17 Aug “You have said all that you wanted to say, can I go now? If you have still something more to say I will be coming back again after a few days; you can tell me that time” [Buddha(OSHO)]
Buddha was passing. A few people gathered and they insulted him very much. He listened to them very attentively, very lovingly. When they were finished, he said,
‘If you have said all that you wanted to say, can I go now? — because I have to reach the other village by the time the sun sets. If you have still something more to say I will be coming back again after a few days; you can tell me that time.’ But he was absolutely undisturbed, his silence remained the same, his happiness the same, his vibration the same.
Those people were puzzled. They said, ‘Are you not angry with us? We have been insulting you, we have been calling you names.’
Buddha said, ‘You will have to remain puzzled. You came a little late. You should have come ten years before — then you would have succeeded in disturbing me. Then I was not my own master. Now, it is your freedom to insult me, it is my freedom whether to take it or not. I don’t take it. You insult me, true. That’s your decision. I am free to take it or not to take it, and I say I don’t take it. What will you do with it? I am also puzzled — because in the last village people had come with sweets, and I said that I don’t need them, so they had to take them away. I ask you, what must they have done with the sweets?’
Those people said, ‘They must have distributed them in the village or they must have eaten them themselves.’
Buddha said, ‘Now think about you. You come with these insults and I say, “Enough. I am finished with this. Nothing doing.” What will you do? You will have to take them. I am so much sorry for you.’
It is your decision. Life is your decision, your freedom.
The Discipline of Transcendence
Osho
