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Osho : I have heard a story. Once he was going from one town to another on his donkey.\u00a0 A messenger from the emperor came and told Lao Tzu, “The emperor has heard about you and he would like you to become a part of his court. He needs wise men there.”<\/p>\n

Lao Tzu treated the messenger very courteously, but said, “No, it is impossible. I am grateful. Thank the emperor, but it is impossible.”<\/p>\n

When the messenger was going, Lao Tzu washed his ears with water, and washed the ears of the donkey also. A man who was standing by the road asked, “What are you doing, sir?”<\/p>\n

He said, “I am washing my ears, because even the messenger from the world of politics is dangerous.”<\/p>\n

The man asked, “But why arc you washing the ears of the donkey?”<\/p>\n

He said, “Donkeys are very political. He is already walking in a different way! The moment he heard and saw the messenger from the court, he became very egoistic. Donkeys tend to be political. I don’t much understand the language of the court, but he understands, because similar donkeys are there. The language is the same.”<\/p>\n

The man laughed. It is said, even when the story was reported to the king, that he also laughed.<\/p>\n

People laughed about Lao Tzu; at the most, a crazy old man, eccentric, but nobody took him seriously. And he could never influence people to such an extent that they should organize his teaching. No religion, no organization, could come out of his teachings. He remained alone. He remains alone, but purest.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0 “Come Follow To You, Vol. 3” – 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":[67,165,166,174],"tags":[56,2,57],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discourses","category-osho","category-stories","category-wisdom","tag-lao","tag-osho","tag-tzu"],"yoast_head":"\nLao Tzu and his Donkey - Guru Quote<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"People laughed about Lao Tzu; at the most, a crazy old man, eccentric, but nobody took him seriously. 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