MEDITATION TAO and TAOISM - Chuang Tzu When the Shoe Fits
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CHU'I THE DRAFTSMAN COULD DRAW MORE PERFECT CIRCLES FREEHAND THAN WITH A
COMPASS.
HIS FINGERS BROUGHT FORTH SPONTANEOUS FORMS FROM NOWHERE. HIS MIND WAS MEANWHILE
FREE AND WITHOUT CONCERN WITH WHAT HE WAS DOING.
NO APPLICATION WAS NEEDED, HIS MIND WAS PERFECTLY SIMPLE AND KNEW NO OBSTACLE.
SO, WHEN THE SHOE FITS, THE FOOT IS FORGOTTEN, WHEN THE BELT FITS, THE BELLY IS
FORGOTTEN, WHEN THE HEART IS RIGHT, 'FOR' AND 'AGAINST' ARE FORGOTTEN.
NO DRIVES, NO COMPULSIONS, NO NEEDS, NO ATTRACTIONS: THEN YOUR AFFAIRS ARE UNDER
CONTROL. YOU ARE A FREE MAN.
EASY IS RIGHT. BEGIN RIGHT AND YOU ARE EASY. CONTINUE EASY AND YOU ARE RIGHT.
THE RIGHT WAY TO GO EASY IS TO FORGET THE RIGHT WAY AND FORGET THAT THE GOING IS
EASY.
Chuang Tzu is one of the rarest of flowerings, rarer even than a Buddha or a
Jesus. Because Buddha and Jesus emphasise effort and Chuang Tzu emphasises
effortlessness.
Much can be done through effort but more can be done through effortlessness.
Much can be achieved through will but much more can be achieved through will-lessness.
And whatsoever you achieve through will will always remain a burden to you; it
will always be a conflict, an inner tension, and you can lose it at any
moment.It has to be maintained continuously -- and maintaining it takes energy,
maintaining it finally dissipates you.
Only that which is attained through effortlessness will never be a burden to
you, and only that which is not a burden can be eternal. Only that which is not
in any way unnatural can remain with you forever and forever.
Chuang Tzu says that the real, the divine, the existential, is to be attained by
losing yourself completely in it. Even the effort to attain it becomes a barrier
-- then you cannot lose yourself. Even the effort to lose yourself becomes a
barrier.
How can you make any effort to lose yourself? All effort is born out of the ego,
and through effort ego is strengthened. Ego is the disease. So all effort has to
be left completely, nothing is to be done; one has to lose oneself completely in
the existential. One has to become again like a small child, just born, not
knowing what is right, not knowing what is wrong, not knowing any distinctions.
Once distinctions enter, once you know this is right and that is wrong, you are
already ill, and you are far away from reality.
A child lives naturally -- he is total. He does not make any effort, because
making an effort means you are fighting with yourself. A part of you is for and
a part of you is against -- hence the effort.
You can achieve much, remember. In this world, particularly, you can achieve
much through effort because effort is aggression, effort is violence, effort is
competition. But in the other world nothing can be achieved through effort, and
those who start with effort finally have also to drop it.
Buddha worked for six years, continuously meditating, concentrating -- he became
an ascetic. He did all that can be done by a human being, not a single stone was
left unturned -- he staked his whole being. But it was an effort, the ego was
there, and he failed.
Nothing fails like the ego in the Ultimate; nothing succeeds like the ego in
this world.
In the world of matter nothing succeeds like the ego; in the world of
consciousness nothing fails like the ego. The case is just the opposite -- and
it has to be so because the dimension is just the opposite.
Buddha failed absolutely. After six years he was completely frustrated, and when
I say completely, I mean completely. Not even a single fragment of hope
remained, he became absolutely hopeless. In that hopelessness he dropped all
effort. He had already dropped the world, he had already left his kingdom; all
that belonged to this visible world, he had left, renounced.
