Osho –
Dhammapada: The Way of The Buddha (Volume 9)
Chapter 10. Intelligent
people are dangerous
Question 1
Beloved Master,
It is like driving a car in forward and
reverse at the same time. I am not going anywhere. Is the ignition switched on
or am I just a bad driver?
Ray Horton, the very idea of
going somewhere is basically wrong. Nothing is going anywhere. Existence is
now-here; it is not moving towards a particular destiny. There is no destiny,
there is no ultimate purpose. But we have been taught for centuries that
existence is moving towards a certain goal and we have been also taught to live
ambitiously, to prove that you are something, somebody: "Reach
somewhere." But existence is absolutely purposeless.
I am not saying that it is not
significant. Precisely because it is purposeless it is significant, but its
significance is not that of the marketplace. It is a totally different kind of
significance: the significance of a roseflower, the significance of a bird on
the wing, the significance of poetry, music. It is an end unto itself.
We are not to become something -
we are already it. This is the whole message of all the awakened ones: that you
are not to achieve something, it has already been given to you. It is God's
gift. You are already where you should be, you can't be anywhere else. There is
nowhere to go, nothing to achieve. Because there is nowhere to go and nothing
to achieve, you can celebrate. Then there is no hurry, no worry, no anxiety, no
anguish, no fear of being a failure. You can't fail. In the very nature of
things it is impossible to fail, because there is no question of success at
all.
It is just a conditioning by
the society that creates the problem in you. And then you start thinking,
"I am not reaching anywhere, and life is slipping out of my hands and
death is coming closer. Am I going to make it or not?" And then there is
great fear of missing, frustration that so much is lost. And who knows? -
tomorrow may never arrive. "I have not yet been able to prove myself, my
worth. I have not become famous yet. I have not accumulated much wealth. I am
not a president of a country or a prime minister."
Or you can start thinking in
otherworldly terms, but the process is the same. You can say, "I have not
yet become enlightened. I have not yet become a Buddha or a Jesus. Meditation
is far away. I don't know who I am." And you can go on creating a thousand
and one problems for yourself.
All these problems are created
because the society wants you to be ambitious, and ambition can only be created
if there is a goal in the future. For ambition, future is needed. And without
ambition, the ego cannot be created. And the ego is the basic strategy of the
society to rule over you, to exploit you, to oppress you, to keep you
miserable. The ego exists in the tension between the present and the future:
the bigger the tension, the bigger the ego. When there is no tension between
your present and future, the ego disappears because there is no point where it
can have shelter, where it can exist.
Hence society teaches you,
"Become this, become that." It teaches you becoming. Its whole
education system is based on the idea of becoming.
And what I am telling you here
is just the opposite of it. I am talking about BEING, not about becoming.
Becoming is an invention of the crafty politicians and the priests - and these
are the people who have poisoned the whole humanity. They go on giving you
goals. If you become tired of the worldly things - money, power, prestige -
they are there to tell you about paradise, God, samadhi, truth. Again the whole
process starts.
And it is easy to be frustrated
with the worldly things. Sooner or later you can see the whole stupidity of
having more money or more power. Sooner or later you are going to see the
futility of the very idea of "more," because the more brings nothing
else but more misery. It takes away all bliss from you, all peace from you. It
is destructive. It gives you only fear, trembling, anxiety, neurosis. It makes
you insane; that can be seen very easily. It has made the whole earth a
madhouse.
But to see that the
otherworldly goals - nirvana and moksha and God and paradise - are also the
same is very difficult. You will need tremendous intelligence to see that those
goals are also of the same quality. There is no qualitative change because you
are still thinking in terms of becoming, you are still thinking in terms of the
future.
Future does not exist, it is
nonexistential. It is as nonexistential as the past. The past is no more, the
future is not yet; only the present is. And in the present there is no
possibility for desiring, no possibility of being ambitious, not space enough
for the ego to exist. Whenever you are now and here there is no ego to be
found. You are a pure silence. Right now... see what I am saying. I am not
propounding a theory or a philosophy; I am simply stating a fact.
