ASLEEP IN A TRAIN Just the other day I was reading a sentence of Jean-Paul Sartre. He says that life is like a child who is asleep in a train and is awakened by an inspector who wants to check the ticket, but the child has no ticket and no money to pay for one. The child is also not at all aware of where he is going, what his destination is and why he is on the train. And last but not the least, the child cannot figure it out, because he never decided to be on the train in the first place. Why is he there? This situation is becoming more and more common to the modern mind, because we are somehow uprooted, and meaning is missing. One simply feels, Why? Where am I going? You dont know where you are going, and you dont know why you are in the train. You dont have a ticket and you dont have the money to pay for it, and still you cannot get out of the train. Everything seems to be chaos, maddening. This has happened because the roots in love have been lost. People are living loveless lives, somehow pulling themselves along. So what to do? I know that everybody one day feels like a child in a train. Yet life is not going to be a failure, because in this big train there are millions of people fast asleep, but there is always somebody who is awake. The child can search and find somebody who is not asleep and snoring, someone who has consciously entered the train, someone who knows where the train is going. Being in the vicinity of that person, the child also learns the ways of becoming more conscious. #Osho
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 07:57:43 +0000
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