Now after six years of strenuous effort he left also all that belonged to the
other world. He was in a complete vacuum -- empty. That night he slept a
different quality of sleep because there was no ego; a different quality of
silence arose because there was no effort; a different quality of being happened
to him that night because there was no dreaming.
If there is no effort, nothing is incomplete, then there is no need to dream. A
dream is always to complete something: something which has remained incomplete
in the day will be completed in a dream because mind has a tendency to complete
everything. If it is not complete then the mind will always be uneasy. Effort is
put into many things and if they remain incomplete, a dream is needed.
When there is desire, there is bound to be dreaming, because desiring is
dreaming -- dreaming is just a shadow of desiring.
That night, when there was nothing to be done -- this world was already useless,
now the other world was also useless -- all motivation to move ceased. There was
nowhere to go, and there was no one to go anywhere That night sleep became
samadhi, it became satori; it became the ultimate thing that can happen to a
man. Buddha flowered that night and in the morning he was enlightened. He opened
his eyes, looked at the last star disappearing in the sky, and everything was
there. It had always been there, but he had wanted it so much he couldn't see
it. It had always been there,. but he had been moving so much in the future with
the desire that he could not look at the here and now.
That night there was no desire, no goal, nowhere to go, and no one to go
anywhere -- all effort ceased. Suddenly he became aware of himself, suddenly he
became aware of the reality as it is. Chuang Tzu says from the very beginning:
Don't make any effort. And he is right. Because you will never make such a total
effort as Buddha. You will never be so frustrated that the effort drops by
itself; it will always be incomplete. And your mind will always go on saying: A
little more and something will happen, a step more. The goal is near, why are
you getting dejected? Just a little more effort is needed because the goal is
coming nearer every day.
Because you will never make so absolute an effort you will never be completely
hopeless. And you can continue this half-hearted effort for many lives -- that
is what you have been doing in the past. You are not here for the first time
before me. You are not here for the first time making some effort to realise the
true, the real. You have done it many, many times, a million times in the past
-- but you are still hopeful.
Chuang Tzu says; it is better to drop effort in the beginning. It has to be
dropped: either you drop it in the beginning or you will have to drop it in the
end. But the end may not come soon! So there are two ways: either make a total
effort... so total that all hope is shattered and you come to realise that
nothing can be achieved through effort, there is not even a single small
fragment somewhere in the unconscious still lingering and saying: Do a little
more and this will be achieved.... either make a total effort, then it drops by
itself, or don't make any effort at all. Just understand the whole thing. Don't
move into it at all. Remember one thing... you cannot come out of it if it is
incomplete; once entered, it has to be completed. Because the mind has a
tendency to complete everything -- not only the human mind, even the animal
mind. If you draw a half circle, incomplete, and a gorilla comes and sees it,
and if some chalk is there, he will immediately complete it.
Your mind as such has a tendency to complete -- anything incomplete gives you
tension. If you wanted to laugh and you could not, there will be tension. If you
wanted to cry and could not, there will be tension. If you wanted to be angry
and could not, there will be tension. That's why you have been ill for so long;
everything has been left incomplete!
You have never laughed totally, you have never cried totally, you have never
been angry totally, you have never hated totally, you have never loved totally.
Nothing has been done totally -- everything is incomplete. Nothing is total. It
lingers on, and then there are always many things on your mind. That is why you
are so ill at ease. You can never feel at home.
Chuang Tzu says: It is better not to start because once you start it has to be
completed. Understand, and don't move in a vicious circle. That is why I say
that Chuang Tzu is a rare flowering, rarer than a Buddha or a Jesus. Because he
achieved simply by understanding. There is no method, no meditation for Chuang
Tzu. He says: Simply understand the 'facticity' of it. You are born. What effort
have you made to be born? You grow. What effort have you made to grow? You
breathe. What effort have you made to breathe? Everything moves on its own, so
why bother? Let life flow on its own then you will be in a let go. Don't
struggle and don't try to move upstream, don't even try to swim, just float with
the current and let the current lead you wherever it leads. Be a white cloud
moving in the sky -- no goal, going nowhere, just floating. That floating is the
ultimate flowering.
