So the first thing to be understood about Lieh Tzu: he is not a theoretician, he will not give you any theory he will simply give you parables. The parable is an Eastern invention, and of tremendous import. There are Aesop’s parables, but they are also reflections of the greatest book of parables of the East, PANCHATANTRA. And even Jesus’ parables seem to be such that he must have carried them from the East. nothing like these people’s parables exist only Jesus. In the West, except for Jesus’ parables, nothing like Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Buddha. If you don’t dissect it but just drink the meaning of it, the poetry of it, the music of it – forget the story and just carry the significance of it – soon you will see that it indicates towards a future, towards something which can be but is not yet. If you just dissect the parable it becomes an ordinary story. Right now that is only a possibility, it is not actual. It shows that there is a possibility of growing, of being connected with existence. As the navel shows something about the past, a parable shows something about the future. This is just a mark that the past has left. It indicates that the man was once a child, that the child was once in the womb of a mother, that the child was connected with the mother. You will have to look everywhere, all around, to find the indication – where it indicates. But now the child is no longer in the womb – the mother may have died, the child has become old now what is the purpose of the navel? It has a transcendental purpose the purpose is not in itself. What is the purpose of the navel? It WAS purposeful when the child was in the womb: its purpose was that it related the child to the mother, it connected the child with the mother. If you go to the surgeon and ask him what the purpose of the navel is in the body, and if he dissects the body, he will not find any purpose the navel seems almost useless. If you dissect the parable itself you will not come to much understanding. These parables in themselves 2Īre beautiful, but that is not their purpose. Don’t cling to the finger – that is irrelevant – look at the moon. And that which cannot be said can be shown. A parable is open-ended: it says and yet it leaves much to be said, it only hints. A theory has to be closed if it is a theory it cannot be openended, otherwise it will be meaningless. Life cannot be put into a theory – it is so vast, it is so infinite. The purpose of it is not to entertain you, the purpose of it is to say something which there is no other way to say. A parable is a device, a great device it is not just an ordinary story. Whenever somebody has experienced life, his experience has flowered into parables: that seems to be the easiest way to hint at that which cannot be said. His approach is that of an artist: the poet, the story-teller – and he is a master storyteller. Before we start entering into his world, a few things have to be under stood about him. Lieh Tzu is one of those very few he is rare. Thousands and thousands of people have tried to express it – very few have succeeded even in giving a reflection of it. Truth cannot be expressed: that inexpressibility is intrinsic to truth. IS IT HE WHO IS TRULY MISERABLE, IS IT WE WHO ARE TRULY HAPPY?’ I REJOICE in Lieh Tzu – he is one of the most perfect expressions for the inexpressible. PICKING A STALK HE POINTED TO THE SKULL AND, TURNING TO HIS DISCIPLE PAI FENG, SAID ’ONLY HE AND I KNOW THAT YOU WERE NEVER BORN AND WILL NEVER DIE. WHEN LIEH TZU WAS EATING AT THE ROADSIDE ON A JOURNEY TO WEI, HE SAW A HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD SKULL. This book includes a free audio CD, The Cyclone is the Centre.Talks given from 11/02/77 am to 24/02/77 am English Discourse series Tao is a process of de - hypnosis." "It is not a question of what Lieh Tzu is saying, it is a question of what Lieh Tzu is - the simplicity, the humbleness, the meekness of the person, the innocence of the person." "Osho is an enlightened master who is working with all possibilities to help humanity overcome a difficult phase in developing consciousness." - His Holiness the Dalalai Lama Osho has been described by The Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid - Day in India as one of the ten people - along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha - who have changed the destiny of India. In this book, Osho examines Taoism through stories, parables and life and teachings of Lieh Tzu. There is no technique to Tao Tao is nature. Includes a Free Audio CD Osho says, Tao is the greatest possible ideal for man but there is no guided path to it.
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