Reading No Water No Moon, Osho presented the following story:
Once it happened, a great prime minister of a very great emperor died. The prime minister was rare, very intelligent, almost wise, very cunning, shrewd, a great diplomat, and it was very difficult to find a substitute. The whole kingdom was searched. All the minsters were sent to find at least three people; then the final decision will be taken and one of them will be chosen.
For months the search was on. The whole kingdom was searched; every nook and corner was searched. The three persons were found. One was a great scientist, a great mathematician. He could solve any mathematical problem, and mathematics is really the only positive science–all sciences are its branches–so he was at the root.
Another was a great philosopher, he was a great system-maker; out of nothing he could create all. Just out of words, he could create such beautiful systems–it is a miracle, only philosophers can do it. They have noting in their hands; they are the greatest magicians. They create God, they create the theory of creating, they create everything–and nothing is there in their hands. But they are clever artisans of words: they join words together in such a way that they give you a feeling of substance–and nothing is there.
And the third one was a religious man, a man of faith, prayer, devotion. And the people who were searching for these three men must have been very wise, because they found three.
The three represent the three dimensions of consciousness. These are the only possibilities: a man of science, a man of philosophy and a man of religion–these are the basis. A man of science is concerned with experiments: unless something is proved through experiment, it is not proved. He is empirical, experimental; his truth is the truth of experiment.
A man of philosophy is a man of logic, not of experiments; experiment is not the question; just through logic he proves, disproves. He is a pure man, purer than that scientist, because the scientist has to bring experiments in, then the laboratory comes in. A man of philosophy works without a lab–just in the mind, with logic, with mathematics. His whole lab is in his mind. He can prove and disprove just through logical arguments. He can solve any riddle or he can create any type of riddle.
And the third is the religious dimension. This man does not look at life as a problem. Life is not a problem for the religious man. It is nothing to be solved, it is something to be lived.
The religious man is the man of experience, the scientist is the man of experiment, the philosopher is that man of thinking. The religious man is the 
man of experience, he looks at life as something to be lived. If there is any solution, it will come through experience, it will come through living. Nothing can be decided beforehand through logic, because life is greater than logic. Logic is just a bubble in the vast ocean of life, so it cannot explain all. And experiments can be done only when yo are detached, experiments can be done only with objects.
Life is not an object, it is the very core of subjectivity. When you experiment you are different; when you live you are one. So the religious man says, “Unless you are one with life, you can never know it.” How can you know it from the outside? You may go about and about, and round and around, but you will never hit the target. So neither experiment, nor thinking, but experience; simple, trusting–a man of faith.
They searched and they found these three men, and then they were called to the capital for the final judgment. The king said, “For three days you rest and get ready. On the morning of the fourth day will be the examination, the final. One of you will be chosen and he will become my prime minister–the one who is proved to be most wise.”
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They arrived. The emperor made a very special device. They were taken into a room where he had fixed a lock, mathematical puzzle. Many figure were on the lock, but there was no key. Those figure were to be fixed in a certain way: the secret was there, but one had to search for it and find it. If those figures were fixed in a certain way the door would open. The emperor took them in and said, “This is a mathematical puzzle, one of the greatest ever known. Now you have to find the clue–there is no key. If you can find the clue, the answer to this mathematical problem, the lock will open. And the person who comes out of this room first will be chosen. So now start.” He closed the door and went out.
Immediately the scientist started working out many experiments, many things, many problems on paper. He looked–observed the figures on the lock. There was no time to lose, it was a question of life and death. The philosopher closed his eyes, started thinking in mathematical terms what to do, how this puzzle can be solved. The puzzle was absolutely new.
That is the problem with the mind: if something is old the answer can be found, but if something is absolutely new, how can you work it out through the mind: The mind is quite efficient with the old, the known, the routine. Mind is absolutely inefficient when the unknown faces it.
The religious man never went to the lock, because what can he do? He does not know any mathematics, he does not know any experimental science. What can he do? He just sat in a corner. He sang a little, prayed to God, closed his eyes. Those two other were thinking that he is not a competitor at all. “In a way it is good, because the thing has to be decided between us two.” Then suddenly, they became aware that he had left the room, he was not there. The door was open.
The emperor came in and he said, “What are you doing now? It is finished. The third man is out.”
But they asked, “How?…because he never did anything.”
So they asked the religious man. He said, “I was just sitting. I prayed and I was just sitting and a voice said within me, ‘You fool. Just go and see. The door is not locked.’ And I just went to the door; it was not locked. There was no problem at all to be solved, so I went out.”
How often do we puzzle over a locked door that really isn’t locked? Life is not a problem to be solved. It is to be lived. Get up and do. Trust and allow yourself to walk through the door. The reward is on the other side.