Ray Horton, just for a second
see... this very moment! Where is the ego? And what heights and what depths of
peace suddenly become available to you. They are always within you, but you
never look at them - you are running and running. And because you are not
arriving anywhere you are very much worried.
You say, "It is like
driving a car in forward and reverse at the same time. I am not going
anywhere."
There is no need. This very
moment, wherever you are, it is a blessing, it is divine. Where else do you
want to go? Why live in the past? It is the past that gives you goals. It is
the past that you are carrying in your head which projects goals in the future.
Future is only a reflection of the past.
From your very childhood you
have been told, you have been hypnotized, by the society, by the priests, by
the politicians, by your parents, by the pedagogues. You have been hypnotized
continuously that you should have a goal in your life, that you should have
some purpose, that you should be a great achiever, that you have to be famous -
a Nobel Prize winner or something - that you are not to die just an ordinary
man. To die just an ordinary man is ugly; you have to die like a president or a
prime minister - as if their death has something special!
Because of this constant
hammering on your head you have become so much accustomed to the idea that it
is driving you crazy. Otherwise, life is so beautiful as it is; no purpose, no
goal is needed. Future can be completely dropped. You live in the future just
to escape from the present, and you become so psychologically obsessed with the
future that you go on missing that which is for that which is not.
Among the first things that a
Jewish boy learns is the biblical injunction: "Honor thy father and mother
- or else!"
Herschel, aged six, was
reminded of the admonition the day his father came home and announced that he
had decided to buy a car, the first his family had ever owned.
The father was in high spirits.
"Imagine, we are in this country only a few years and soon we will own a
new car," he said proudly. "I can just see us riding around in
Central Park. In the front I am steering, and sitting next to me is Mamma, and
in the back is our little Herschel."
Mamma nodded, smiling her
approval. "So, when are you planning to buy the car?" she asked.
"In two weeks, a month
maybe - no later."
The pleasant interlude was
suddenly shattered by Herschel's mournful cry, "I don't wanna sit in the
back! I wanna sit in the front and help steer!"
"Only one steerer we need
in this family," the father reminded his son. "In the front sits
Mamma, in the back sits you."
"If I have to sit in the
back I will bang my head on the wall, you will see!" wailed Herschel. He
ran to the wall and assumed a threatening pose, ready to give action to his
words. "Mamma is sitting in the back, I am sitting in the front!"
"No, Herschel, you are in
the back," said the father sternly.
"In the front, not in the
back!" Herschel's voice rose in a sudden screech. "I ain't gonna sit
in the back!"
Father, his manner grim,
extended his arm and pointed a commanding finger. "Herschel," he said
coldly, "get out of my car!"
People go on living in the
future!
And the same is the case with
your paradise, just like the car. The same is the case with your nirvana, your
enlightenment - the same as with the car.
It is only the mediocre mind
that becomes psychologically obsessed with the future. But the society destroys
everybody's intelligence and makes everybody mediocre. The society does not
want you to be really intelligent; it is afraid of intelligence. Intelligent
people are dangerous people. They are radicals, they are revolutionaries; they
are always sabotaging the status quo. The society wants you to remain mediocre,
stupid. It wants you certainly to be efficient, mechanically. It wants you to
accumulate as much information as possible, but it does not want you to be
really intelligent because if you are intelligent you will not care for the
future. You will live IN the present and FOR the present, because there is no
other life.
Listen to the birds chirping,
chattering... the trees flowering... the stars, the sun, the moon. The whole
existence lives in the present except you, except human mind. And it is only
human mind that suffers.
Come out of the future! It is
your dream. You are not supposed to go anywhere. Be happy wherever you are. Be
contented with your being and drop the idea of becoming. Then each moment is so
precious, then each moment has such beauty, such grandeur, such splendor. Then
each moment is exquisite. Then you can feel God everywhere each moment.
