LOVE & FEAR ... OSHO Stories. 3.

It happened: a young man, recently married, was going on his honeymoon. He was a Samurai, a Japanese warrior. They were going on a boat to an island when suddenly a storm came. The boat was small and the storm was tremendously terrible, and there was every possibility that they would be drowned.

The wife became very much afraid, started trembling. But she looked at the samurai, her husband. He was sitting silently as if nothing was happening. And they were in the throes of death! And any moment the boat would be gone under the sea.

The woman said,"What are you doing? Why are you sitting like a statue?"

The samurai pulled his sword out of its sheath - the wife could not believe it, what was he doing? - and he put his naked sword just near the throat of the wife. She started laughing and he said, "Why are you laughing? The sword is so near your throat - just a little move and your head will go."

The wife said, "But it is in your hands, so there is no problem. The sword is dangerous, but it is in your hands."

The samurai put his sword back and said, "The storm is in my God's hands. The storm is dangerous, but it is in the hands of somebody whom I love and who loves me. That's why I am unafraid."

When the sword is in your master's hand and he is going to kill you, if you trust him, only then will you die peacefully, lovingly, gracefully. And out of that grace ....... and out of that peace ....... and out of that love ....... you will create the possibility where the new arrives. If you die afraid, the new will not arrive. You will simply die.

source .....'Come Follow to You' .... OSHO.