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" A man selling Vaseline Petroleum Jelly had gone around a number of houses in town a week before and had left some samples, asking people to see if they could find an ingenious use for it. Now he went around to the same houses, asking what uses they had found for Vaseline.
The man in the first house, a wealthy city gent, said, "I used it for medicinal purposes. Whenever my children scraped their elbows or knees, I would rub it on."
The man in the second house said, "I used it for mechanical purposes, such as greasing the bearings of my bicycles and lawnmower."
The man in the third house, a scruffy, unshaven, working class fellow, said, "I used it for sexual purposes."
In a shocked voice the salesman asked, "What do you mean?"
"Well," said the scruffy man, "I put a whole lot of it on the handle of my bedroom door to keep the kids out!"
You can give the same thing to different people and they will come out with different uses, according to their own unconsciousness. But if they are conscious, they will find only one use. "
― Osho , The Hidden Splendor
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" At the beginning of World War II, a Nazi officer is forced to share a compartment on a crowded train with a Jew and his family. After ignoring them for a while he says contemptuously, "You Jews are supposed to be so clever; where does this so called intelligence come from?"
"It is from our diet," says the Jew, " we eat a lot of raw fish heads." Upon which he opens his basket and saying "Lunch time!" proceeds to hand out fish heads to his wife and children. The Nazi, getting excited says "Wait a minute, I want some!"
"Okay," says the Jew "I will sell you six for twenty-five dollars."
The Nazi accepts and begins to chew. He almost throws up, but the children shout encouragment, "Suck out the brains, suck out the brains!" The Nazi is on his fourth head when he says to the Jew, "Is not twenty-five dollars a lot of money to pay for six fish heads, that are usually thrown out as garbage?"
"See," says the Jew, "It's working already! "
― Osho , The Hidden Splendor
