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Osho : Meditation is needed because you have become unnatural. If you live a natural life… and by \u2019natural\u2019 I mean: live the moment as it is \u2013 don\u2019t try to put any should on it, don\u2019t try to transform it into anything else. Just accept the moment as it is. When angry, be angry and accept it; and don\u2019t create an ideal of not being angry. And when the anger has passed, don\u2019t repent. There is nothing to repent about \u2013 it was so! When in love, love, and don\u2019t think how love should be. Don\u2019t consult love manuals, just let love flow naturally.<\/p>\n

I have heard about a great warrior in Japan, a samurai, a very famous swordsman: One night when he came tired after the whole day\u2019s fight in the fields and he was just going to fall into bed, he saw a rat. And the rat was looking at him ferociously! The samurai tried to kill the rat with his sword. He was one of the best swordsmen known, but somehow he missed. He hit many times, he broke his sword, and he could not kill the rat. He became really afraid: \u201dThe rat seems to be very mysterious. This is no ordinary rat!\u201d<\/p>\n

He started, perspiring \u2013 he had never perspired. He had been a fighter his whole life and now a rat had defeated him. He ran out, asked his wife what to do. The wife said, \u201dYou are a fool! You need not kill a rat. Have you ever heard of anybody killing a rat by a sword? You just take our cat inside.\u201d And the cat was brought inside. It was no ordinary cat, it was the great warrior\u2019s cat. She was also trained in many things; she was one of the most famous rat-catchers.She came with all her art, with all her skill.<\/p>\n

She tried, but the rat was really extraordinary. He jumped exactly into her eyes! And the cat escaped out. She had never seen such a rat \u2013 attacking the cat?! And she was also trembling like the warrior. The warrior said, \u201dThis is too much!\u201d Then the king\u2019s cat was called. She was a master cat, very well-known all over the country; of course, she was the king\u2019s cat. The king\u2019s cat came and she was also defeated by the rat. She went in, tried hard, used all her skill, but the rat was just too much.<\/p>\n

Then the king\u2019s cat suggested a cat she knew who was not famous at all. \u201dYou have tried with famous cats, now you try with an ordinary one… just ordinary, plain ordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The warrior said, \u201dBut what can a plain, ordinary cat do?\u201d<\/p>\n

The king\u2019s cat said, \u201dYou just try. I know this cat. She is so ordinary, she does not know a thing. The whole day she sleeps. But there is one thing about her: cats know, the whole country\u2019s cats know that she is very mysterious. The mysterious thing is that she knows nothing about rats, rat-catching, the art, the technique, the methodology, the philosophy \u2013 she knows nothing; she has never been to any school or college or university. She is a plain, ordinary cat, but rats are so afraid of her!<\/p>\n

Wherever she sleeps… no rat ever enters that house! Just her presence is enough. And she goes on sleeping, and nobody knows when she kills and how she kills.<\/p>\n

\u201dOnce I went to that cat and I asked, \u2019What is your art?\u2019 She simply looked at me, and she had no words to say, and she closed her eyes and went to sleep. And I woke her again and asked, \u2019What is your art?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201dShe said, \u2019I don\u2019t know. I am a cat, that\u2019s enough. A cat is a cat and IS MEANT to catch a rat. What art? What nonsense are you talking about?\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

The cat was brought, and the samurai was not very hopeful because she was really very ordinary, just like any vagabond cat.<\/p>\n

She came in, and without any skill she simply went in, caught hold of the rat and brought it out. All the cats gathered together and asked her, \u201dWhat is your art?\u201d\u00a0 And she said, \u201dI don\u2019t know any art. I am a cat! Is not that enough?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I mean by being natural. Meditation will happen if you are natural \u2013 even before enlightenment. Meditation is your natural blooming; meditation is not something like an art, skill, performance. No, not at all. You need not go to any school to learn it. But you have been spoiled. Rats have been around you too much, and you have become afraid of the rats \u2013 not only afraid, you have started learning how to catch these rats. You have become very skillful, artificial; you know the know-how and that is your trouble. Your knowledge is your trouble.<\/p>\n

Source: from book ‘Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 3″ by Osho<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67,125,165,30],"tags":[19,2,31],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discourses","category-meditation","category-osho","category-zen-teachings","tag-meditation","tag-osho","tag-zen"],"yoast_head":"\nKnowledge is Trouble - Guru Quote<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Meditation is needed because you have become unnatural. 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