Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho's Haikus - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 3. IN SEARCH OF A LOST TREASUREhas nothing to do with himself. It is the sadness of a man who knows how easy and how close yourbuddhahood is – and you are running here and there unnecessarily. The whole world is fighting,violent, angry... All this energy can transform their being into buddhas.Basho’s sadness is out of his compassion, it has nothing to do with anger. But your observation thathe seems to be a little sad in his haikus is right. He has to be. He is sad for you. He is sad for allof humanity. He is sad for all those who will follow him, because he knows the truth. It is so close –just within your grasp – and still you don’t raise your hand. That makes him sad. His sadness has abeauty and a splendor.As far as Krishnamurti, he was sad out of anger. But again it was a different anger from your anger.Things are so subtle.... He was angry as to why people could not understand him. He is so clear,so rational, why can people not understand him? He used to beat his head in front of assembliessaying, ”You have been listening to me for forty years, fifty years, and I look at your faces and I feelimmensely sad.”He suffered for almost fifty years with migraine, with so deep migraines that he has written in hisdairies that sometimes he wanted to hit his head against the walls. The migraine had nothing to dowith his physiology, it was because he was talking to people, giving interviews, private interviewsfrom morning until night, and nobody was showing the light in their eyes that they had understoodhim.You cannot blame him for his anger – although that is a very special case. As I have told you, everyenlightened person encounters the world in his own unique way. Krishnamurti lived long – ninetyyears – and even at the last moment, he was angry. At the last moment he said, ”I have wasted mywhole life running around the world telling people, and they thought that it was an entertainment. Iwas talking about enlightenment, and they used to gather as if it was a circus.”His anger is out of his compassion, but it is a very strange kind of conversion of compassion. Hewas so insistent that you should understand what he was saying, and this made him angry.He was against sannyasins, he was against me. He wanted to see me, and sent a message to me.We both were in Bombay.I said, ”I don’t think there is any point. I am in absolute disagreement with him, and he is in absolutedisagreement with me, so why unnecessarily waste my time and make him angry? He may hit hishead on the wall, and unnecessarily I will be blamed for it.”But I used to send my sannyasins to sit in the front row in orange clothes with malas. That wasenough! He would come, and as he would look around, he would completely forget what the subjectmatter was that he was going to talk about. He would immediately start talking against me, andbecome so angry, saying, ”I cannot understand why these sannyasins are sitting in front of me. I amagainst these robes, I am against sannyas.”And I told my people that when he becomes angry, laugh, don’t bother. That makes him more angry.And my sannyasins were all over the world, wherever he was speaking.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 47 Osho