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CHAPTER 2. THE GREAT PEARLme? Why did you said this? Why did you expose me?” The work of the master is not just full ofroses. It is one of the most delicate works of art to help a man become a buddha. A slight mistakeand everything is spoiled. And the problem is not the master, the problem is the disciple. How thedisciple is going to take your word is not within your control.So Buddha said, ”I am thinking not to speak at all. Those who are capable of becoming buddhaswill become buddhas – a little late perhaps – and those who are too much involved in darkness andmundane activities are not going to listen to me. They will simply waste my time and will be angryat me that I am wasting their time.”But the people who were urging him said, ”You are ninety-nine point nine percent right, but pleasethink of the point one percent. You may fail with ninety-nine point nine percent of the people, but youmay succeed in helping one person out of one hundred to become a buddha. This is such a greatevent that those failures can be simply forgotten – they don’t matter. Anyway they were not goingto become buddhas; you need not be worried about them. But think of that point one percent. Youwill be very unkind to those who are just on the periphery. A little push, a little kindly word that givesthem a sense of urgency; a little look in their eyes that gives them the depth that they also contain;a little touch of love, the warmth of a buddha, just his gesture...”And Buddha agreed. His agreement is one of the greatest agreements that has been made inhuman history. He could have disagreed. There was no way to force him, but then something greatwould have been completely forgotten. At least it is remembered here and there. Some peoplestill become buddhas, still reach to the same heights, because they know somebody has alreadytraveled the path. ”If one man is capable of becoming a buddha, then there is no reason why Icannot become a buddha.” This gives great courage, and great encouragement.But the intellectual mind, not understanding the inner process of enlightenment, noncausal,nonlogical, immediately jumps to the conclusion that there is a contradiction. Here you are sayingthat there are no mental processes which are of any use. By your mind you cannot reachbuddhahood, you will have to drop the mind, so what is the use of mental processes? Mind asa whole entity has to be pushed aside so that you can see clearly and directly, without any thoughtsgathering in front of your eyes. There is no goal. The moment you find utter silence and a deepunderstanding of yourself, your roots, you simply have a laugh – just a laugh that ”I have beensearching for the person who is hiding behind me, inside me, at my very center.”But he immediately asked, ”There is a contradiction because you teach people to meditate, youteach people certain devices. What is the point?”HYAKUJO SAID, ”THIS OLD MONK DOES NOT POSSESS EVEN A DOT OF GROUND IN WHICHTO STICK AN AWL.”He is saying that he does not possess any mind to answer and satisfy your contradiction.”WHY, MASTER, YOU ARE LYING TO MY FACE!” EXCLAIMED TAO KUANG.That is an eternal problem: the master has to lie. And if you think only of his lying, you will neverunderstand that he was lying out of compassion, and that those lies were just preparing a groundfor you to take a jump in.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 22 Osho
CHAPTER 2. THE GREAT PEARLI will tell you an old story....A king was very much interested in a young man who always remained underneath a tree, sittingsilently. Every night the king passed around the city in disguise to see whether everything was rightor not. He always found that young man sitting like a statue, without any movement.Finally, he could not contain his curiosity. He stopped his horse and he said, ”Young man, forgiveme for disturbing your meditation.”The young man opened his eyes and he said, ”There is no need for any apology because I am notmeditating, I am meditation – nobody can disturb it. But whatever your curiosity is, please fulfill it.”The king said, ”I would love you to come to my palace. I will take care of you. There is no need tosit under this tree. Seeing you so silently, like the ancient story of Buddha, I have fallen in love withyour silence, your gestures, your utter undisturbance. I invite you to come with me to my palace. Iam the king.”This is how the barbarous mind functions. The king asks the young man to come to his palace –inviting him – but deep down his unconscious wants him not to accept his invitation because thatwill mean he is still desirous of luxuries and palaces.But that young man simply stood up, and he said, ”I am coming.”Immediately the whole scene changed. The mind of the king was thinking, ”What have I done?This man is still interested in the luxuries of a palace, being the guest of a king. This is not a greatsaint.” This is the old idea of the saint, that he should be as uncomfortable as possible. Discomfort isreligion. Sick, hungry, torturing oneself in thousands of ways... and then you become a great saint.This fellow has suddenly fallen from his sainthood, in the mind of the king. But now it was too late.He could not take his word back; it would be to ungentlemanly.But the young man was watching everything. He didn’t say anything. The king provided for him inthe best part of the palace, servants, young girls to look after him – and he accepted everything.With each acceptance he was falling down in the scale of saintliness: what kind of saint was he? Heaccepted a beautiful king-size bed. He accepted all the delicacies of the palace.The king said, ”My God. What kind of a stupid person am I? This man has deceived me. It seemslike he tricked me. Just sitting there every night, he knew I passed at that time, sitting silently like abuddha, he knew that I would be caught – and he caught me. And now it is very difficult either toswallow him or to spit him out. He is inside the palace.”But how long can you carry such a state of mind?After six months, one day early in the morning when they were taking a walk together in the gardens,the king said to him, ”One question has been continuously harassing me and I want to get rid of it.Because of it, for six months I have not slept well.”The young man said, ”You can ask any question.”Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 23 Osho
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