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Everybody gets caught. This is nothing to be sad about."
But the man said, "You don't understand at all. This happened today! It is not a question of childhood."
They said, "Then it is a serious matter."
"But it is nothing," the second rabbi said. "What is happening to me, you don't know ..."
His problem was that he had not made love to his wife for three days. And both the rabbis started laughing, because they both knew what his "love" was. At the age of eighty-five, one leg in the grave, one leg out -- what was his love? They already knew it, so they both laughed.
He said, "Why are you laughing?"
They said, "We are laughing at your love. Don't be worried about it."
His love was, he would take the hand of the wife before going to sleep, squeeze it three times, and say goodnight. That was his love.
But wives are wives, and even this much love the wife was not allowing him for three days. She would turn and say, "I have a headache; you just go to sleep."
So he said, "For three days she has had a headache. At exactly the moment I try to make love to her, she says, `I have a headache; you just go to sleep.'"
The third, the oldest rabbi said, "You are all idiots. You don't understand real problems. The real problem is happening to me. Just this morning when I was going to make love to my wife she started screaming, `Are you a sex maniac? The whole night you have been making love again and again and again.'"
So he said to his friends, "It seems I am losing my memory. I thought it was the first time."
A repressed humanity is going to have all these problems. But who has created all these problems? Your God, your priests ... they are the greatest criminals, because very piously they appear to be your well-wishers, but they have destroyed everything in you.
Zen wants you to resurrect, to take hold of your life again, which you have given to somebody else to be taken care of. Be a master, and you will start blossoming flowers of beauty and blissfulness and ecstasy, and a divine drunkenness.
Sekito says, "WHEN YOU ATTAIN THE INSIGHT AS ATTAINED BY THE BUDDHA, YOU REALIZE THAT
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