“When the spring comes trees will bloom, and when the right time has come the fruits will ripen,” states Osho
Why do persons like Buddha or Christ appear only at certain times?
Because they are afraid of you. They think a lot before they gather enough courage to come back to this earth to be crucified by you again, to be stoned by you again.
And sometimes, even if they come, they live here anonymously. So that you cannot stone and you cannot crucify them. And then, everything happens in its own time. When the spring comes trees will bloom, and when the right time has come the fruits will ripen. Every moment things are happening, but never anything happens for which the moment has not come. Everything has its own time, and it is good.
On the planet Volcanus, the gases from the many volcanoes which supplied the nuclear lighting were running out. It was a race against time to find another way of lighting the planet.
Suddenly they were plunged into total darkness.
The people of Volcanus were terrified. Just then they heard a slippery slurpery noise, and rays of light appeared at the top of all volcanoes. The lights got brighter and brighter, lighting the whole of the planet.
‘We are saved,’ shouted the people. ‘The glow worms from inside the volcanoes are giving us the light we need.’
The glow worms got closer.
‘But why haven’t you shone before?’ asked the people.
‘We weren’t needed,’ said the leader of the glow worms. ‘But when the planet was plunged into total darkness, we decided that the time was right. Because…when you gotta glow you gotta glow.’
Osho, This Very Body the Buddha, Ch 4, Q 7
Series compiled by Shanti
All excerpts of this series can be found in: 1001 Tales
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