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CHAPTER 2. THE GREAT PEARLmyself made by you. And don’t think about money. You say it and it will be given.” The woman wassuper rich.Picasso wanted to tolerate her but he could not tolerate the money. He was in immense need ofmoney. Just for his paintings he needed money, but he did not want to make a portrait, knowingperfectly well that when he started painting he forgot himself, so that what came out may not looklike this woman. So he said to her, ”Listen... ten million dollars.”She said, ”Okay. Start the work.”He said, ”My God. I asked for ten million so as not to get involved in this work. I have to explain toyou that when I start painting, I forget myself. The colors catch me so hard, their beauty becomesso immense, that I don’t know what I am doing; the painting starts painting itself. That’s why I havenever done a portrait, but if you insist, I will make an effort – and I cannot lose ten million dollars.But you have to make me a promise: you cannot criticize my painting on any point.”She said, ”Agreed.”The painting was done. The woman could not understand what had happened. She could not findwhere she was in the painting at all. It was a beautiful painting – great colors, very psychedelic, butit was not a portrait. And she had agreed not to criticize so she said, ”I am not criticizing, but I justwant to know where my nose is, so from that point I can figure out where I am.”Picasso said, ”This is the difficulty. I had told you beforehand that when I paint, I forget. Now I don’tknow where your nose is. You take the painting and meditate over it. Sometime you may find thatthis is your nose, and then figure out... around it there may be some eyes, a mouth.”The woman said, ”This is a strange kind of portrait that I have to figure out where my nose is.”Once it happened, a rich man came and he wanted, ”Picasso, two paintings, immediately.” Picassohad only one painting ready so he went in and cut the painting in two.The girlfriend who used to be with Picasso, said, ”What are you doing?”He said, ”I cannot miss that customer. He is a rich man and he wants two paintings. I will make twopaintings immediately. Anyway nobody can discover what the painting is, whether it is together or intwo parts.” He made two paintings, and he sold two paintings.Those who have purchased his paintings, even in great museums, find it difficult to know how tohang them – which way up... which way down.... You can hang them any way. They are beautiful,but you cannot make any sense of that beauty.And another haiku by Basho:FOR HIS MORNING TEAA MONK SITS DOWN IN UTTER SILENCE –Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 28 Osho
CHAPTER 2. THE GREAT PEARLCONFRONTED BY CHRYSANTHEMUMS.”For his morning tea a monk sits down in utter silence...” Tea has become associated withBodhidharma, who introduced Zen into China. He loved tea, and strangely, it helps you to beawake; otherwise, sitting silently, one tends to fall asleep. So tea has become a special Zen thing.He is just depicting a picture. Under the tree of chrysanthemums, a monk sits in utter silence for hismorning tea. Nothing is said – just a silent monk waiting for his tea.These haikus are, as I have said to you, paintings in words.Question 1A question by Maneesha:BELOVED OSHO,I WOULD BE DISHONEST IF I DID NOT SAY I ALSO HAVE BEEN JEALOUS, I HAVE NOT ALWAYSRECEIVED FROM YOU WITH GRACE; I HAVE WANTED TO BE YOUR FAVORITE GIRL. I DON’TTHINK I HAVE ACTED ON THOSE FEELINGS, BUT PERHAPS I HAVE DONE IN SUBTLE WAYS.IT IS NOT THAT I ONLY BECAME AWARE OF ALL THIS LAST NIGHT, OR THAT BY YOURPOINTING OUT CERTAIN THINGS ABOUT ANANDO MEANT THE REST OF US WERE FREEOF THOSE SAME THINGS. I KNOW WE ALL HAVE THE SAME FAILINGS. I KNOW, YOU KNOW,BUT I JUST NEEDED TO SAY ALL THIS TO YOU – FOR MY SAKE, IF YOU WILL ALLOW ME, ORFOR THE RECORD.Maneesha, this has to be very clearly understood: that whatever I am saying to one person,everybody has to look within himself to see whether that is applicable to him also. I cannot talkto each of you differently; it is an impossibility. Every person to me is symbolic. What I said aboutAnando is just symbolic – you all have to ponder over it. Perhaps the same tendencies, the sameunconscious feelings, jealousies, greed, ambitions may be hiding in you. Most probably they are.Before enlightenment you all have this barbarous mind. Anando is not an exception, nor are you anexception, Maneesha – and it is perfectly okay.What is needed is an awareness that these things are within you. Nothing has to be done.Just watch them and they will wash out. But what do people do? – they do something to thecontrary. They repress them, they pretend that ”others may have jealousies we don’t have.” Theypretend that ”others may have anger we don’t have.” They go on repressing all their ugliness in theunconsciousness. This is not going to be helpful in your awakening. These unconscious represseddesires, feelings, attitudes, are all going to become a hindrance to your enlightenment.My effort, in different ways – answering your question, or telling a joke, or talking about strange sutrasof strange people – is simply to help you face your own repressed mind. Once you encounter it, thenthe only secret to be learned, which I teach every time, is to witness them. Don’t do anything. Don’tcondemn them, otherwise they will immediately go deeper into the darkness of your unconsciousmind. Don’t condemn them, don’t appreciate them, otherwise they will become attached to yourconscious mind. Don’t make any judgment for or against.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 29 Osho
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