So the first thing to understand about Chuang Tzu before we enter his sutras, is
-- be natural. Everything unnatural has to be avoided. Don't do anything that is
unnatural. Nature is enough -- you cannot improve upon it, but the ego says, no,
you can improve upon nature -- that is how all culture exists.
Any effort to improve upon nature is culture, and all culture is like a disease
-- the more a man is cultured the more dangerous he is.
I have heard that a hunter, a European hunter, was lost in a forest in Africa.
Suddenly he came upon a few huts. He had never heard that a village existed in
that thick forest. It was not on any map. So he approached the chief of the
village, and he said: This is a pity that you are lost to civilisation. The
chief said: No, it is not a pity, we are always afraid of being discovered --
once civilisation comes in we are lost. Nature is lost once you make an effort
to improve upon it -- that means you are trying to improve upon God. All
religions are trying to do that -- to improve upon God. Chuang Tzu is not in
favour of that. He says nature is ultimate, and that ultimate nature he calls
Tao. Tao means that nature is ultimate and cannot be improved. If you try to
improve upon it, you will cripple it -- that is how we cripple every child.
Every child is born in Tao, then we cripple him with society, civilisation,
culture, morality, religion... we cripple him from every side. Then he lives,
but he is not alive.
I have heard that a small girl was going to a party, a friend's birthday party.
She was very small, just four years old. She asked her mother: Were there such
parties and dances when you were alive?
The more cultured and civilised, the more dead. If you want to see perfectly
dead men and yet still alive go to the monk in the monasteries, go to the
priests in the churches, go to the Pope in the Vatican. They are not alive, they
are so afraid of life, so afraid of nature, that they have suppressed it from
everywhere. They are already in their graves. You can paint the grave, you can
even make a marble grave, very valuable -- but the man inside is dead.
A drunkard was passing through a graveyard and he saw a beautiful grave made of
pure white marble. He looked at the grave, looked at the name on it. The grave
was that of the famous Rothschild. He laughed, and said: These Rothschilds, they
know how to live.
Culture kills you, culture is a murderer, culture is a slow poison -- it is a
suicide.
Chuang Tzu and his old master, Lao Tzu, are against culture. They are for
nature, pure nature. Trees are in a better position than you, even birds, fishes
in the river, are in a better position because they are more alive, they dance
more to the rhythm of nature. You have completely forgotten what nature is. You
have condemned it to the very root.
And if you want to condemn nature you have to start by condemning sex, because
the whole of nature arises out of it. The whole of nature is an overflowing of
sex energy, of love. The birds sing, the trees flower -- this is all sexual
energy, exploding. Flowers are sex symbols, the singing of the birds is sexual,
the whole of Tao is nothing but sex energy -- the whole of nature propagates
itself, loves itself, moves into deeper ecstasies of love and existence.
If you want to destroy nature condemn sex, condemn love, create moral concepts
around life. Those moral concepts, howsoever beautiful they look, will be like
marble graves and you will be there inside them. Some-drunkard may think that
you know what life is, that you know how to live, but anyone who is in HIS state
of awareness is in no state even to call you alive. Your morality is a sort of
death: before death kills you, the society kills you.
That is why Chuang Tzu's message is one of the most dangerous, the most
revolutionary, the most rebellious -- because he says: Allow nature! And don't
give any goal to nature. Who are you to create goals and purposes? You are just
a tiny part, an atomic cell. Who are you to force the whole to move according to
you?
This is most dangerous for people who are religious, for people who are
moralistic puritans. This is a most dangerous message. This means break all the
barriers, allow nature to erupt -- dangerous it is.
