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ZEN: THE PATH OF PARADOX
VOL. 2
Chapter 6: The Door to the Wild
Question 7
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Question 7
I HAD GONE INTO SECLUSION AND SILENCE FOR TWENTY-ONE DAYS, AS YOU HAD TOLD ME. SINCE THEN, I FEEL GREAT POWER IN ME. A DOG WAS BARKING THE OTHER DAY AT ME FEROCIOUSLY. I SAID WITHIN MYSELF, 'STOP!' AND HE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. THEN I TRIED IT ON A MAN WHO WAS WALKING TOWARDS HIS HOUSE. I SAID INSIDE MYSELF, 'RUN!' AND INSTANTLY HE STARTED RUNNING. AND THEN I TOLD SILENTLY TO A WOMAN WHO WAS WALKING JUST AHEAD OF ME, 'LOOK BACK AND WINK AT ME.' AND SURE, SHE DID. BUT SINCE THEN I AM FEELING VERY WEAK. WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
I HAVE TRIED IT IN MANY OTHER SITUATIONS SINCE THAT TIME, BUT NOTHING HAPPENS. WHAT HAS GONE WRONG?
You have just run out of gas. And in these days of power scarcity you should be a little more careful!
But it happens. Out of silence it happens, one feels powerful -- because in those twenty-one days, energy goes on gathering, it becomes a reservoir. You waste your energy by talking. You waste your energy unnecessarily, for no purpose. You go on dissipating energy -- you have a thousand and one leaks in your boat.
When you were silent for twenty-one days, you preserved, you conserved. Then suddenly you had that feeling of power. If it comes another time, don't use it -- if you use it, it is again a wastage. Just by stopping a dog from barking... and what is the point of it? Do you want to become a Satya Sai Baba? Don't be so foolish. You wasted it.
But the first time, it happens. This wastage also happens, because the first time you are not aware what is going to happen -- the energy is so new. And in the old scriptures it is said that it is exhausted in being used three times. So you have gone very traditionally in your story. The first time when you feel power, shakti, it is just unconscious -- unawares you use it. The dog was barking, you suddenly said, 'Stop!' Not that you had deliberately thought about it -- just that the power was there, and the power forced you to say it. And you were not expecting that the dog would stop -- dogs don't listen so easily. But when the dog stopped, you were puzzled. You must have thought maybe it was just a coincidence.
Hence, you tried the next time -- to see whether it was just a coincidence. But the next time you were more conscious, more deliberate. Still, maybe it was just coincidence, you were not confident yet, so you told the man who was walking towards home: 'Run!' And he started running. Now this can't be again a coincidence. Once, it is okay -- but twice, it is too much.
The third time you tried, you had become almost an egoist. You knew it happens; you knew now you can do something. Now you tried with a woman -- she should look back and wink at you. And she did. And now the ego must have soared high; it must have peaked. And when the ego enters, one becomes weak again.
The power can become very very ego-fulfilling if you use it. So all the secret scriptures of the world say: When this power happens to you, please be aware, don't use it.
I will tell you one story, it is a beauty. Meditate over it.
There was this bloke, see, and he hadn't been able to get the bonk...
Now, I am not going to tell you what 'bonk' is. You will understand it as the story proceeds.
So there was this bloke, see, and he hadn't been able to get the bonk for a year. He was pretty upset about it, see, and of course his wife was too -- I mean, a year's a pretty long time. He went to several doctors, and none of them could do a thing. Finally, in desperation, he sought the help of a shrivelled-up little old witch-doctor he'd heard about, down in seedy Soho.
And the witch-doctor said yes, he could help -- and gave him a nasty little shrivelled-up black pill. 'Take this,' said the witch-doctor, 'and then use this magic formula. You yell at the top of your lungs: 'Rrrraaaarrrraaaarrrraaaa!' and you'll get a beautiful bonk. When you want it to go down again. you say: 'Shhhhhh...' and it'll go away. But remember, it only works three times.'
Full of gratitude and expectation, the guy leaves. And he's standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus, when he thinks, 'Let's just give it a try.' So he opens his mouth and goes: 'Rrrraaaar-maaaarrrraaaa!' And immediately, it is there. But two little old ladies start screaming for the police, so he has to say: 'Shhhhhh....' And sure enough, it disappears in a second.
He continues towards home, and then he thinks, 'I'll just stop by the pub and show the lads.' So he goes into the pub, says 'Hey, boys, you've got to see this.' And they all go back to the gents and crowd around him, and he goes: 'Rrrraaaarrrraaaarrrraaaa!' and sure enough, it is there again. The guys are amazed. 'Aw, you ain't seen nothin' yet,' he says. 'Watch this.' And he says 'Shhhhhh...' and it disappears in a minute.
Pleased as punch, he sets off home. He goes inside, creeps up the stairs in the dark, trembling with anticipation, takes a deep breath, opens the bedroom door, and goes: 'Rrrraaaarrrraaaa-rrrraaaa! '
'Shhhhhh!' says his wife. 'You'll wake the children!'
So this is what has happened to you. Next time, please be a little more aware. Whenever you feel powerful, remember: this power can be lost very easily. And you have all the mechanism to lose it -- your whole past is a leaking past. It is your past that has played a trick upon you, it is your past that has managed to befool you. By stopping the dog barking, or making a man run, it is your past that has befooled you.
You have run out of gas. Next time you feel powerful again, remain powerful -- don't use it at all. If you remain powerful, without using it.... The urge will be there; the urge can become very great, you can become very restless -- because the power is there, and you can do something foolish with it. And all that you can do is foolish, it doesn't matter what it is.
If you can keep yourself cool and calm, and the power remains and remains, and the urge goes to use it -- then YOU REALLY become powerful. And then that power is no more in the hands of the ego; it slips deeper. Then the ego is no more strengthened by it. In fact now it becomes your humbleness, your egolessness.
And when power becomes humble -- when it becomes simple, egoless -- then God starts functioning through you. When you are powerful, only then can you become a medium of God. You can become a vehicle.
Many lotuses are waiting to bloom in you, but they need power. Rather than stopping a dog barking, let the power go inside you, let it permeate your whole being. Many lotuses, a thousand and one lotuses, will flower in you. Don't be foolish again. If it has happened once, it will happen again -- there is no problem in it. Next time be a little more alert, aware. And don't play into the hands of the unconscious.
Next: Chapter 7: An Explosion of Insight
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