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Chapter 4 - Beyond life-and-death
Issa wrote, on the death of his child:
THIS DEWDROP WORLD -- IT MAY BE A DEWDROP, AND YET ... AND YET ...
He loved his child very much -- the mother had died. He loved his small child and that child also died. On his death he wrote this small haiku ... not saying much, still it says much.
THIS DEWDROP WORLD -- IT MAY BE A DEWDROP.
Agreed, it is a dewdrop -- and particularly this small child. AND YET ... AND YET ...
Yet a love arises. Yet one feels for it.
Zen is not against the world. On the contrary, it makes your dewdrop love into an oceanic love. It is absolutely for reality -- it is not an escape. It is a tremendous indulgence into the very roots of your being. And the man who knows his roots, only he lives. Others only pretend; others are simply actors acting somebody else's role.
A man who is original is not acting anybody's role, he is himself. And his authority does not come from anybody, it comes from the universe itself.
Question 1 Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
I AM SERIOUSLY CONCERNED: LAST NIGHT WHEN YOU WERE SPEAKING OF
THE SENSES, AS TRADITIONALLY CLASSIFIED, YOU DID NOT MENTION THE
EIGHTH SENSE, THE SENSE OF HUMOR. WHAT HAPPENED?
I thought you would understand it without saying. All that we are doing here is practicing the sense of humor -- that's why I left it out of the count. But if you want, it can be counted in, because certainly only man has the sense of humor. No buffalo laughs -- and if you find a buffalo laughing you will run so fast. You will lose all control over yourself if suddenly your horse starts laughing!
The whole world is silent as far as laughter is concerned -- only man laughs. Man can laugh because he has a small consciousness. As the consciousness grows deeper, his humor also becomes deeper. At the ultimate peak, everything becomes a hilarious festival, a carnival.
Something about the sense of humor ...
Captain Kurtski, the pilot, turns on the public address system.
"We will be landing at Moscow airport in three hours' time. We hope you have had a pleasant trip. Thank you for flying Polack Airlines."
Osho - The Language of Existence 45
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