I have heard that a head nurse was introducing a new nurse, who had just come
from college, to the hospital. She was taking her around the hospital to show it
to her. She introduced the various wards: this is a cancer ward, this is a
tuberculosis ward, and others and others. Then she came to a big hall, and she
said: Look, and remember well, this is the most dangerous ward of all, this is
the dangerous ward. The new nurse looked, but she couldn't see what the danger
was. So she asked: What is the matter? Why is this the most dangerous ward? Even
in the cancer ward you didn't say that it was dangerous. The head nurse laughed
and she said: These people are almost healthy, that's why this is the most
dangerous ward. So be alert -- health is always dangerous.
Priests are afraid of health because health is immoral in their eyes. You may or
may not have heard of one of the thinkers of this century, a German thinker,
very famous in his day -- Count Keyserling. He was thought to be a great
religious philosopher and he wrote in his diary: Health is the most immoral
thing. Because health is energy, and energy is delight, energy is enjoyment,
energy is love, energy is sex, energy is everything that is natural. Destroy the
energy, make it feeble and dim. Hence so many fasts -- just to destroy the
energy, just to prevent so much energy from arising that it starts overflowing.
Religious people have always thought that health is dangerous. Then to be
unhealthy becomes a spiritual goal.
I repeat again, Chuang Tzu is very rebellious. He says: Nature, energy and the
ecstasy that comes by overflowing, and the balance that happens spontaneously,
is enough. There is no need for effort, So much beauty happens all around in
nature without any effort: a rose is beautiful without any effort, a cuckoo goes
on singing without any effort.... Look at a deer, alive, full of energy, fast.
Look at a hare, so alert, so aware, that even a Buddha may become jealous.
Look at nature everything is so perfect. Can you improve upon a rose? Can you
improve on nature in any way? Only man has gone wrong somewhere. If the rose is
beautiful without any effort on its part, why not man? What is wrong with man?
If stars remain beautiful without any effort, without any of Patanjali's yoga
sutras, why not man? Man is part of nature, just as stars are. So Chuang Tzu
says: Be natural, and you will flower. If this understanding enters you, deeper
and deeper and deeper, then all effort becomes meaningless. Then you are not
constantly making arrangements for the future, then you live here and now, then
this moment is all, then this moment is eternity. And Buddhahood is already the
case, you are already a Buddha. The only thing that is missing is that you have
not given it any chance to flower because you are so engaged in your own
projects.
A flower flowers without any effort because the energy is not dissipated in any
projects; the flower is not planning for the future, the flower is here and now.
Be like a flower, be like a bird, be like a tree, a river, or the ocean -- but
don't be like a man. Because man has gone wrong somewhere.
Nature and to be natural -- effortlessly natural, spontaneously natural -- that
is the essence of all the teaching that Chuang Tzu is going to give to you.
Now we will enter his sutra. Listen to every word as deeply as possible, because
your mind will create barriers, your mind will not allow you to listen. The mind
is society within you. Society is very cunning: it is not only outside you, it
has penetrated within you. That is what your mind is, and that is why all those
who know are against the mind and for nature. Because mind is an artificial
thing, implanted in you by society. So when you listen to Chuang Tzu your mind
will create barriers. Your mind will not like to listen because what he says is
so against the mind. If you allow it, if you put aside your mind and allow it to
penetrate you, the very listening will become meditation, the very listening
will transform you. There is no other thing to be done, just listening.
Chuang Tzu believes in understanding, not in meditation. And if I say you have
to meditate, it is only because I feel that understanding is so difficult for
you. Meditation will not lead you to the goal -- no method can lead you to the
goal. There exists no method, no technique. Meditation will only help you to
understand. It will not lead you to the truth, it will only destroy the mind, so
that whenever there is truth, you can see it.
CHU'I, THE DRAFTSMAN, COULD DRAW MORE PERFECT CIRCLES FREEHAND THAN WITH A
COMPASS.
Chuang Tzu talks about a draftsman of the name Chu'i, who could draw more
perfect circles freehand than with a compass. Really, the compass is needed
because you are afraid. If you are not afraid you yourself can draw a perfect
circle without any help.
