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Chapter 4 - Beyond life-and-death
He said, "If you pull the other leg he will give you a lecture on the Koran. He has been trained for both religions, so anybody can purchase him, either a Mohammedan or a Christian."
The bishop said, "This is even better -- just for a change ..." But the bishop said, "I have an inquiry. If I pull both threads together, what will happen?"
The parrot said, "You idiot! I will fall flat on the ground. What will happen? This way you must have killed your last parrot. I refuse to go with this man."
The owner of the pet shop said, "You have disturbed my parrot -- he is a very intelligent person, and you asked such an unintelligent question. If you pull both legs, obviously he will fall."
All the religions have converted everybody into a parrot. And people are perfectly satisfied with being parrots; it is so easy, so simple. But the experience needs tremendous energy to inquire, a great love to find out who you are, where are your roots.
Our effort here is not to create parrots. That is being done in every church, in every synagogue, in every temple, in every mosque. Our effort is to bring you to your own roots, because from those roots, slowly slowly you can sink deeper into the universal, into the ultimate. There is no other way.
It is not a technique, it is simply grabbing your original roots, from where you are coming.
Naturally you have to dig deep -- and without any fear because nothing can be taken from you.
The day you were born your destiny was decided, that you will die. Between birth and death, whatever you do is of no meaning.
Only one thing can be meaningful: if you can find the roots of birth and death. Then you can sit silently like a buddha, in utter peace, with no fear, in great ecstasy.
Tokken wrote:
SEVENTY-SIX YEARS, UNBORN, UNDYING:
CLOUDS BREAK UP, MOON SAILS ON.
Zen has such a beautiful way of saying things. SEVENTY-SIX YEARS,
UNBORN, UNDYING:
CLOUDS BREAK UP, MOON SAILS ON.
He is giving you the idea how you have been moving. Clouds are there but the moon goes on moving. Once you have got hold of the moon, it does not matter whether clouds are there or not -- they don't leave their marks on the moon.
Osho - The Language of Existence 44
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