturbed by it; that was a very superficial thing. She was disturbed becauseI called Maneesha a better reporter, a better recorder than Ramakrishna had in Swami Vivekananda,or Socrates had in Plato. She became hurt because she is doing so much work. She is workinghard on all the new books and their publication. She is in charge of the whole of publications and allof the construction that is going on in the ashram. Obviously she thought that Maneesha has beenpraised – and a subtle jealousy, and the female mind... I wanted them to be exposed.And the next day when I said that this new series was going to be dedicated to her, Anando freakedout even more – so much so that she is suffering from a fever which is absolutely psychological,Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 11 Osho