“Everything has been perfect without you. When you will not be here everything will be as perfect as ever.”
By continual losing one reaches doing nothing. By doing nothing everything is done.
That is the secret. By doing nothing everything is done. Everything is already being done, you unnecessarily come in, you unnecessarily make much fuss. Without you everything is going as beautifully as it can ever go. […]
Have you heard about an old woman who lived in a small village and who believed that it was because of her that the sun rose in the village? She had many cocks, and just before the sun rose they would start making noise, crowing, and she believed that it was because of those cocks the sun rose.
It was a logical thing. Always, they made their noise – and immediately the sun started rising, it had never been otherwise.
She told the villagers, “It is because of me the sun rises. Once I leave this village you will live in darkness.”
They laughed.
Angry, she left the village with all her cocks. She reached another village, and of course, in the morning the sun rose.
She laughed and said, “Now they will understand! Now the sun is rising in this village! Now they will weep and cry and repent, but I am not going back!”
Things have been happening without you. Everything has been perfect without you. When you will not be here everything will be as perfect as ever. But you cannot believe in it because if you believe in it your ego disappears.
Things will go on when the doer disappears.
Osho, Tao: The Three Treasures – Talks on fragments from Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Vol 3, Ch 3
Series compiled by Shanti
All excerpts of this series can be found in: 1001 Tales
Photo by Niclas Dehmel on Unsplash
Comments are closed.