Someone asked Emerson," what is your age...?. He said, "three hundred and sixty years". It was unbelievable, so the man said,'Pardon me..! It seems I have not heard you rightly. Please repeat it. How many years are you saying..?"
Emerson replied loudly : " Three hundred and sixty years..!"
But the man said :" I can't believe it. This is impossible. you are not more than sixty". Emerson said:" That is right, you are right; my actual age is sixty, but I have lived six times more than you . I have used my sixty years in such a way that, they have proved to be three hundred and sixty years. This man was about fifty and Emerson said, " If you say you are fifty, the same will be the problem for me. I cannot believe it because you look to me not more than thirty . You have simply wasted life. You have not lived..."
Emerson replied loudly : " Three hundred and sixty years..!"
But the man said :" I can't believe it. This is impossible. you are not more than sixty". Emerson said:" That is right, you are right; my actual age is sixty, but I have lived six times more than you . I have used my sixty years in such a way that, they have proved to be three hundred and sixty years. This man was about fifty and Emerson said, " If you say you are fifty, the same will be the problem for me. I cannot believe it because you look to me not more than thirty . You have simply wasted life. You have not lived..."
You are not exhausted because of this industrialized age, the work and the tensions.You are exhausted because you have lost contact with your inner stillness. The work is not the problem; you are the problem. Neither is the age the problem; you are the problem. You now have time and no stillness; because you now have time and no use for it. It creates problems. A primitive man has less problems, not because he is silent and still, but because he has no time, troubles for himself. You have more time and you do not know what to do.
Leisure, pleasure, fun, festivity, play, will be the key terms for the future. Seriousness will be taken as a disease, playfulness will become the symbol of sanity. Osho...
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