The Boat

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Motto:

We have to draw a line in the sand
So THEY know we have been here!
...

by: human nature

AFAIK this is a story first told by OSHO

Comments and adaptation from memory..
Copyright (c) 2001-2007 Bogdan Valentin Ontanu
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Introduction

This is a small story, designed to help you help yourself to understand.

First Act

Two friends have to make a trip to America on a new big ship named "Titanic". Everybody told them that this is the most safe and sure ship in existance but our friends knew or somehow did suspect better. As a consequence they did show up on deck dragging a life saving BOAT as their luggage.

Neddless to say that they have been the endless target for everybody's irony, jokes and fun making right from the start. However they have been stable into their belief that the boat can do not harm if every thing goes ok, and OTHERWISE it can be quite "handy" in the cold watters of Atlantic.

Now, do I have to say that they have been TRUE?... As the Titanic sunk, their life saving boat performed corectly and saved their lifes.

A twist of faith

As the story unfolds, our guys sail with their BOAT until they reach the shores of Sahara desert.

Here they have to cross the desert.

And of course they start dragging the BOAT into the dessert. After all... who can tell? Maybe it will save their life again.

After a few good miles into the dessert and under the heat of the SUN, our heroes meet an WISE man...

The wise man smiles as he is politely asking our heroes:

Why are you dragging a booat in this desert?

Do you expect any watter here soon?

The Answer

And our heroes do answer that:

  • YES, we do somehow "know" that this boat is useless here in the desert

    BUT since it has been proven in the past -- and against all odds -- that this boat can be a life saviour... We have no choice but to drag it inch by inch in the desert... Who knows? Maybe it will come on handy again... There is no other valid solution.

    The wise many say:

    Unless you drop the boat you have NO CHANCE to survive into this desert...

    It is of NO USE here in the desert and it will be a waste of your resources to drag it after you.

    They smile now:

    Others before you OLD ONE, have "told us so" ...
    and their bones do rest into the deepths of the Atlantic ocean..

    And they move on slowly dragging the boat into the desert as they walk towards their distant target.

    The End

    Their bones are resting somewhere in the desert nearby a boat half filled with sand...
    in what it looks like an ironical lesson of the universe...

    Bogdan's comments:

    Like the two heroes above; yoo too my friends are draging concepts into the desert of your mind.
    And even more, you drag them into the reality of social and physical race organization.

    Concepts like:

    Those concepts might of have been proven usefull at certain times in your path or in the path of your ancestors.

    BUT unless you do simplify now and drop them in favour of the much more needed:

    In the cosmic desert of evolution..
    The End, my friend ... is certain.

    And in a funny twist of faith, you: "the youger ones" are dragging more "boats" than the "older ones" simply because you are more powerfull and also much more naive in your egotic assumption of a better future and comprehension.

    The old ones have been forced by experience to drop a few boats in order to survive; by they still keep some loved ones as "white horses"

    Besides with their diminishing powers... the remaining boats are just what is needed to make the desert larger

    Inch by inch you "evolve"

    Fast of slow, young or old...

  • you must be going somewhere?
  • you must be doing some progress?

    Or is it that ...

    ... you just keep on dragging the boat(s) in the desert...

    Cast

    In order of appearance:

    Sets

    "The Rest Is Silence"