The Empty Boat

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The Empty Boat If you meet a Chuang Tzu, or a Lao Tzu, or me, the boat is there, but it is empty, nobody is in it. If you simply look at the surface, then somebody is there, because the boat is there. But if you penetrate deeper, if you really become intimate with me, if you forget the body, the boat, then you come to encounter a nothingness.

Chuang Tzu is a rare flowering, because to become nobody is the most difficult, almost impossible, most extraordinary thing in the world. The ordinary mind hankers to be extraordinary, that is part of ordinariness; the ordinary mind desires to be somebody in particular, that is part of ordinariness. You may become an Alexander, but you remain ordinary – then who is the extraordinary one? The extraordinariness starts only when you don’t hanker after extraordinariness. Then the journey has started, then a new seed has sprouted.”” – Osho Osho is a revolution that helps the birth of each individual: “”I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things, which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow. I don’t want anybody to stand between the individual and existence.

No prayer, no priest – you alone are enough to face the sunrise. You don’t need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is.