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Chapter 19 - At the maximum you disappear
Question 2
BELOVED OSHO,
WHENEVER MY ENERGY IS OVERFLOWING, WHICH HAPPENS VERY OFTEN, MOST OF THE TIME PEOPLE GIVE ME THE FEELING OF BEING TOO MUCH. THEN
I FEEL GUILTY AND THE GERMAN HEAVINESS COMES BACK. COULD YOU
PLEASE COMMENT?
Prem Bhagvato, there is no possibility that the feeling of being can be too much. The being is so infinite... your being is not your being, your being is the being of the whole universe. So your feeling of it is always too little; it can never be too much.
Can you love too much? Can you be blissful too much? Can your ecstasy be too much?
Those words -- love, ecstasy, blissfulness -- are just aspects of your being, and it has many more aspects to it.
You cannot feel it too much; that is a misunderstanding. You are asking, "Whenever my energy is overflowing, which happens very often, most of the time people give me the feeling of being too much." Who are the people? Perhaps it appears to them too much because they have not even experienced as much as you are experiencing.
You must have heard the old parable of Aesop. A frog from the ocean was on a religious pilgrimage. On the way he came near a well -- he was feeling thirsty. He looked inside the well; there was another frog inside. He said, "I am very thirsty, can I come in?"
He was allowed. The frog in the well asked the stranger, "From where are you
coming?"
The stranger said, "It will be very difficult for you to conceive from where I am coming."
The frog of the well laughed, and he said, "You have some nerve. Is your place bigger than this well?" He hopped across one third of the well and he said, "Is your place this much?"
The frog from the ocean was in immense difficulty -- what to say to this poor frog? He said, "No, it is bigger."
He jumped two thirds and said, "This much?" The frog from the ocean said, "Forgive me, it is very big."
The frog of the well jumped across the whole well, from one side to the other side, and he said, "What do you say now? Is it still bigger?" The stranger said, "I am sorry to offend you, but your well cannot be a means of measuring the place from where I am coming. It is too big."
And the frog who had never left his well laughed and said, "You seem to be mad! Just get out of here. I have seen many frogs, but I have never seen such a mad one. They come to the well -- and I am always happy to have a visitor, just to have news about the world. I have been so generous to you, and you are behaving so uncourteously."
The stranger said, "You just forgive me, perhaps I am mad. But I invite you to my place, because that is the only way you can be convinced. Unless you see the ocean, you cannot believe... and I can understand why you are annoyed with me and thinking that I am mad. I must look mad to you; I can think of myself in your place."
Osho - The Hidden Splendor 193
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