God is not a goal; God is the
presence right now. If you are present, God is available. If you live in the
moment, you are enlightened; there is no other enlightenment. And then ordinary
life is so extraordinary. Then to be just a nobody is so fulfilling.
I call this whole approach
sannyas: dropping the goals, the purposes, the future - becoming part of
existence this very moment, not postponing it. Then in this very moment, a
great explosion is possible in you: the ego disappears, you are no more, but
God is. And that is bliss and that is truth.
Question 2
Beloved Master,
Why are so many Jews here?
Alexandra, Jews are intelligent
people, the most intelligent in the world. That's why they are hated so much.
They have committed only one mistake in their whole history: they crucified
Jesus and missed the greatest business that was available to them! It is such a
rare phenomenon, that it went into the hands of the Italians - the whole
business! It is inconceivable - Jews losing it to the Italians! If the Italians
are selling spaghetti, that is okay, but they are selling Jesus! Otherwise, the
Jews have never committed any mistake.
But that one mistake has cost
them very much: they became uprooted. But sometimes blessings come in the form
of curses. When they became uprooted, when they lost their land, they became
naturally more intelligent than anybody else because they had to exist in
adverse conditions. No other race has existed in such adverse conditions as the
Jews. And when you live in adverse conditions the challenge is such, you can
survive only if you bring your intelligence to its highest peak. If you behave
stupidly you will be destroyed. They were living always amongst strangers
antagonistic to them; they became more and more intelligent.
More Nobel Prizes go to Jews
than to anybody else. And wherever they are they succeed, whatsoever they are
doing they bring a certain magic to it. So whenever they feel a certain vibe, a
certain phenomenon happening anywhere, they are the first to reach, they are
the first to reap the crop.
Yes, the question arises to
many people. Almost fifty percent of my sannyasins are Jews - so many Jews that
sometimes I become suspicious whether perhaps I am a Jew!
Alexandra, you are right, your
curiosity is right. But they can understand what I am saying. In fact, they
have to drop a certain guilt that they have carried for two thousand years. If
they can feel in tune with me, their guilt for killing Jesus will disappear.
Deep down the guilt is there; they need somebody who can take away that guilt.
It is like a thorn in their very soul - it hurts. They may not say it, but it
hurts. They destroyed their greatest flowering.
Jesus was their highest
potential actualized; he was the highest peak of Jewish intelligence - and they
destroyed it. They are carrying the wound; they are wounded people. They want
somebody who can heal the wound.
But the problem is: if you go
to the priests they wound you more. Go anywhere, you will be wounded more, because
your so-called religions all exist on your guilt. The greater the guilt, the
more is their power over you. They make you feel guilty, they make you feel
sinners.
I am a totally different kind
of man: I help you to get rid of your guilt. I want to tell you that you are
not sinners, and to commit mistakes is just human - to err is human. There is
no need to make much fuss about it. And your errors are small; just a little
awareness and they will disappear. You do not need to be thrown into hell.
And just see the stupidity of
the idea... Christians say that once you are in hell you are there for
eternity. Nobody comes out of hell. It has no exit, only the entrance. And then
for eternity! - the very idea is absurd. Even the greatest criminal need not be
punished for eternity.
Bertrand Russell has said,
"When I look at my sins, if I confess all my sins that I have committed,
they are not many, they are not very big. I have not murdered people. Then the
cruelest magistrate can send me to jail at the most for four years. And if my
thoughts are also to be included, not only my actions, then eight years jail,
that's all." He has written a beautiful book, why I am not a christian. And among the many that he has given,
this is one of the reasons: "I cannot agree with the idea of eternal hell.
Nobody has committed such a sin that he should be thrown for eternity into hell
- forever, no escape. And nobody has done so much good that he should be
enjoying paradise for ever and ever."
But religions have existed, and
they are powerful, for the simple reason that they create fear in you - fear of
hell - and they create greed in you - greed for heaven. They wound you deeply.
The more you bleed, the more your wound bleeds, the more powerful they are over
you.
