Osho Rajneesh Book "The Razor’s Edge"

The Razor’s Edge

BELOVED OSHO,

THANK YOU FOR THROWING MOST OF MY QUESTIONS IN YOUR GARBAGE BIN. AT FIRST IT HURTS THE EGO, BUT NOT REALLY THAT MUCH. YOU ARE SHOWING ME HOW MY QUESTIONS ARE UNNECESSARY. EITHER I’M TRYING TO BE SMART, TRYING TO WRITE AN UNUSUAL QUESTION, OR TRYING TO BE FUNNY, HOPING TO MAKE EVERYBODY LAUGH. BUT I REALIZE I’M ALWAYS TRYING TO PROVE SOMETHING, WHICH IS NONSENSE. MY BELOVED MASTER, IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT MAYBE YOU WANT ME TO STOP ASKING QUESTIONS AND SIMPLY SHUT UP. HAS THE TIME REALLY COME? SOMETIMES I HAVE WONDERED IF THAT TIME HAD NOT COME ALREADY A LONG TIME AGO.

Chidananda, it is true, I have been throwing your questions away because they were not authentic;

they were not coming from your necessity of inner growth. And you have received the answer.

Unless I had thrown them, you would not have understood what you recognize in this question.

Although you have not yet understood the whole point, a glimpse has happened.

You say, ”Thank You for throwing most of my questions in Your garbage bin. At first it hurts the ego,

but not really that much.” That means you will be still asking those questions. And the fear is that

you may become slowly, slowly immune, because it hurts only just a little. By and by it will not hurt

at all.

You say,”You are showing me how my questions are unnecessary. Either I’m trying to be smart,

trying to write an unusual question, or trying to be funny, hoping to make everybody laugh. But I

realize I am always trying to prove something, which is nonsense. ”Just remember what you are

writing in this, because man’s memory is very superficial. Tomorrow you may forget again and fall

into your old habits.

You don’t know that almost one hundred questions come every day, and I have to throw away almost

ninety-five. Not that I don’t have time – if I feel that they are sincere and you need it urgently, I will

find the time – but they are so obviously unnecessary. But throwing them away was also my answer

to you.

George Bernard Shaw used to reply only once a month to his letters. For one month he would go

on piling up all those letters – and he was receiving thousands of letters from all over the world.

His friends were worried, ”What kind of method have you found? You go on piling up the letters; you

don’t even read them.” He said, ”I have decided, on every first day of the month, I read them. Most

of them already have answers. The few that still remain relevant, I answer – and they are very few.”

Not answering a question is also an answer. And it is good that some insight happened to you,

Chidananda. Now remain aware of it, because I have to unnecessarily read your questions. I may

not answer, but I cannot be so uncompassionate as George Bernard Shaw.

You say, ”It occurred to me that maybe you want me to stop asking questions and simply shut up.

”No, I want you to ask authentic questions. I want you to ask something that is going to help you in

your growth. You are forgetting yourself completely in your questions. They are meant for others –

they should be funny, they should make people laugh. How are you going to be helped by this?

I don’t want you to shut up. The time has not come for it yet. And when the time comes, I will not

need to tell you to shut up. You suddenly will find there are no questions to be asked; you have

received the answer; you have found the answer.

But the mind is so cunning, Chidananda, that you are saying, ”Has the time really come? Sometimes

I have wondered if that time had not come already a long time ago.”

You have not even begun the journey. You are concerned with unessential things. The time has

certainly come for you to be sincere and authentic and ask those questions which will expose your

wounds and heal them.

A KGB agent sees a Jew reading a Hebrew grammar book on a bench in Moscow’s Gorky Park.

”Hey, Jew,” he shouts, ”Why are you reading that? You know we will never let you go to Israel.”

”Well,” said the Jew, ”I am reading it in case they speak Hebrew in heaven.”

”And what if you go to hell?,” said the KGB man. ”Oh,” sighed the Jew, ”I should be okay. I already

speak Russian.”

You need not worry, Chidananda, that people should laugh. When I feel it necessary, I find a way for

them to laugh. These laughters are not meaningless. I don’t want to make your head too burdened

with heavy, serious, existential problems, so I go on telling jokes here and there. A good laughter

clears the clouds, and then you are ready again to hear something serious.

One thing you can do, Chidananda – and I have been using your jokes – if you cannot find any

authentic question, you can go on writing your jokes. Anybody who feels like writing something and

does not have any question to ask, he can write a joke. Because from where am I going to find the

jokes?

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