There is an Interesting zen story, and yet absurd as Osho puts it. But the story actually depicts the life the way it is!...This is one of my personal fav stories, made me realize the importance of being an observer first. I hope you do enjoy reading this story as much as I have enjoyed making it a part of my life!
The story goes like this...A Zen master ask his disciple " some time ago I put a goose in a bottle. Now the goose has grown big and neck of the bottle is very small, so the goose cannot come out. The bottle is very precious and I don't want to break it, so now there is a crisis. If the goose is not allowed out, she will die. I can break the bottle and the goose will be out, but I don't want to break the bottle - the bottle is precious . I don't want to kill the goose either. so what would you do?"
This is the problem! the goose is in your head and the neck is very narrow. You can break the head, but it is precious. Or you can let the goose die, but that cannot be allowed - because you are the goose.
Many answers were tried, but he would always beat the person and keep saying no. someone would suggest doing something with the bottle, but again the master would say : the bottle will be broken or something will go wrong and that cannot be allowed. or somebody would say : let the goose die, if the bottle is so precious. These were the only two way;there is no other way and the master wouldn't give any clue. And then one disciple said " The Goose is Out"
But to this disciple he bowed down and touched his feet and said : He is right - the goose is out! it has never been in. You are out! you have never been in . The feeling that you are in is just a false conception.
So there is no real problem of how to bring you out of your head. Just watch, watch what happens? Just close your eyes and watch your thoughts . What happens? Thoughts are there in, but you are not in. Everything is moving around and watcher is Beyond!
Watching means to be out. Don't try to come out. Who will come out? No one has been in. The whole effort is futile, because if you have never been in then how can you come out? You may go on trying and trying and getting involved in it, you may get mad but you will never be out. Once you know that in a moment of watchfulness you are beyond, transcending – you are out.
Many answers were tried, but he would always beat the person and keep saying no. someone would suggest doing something with the bottle, but again the master would say : the bottle will be broken or something will go wrong and that cannot be allowed. or somebody would say : let the goose die, if the bottle is so precious. These were the only two way;there is no other way and the master wouldn't give any clue. And then one disciple said " The Goose is Out"
But to this disciple he bowed down and touched his feet and said : He is right - the goose is out! it has never been in. You are out! you have never been in . The feeling that you are in is just a false conception.
So there is no real problem of how to bring you out of your head. Just watch, watch what happens? Just close your eyes and watch your thoughts . What happens? Thoughts are there in, but you are not in. Everything is moving around and watcher is Beyond!
Watching means to be out. Don't try to come out. Who will come out? No one has been in. The whole effort is futile, because if you have never been in then how can you come out? You may go on trying and trying and getting involved in it, you may get mad but you will never be out. Once you know that in a moment of watchfulness you are beyond, transcending – you are out.
1 comments:
hahahahah how wonderful is that..true so many times we are not in the bottle, and we think we are...well said!!
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