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

CHAPTER 3. IN SEARCH OF A LOST TREASUREA day was appointed when they were going to declare him as a world teacher, enlightened. InHolland six thousand representatives of the Theosophical Movement gathered from all over theworld. And at the last moment, when he was going to declare it, he stood up and said, ”I am not aworld teacher and I refuse to be the head of any organization.”A special organization, The Star of the East, was created for him, which would work for the worldteacher. It was a section of the Theosophical Movement.He carried those wounds his whole life. Those twenty-five years he could not forgive his teachers. Itis a very strange case, and a tragic case.So when he was speaking he was not free from his past experiences, he was still fighting againstthose teachers who had forced him. I don’t think that he was really enlightened. He had the capacityand the intelligence to become enlightened, and he was very close to enlightenment. The onlybarrier was his hatred, anger, about his masters and their behavior with him. That anger continuedas an undercurrent.I love the man. He has contributed great insights to the world, but he himself remained just closeto enlightenment. He was not a Gautam Buddha, or a Ma Tzu, or a Hyakujo. I feel sad to say it,because I love him. His insights are very clear, but something was pulling him back, he could notopen up in full flower. Something remained hanging around him, around his psychology. He was nota man of absolute freedom, although he talked about it.He was a sincere man, otherwise he would not have refused to be the world teacher. He knew thathe was not enlightened and that it would be insincere, dishonest, to declare himself as the worldteacher. I love his honesty, but that does not mean I have to say that he was enlightened. Perhapsnext life – this life he missed, and he missed because of his teachers.Now, it is Anando time....Loony Larry is wobbling home from the pub along the railway tracks. It is a fullmoon night, and Larryis well plastered with rum.All of a sudden, he trips over a human leg lying on the tracks. He picks himself up, rubs his eyes indisbelief, and staggers on.A few minutes later, he stumbles over another leg lying on the tracks. Next, he comes across anarm. By now, Looney Larry has become really interested, and when he sees a body, he stops tohave a good look at it.Walking around the body, he scratches his chin, and mumbles to himself, ”That coat looks ratherfamiliar! I wonder if it is...” But just then, he steps backwards and falls over a head.He stares in drunken shock at the head, recognizing the face of his friend, Harry. Then, Larry seesan ear lying on the ground a few feet away. He crawls over to the ear, picks it up, and shouts into it,”Harry! Harry! Are you alright?”Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 50 Osho