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CHAPTER 2. THE GREAT PEARLA clear-cut differentiation. If you can understand this, you will understand the difference between abuddha, who looks almost human, and other human beings. Their actions are the same: the buddhaeats when he is hungry, he sleeps when he feels tired; so you do. On the surface there seems to beno difference. The difference is inside: when the buddha is eating, he is simply eating; there are noother thoughts in the sky of his mind. His whole attention, his whole awareness, is just concernedwith the act in the present – eating. When he is asleep, he is simply asleep. He does not dream, hedoes not wander here and there with a thousand anxieties and problems; he has none. Asleep, heis simply asleep.Modern psychoanalysis has to come to an understanding. They have not yet dared. They haveonly been studying what Hyakujo calls the barbarous mind. All their conclusions and their wholescience will remain absolutely incomplete unless they explore the mind of a buddha. That willbring a tremendous revolution in the whole psychoanalytical movement, because on the surface thebuddha is exactly the same as you are. But you can see the point: while you are eating, you arethinking a thousand and one thoughts; while you are sleeping, you are dreaming of faraway lands,or maybe repressed desires.It is sad that even while you are making such a deep and intimate act as love, you are not loving thewoman you are making love to, you are thinking of Sophia Loren. And don’t think that it is only youwho is thinking of Sophia Loren, the woman you are making love to, is thinking of Mohammed Ali.On every bed there are four fellows. This is the barbarous mind: never in the moment, always goingastray.Hyakujo put the difference with the enlightened man very clearly: when hungry, eat; when tired,sleep. Don’t do anything else. Always remain contained in the moment, contained in the act. Raisinghands, just raise your hand; don’t think of anything else. Sitting, just sit; walking, just walk. Everyact should be so concentrated that it does not allow other thoughts to enter in.A simple understanding of this can make one a buddha, because this will bring your wholeconsciousness together to such a point that it becomes almost an arrow. And whenever yourconsciousness becomes an arrow, it starts moving towards the origin of your life. All devices are justto make your consciousness an arrow and with an urgency, so that it moves. You are not far away.It is just a small journey, but it takes people millions of lives to fulfil it because they never move evenan inch inwards.”... AND WHEN THESE BARBAROUS MINDS ARE GOING TO SLEEP, THEY PONDER OVERAFFAIRS OF A THOUSAND DIFFERENTS KINDS. THAT’S HOW THEY DIFFER FROM ME.”AT THIS THE VINAYA MASTER WAS SILENCED.He was only a scholar, he had no idea of the inner world. He has absolute control of the outerobjective, philosophical concepts, but he has no idea at all from where his life arises, from wherehis consciousness arises, where the roots of his very being are. He was completely silenced by themaster. He could not utter a single word, but he could not become enlightened either. He could notask anything more, he could not answer the master. He simply became silent, knowing that he wasentering in an unknown territory. He knows the sastras, the scriptures perfectly well, but he does notknow anything about this ”eating, eat; walking, walk; sitting, sit.”Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 20 Osho