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ZEN: THE PATH OF PARADOX
VOL. 2
Chapter 8: There is No Back of this Book
Question 9
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Question 9
WHAT IS A BASTARD?
Now this is a little bit too technical. And I wonder why somebody is so much concerned about this word 'bastard'. The question has come once in the past few days in another way; now it is here again. It seems that on somebody's conscience this word is sitting heavy -- somebody is disturbed by this word.
But because you have asked, I will have to tell you a few things. Bastards come in all sizes and all shapes; basically they can he divided into three categories. First, a small anecdote, and then you will be able to understand them easily.
The excited couple had the county clerk rush filling in the marriage licences, and then they dashed over to the Justice of the Peace.
'I'm sorry,' said the Justice, when he looked at the licence, 'but it doesn't have the girl's name on it.' 'Can't you put it on?' asked the girl. 'No indeed,' said the Justice, 'you'll have to take it back to the county clerk.'
So they hurried back to the clerk, and when they returned to the Justice he looked at the licence again and said, 'There's no date on it.' 'But can't you....' 'Nope!'
So back to the clerk they went. Once more they appeared before the Justice, and this time he said, 'It doesn't have the county seal on it. And don't ask me to put the seal on. That's not my job. Take it back to the clerk.'
Thoroughly disgusted, the couple went back to the county clerk, and at last returned to the home of the Justice. 'Well, that's better,' said the Justice as he approved the licence. He then looked up and for the first time noticed a three-year-old boy with the couple.
'Whose boy is that?' he asked. 'Ours,' answered the girl. 'Yours? That means you had this child before you....'
'Yes,' said the boy's father. 'Before we were married.'
'Well, I suppose that's not my affair,' said the Justice, 'but I hope you realize that this boy is a technical bastard.'
'Isn't that strange,' retorted the young father. 'That's exactly what the county clerk said you were!'
So the first category is technical bastards. That means one is born only out of love, without any legal licence -- one is born out of love without marriage. But that is not the worst kind. The worst kind is one who is born out of marriage without love. And that kind exists in millions; that is the major part of humanity.
That is the real bastard. This is just a technical bastard -- a boy or a girl born out of sheer love. Nothing is wrong in it; it is just a technical question, nothing basically wrong. It is a perfect child; it is how it should be.
In a better world, these people will not be called bastards -- because it depends on the way you look at things. These people will be respected more than the people who are born only out of licence, marriage, legality, otherwise there was no love. Without love conceived, without love born -- they are the real bastards. And these real bastards go on calling the first category 'bastards'.
But even that is not the worst. The really real bastard is a third kind who is born neither out of love nor out of marriage, just accidental. These are the three basic categories. But why are you worried? If you are of the first kind, be perfectly happy.
I don't know why Jesus has not made a beatitude on bastards: 'Blessed are the bastards, because theirs is the kingdom of God, for they are born out of pure love.' Mm? he could have made this. 'Woe unto the real bastards! Because they are only born out of marriage, hence they will live in hell.'
And I don't know any other place where we can send the really real ones.
Don't be worried, don't take it seriously, don't let it crush you. Out of love, it's perfectly good -- out of love is out of God. Marriage is a social invention, an institution. Sooner or later, marriage will disappear -- SHOULD disappear. People should live in love. Why should people try to live in an institution? Why should people try to live in marriage? Marriage has been created because people are not responsible, marriage has been created because people are not loving. Marriage is a substitute -- something is missing in people's real life, so marriage has been created.
Once you love a woman or a woman loves you, love is enough! Love will take care of itself. And if love cannot take care of itself, what else can take care? Then there is only a licence.
As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love. If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.
In a better world, with a better humanity, things will be different. In a better world, the child born out of love will not be called bastard; the child only born out of license, law, will be called bastard.
Next: Chapter 9: Scratching the Shoe
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