It is hard to live in the world

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It is hard to live in the world and hard to live out of it. It is hard to be one

among many.

 

He says: it is hard to live in the world.... Certainly, hence millions have

preferred to escape. He himself had escaped in the beginning -- but remember

that he did not become enlightened because of his escape. He became enlightened

in spite of his escape. He did not become enlightened because he renounced the

world; he became enlightened even though he renounced the world. It was in spite

of it. It was not the cause of his enlightenment, it did not cause it.

 

Enlightenment is not caused by anything.

 

So when he comes back after his enlightenment to the world, goes to the palace

to see his parents -- his old father, his old stepmother -- his wife, his son,

the wife asks one question; a very pertinent question she asks Gautam Buddha.

She asks, "Tell me one thing -- I have waited long just to ask you one thing.

Whatsoever you have attained, was it not possible to attain it here in this

house? Was it necessary to escape from the palace and from the world and from me

and from your child? Was that absolutely necessary to attain it?"

 

And that is the only time when Buddha looks downwards without saying anything.

His silence is eloquent. He accepts that yes, it was not necessary.

 

He escaped out of the world because it was hard to live in the world. It is

hard.

 

"Son, I just know that you will do the right thing by this little girl," said

the preacher. "You just marry her and you will be at the end of your troubles."

 

So he did the right thing and he married the girl. And about six months later,

when he saw the preacher again, he tried to murder him.

 

"You miserable liar!" shouted the young man. "You told me if I married her I

would be at the end of my troubles. Well, I married her and she has made my life

miserable!"

 

"That may be true, son, but you can't blame me," replied the minister. "I said

you would be at the end of your troubles, but I never said which end."

 

To be in the world is hard, to live in the world is difficult, because it is

living with so many lunatics. You yourself are a lunatic and everybody else is a

lunatic! The world is in such a mess. It simply seems impossible how the good

God could manage within six days to make such a mess of the world! There was not

time enough... and no woman even to advise him! Still he managed.

 

Those who know, they say he created Eve only in the end simply so that she would

not give advice to him; otherwise in six days it would have been impossible to

make the world. She would have interfered in everything: "Do it this way. This

is not right." And since he created Eve he has not created anything else. That

was too much! He called it a day and he said, "Enough is enough!" Since then

nothing has been heard about him.

 

Shed a tear for the beatnik who committed suicide, leaving a note saying,

"Goodbye, cool world."

 

It is really icy-cold -- no warmth anywhere, no love anywhere, no compassion

anywhere. It is hard to live in the world and hard to live out of it. And it is

not easy to live out of it either; it is even harder to live out of it.

 

 

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