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Chapter 11 - A noah's ark of consciousness
After the wedding, the couple are packing their bags for their honeymoon. There are suitcases all over the apartment, and after hours of struggle everything is packed -- even the parrot's cage has a cover on it. But suddenly they discover that one shoe has been left out. The girl tries to push it into a large suitcase but it just won't go in.
So the husband says, "You will have to sit on top and I will push it in."
They try and try but it does not work. "Let's try it another way," says the wife. "Let's both be on top and push it in together."
At this point, the parrot pushes his covering aside and says, "The zoo be damned. This one I've got to see!"
He kept in control of himself so much, but there comes a point that even he has to go to the zoo. He says, "Let the zoo be damned, but this thing I have got to see." The curiosity... he could not believe that this kind of thing is possible.
In the beginning you will also find many times that perhaps it is not possible to be working and to be aware together. But I say unto you that it is not only possible, it is very easily possible. Just begin in the right way. Just don't start from XYZ; start from ABC.
In life, we go on missing many things because of wrong starts. Everything should be started from the very beginning. Our minds are impatient; we want to do everything quickly.
We want to reach the highest point without passing through every rung of the ladder.
But that means an absolute failure. And once you fail in something like awareness -- it is not a small failure -- perhaps you will not try it again, ever. The failure hurts.
So anything that is as valuable as awareness -- because it can open all the doors of the mysteries of existence, it can bring you to the very temple of God -- you
should start very carefully and from the very beginning. And move very slowly. Just a little patience and the goal is not far away.
Question 2 BELOVED OSHO,
PLEASE TALK TO US OF TENSION AND RELAXATION. USUALLY, WHEN I SIT
IN FRONT OF YOU I RELAX ALL THROUGH MYSELF. I LOSE ANY ALERTNESS I MAY HAVE. WHEN I AM ALERT, THERE IS A SUBTLE TENSION WHICH I NEED TO
MAINTAIN THIS WAKEFULNESS. IT WINDS ME UP LIKE A SPRING AND THEN I FEEL HORRIBLE. HOW CAN I STAY AWAKE WITHOUT ALL THIS TENSION? HOW
TO FIND THE STILLNESS, THOUGH BUSY? I WATCH YOU MOVE AND SIT WITH
SUCH JOY.
Anand Trinda, it is the same question that I was answering, just written in a different way.
If you have listened to my first answer, your question has also been answered. I will just tell a small anecdote.
One day a man from a small village in the mountains sees a tourist driving his car backwards up a narrow road towards the top of the mountain. The man stops him and says,
"Why are you driving backwards?" Osho - The Hidden Splendor
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