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you have missed that fortune. You are fortunate, but it remains an open possibility. You can grow into it, you can drop out of it. And this is rare -- rare for many reasons.
First: it is very difficult to be attracted to a person who is empty -- very difficult, because emptiness is not such a magnetic force. You are attracted to a man who has got something. Why are we attracted to a man who has got something? Because we have desires. We also want to get something.
You are attracted to a politician who has power because you are power-oriented, you want power. So whosoever has it becomes the idol, the hero. You are attracted to a person who has fabulous riches. Because you are poor, deep down you hanker after riches. So whosoever has them becomes the ideal. But why should one be attracted to a person who has nothing?
This is fortunate, a rare possibility. Sometimes life happens in such a way that you become attracted to a person who has got nothing, who is empty. You are not going to gain anything out of him; rather, everything has to be lost with him. It is a gamble. So you are gamblers -- that's why you are here.
And unless you gamble totally you will miss, because this gambling cannot be partial -- parts cannot be accepted. That is not the rule of this game. So don't hold back, put in everything you have. It is dangerous and risky. That's why I say it is rare to be attracted to a Buddha or to a Jesus. Very few are attracted.
You know about Jesus...very few, only twelve disciples. And very ordinary men: some fisherman, some woodcutter, some farmer -- not significant in any way, just common people. Why are such common people attracted to Buddha or Jesus?
To be common is a very uncommon quality, because those who are not common, they are after some ego-trip -- riches, power, status. A farmer, a fisherman, a woodcutter -- insignificant people, absolutely ordinary, not looking for any achievement -- they become attracted to Jesus.
To be common is rare; to be absolutely ordinary is really extraordinary. Zen Masters are reported to have said continuously: Become ordinary and then you become extraordinary. Every ordinary
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