On the Danger of Overweening Success

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From:Absolute Tao

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"Logic moves to the very extreme – life never. That's how logic misses life. Logic has the tendency to reach to a conclusion – life is never concluding.
"Life has no conclusion. It goes on..."
On the Danger of Overweening Success
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"Logic moves to the very extreme – life never. That's how logic misses life. Logic has the tendency to reach to a conclusion – life is never concluding.
"Life has no conclusion. It goes on..."

Osho continues:
"A man of understanding never comes to any conclusions, he cannot. When life itself is non-conclusive how can a wise man be conclusive? If you ask Lao Tzu for any conclusive answer he will laugh. He will say you are foolish. He lives according to life, and the most basic note, if you live according to life, is balance. Never move to one opposite, don't cling to one polarity; then you will lose balance.

"I have heard:

"Once it happened that a great king had to decide something against his heart. Two of his ministers had committed some crime and he loved the ministers very much. Even if they had committed the crime he wanted to forgive them, his love was such for them. But that was against the law of the country, and it wouldn't have been a good precedent. So they had to be punished. And the law of the country said that for such a crime the only punishment was death. So what to do?

"It was too difficult, so he found a way out. He said, 'They have to be sentenced to death, but I will give them one more chance to live. Between two hills a tightrope will be stretched. If they can walk over it and survive, then I will forgive them.'

"It was almost impossible. It was impossible because they had never walked on any tightrope, let alone on one between two hills over a big valley – death everywhere. And to walk on a tightrope is a great art, one has to learn it, it is a great discipline. They had not even dreamed in their lives that they would become tightrope walkers.

"One of the two couldn't sleep. The whole night he prayed to God to help him. He couldn't take his tea in the morning. He came to the place where this phenomenon was to happen; the whole capital had gathered.

"The other, knowing well that he didn't know anything about tightrope walking, that nothing could be done and it was almost certain that he was going to die, so why not sleep well? – he slept. In the morning he took his usual tea."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 87 mins
File Size 22.31 MB
Type Individual Talks