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Chapter 10: Me, Enlightened?
Question 5
Energy Enhancement Enlightened Texts Response to Discipline Questions Be Still and Know
The fifth question
Question 5
OSHO, THIS IS NOT A QUESTION, RATHER A STATEMENT WHICH SHOULD NOT OFFEND YOU AT ALL. KRISHNAMURTI SAID LATELY IN SAANEN, SWITZERLAND: A ROSE IS NOT LIKELY TO BLOOM NEXT TO A GUIDEPOST.
I LOVE ROSES, BUT ALSO OTHER FLOWERS.
Hilke Schmitz,
FIRST, THERE IS NOTHING that can ever offend me. There is no way to offend me; it is impossible because only the ego can be offended. If the wound of the ego is there then small things offend. But there is no wound any more; I am absolutely healed and whole. The ego is very touchy because it is a wound. Once the ego is not there you cannot offend that person -- impossible.
So the first thing for you to remember: you can make any kind of statement you like, but you cannot offend me. Try, and try again!
Secondly, you say:
KRISHNAMURTI SAID: A ROSE IS NOT LIKELY TO BLOOM NEXT TO A GUIDEPOST.
Roses bloom everywhere, and unless you know that they can even bloom ON the guidepost, let alone by the side, roses can bloom even on the guidepost -- unless you know it, you know nothing.
A Zen story:
A disciple came to the Master. He had gone to see a polo game. The Master asked him, "Tell me a few things. Were the riders on the horses tired?"
The disciple said, "Yes, at the end of the game they looked tired."
Secondly the Master said, "Were the horses tired ?"
The disciple said, "Yes, a little bit, not as much as the riders, but even the horses were tired."
Then the Master said, "The last and the final question: were the posts, the wooden posts which are needed in the game, were they tired too?"
Now this was too much! The disciple hesitated a little.
The Master said, "Go into your room and meditate over it. Tomorrow morning you can answer."
The whole night he could not sleep; he tossed and turned. "The wooden posts -- how can they be tired? What a stupid question to ask! But when the Master asks, it can't be stupid; there must be something in it." The whole night he tried hard. Early in the morning as the sun was rising he rushed to the Master, fell at his feet, and he said, "Yes, Master, they were tired."
The Master said, "I am happy. Your going to the polo game has not been useless." Others who were present, they could not understand what was going on. Wooden posts tired?!
Somebody asked the Master, "What nonsense is this? How can wooden posts be tired?"
And the Master said, "If wooden posts cannot be tired then nobody can be tired, because this whole existence is one."
If man gets tired, if horses get tired, then wooden posts also get tired. The whole existence is a manifestation of one energy.
I know why Krishnamurti has made that statement. But my own suggestion is unless you come to know that roses can bloom not only next to a guidepost, they can even bloom ON the guidepost, you have not known anything.
And thirdly you say:
I LOVE ROSES, BUT ALSO OTHER FLOWERS.
Why only roses and why only flowers? Love should be unaddressed. Love need not be oriented towards the other. Love oriented towards the other is not true love, love as relationship is not true love. Love as a state of being is true love. One can love a woman, one can love a man, one can love one's children, one can love one's parents, one can love roses, one can love other flowers, one can love a thousand and one things -- but these are all relationships.
Learn how to be love! So it is not a question of to whom your love is addressed, it is simply a question of your being loving. Sitting alone, still love goes on flowing. Absolutely alone, still, what can you do? Just as you breathe...you don't breathe for your wife; it is not a relationship. You don't breathe for your children; it is not a relationship. You simply breathe! -- it is life. Just as breathing is life for the body, love is the life of the soul -- one is simply love! And then only does one know that love is God.
Jesus says: "God is love." I say to you: "Love is God." The words are the same, but the significance is very different. Jesus says: "God is love." Then love becomes only one of the qualities of God. He is wise also, powerful also, a judge also, and many things more. Amidst all those qualities he is love too. Jesus' statement was very revolutionary in those days, but not any more.
I say: "Love is God." Then it is not a question of God having many other qualities. In fact God disappears -- love itself becomes God. Love is the real thing. God is the name given by the theologians to something they know nothing about. There is no God; the whole existence is made of the stuff called love.
But if you love the word 'God' it's perfectly okay, you can call it God. But remember always it is LOVE, and you will know this love only when love has become a state of your being, a simple state of your being.
Next: Chapter 10: Me, Enlightened?, Question 6
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