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Osho : Have I told you the story of Thomas Alva Edison?<\/p>\n

He had gone for a holiday to a resort village. The village had a small high school, and they were having their annual function. The students from different departments had made things as an exhibition for all the villagers to come and see. The art students had made paintings, toys. The science students had made a few electrical things which amazed the villagers.<\/p>\n

For example, you put your hand underneath the tap and the water immediately comes out. Without touching any button or anything; just the presence of your hand is enough to trigger it and the water comes. As you take your hand away, the water stops. They had made railway trains, small trains running round and round on tracks. And they had made many other things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thomas Alva Edison, just wandering around the village, enjoying the open air and the trees and the sun and the sea air, crisp and salty, came across the school, and he saw a great crowd going there. He said, \u201dWhat is the matter?\u201d<\/p>\n

They said, \u201dIt is the annual function and our students have made many beautiful things. We are going to see. Would you like to come?\u201d He had the time, so he joined the crowd. He went directly to the electrical section; that was his lifelong work. He was the first man to see the electric bulb light up, in the whole history of man. Three years it took for him …. You just push the button, you don\u2019t know how hard people have worked just to create a button for you.<\/p>\n

Three years…. Twenty colleagues started, and by and by everybody left, because this man seemed to be mad: \u201dNothing is working, everything fails, electricity does not come!\u201d<\/p>\n

They told him, \u201dDrop it, you will simply waste your life. You have many other things to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said, \u201dWhen I put my hand to one thing, unless I finish it or I get finished there is no way to distract me. If you are tired, frustrated … you don\u2019t understand scientific research.\u201d<\/p>\n

They said, \u201dWhat do you mean, we don\u2019t understand scientific research? We are all scientists!\u201d<\/p>\n

He said, \u201dYou may be scientists, but you don\u2019t understand the fundamentals. One fundamental is that every failure brings you closer to success. If there are three hundred possibilities and I have failed two hundred and ninety-nine times, now is the time. One never knows. Yes, three years have passed. You are frustrated but I am rejoicing that so many things are cut out. Now very few alternatives remain. The day is not far away ….\u201d And within three months he managed it.<\/p>\n

One night he was working hard \u2013 it must have been past three o\u2019clock, it was already morning \u2013 when suddenly for the first time in the whole history of man, he saw the light bulb radiating light. He was almost hypnotized. He just looked and looked at the beauty of it. He could not believe that he had succeeded. And at that time Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison screamed, \u201dPut that light out and come to bed!\u201d She had no idea that this was no ordinary light.<\/p>\n

But Edison went in and said, \u201dYou don\u2019t know …. It is not any old light that you know, it is the result of my three years and three months\u2019 continuous work. Twenty people started with me and all have left, some after one year, some after the second year, some after the third year. Electricity has been caught. You come and see.\u201d The wife was amazed. She never believed in Thomas Alva Edison \u2013 no wife believes in her husband \u2013 that this fellow was going to succeed. \u201dForget all about it. He is simply mad.\u201d<\/p>\n

So when he went into the school, he saw the trains running, he saw the water coming from the tap just by the presence of the hand underneath it. He asked a student \u2013 who was very happy to show him because he knew that this was not a man from the village; just by his dress and everything he looked like a visitor. The student was very interested to show him everything, and Thomas Alva Edison took great interest in everything that the students had made. Then he asked a question: \u201dHow are these things working?\u201d<\/p>\n

The boy said, \u201dElectricity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edison asked, \u201dWhat is electricity?\u201d<\/p>\n

The boy said, \u201dWhat is electricity? That I don\u2019t know. I know how it works. But I will call my science teacher, he is a graduate, a B.Sc. first class; he will certainly know.\u201d<\/p>\n

So he called his science teacher, who also said, \u201dForgive me, sir. We know how to use it, but we don\u2019t know what it is. But perhaps our principal, who has a Ph. D. \u2013 he must know what electricity is.\u201d<\/p>\n

So they took the principal aside, and the principal said, \u201dForgive me, sir. I know how it works, but what it is, I am sorry to say I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edison laughed. He said to them, \u201dDon\u2019t feel embarrassed. I am Thomas Alva Edison, and I also don\u2019t know what electricity is. All that I know is how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Science will accept Buddha\u2019s statement, \u201dTruth is what works.\u201d Don\u2019t ask what it is. Another great philosopher, G.E. Moore, has written a book on ethics, and the only subject in two hundred and fifty pages is \u201dWhat is \u2018good\u2019?\u201d Without knowing good, how can you manage ethics, morality, and all kinds of things? First you should define exactly what \u2018good\u2019 is. And after two hundred and fifty pages of very dense argumentation, finally he comes to the conclusion, \u201dGood is indefinable.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is just as if somebody asks you, \u201dWhat is yellow?\u201d You can say, \u201dYellow is yellow,\u201d but what is it? We are living in a mysterious world where nothing is known. All that we know is how to use things. If we go to the root of knowing, we will be confronted with an immense mystery which has not been, solved even in ordinary matters. What is yellow? What is good?<\/p>\n

Source: ” Yakusan: Straight to the Point of Enlightenment ” – Osho<\/p>\n

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