My effort here is to redeem you
from all your wounds, to redeem you from the fear of hell and the greed for
heaven. There is no hell and no heaven. Those are not places somewhere, those
are just your own states of mind. Whenever you are in anger, in rage, you are
in hell; and whenever you are in love, in compassion, you are in heaven. So you
can move from heaven to hell many times in a day.
It is not a question to be
decided after death; it is to be decided each moment. And it is absolutely
within your capacity to decide.
One Sufi mystic was dying. His
disciples had gathered and they said, "One thing we want to know. You are
departing forever and then we will never know what was the secret. We have
never seen you sad, unhappy, miserable. It seems so superhuman. We have watched
you for thirty years, forty years; there are a few people who have lived with
you for fifty years, sixty years" - the man was almost a hundred years old
- "and nobody remembers that you were ever sad, not even a small sadness.
What is your secret?"
He said, "There is no
secret at all. Every morning when I get up, before I open my eyes I say to
myself, 'Listen, old man, a new day is there. What do you want? - to be sad or
to be happy?' And I always say, 'To be happy.' So then I remain happy! I decide
in the morning and I remain happy. I have to follow my decision. This I do
every day. It is a decision."
You choose misery; it is not a
punishment, it is your choice. And you choose joy; it is not a reward, it is
your choice.
Jews have suffered very much; they
are wounded. Of course, two thousand years of suffering have made them very
mature, intelligent, alert. Hence they can recognize me better than anybody
else. That's why, Alexandra, they are here.
In July 1974, President Nixon
was in the Soviet Union, hoping to achieve a nonaggression pact between that
country and the United States, but he was having a hard time of it.
"Before we sign,"
declared Prime Minister Brezhnev, "you Americans will have to announce to
the world that Adam and Eve were communists."
Nixon, uncertain as to how he
should cope with this dilemma, decided to consult an authority on Genesis - in
this case, Henry J. Kissinger - who assured him that he had read several pages
of the Bible in his younger days.
Kissinger retired to his study,
pored over the Old Testament and the text. Next day he told Nixon to go ahead
and sign the pact with the Soviet Union. "The Russians are right," he
said, "Adam and Eve were indeed communists. After all, they did not have a
stitch on their backs, they had nothing to eat but apples, and they still
thought they were in paradise!"
Three boys, a Catholic, a
Presbyterian and a Jew, were discussing how they each spent Christmas Day. The
Catholic boy had gone to mass, come back, kissed all his family and given them
presents, and later on had Christmas dinner. The Presbyterian boy had not gone
to church, but had kissed all the family, given out his presents, and then had
Christmas dinner.
The Jewish boy said,
"Well, dad and I went down to our toy factory, looked at all the empty
shelves, sang two verses of 'What a friend we have in Jesus!' and then caught a
plane for Osho Commune International, Poona, India."
Question 3
Beloved Master,
If you were here right now, I think I would
hit you. If you don't recognize me soon and start saying yes to me instead of
no, I am going to have to kill you.
Somendra... thank you,
Somendra! I also will need a Judas; otherwise the story will remain incomplete.
I can be a Jesus only with a Judas. Yes, somebody has to do the work of Judas -
it is hard work.
There are secret mystery
schools which carry the tradition that Judas was one of the most obedient
disciples of Jesus. He betrayed Jesus because Jesus wanted to be betrayed.
That's exactly what George
Gurdjieff used to say: that Judas was not a renegade, he was simply following
Jesus. And his obedience was so total that when Jesus said, "Go and betray
me, and sell me for thirty silver coins," he went and did it. Of course,
he felt very sorry for doing it, miserable, in deep anguish, but he had to
follow the master. So he betrayed Jesus, Jesus was crucified, and next day
Judas committed suicide. Judas died the next day. He must have felt very bad,
although he had to follow the master. He was the most intelligent of all the
disciples of Jesus.
So, Somendra, somebody has to
do the hard work of Judas. Some day, I may choose you - don't be worried and
don't be in a hurry! One day I may order you, "Now, Somendra, you can kill
me." But before that, let me kill you!
