Live, Love, Laugh

Once upon a time a commercial sex worker visited Socrates who is discussing with his limited students. This commercial sex worker was shocked to see that the followers of Socrates was very few, while abundance of people who visited the commercial sex area.

The Mud of Society

Osho has his own unique interpretation about the story above. With a straightforward language he concluded, Socrates was like a lotus flower, while the commoners are like flies. Flies like a foul odor. And flies definitely flee from the fragrance of lotus flower. Some of flies do not just run from the lotus flower, but also hurt the lotus flower. That's why Socrates was killed, Jesus was crucified, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. were shot, Nelson Mandela was jailed.

With all respect to the Osho's straightforward language, in the language of meditation, without the mud there will be no lotus flowers. To be honest, society is similar to mud. It is totally depend on one's choice, whether they are going to be deluded by the mud, or grow there as lotus flower. Anyone who like to live a clean and sterile life, he/she will run away from the mud. But some highly realize masters choose to grow in society as lotus flowers.

Borrowing from a Zen master, in a sterile and clean water there will be no fish. In the same way, society is a place of many things - from corruption to delusion, from love to power till power to love - it is one's choice to live or leave. Some of beautiful heart like Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela choose to live in the crowd not to follow them, but to share the fragrance of lotus flower.

Waste And Flower

The ordinary suffering mind tend to create a wide gap between waste and flower. They love flowers very much, at the same time they hate the waste very much. And in deep meditation practice, whatever the duality (sad-glad, tragedy-comedy), they are all simply witnessed. Through accepting, flowing, smiling, everything is gently hug by smile and understanding.

In the level of perfect insight, flowers in these days will become waste later. Waste today will become flower later. The same thing happen to sorrow-joy, sad-glad, blamed-praised. Everything flow according to their law respectively. And peace is closer to accepting, flowing, smiling.

This explains why deep meditation practitioners are such peaceful. They are peaceful in mind, peaceful in smile, peaceful in speech. It is because of one reason, life flows, mind flows. It is like day and night. No one can throw the night. Flow, that is the key to open the door of peace.

Songs of Love

In the view of some young people, this notion of flowing is called lazy and doing nothing. Some others even conclude it as weak and stupid. But to the wise, this is far from lazy and stupid. It is like the life of the trees, in silence trees transform the poison of carbon dioxide into fresh oxygen that is really needed. Similar to ocean, in silence ocean process all wastes which are poured into many things that are meaningful.

As materials of contemplation, one day the animals want to compete with human being by establishing schools. There was course of swimming taught by fish, there was lesson of running guided by fox,  there was study of flying facilitated by birds. After so many years the school was closed. At the end, the one who can swim perfectly is fish, the one who can run perfectly is fox, the one who can fly perfectly is bird.

We are all different. We do not need to be exactly the same. And in all these differences, life actually sing the songs of love. Flies like foul odor, butterflies love the fragrance of flowers, birds like to sing, children love to play, all sing the same songs of love. Any wise person who listen to this song for long time will understand, to live is to love. The deeper your love the stronger your wings. The stronger your wings, the higher soul will fly. At the peak of journey, the door of understanding will be opened, finally to love means to get laugh. We have been living in the darkness for long time. Enlightenment dispel the inner darkness through awareness and carefulness. When the room is no longer dark, finally we see all fear, hatred, anger, sins are ropes that are mistakenly concluded as snakes. That is the laugh of enlightenment. For that reason, whatever the question love is the answer. Whatever the wound laugher is the healer.