Guest guest Posted November 15, 2003 Report Share Posted November 15, 2003 Remember -- it is not only you who are seeking truth -- truth is also seeking you. Many times the hand has come very close to you, it has almost touched you, but you shrugged yourself away. It was not fitting with your belief and you chose to choose your belief. I have heard a very beautiful Jewish joke. There is a joke about a vampire who flew into Patrick O'Rourke's bedroom one night for the purpose of drinking his blood. Remembering the stories his mother told him, O'Rourke grabbed a crucifix and brandished it frantically in the vampire's face. The vampire paused for a moment, shook his head condolingly, clucked his tongue, and commented genially in the purest Yiddish: "Oy vey, bubbula! Have you ever got the wrong vampire!" Now, if the vampire is Christian, good! You can show the cross. But if the vampire is Jewish, then what? Then: "Oy vey, bubbula! Have you ever got the wrong vampire!" If you have a certain belief and life does not fit with it, what are you going to do? You can go on showing your crucifix -- but the vampire is a Jew. Then he is not going to take any note of your cross. Then what are you going to do? Life is so vast and beliefs are so small; life is so infinite and beliefs are so tiny. Life never fits with any belief and if you try to force life into your beliefs you are trying to do the impossible. It has never happened; it cannot happen in the nature of things. Drop all beliefs and start learning how to experience. Osho: The Art of Dying, Chapter 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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