WHEN THE SHOE FITS - Living Without Effort Because Everything Moves On Its Own

> When the Shoe Fits, the Foot is Forgotten.

Osho comments in this book on the teachings of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu. Acceptance, accepting whatsoever is, is the basis of Tao. Taoism teaches us to be natural, spontaneous and effortless. It says: Nature is truth, and there is no other truth than nature; don’t interfere with nature and don’t try to improve upon it.Also be sincere to your inner nature and help others to be sincere to their inner nature.This is the whole message of Chuang Tzu, one of the greatest messages in the world. Chuang Tzu and his old master Lao Tzu are against culture; they are for nature, pure nature.

Chuang Tzu was an ordinary man who lived the life of a wanderer. He emphasizes effortlessness. He tells us to be the last, so nobody can push us further back. Also don’t fight with anything and don’t try to escape from anything. Let things take their own course. He believes in understanding and not in meditation. According to him ego is always attracted magnetically to the difficult, but easy is right. So ego is never attracted towards the right, it is always attracted towards the wrong.

Tao says: Don’t be outstanding, drop all that is outstanding; just be ordinary, just be simple.It also says: whatsoever is beautiful in you, hide it, never act it out, whatsoever is truthful in you, valuable, hide it, because whenever a truth is hidden in the heart, it grows like a seed hidden in the earth”. Chuang Tzu is for needs and not for desires. Eat, drink and merry and don’t think is what Chuang Tzu says. He believes neither in God nor in devil; he believes only in life, to him only life exists. Some of Osho’s observations are given below:

Whatsoever a politician says, he never means it; whatsoever he means he never says it.

When you become old, the whole world seems to be old and dying.

How can you conquer nature? How can a wave conquer the ocean? It is patent foolishness.

Never ask for respect, because respect is asked for by the ego.

Once Ceylon, Sri Lanka, must have been very near to India, otherwise the monkey Hanuman could not have jumped across. There must have been a small river, a stream between the two.

Mind is an artificial thing, implanted in you by the society.

Osho through his commentary makes Chuang Tzu’s teachings beautiful and lovable.