And that's why I go on saying
no to you. That is my device to kill you. You would like to be recognized, but
it will be too early if I recognize you. It will be nothing but a recognition
of your ego. I will recognize you only when I see the ego has disappeared; while
the ego is there I will go on destroying it. My no's are nothing but hits on
the ego.
Yes will also be said when you
have become capable of accepting my no's joyfully. When you have become worthy
of receiving the yes, it will come on its own accord; you need not remind me.
Your reminding me will only delay it. Your reminding me will make me say more
no's to you. You cannot force yes from me, you cannot force me to say yes to
you. If you can force yes from me, my whole function of being a master is destroyed.
You cannot force anything from me.
Pass through these no's: this
is the dark night of the soul. And when the night is the darkest, the dawn is
very close.
Question 4
Beloved Master,
Are scriptures not really of any use
whatsoever?
Thomas, scriptures are
beautiful, but beautiful only for those who can understand them - not for you.
You cannot understand them, you can only misunderstand them. I am not against
the scriptures - how can I be? I am speaking on one of the scriptures, The Dhammapada, Buddha's sayings. I have
spoken on Jesus' sayings, I have spoken on Mahavira, on Krishna. I have spoken
on the Upanishads, I have spoken on Tao
Teh Ching. I have spoken on almost all the beautiful scriptures of the
world. How can I be against them and how can I think they are useless? -
although I insist that you don't depend on them. For you they are of no use.
Then what is their use? Their
use is a totally different thing. When you become more meditative, the deeper
you go into meditation, the more will be your capacity and clarity to
understand the scriptures. Scriptures will become witnesses to you that you are
on the right track. And when you reach to your innermost core, when you realize
your being, then you will know what Jesus means by the kingdom of God, then you
will know what Buddha means by nirvana, then you will know what the Upanishads
mean by truth - not before that.
Right now, if you read the
Bible or the Koran or the Gita, you will interpret them according to your
unconscious state, according to your nonmeditative state. You will
misinterpret, you will misunderstand. You are not in the right shape; you are
upside down, you are topsy-turvy. You are a confusion, a chaos. You are a
crowd, you are not yet an individual. You don't have a center at all. So how
are you going to understand Jesus or Buddha or Krishna?
Remember one very fundamental
thing: you can understand Jesus only if you have tasted something of
Christ-consciousness in you; otherwise there is no way. You can have some glimpses
of Buddha only when you have attained something of buddhahood, some texture,
some taste, some fragrance. When you have entered into the country of Buddha
and the buddhas, then you will be able to see the meaning.
Otherwise, words are there, but
who will put meaning into those words? You will put meaning into those words.
You will be reading Krishna but you will not be really reading Krishna - you
will be reading yourself through Krishna. The words will be Krishna's, the
meanings will be yours - and it is the meaning that is significant, not the
word.
Chauncey de Plotkin was
suffering from the heartbreak of psoriasis. After vainly trying the usual
patent medicines sold over the counter he finally consulted a doctor and was
given a prescription and told how and when to take it.
That evening at home Chauncey's
wife was astonished to see her husband swallow a spoonful of the medicine, race
out of the house and dash around the block. When he returned he was so
exhausted that he flopped down onto the bed and fought to catch his breath.
On the second evening he
repeated the performance: he gulped down the medicine, galloping around the
block and returning home a few minutes later.
On the third evening he changed
his tactics. This time he took his medicine as usual, but instead of racing he
began to skip around the room with all the grace of a prancing pachyderm.
The wife could stand it no
longer. "Chauncey," she cried, "what in the world are you doing
racing around the block and jumping about like that? Have you lost your
mind?"
"Of course not,"
replied the weary hubby. "I am just following the doctor's orders. He told
me to take my medicine two nights running and to skip the third night."
The words may be of Christ,
Buddha, Zarathustra, but who is going to give the meaning to them? Chauncey de
Plotkin - he will put meanings into those words! He will impose his meaning, he
will project his meaning.
