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Chapter 2 - Just see it
childlike. The sage again becomes a child. He starts collecting colored stones, pebbles, seashells on the sea beach. He starts collecting wildflowers, for no reason at all, just for the sheer joy of it.
The Sunday-schoolteacher asked her class of youngsters if they could name any of the Ten Commandments, and the kindergarten-aged boy stood up and announced proudly, "Thou shalt not omit adultery!"
This is luminous ignorance, so innocent: "Thou shalt not omit adultery!"
The pretty young schoolteacher was concerned about one of her eleven-year-old students.
Taking him aside after class one day, she asked, "Victor, why has your schoolwork been so poor lately?"
"I can't concentrate." replied the lad. "I'm afraid I have fallen in love."
"Is that so?" said the teacher, holding back an urge to smile. "And with whom?" "With you," he answered.
"But, Victor," exclaimed the secretly pleased young lady, "don't you see how silly that is?
It's true that I would like a husband of my own someday, but I don't want a child"
"Oh, don't worry," said Victor reassuringly, "I'll be careful!"
A stern father was taking his little son Johnny for a walk in the park when suddenly a honeybee settled on a rock in front of them. Just for spite, the boy smashed it with a rock, whereupon his father said, "That was cruel, and for being cruel you'll get no honey for a whole year"
Later Johnny deliberately stepped on a butterfly. "And for that, young man," said the father, "you will get no butter for a year." When they returned home,
Johnny's mother was busy fixing dinner. Just as they entered the kitchen, she spied a cockroach and immediately crushed it. The little boy looked at his father impishly and said, "Shall I tell her, dad, or will you?"
The grade-school principal dropped into the new third-grade teacher's room to see how she was adjusting to her first day of school. "There IS one problem," she said. "That little boy in the first row belongs in the second grade but insists on remaining here, and he is so smart I hate to send him back."
"He can't be that smart," said the principal. "Ask him something."
The teacher called the boy forward and inquired, "What does a dog do on three legs that a man does on two legs that I do sitting down?"
"Shake hands," said the boy.
"What has a cow got four of that I have only two of?" she went on. Osho - The Goose is Out
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