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CHAPTER 2. THE GREAT PEARLJust witness, as if you have nothing to do with them. Witnessing is the greatest device that has beenfound by the whole of the past enlightened people. It cuts through all rubbish just like a sharp sword:don’t get identified; just remain aloof and watch. Anger is there, take note of it and just watch how itarises, how it spreads like a mushroom, how it covers you like a blinding force; how it starts makingdecisions for you, how you start acting according to it.Just watch, and you will be surprised that it cannot do anything. As it arises, it will not even go tothe point of becoming a mushroom because it can become a mushroom only by nourishment. Bywatching it you have cut the very nourishment. It will arise as a crippled anger which cannot standup even, and soon it will disperse like mist. It has no reality except your identification.It is good of you, Maneesha, that you have taken note of it. Anando is also calming down. Here youare to become buddhas, not stupid buddhas, because such a thing has never existed in the world –a stupid buddha.Now it is Anando’s time....Princess Diana and Princess Fergie are the wives of Prince Charles and Prince Andrew of England.Soon after Fergie has arrived to live in the palace, Diana offers to take her on a bicycle tour of theLondon sights. Fergie is delighted and they set off, pedaling through the palace gates.Diana knows all the shortcuts through the London traffic, and soon the two princesses are bouncingalong on their bicycles over the cobblestones in the small back streets.”Wow! Di!” cries Fergie, giggling and squealing, her ample body vibrating like jelly, ”I have nevercome this way before!””Really?” says Di, ”I guess it must be the cobblestones!”Big Leroy, the black American football player, and Rabbi Sapperstein, the Jew, are riding in a traintogether.It is a hot, sunny day, and there are many flies, lazily buzzing around the compartment. Suddenly, afly lands on the Rabbi’s sleeve and he brushes it off in disgust.A few moments later another fly lands, but this time on Big Leroy’s leg. The giant football star moveslike lightning, and grabs the fly between two of his huge black fingers.Leroy then slowly pulls off both the fly’s wings and pops it into his mouth, chewing it contentedly.Soon afterwards, a fly lands on the Jew’s sleeve again. But this time, instead of brushing it off, therabbi grabs it between two of his long, boney fingers.He then slowly removes both of its wings, leans over to Leroy, and says, ”Wanna buy a fly?”Kowalski is out for a drive in the countryside in his new Chevrolet car. He stops on the top of a hilland gets out to admire the view.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 30 Osho