I am not against scriptures.
How can I be? I am for all the scriptures, but I cannot say to you that through
the scriptures you can find the truth. That is not possible.
A Christian missionary and a
rabbi were traveling together in a train. The Christian missionary said to the
rabbi, "Jesus saves."
The rabbi looked at the
missionary and then said, "But Moses invests."
Words are bound to be colored
by you, they are bound to be part of you. They may descend from very high
sources... It is just like rainwater. When it comes from the clouds it is pure,
the purest, but when it falls on the ground it depends on the ground. If it
falls in cow dung, then it may be holy for the Hindu but for nobody else! Pure
water descending from heaven will have the color of the earth on which it
falls, will have the taste of the earth on which it falls.
Exactly the same is the case
with the words falling from Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu. It depends on
your earth - on your mind. And what is the state of your mind? Can you think
anything original? Can you understand anything original? Your mind only repeats
that which it has heard or read, that which it has been taught. It is a
machine; it can never produce a single original thought. The original thought
never comes from the mind; it comes from the beyond.
Buddha uses the mind to
communicate with you. He has to use words, obviously, and by using words he is
taking a dangerous step. For seven days he was hesitating... When he became
enlightened, for seven days he didn't utter a single word.
The story is that the gods came
from heaven, touched his feet, and asked him to deliver the truth that he had
attained because the masses were so thirsty for it. Millions of people would be
benefited.
He listened in deep silence. He
simply said one thing: "As far as I am concerned, for seven days I have
been pondering over it and this is my conclusion: that those who can understand
me need not hear my words. Those who can understand me are already meditative,
they are already on the way. They don't need my words; they will reach anyway,
with me or without. Maybe with me they will reach a little earlier, alone a
little later, but what difference does it make in eternity whether you come one
year earlier or one year later?
"Those who can't
understand me are bound to misunderstand. My words will become a problem for
them. They are already confused and I don't want to confuse them any more. My
words will create more confusion in them."
The gods were at a loss what to
say, how to persuade Buddha. They went away. They discussed it among themselves
to find out some way, and then they came back with a new argument. They said,
"You are right, there are people, a very few people, who will understand
you immediately. And yes, we agree with you totally, they don't need it; they
will reach anyway. They are just on the borderline: one step more and they will
be buddhas. Even without you they will become buddhas, that is certain. If you
could become a buddha without any other buddha helping you, they can also
become - we can understand it.
"And your other point is
also right: there are millions of people who will not understand you. But we
don't agree with you that your words will create more confusion. Those people
are so confused, there cannot be more confusion. They have already reached to
the rock bottom of confusion; you cannot confuse them any more. So don't be worried
about them.
"And we have thought about
a third category also. There are a few people who are just in between these two
categories: who are not so evolved that they will immediately understand you
and become enlightened and who are not so unevolved either that they will
simply become more and more confused by hearing you. They are just in the
middle - a small minority, but those people are there. With your help they will
reach to the other shore; without your help they may wander and wander for
centuries and centuries.
"And you are right in
saying that what difference does it make in eternity? It does not make any
difference to you because you know eternity, but for those poor people who live
in time it makes much difference. For many many lives they will be suffering.
For you it makes no difference - you have entered eternity - but they are
living in time, and time means birth, death and the wheel of birth and death.
And they will have to go on the wheel, in the vicious circle, millions of
times. Compared to eternity it is nothing, but compared to a small life - a
seventy-year life, a sixty-year life - it is too much. You have to think about
that third category too."
Buddha listened to them and
immediately agreed to speak. He followed the argument: yes, there is a third
category. The first category is of those people who cannot understand at all.
Words they can understand; intellectually they are capable of understanding
whatsoever is said to them. But deep down the meaning is missed, the
significance is missed. They hear the music, but they don't get the melody of
it. They hear the noise, but they don't feel the harmony; that is a subtle
phenomenon. They hear the words.
