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end. Let him say that it is neither mind nor Buddha. As far as I am concerned, mind is Buddha.'
When the monk returned and reported the above dialogue to Ma Tsu, the latter was very happy and said, 'The plum is now ripe.'
'Ta Mei' in Chinese means 'big plum'. 'The plum is ripe now, I cannot unsettle him.' Now even the master cannot unsettle the disciple. The disciple has arrived; now he knows all the tricks of the old man.
If you get unsettled, this simply means you have not yet under-stood me. And I will go on unsettling you, till you understand. One day you will understand what I am doing here -- destroying belief-systems, one by one. And not giving any belief-system to you instead as a supplement.
You are not much worried about destroying a belief-system -- if you come as a Christian and I destroy your Christianity, you are not much worried. You would like to become a Rajneeshite -- then it is okay. But when I start destroying that too, then you say, 'Now this is too much. Somehow I managed to come out of my Christianity and I was getting settled in this Rajneeshianity -- and this man is now driving me out of that too. So where am I going to land?'
I don't want you to settle anywhere. The whole is your home -- why choose small homes? Why create small gardens? The whole wilderness is yours, this wide world is yours, this whole belongs to you.
Don't become ever an 'ist', don't believe in any 'ism'. When you drop all 'isms,' truth comes to you -- never before it. That price has to be paid.
Question 5
WHY IS IT SAID THAT LIFE IS STRANGER THAN FICTION?
Because it is. Fictions are by-products of life; how can they be MORE strange than life? Fictions are just shadows of life; how can they be more strange than life itself? Fictions are man-made, and life is God-made. Whatsoever man can do will have limitations; whatsoever God makes is unlimited, infinite.
Man can create a strange fiction, but he cannot create a real mystery. Even the strangest fiction that man can create will remain man's product. You can get intrigued with it once, or at the most twice, or, if you are very dull, at the most thrice.
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