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The Safari had stuck camp in dangerous territory and to protect themselves from wild animals they built a high wall around the camp. To be quite sure they dug a deep ditch around the fence. One evening, a member of the group who was a Professor of Philosophy and a world known logician carelessly went out for an evening stroll without his gun and was attacked by a lion. He ran back to the camp with the Lion after him and fell into the ditch. His friends inside heard a terrible yelling and screaming from outside and when they run out to look they saw the poor philosopher running around and around in the ditch, closely followed by the Lion.

‘Watch out. He is right behind you.’ they yelled down to him.

That’s alright the philosopher yelled back. “I am one round ahead of him.’

Excerpted from ‘Zen: It’s History & Teaching’ by Osho