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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : Osho's teases:
Avirbhava
Avirbhava waits by the door when Osho arrives and leaves, and
he makes a playful mock-threatening expression towards her, at
which Avirbhava screams with delight. Now he teases her during
the discourse as well.
I don't scare anybody except Avirbhava, because she has a quality
of a child. I don't know why. Perhaps her father is dead, her
mother is dead…I feel a tremendous feeling for her—and
she is utterly innocent. So once in a while—not once in
a while, almost every day—whenever I have the chance and
she is close by, I try to do my best. pilgr16
Last night, when I went out, Avirbhava was on the outside door
to open the car…And I have my own way of relating to people;
I scare her, and she is so innocent, she gets scared—at
least she pretends. She never disappoints me, "No…"…
It is just out of my love, and everybody knows it: whenever I
see her, I like to scare her a little—and she enjoys it.
Many times I wanted to pass without scaring her, and I felt, "No,
it is not good, because she will be expecting it and I am going
without doing it. It is inhuman…. " pilgr09
Two Zen masters are just like children—shouting, shrieking,
screaming, for no reason at all.
You know Avirbhava's shrieking…. That is Zen shrieking—for
no reason at all. Because I don't do anything to her…! But
I miss her when she is not there at the door. She is almost like
a gong declaring: "The Master has come!" When she is
not there, I miss her. Her screaming is just like a small child,
so innocent, without any purpose. But she is total when she screams,
it is not from her mind, it is coming from deeper spaces. So even
sometimes when I have entered the hall, she goes on screaming.
My car goes away and then she drops on the ground with immense
joy. celebr05
I have known one person who does not need to be tickled. Just
from far away you make the gesture, and that is enough. Here there
is also one person, everybody knows her. She is sitting so buddha-like,
but just if I do this right now…
(The Master jiggles his fingers in a tickling gesture towards
Avirbhava, who shrieks in surprise. Each time he "tickles,"
everyone roars with laughter, and the Master himself is chuckling
behind his sunglasses. He alternates his tickling gestures with
a series of hand movements to calm us down…Until the next
outbreak of laughter.)
And where is Anando?
(The Master, spotting Anando, begins to jiggle his hand in her
direction and is laughing himself. More waves of laughter.)
That is Anando, I could see.
This is the only way buddhahood arises: the master has to tickle.
Now do you see the effect? I have not even tickled Avirbhava,
neither have I tickled Anando, and you are all laughing!
(More "tickles" and more laughter ensue.)
This tickling is called, in the sutras, The Great Transmission.
I have not even touched…
(He "tickles" several people, laughing, and everyone
is carried along with him again.)
The master can only create a device. The device has no logical
connection. Now do you see why you are laughing? Of course Avirbhava,
at least, is tickled from far away—remote control. But why
are you laughing? I have a remote control…
(The Master demonstrates his remote control on Avirbhava, and
we all laugh some more. He laughs, and then motions to her to
be still.)
Calm down. Just sit like a buddha…close your eyes (He giggles)…look
inside. (Another burst of laughter.)…
You have just seen it. Do you want to see it again?
(The Master begins to "tickle" again provoking waves
of laughter, with a few chuckles from him.) I have two remote
controls—one for Avirbhava and the other for Anando. Wherever
they are in the universe…just tickle and they will laugh.
And with them, others will laugh for no reason at all.
I want you to understand: enlightenment is so light, so loving,
so peaceful—just like a laughter. The theologians have made
it so heavy, so burdensome, that people ignore it. Enlightenment
should also be entertainment at the same time. dogen08
That's why Zen does not take things seriously. What does it matter?—in
this life or in some other life you are to become a buddha.
The buddha is the New Man.
He is the man of the future.
The whole human consciousness is moving towards buddhahood.
Strangely, it is already there within you, but you are not aware.
Hence, a master can be helpful to you.
It is just like tickling you (The master makes tickling gestures
towards us)…and you start laughing, and I have not tickled
yet! (Again he makes the movement)…And you will start feeling…(For
the third time, he stretches his fingers towards us) the master's
work is to tickle you. And it is a joy to tickle ten thousand
buddhas! isan08
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