In nature circles exist everywhere, everything moves on a circular path. The
circle is the easiest phenomenon in nature -- and no compass is used. The stars
don't consult a map, they don't carry a compass and they go on moving in a
circle. If you give them compasses and maps, I am certain they will be lost --
they will not know where to go and what to do.
You must have heard the story of the centipede? A centipede walks with a hundred
legs. A frog, a philosopher, saw the centipede, he looked and watched and he
became very troubled; it is so difficult to walk even with four legs, but this
centipede was walking with one hundred legs. This was a miracle! How did the
centipede decide which leg to move first, and then which one next and then which
one after that? And one hundred legs! So the frog stopped the centipede and
asked a question: I am a philosopher and I am puzzled by you. A problem has
arisen which I cannot solve. How do you walk? How do you manage it at all? It
seems impossible! The centipede said: I have been walking all my life, but I
have not thought about it. Now that you ask, I will think about it and then I
will tell you.
For the first time thought entered the centipede's consciousness. Really, the
frog was right -- which leg should be moved first? The centipede stood there for
a few minutes, couldn't move, wobbled, and fell down. And he said to the frog:
Please don't ask another centipede this question. I have been walking throughout
my life and it was never a problem, and now you have killed me completely! I
cannot move. And a hundred legs to move! How can I manage?
Life moves in a perfect circle, life moves perfectly, there is no problem.
Chuang Tzu says of Chu'i that he could draw more perfect circles freehand than
with a compass. You need a compass because you are not confident of life; you
need moralities, precepts, principles, Bibles, Korans, Gitas to direct you
because you are not confident of the inner force. That is your life. And these
Bibles, Korans, and Gitas, they have created the same situation for you that the
frog created for the centipede.
So many precepts to be followed, so many principles to be managed -- so many
moral concepts. You have so many things imposed on you that your inner life
cannot be spontaneous. You go astray, not because of any evil force, but because
of the do-gooders. It is not a Devil which is leading you towards wrong, it is
your priests, your leaders, your so-called saints.
This is very difficult. It is easy to believe in a Devil, so you throw all the
responsibility onto the Devil. There is no Devil, I tell you. And that is what
Chuang Tzu is saying also.
Chuang Tzu says: There is no God, there is no Devil, only life exists. Priests
create God and priests create the Devil because priests create the distinction
between wrong and right. And once the distinction enters your mind you will
never be right. Nature is right. Once the distinction enters your mind that this
is wrong and that is right, you will never be right, you will never be at ease,
you will never feel relaxed, you will always be tense. And whatsoever you do
will be wrong because the distinction creates confusion. The whole of life is so
silent and meditative, why is so much effort needed for you? It is because there
is distinction.
CHU'I THE DRAFTSMAN COULD DRAW MORE PERFECT CIRCLES FREEHAND THAN WITH A
COMPASS. If you are not self-conscious your life moves automatically. That
compass is self consciousness: you do anything self-consciously and you will be
in trouble. You talk, the whole day you go on chattering with friends, and there
is no problem. But if I ask you to come here and talk from this chair to the
friends who have gathered here, you will be in the same position as the
centipede. And yet you have been talking your whole life and there was never a
problem.
Why does this problem come in? The problem comes in because now you are
self-conscious. Now so many persons are looking at you, watching you, that now
you cannot be at ease and spontaneous. Now you project, now you want to plan,
now you want the people to like you. Whatsoever you say, you would like them to
be impressed -- now you are self conscious.
Otherwise everybody is a talker, a born talker. People go on talking and there
is never any problem. But once you put them in a pulpit and tell them to talk to
an audience, something goes wrong. What goes wrong? Nothing has changed but
self-consciousness has entered, and self consciousness is the problem.
HIS FINGERS BROUGHT FORTH SPONTANEOUS FORMS FROM NOWHERE. HIS MIND WAS MEANWHILE
FREE AND WITHOUT CONCERN WITH WHAT HE WAS DOING.
