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Chapter 16 - Love is always an emperor
Love is always an emperor.
It only knows to give. It never even imagines, expects, anything in return.
Be more meditative, become more conscious of your being. Let your inner world become more silent, and love will be flowing through you. People have all these problems. The problems are different -- violence, jealousy, misery, anxiety -- but the medicine for all these illnesses is only one, and it is meditation.
And I would like you to be reminded that the word medicine and the word meditation come from the same root. Medicine means something that can cure your body, and meditation means something that can cure your soul.
Meditation is meditation only because it is a medicine for your innermost illnesses.
A man selling Vaseline Petroleum Jelly had gone around a number of houses in town a week before and had left some samples, asking people to see if they could find an ingenious use for it. Now he went around to the same houses, asking people what uses they had found for Vaseline.
The man in the first house, a wealthy city gent, said, "I used it for medicinal purposes.
Whenever my children scraped their elbows or knees, I would rub it on."
The man in the second house said, "I used it for mechanical purposes, such as greasing the bearings of my bicycle and lawnmower."
The man in the third house, a scruffy, unshaven, working-class fellow, said, "I used it for sexual purposes."
In a shocked voice the salesman asked, "What do you mean?"
"Well," said the scruffy man, "I put a whole lot of it on the handle of my bedroom door to keep the kids out!"
You can give the same thing to different people and they will come out with different uses, according to their own unconsciousness. But if they are conscious, they will find only one use.
A man, an archbishop in Japan, went to one very great master, Nan In, with the New Testament. He was certain that by listening to the beautiful statements of Jesus, particularly on the sermon on the mountain, Nan In would be converted to Christianity.
The archbishop was received with great love and he said, "I have come with my holy book, and I want to read a few sentences... perhaps they will change your whole life."
Nan In said, "You have come a little late, because I am changed completely, the transformation has happened. But still, you have come a long way -- you can at least read a few sentences."
So he read a few sentences, and just after two, or three sentences, Nan In said, "That's enough. Whoever has written these sentences will become a buddha in some future life ."
The archbishop was very much shocked -- he is saying, "In some future life -- this man shows a potentiality -- he will become a buddha." He said, "But he is the only son of God!"
Nan In laughed. He said, "That is the trouble. That's what is preventing him from becoming a buddha. Unless he drops such nonsense ideas, he will not blossom to his whole potentiality.
Osho - The Hidden Splendor 168
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