SUPERSTITION ABOUT NUMBER THIRTEEN!
"A man came to me who had been working for years on a certain hypothesis in many countries of the world: particularly in the west and more particularly in America,where the number thirteen is not thought to be good.There are Hotels in America where the thirteenth floor does not exist;from the twelfth floor you simply come to fourteenth .The number thirteen is avoided,no room has the number thirteen;from the twelfth you immediately reach the fourteenth,because nobody wants to live in the thirteenth room or on the thirteenth floor. A great fear-the idea that the the number thirteen has something evil in it.
And this man was working and collecting all kind of data,and he had collected really huge,mountainous data to support how many accidents happen on the thirteenth of every month,how many people die on the thirteenth,how many people commit suicide,how many people murder,how many people go mad?
And he was showing his great thesis to me and he said,'what do you say?'
I said,'you do one thing more. You have put so much energy into it,now try one thing more. Now find out what happens on the twelfth! And you will come to the same data,because on the twelfth also people go mad,commit suicide,murder,rob.Everything happens every day,but if you have a certain fixed attitude then you will choose according to that attitude. And of course when you have so much information and argument you feel certain that your attitude is right."
[Osho;The Goose is out;page 192-93].
"A man came to me who had been working for years on a certain hypothesis in many countries of the world: particularly in the west and more particularly in America,where the number thirteen is not thought to be good.There are Hotels in America where the thirteenth floor does not exist;from the twelfth floor you simply come to fourteenth .The number thirteen is avoided,no room has the number thirteen;from the twelfth you immediately reach the fourteenth,because nobody wants to live in the thirteenth room or on the thirteenth floor. A great fear-the idea that the the number thirteen has something evil in it.
And this man was working and collecting all kind of data,and he had collected really huge,mountainous data to support how many accidents happen on the thirteenth of every month,how many people die on the thirteenth,how many people commit suicide,how many people murder,how many people go mad?
And he was showing his great thesis to me and he said,'what do you say?'
I said,'you do one thing more. You have put so much energy into it,now try one thing more. Now find out what happens on the twelfth! And you will come to the same data,because on the twelfth also people go mad,commit suicide,murder,rob.Everything happens every day,but if you have a certain fixed attitude then you will choose according to that attitude. And of course when you have so much information and argument you feel certain that your attitude is right."
[Osho;The Goose is out;page 192-93].
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