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ZEN: THE PATH OF PARADOX
VOL. 2
Chapter 6: The Door to the Wild
Question 3
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Question 3
I WANT TO BECOME A SANNYASIN BUT I HAVE BEEN TAUGHT FROM MY VERY CHILDHOOD TO TAKE EVERY STEP VERY CAREFULLY. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I HAVE BEEN HESITATING LONG. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
If you go on hesitating, you will miss all that is beautiful. Because the beautiful comes only in rare moments -- if you are not ready enough to jump into it when the moment is there, you will go on missing. A man who continuously hesitates goes on missing -- because when the moment comes, he is hesitating. When the moment has gone he may even decide, but now the opportunity is no more there. So he has to wait for the opportunity.
It is said about Immanuel Kant, a woman told him that she would like to marry him. It was so good of that woman -- because people rarely fall in love with people like Immanuel Kant. Just hung-up in their heads... who wants to fall in love with such people? The woman must have been a woman of great compassion.
Immanuel Kant said, 'Let me think about it.' He thought for three years -- he meditated over it, for all pros and for all cons. His diary is still preserved; he has written three hundred reasons for and against. There is only one reason more for 'for' -- finally, because of that one reason, he decided. Now, this kind of decision is not much of a love. Mm? this is too much of logic -- syllogistic.
He went to the woman's house, knocked on the door. The father opened the door and he said, 'What do you want, young man?' And he said, 'I have decided to marry your daughter.'
The father laughed. He said, 'You came a little late -- she is already married, and she has a child! You have missed the opportunity.' And Immanuel Kant remained a bachelor for his whole life -- because no other woman ever asked him, and of course he could not ask any other woman himself; that is impossible for such people. He would hesitate to ask, he would hesitate for years to
A newly-married society girl was determined to prove to her husband what an accomplished cook she was, and on the servant's day off, set about cooking a chicken for his dinner. She plucked the fowl carefully, arranged it neatly in a pot, and put it in the oven.
Two hours later, she heard a loud banging on the oven door. Investigation proved that the disturbance was being made by the chicken.
'Lady,' it cried piteously, 'either give me back my feathers or turn on the gas! I am freezing to death in this oven.'
You have waited long enough. Either do something or die! Have a little mercy upon yourself. And why be so afraid, and why be so careful? Life belongs to those who are courageous. And I am not saying don't be careful -- but to me, carefulness has a totally different meaning than it has to you.
Carefulness, to me, means alertness, awareness. Carefulness does not mean cunningness, cleverness; it does not mean calculation. Carefulness means: be alert, behave in an alert way. Don't move sleepily in life, move with open eyes. I am not saying, 'Be blind, and do anything.' Keep your eyes open. But just by keeping your eyes open and sitting silently and never taking a risk, you are not going to go anywhere. You will simply die there.
You are not living, you are vegetating. Move! Life is movement, life is a river. If the river hesitates it will become a pond. And a pond is a dead thing, and a pond naturally becomes dirty. And sooner or later the pond will become dry, the water will evaporate.
The river flows and reaches to the ocean, enters the infinite. And the river has no map and no guides, and does not know really where it is going to land. The ocean is far away -- not even the noise of the ocean can be heard. But the river goes, slowly slowly moves, moves into the unknown, goes on groping into the unknown... and one day reaches to the ocean. All rivers reach.
If you want to reach, be riverlike. One has to be aware, that's right -- but too much carefulness can be a hindrance. It will not allow you to have the unknown in your life. The known is never enough -- only the unknown satisfies. Only when you move into the unknown are you fresh and young.
Now, you have lived a life of a non-sannyasin long enough. If you are happy, if you are blissful, perfectly okay -- then don't bother about sannyas. Then there is no point in being a sannyasin; I will be the last person to initiate you. If you are happy the way you are, then there is no need.
But if you are unhappy and miserable the way you are, then be a little courageous. Take a few steps beyond the boundary in which you have lived up to now. And I am not saying that sannyas will make you blissful -- things are not so easy. But one thing I can promise: you will be greater, more expanded. Your boundaries will not be so small, you will not be closed in a prison. And when you are bigger, there are bigger possibilities -- more opportunities to be happy. Just by becoming a sannyasin nothing happens, but this courage to enter into a new adventure will make you more alive. And happiness happens to people who are more alive.
Sometimes, too much calculation, too much of a business-like mind, creates unnecessary troubles which are unasked-for.
Newly-weds went to Washington D.C. for their honeymoon and decided to check into the Watergate Hotel. The bride got into bed and said, 'Honey, I feel so uncomfortable, maybe this room is bugged.'
So the groom began looking behind pictures, into lamps, between furniture. Then he lifted up the rug and found a metal disc on the floor. He removed the screws and pulled up the disc. The relaxed newly-weds now consummated their marriage vows in great style.
Next morning in the lobby the desk clerk asked them, 'Did you spend a pleasant night?'
'Oh, yes,' replied the groom.
'I'm glad,' said the clerk. 'The couple in the room right under yours had a chandelier fall down on top of them!'
So your calculation can harm you and can harm others too. It is harmful. Be a little more courageous -- a little dare-devilishness is a good quality.
And this last story for you...
A beautiful girl applied to the circus for a job as a lion-tamer. 'I already have a lion-tamer,' said the owner. 'But I can take you on as an equestrian or as a trapeze artist.'
'No,' she protested, 'I want to work as a lion-tamer.'
Just then the lion-tamer walked in on them with blood oozing from his arm. 'A lion mauled me,' he moaned. 'I won't go on tonight.'
'Okay,' said the owner to the girl, 'the job is yours.'
The girl entered the lions' cage, took off her shoes and her stockings, then her dress, her bra and her petticoat. She folded her apparel neatly. Then, naked, she lay down on the floor of the cage, using her clothes as a pillow.
Two lions walked over to her and started licking her face. her neck, her breasts.
The owner turned to his lion tamer still nursing his wounded arm and asked, 'Why can't you do that?'
'I can,' the man answered, 'if you'll just remove the lions.'
Why are you waiting? Are you waiting for the lions to be removed? then you will talce sannyas? Then it will be pointless. Yes, it is risky, to become a sannyasin is a risk. It is not a bargain, it is a gamble -- one never knows what will happen. And I can't guarantee you anything, and I cannot give you any promise in writing. Sannyas is not a promissory note.
I simply open the door to the wild, to the oceanic, to the orgasmic. I simply open the door. While the door is available, enter, don't hesitate too much. Hesitation is an old habit. Because of your hesitation, I can say you must have missed many more opportunities also in life -- because the opportunity comes, and it is gone. It does not wait, it does not bother about you. It comes, and in a moment it is gone. If you are not ready to take it while it is there.... And it is there only for a moment -- the window opens for a moment, and then it is closed and may remain closed for ever... one never knows.
So when the window is open, take a jump -- go into the unknown. You will not lose anything, because you don't have anything. Why are you worried about losing something? Why are you hesitating? What have you got to lose?
It is like a naked man who will not take a bath in the river because he is afraid -- where is he going to dry his clothes? And he has no clothes, he is a naked man, but he will not take the bath because then it will create unnecessary complexities -- where is he going to dry his clothes?
Just look: what have you got to be afraid for? What have you got to lose? Just your miseries!
Next: Chapter 6: The Door to the Wild, Question 4
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