All the three categories are
here. The majority is hearing my words, but they will not feel my silence, they
will not feel my presence in them. It is the same to them. They can read a
book, they can listen to a tape or they can hear me directly; it is all the
same to them, no difference, because the words are the same.
But to the second category
there is a difference. To read my words in a book is one thing, because I will
not be there in those words, my presence will not be there. I will not be
breathing in those words; they will be dead. When you listen to the tape it is
a little better than the book, but still my presence is not there. Tapes are
mechanical repetitions; there is nobody behind them.
Here when you are listening to
me, my words are there and my silence is there. My silence can go with the
words if you are available. The second category of people will be able to feel
my presence, my silence, my song. And the first category of people will
immediately realize that this is it! A sudden enlightenment... not even a
moment's gap.
Question 5
Beloved Master,
The other day I read that Taru met you once
in the streets of Bombay while you were carrying a bag of gin and whisky in
both hands. Are you really a drunkard?
Prem Aditya, if Taru says so,
it must be so. I am such a drunkard that I can't remember! Yes, vaguely I
remember Taru meeting me on the streets of Bombay. I can remember her hug - it
is difficult to forget! But my memory is not very good... so maybe I was
carrying bottles of whisky in both of my hands.
That has been very usual for
Zen masters in Japan. That is the last stage of enlightenment! To be
enlightened means to be utterly drunk - drunk with the divine.
Maybe those bottles of whisky
were empty. They must have been, because a drunkard like me cannot keep those
bottles full very long. The moment I get them I drink them. I don't postpone
anything! But my memory is not very good...
"Doctor, I have a very
serious problem," Max began. "I am losing my memory - maybe I have
already lost it completely. I can't seem to remember anything."
The psychiatrist smiled
indulgently. "I am sure it is not quite that drastic. You must remember something."
"No, nothing at all. I
tell you, I can't remember a single thing."
"You mean, of course, such
things as names and faces and dates? We all tend to forget them now and then."
"Doctor, you don't
understand. I mean everything!"
"Ah, that is pure
nonsense!" snapped the doctor. "No one just forgets everything he has
ever known. Even a person suffering from amnesia remembers something - such as
whether he drinks coffee or tea or whether he smokes cigarettes or not."
"Listen, Doc,"
Maxwell said despairingly, "I am telling you for the last time - I can't
remember anything at all. Everything I see, everything I hear, everything I
read, it just makes a temporary impression and then goes out of my head
forever. That's it, Doctor, I swear to you. I simply can't remember one single
goddamn thing!"
The psychiatrist frowned,
leaned back in his chair and pondered this unique malady for several moments.
Then he asked, "How long has this been going on?"
"How long has what been
going on?"
That's my situation too! I
don't remember much. I am not much interested in the past, I am not interested
in the future either. My whole interest is in the present moment.
And you can see right now - I
am a drunkard! Why bother what Taru says, and somewhere it is written and you
read it? Why bother? You can look into my eyes... and they are full of whisky!
And if you don't believe me,
come to me in private, and I will cry a little and you can taste my tears. And
you will know how they taste - they will taste of whisky! If Jesus can turn the
whole ocean into wine, can't I turn my own tears?
Question 6
Beloved Master,
No erection happens. Am I still sexy?
Fishes come, but go thirsty.
Sant... Sant, contemplate on
Murphy's maxim: If you play with something long enough, you will surely break
it.
The big tomcat was eyeing the
cute angora from behind a barbed wire fence. Finally, he decided to jump over
it to get to her. With a big leap he landed on the other side.
"Say, aren't you Toby, the
tomcat?" asked the angora.
"Not anymore," he
replied. "That fence was higher than I thought."
Question 7
Beloved Master,
What are the abc's of psychology?
The A of psychology: neurotics
build air castles. The B of psychology: psychotics live in them. The C of
psychology: psychiatrists collect the rent.
Question 8
Beloved Master,
Why did you decide to speak instead of
writing your philosophy?
Gautam, my spelling is far
worse than my pronunciation!
Enough for today.
