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on him and find out his secret. That night, they creep down to his cabin and look through the keyhole. They see him enjoying himself with a beautiful and very lifelike inflatable doll.
So when the captain is not in his cabin, they all take turns to go down and enjoy the favors of this magnificent piece of modern engineering.
When the ship docks in Amsterdam, the captain goes back to the shop in the red-light district where he bought the doll. "Good morning, captain," says the attendant. "Are you satisfied with our product?"
"Ah, yes," replies the captain, "She is magnificent! And she is so lifelike that I even got gonorrhea from her."
Question 3
BELOVED OSHO,
CAN YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE IN THE QUALITY OF SILENCE BETWEEN MELTING WITH YOU, MELTING WITH MY BELOVED AND MELTING ALONE?
Anand Michael, melting with your beloved is the easiest because it is very superficial and very momentary. It is mostly physical. Your mind remains chattering inside and your being remains uninvolved in it. Just a peripheral melting, you can call it.
Melting with your master is more difficult. Because it is not melting between two peripheries but between two centers. It is melting of two consciousnesses. It is melting of two souls in one organic whole. The ego has to be completely dropped. The mind has to be utterly silent. And it is not something momentary.
Once you have melted with your master, you have melted. There is no going back.
And the third is, melting alone. That is the most difficult -- almost impossible. Because melting alone, you don't even have an excuse.
Melting with your beloved, there is an excuse -- you love her. And melting needs the other. Melting with the master is difficult but not impossible; the other is still there, and you are melting with the consciousness of the other.
But alone, what will you be melting in? I am saying it is the most difficult -- or perhaps impossible. There is only one possibility and that is, if you know how to melt with the master, you and your master's consciousness will become one. Then you are alone. Then you cannot say, "We are two." There
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