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CHAPTER 2. THE GREAT PEARLThe king said, ”It hurts me to ask, but I want to know what the difference is between me and you.You live in the palace, you enjoy all the luxuries... what is the difference between me and you?”The young man said, ”I knew that this question was going to arise one day. In fact, it arose thesame moment I stood up to follow you. You are not a very courageous man. You should haveasked immediately. Why waste six months, and for six months unnecessarily disturbing your sleep.I can answer your question but not here. You have to come with me outside the boundary of yourkingdom.”It was not far away. Just a few miles away was the river, the boundary of his kingdom.The king said, ”What is the need to go there? You can answer me here.”He said, ”No. There is a need.”Both went past the river. Standing on the other shore, the young man said, ”My answer is that I amgoing ahead. Are you coming with me?”He said, ”How can I come with you? I have a palace, I have a kingdom, I have my wife, my children...I have thousands of worries and problems to solve. How can I come with you?”The young man said, ”Do you see the difference? I am going. I don’t have any palace, I don’t haveany wife, I don’t have any problems. I was as happy under my tree as I have been happy in yourpalace – not a bit more or a bit less. My awareness is the same whether I am in a palace or in aforest.”The king felt very sad at his ugly mind, that he thought such an ugly thing. He touched his feet andhe said, ”Forgive me even to think this. In my own eyes I have fallen.”The young man said, ”No. Don’t do it. Seeing your tears and you touching my feet I have no difficulty,I can come back, but you will still start thinking, ‘My God. Has he deceived me again?’ I have nodifficulty but so as not to be uncompassionate towards you, I will not come. Just let me go. Thewhole world is there and I don’t need much, just a tree to sit underneath. It does not matter to me atall.”Now the king became more insistent, ”No, come back, otherwise I will be worried and hurt andwounded, thinking, ‘What have I done?’”The man said, ”You are putting me in difficulty. I am telling you I can come, but remember, you willagain start thinking, ‘What is the difference?’”The barbarous mind only thinks of the meanness, of the mediocrities. He does not have any heightsto look at.HYAKUJO REPLIED, ”HOW CAN THIS OLD MONK, BEING WITHOUT TONGUE TO URGEPEOPLE, TELL A LIE?”Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 24 Osho
CHAPTER 2. THE GREAT PEARLNow the intellectual must have become even more suspicious. The old monk Hyakujo says, ”HOWCAN THIS OLD MONK, BEING WITHOUT TONGUE...” Now this is apparently a lie: ”WITHOUTTONGUE TO URGE PEOPLE, TELL A LIE?” – but he is perfectly right. These are the worldsbeyond our ordinary, mediocre lives. A man of enlightenment does not speak, he simply allowsexistence to speak through him. He does not see, he allows the buddha inside him to see throughhis eyes.That’s why, once in a while, somebody receptive enough can look into the eyes of the master, theeyes of a buddha. He has no tongue of his own anymore. He has given everything to existence.He is no longer in possession of the tongue, of the eyes, of the hands. Now, whatever existencewants to do with him, he simply goes with it. His whole life is just a let-go. But the intellectual willnot understand. Now it is absolutely making a lie even more clear: ”I don’t have any tongue” – andhe is speaking. He is saying, ”How can I lie without a tongue?”The problem for a master is that if he speaks, he defiles the truth. However he tries, he cannotbring the truth into words. Just a little fragrance maybe, only for those who are intelligent enough tofeel the difference. The same words are being used by a master as are being used by you, but themaster’s words are not empty, your words are empty. When you say to someone, ”I love you,” youdon’t mean it. Perhaps it is a social custom. When a master says, ”I love you,” his love is not anempty word.But you need to have great intelligence to figure out the fragrance that is carried by the words or theactions. And remember, to be intellectual does not mean to be intelligent. The intellectual is a greatscholar; he has much knowledge, but he may not be intelligent. And a man who knows nothing, afarmer or a woodcutter or a fisherman, may have intelligence. He will not have intellect – he doesnot know anything about the intellectual world – but in his functioning...When the Soviet Union emerged from the revolution... The capital during the czars’ rule wasPetrograd, it was not Moscow. Petrograd was named after Peter, one of the czars. Because ofthis association, communists changed the capital to Moscow. But before changing it – it took years– they had to function in Petrograd.Just in front of the palace of the czar there was a huge rock that prevented anybody, any vehicle,to pass in front. It was considerately kept there so that nobody passed and disturbed the czar. Youcould go on any other street but you could not move on the street in front of the palace. The rockwas so huge that the communists were worried about what to do with it. It had to be removed, butits largeness prevented all removal. They called architects and engineers and they all thought aboutmany ways, either to cut it into pieces – but that too was not easy... They were all worried and therewas no solution coming out.An old farmer was just leaning on his staff, standing there, watching with all these great engineers,architects, politicians, and when he saw that they were not able to find any solution, he said, ”I amjust a farmer and I don’t know anything. I don’t know what engineering is, and what architecture is.I have just heard these words here, but as I understand, you want to remove this rock. It is a verysimple thing.”Lenin himself asked, ”You say it is a very simple thing? Please tell us what your idea is.”Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 25 Osho
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