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ZEN: THE PATH OF PARADOX
VOL. 2
Chapter 8: There is No Back of this Book
Question 4
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Question 4
OSHO, YOU DON'T ALLOW ME TO SETTLE ANYWHERE. BY THE TIME I FEEL SETTLED, YOU SAY SOMETHING WHICH UNSETTLES ME AGAIN. WHY DO YOU GO ON CREATING CONFUSION IN YOUR DISCIPLES?
The moment you start settling, you are becoming dead. You have to be unsettled. Settlement means you are stopping living. Settlement means you have become a householder, you are no more a sannyasin.
Never settle: be moving. Life should be a pilgrimage. Live in houses but don't become householders. Think about your houses as tents -- any moment you can take them away from the earth and you can move. Remain moving, flowing, entering into the unknown.
Yes, that's what I do -- the moment you start feeling settled, I unsettle you. That's what a master is needed for -- to go on goading, to never allow you to settle. You would like to create some belief, some belief-system, and you would like to settle and be comfortable and forget all about journeys, inquiries, travels, unknown lands, uncharted seas -- you would like to forget all that.
You want a small home, to settle with comfort, a cozy place to be in. This constant movement feels like inconvenience. You are searching for convenience, and I am trying to give you a journey. A journey is troublesome, pilgrimage is troublesome -- but if you want to attain to truth you have to be a pilgrim.
That's why I go on unsettling you. I am not here to give you some belief-systems, I am here just to give you an urge to seek -- just an urge to be an adventurous being, an urge to take the jump into the unknown.
And the moment it becomes known, drop it! It is finished! You have taken the juice out of it, now don't go on chewing dead bones. There is no juice in dead bones, there is no juice in dead beliefs. Whenever something keeps you going, it is alive: drink all the juice possible, drink to the full. And the moment you feel now it is dry, drop it: move.
There are millions of flowers; don't get attached to one flower. Remain a bee -- remain a bee moving from one flower to another. Go on moving... every flower in this world carries honey for you. Why should you settle at all? Why are you in such a hurry to settle?
And confusion is the method to unsettle you. But one day, when you have been unsettled millions of times and confused millions of times, a new consciousness will arise in you -- and even I will not be able to confuse you. That's what I am waiting for. The day I cannot confuse you, you have become ripe, mature -- not that you have become settled. Confusion comes because you WANT to settle, because you start feeling settled, and then I unsettle you. Hence confusion. You say, 'Again. Again here we go. And just now I was feeling so cozy and I was feeling so good, and I was thinking that SATORI is very close... and it looks very far away.'
By the time you start feeling asleep... that's what you call 'settling'. I am not a lullaby, I am an alarm. Then you feel confused. You want to cling to the old, and I am destroying it, and I am giving you some new idea, some new path, some new urge. Now you are in difficulty. The confusion is, you want to cling to the old, I want to push you into the new. Hence the confusion. Once you stop clinging to the old, there will be no confusion. And then I will not be able to unsettle you at all. Because you are no more seeking settlement -- how can I unsettle you?
Meditate on this small parable, a real story.
Ma Tsu heard of Ta Mei's stay on the mountain, and sent a monk to ask him this question....
Ma Tsu is a great Zen master, and Ta Mei is one of his disciples -- he had thousands of disciples. The master sent some-body to ask the disciple some question -- because he is staying on a mountain, alone, meditating, just sitting silently there. Now, the master must be feeling that he is getting settled or something. So he sends a person. He cannot go -- he is very old, it will be difficult for him to climb the mountain -- but he wants to see whether this Ta Mei can still be unsettled or not. He must be thinking to unsettle this Ta Mei, so...
Ma Tsu heard of Ta Mei's stay on the mountain and sent a monk to ask him this question: 'What did you obtain when you called on the great master Ma Tsu and what prompted you to stay here?'
Ta Mei replied, 'The great master told me that mind was Buddha and that is why I came to stay here.'
The monk said, 'The great master's Buddha Dharma is different now.'
Ta Mei asked, 'What is it now?'
The monk replied, 'He says it is neither mind nor Buddha.'
Ta Mei laughed and said, 'That old man is causing confusion in the minds of others and all this will have no end. Let him say that it is neither mind nor Buddha. As far as I am concerned, mind is Buddha.'
When the monk returned and reported the above dialogue to Ma Tsu, the latter was very happy and said, 'The plum is now ripe.'
'Ta Mei' in Chinese means 'big plum'. 'The plum is ripe now, I cannot unsettle him.' Now even the master cannot unsettle the disciple. The disciple has arrived; now he knows all the tricks of the old man.
If you get unsettled, this simply means you have not yet under-stood me. And I will go on unsettling you, till you understand. One day you will understand what I am doing here -- destroying belief-systems, one by one. And not giving any belief-system to you instead as a supplement.
You are not much worried about destroying a belief-system -- if you come as a Christian and I destroy your Christianity, you are not much worried. You would like to become a Rajneeshite -- then it is okay. But when I start destroying that too, then you say, 'Now this is too much. Somehow I managed to come out of my Christianity and I was getting settled in this Rajneeshianity -- and this man is now driving me out of that too. So where am I going to land?'
I don't want you to settle anywhere. The whole is your home -- why choose small homes? Why create small gardens? The whole wilderness is yours, this wide world is yours, this whole belongs to you.
Don't become ever an 'ist', don't believe in any 'ism'. When you drop all 'isms,' truth comes to you -- never before it. That price has to be paid.
Next: Chapter 8: There is No Back of this Book, Question 5
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