NO APPLICATION WAS NEEDED, HIS MIND WAS PERFECTLY SIMPLE AND KNEW NO OBSTACLE.
HIS FINGERS BROUGHT FORTH SPONTANEOUS FORMS FROM NOWHERE. Nowhere means
everywhere, nowhere means the ultimate void; nowhere means the ultimate source,
the very basis of life.
From where are you breathing so perfectly? Chuang Tzu says you are not
breathing, rather,'It' breathes you. YOU are not breathing, because what do you
have to do with it? Nothing.'I am breathing' is a false notion, it would be
better to say: Nature, 'It', breathes me. Then the whole gestalt changes, then
the whole emphasis is on nature, not on you, not on the ego, but on 'It', the
vast, the infinite that surrounds you, the basis, the very basis -- 'It'
breathes you.
When you fall in love, is it really you who falls in love -- or does 'It' fall
in love through you? When you are angry, are you angry? Because when there is
anger, you are not; when there is love, you are not. In anger, in love, in any
passionate emotion, you are not. In anything alive, you disappear; then 'It'
exists -- Tao.
So a man of Tao is one who has come to understand that 'I' is the most useless
thing. It only creates problems and nothing else -- so he drops it. Really there
is no need to drop it, once he understands, it drops -- there is no 'I'. Then he
lives, then he eats, then he loves, then he sleeps, but there is no 'I'.'It'
lives through him. Then there is no burden and no tension and no anxiety; then
he becomes a child; then his mind is free, without concern.
You cannot do anything without concern. Whatsoever you do, the ego comes in,
concern comes in, and then there is anxiety.
Look at this phenomenon: a surgeon operates, and he is a perfect surgeon. But if
his wife is on the operation table, he cannot operate; his hand trembles. At
other times, he works like a perfect mechanism, but when his wife is on the
table, he cannot operate -- some other surgeon is needed.
What has happened? Concern has entered. With other patients there was no
concern, he was detached. He was not concerned this way or that, he was simply a
surgeon, a natural force, working. The mind was not there; he was perfect. But
now that his wife is there, concern has entered: Will the operation succeed or
not? Will I be able to save my wife or not? Now, these problems are there, his
mind has a concern -- then his hand trembles.
Your whole life is a trembling because you have been carrying so many concerns;
and then you cannot draw a perfect circle.
And your writing....
There is a science about reading your writing and through it, your mind. There
is a definite basis to it because when you write, your trembling enters it. And
when you sign your name you are the most concerned. Then your trembling is
there, and with a magnifying glass that trembling can be observed, can be
detected. That trembling can show much about you because whatsoever you are
doing, YOU are doing it. It will carry YOU, it will carry indications about YOU.
Just by seeing your handwriting much can be known about your personality.
If a Buddha signs, it is going to be absolutely different. There will be no
trembling because there is no concern. And even through the signature it can be
said whether it belongs to a Buddha or not.
Whatsoever you do, your trembling follows you like a shadow. Who is creating
this trembling?
You come to me and you say: I am not at peace; my mind is not silent. How can it
be unless you drop your concern? You want your mind to be stilled, you want your
mind to be made silent, clear, transparent. Without dropping the concern it is
impossible because there will still be a trembling.
The only thing that can be done without changing your concern is to suppress all
the trembling inside. So if you watch you will feel that on the surface
everything is placid, calm, but deep down you are trembling, continuously
trembling. Deep down fear and trembling continue. They are born out of concern.
And what is the concern? It is about how others are impressed by you. But why
are you so worried about others? So worried that you cannot live at all?
Everybody is wondering what others are thinking about them, and the same is the
case with others. They are worried about you, and you are worried about them.
Once it happened that Mulla Nasrudin was walking on a path. It was a lonely
path, the sun had set, and darkness was descending. Suddenly he felt afraid
because a few people were coming, in a band, and he thought: These must be
dacoits, robbers, and there is nobody else here, only myself. So he jumped over
a wall that was just nearby and found himself in a graveyard. A newly dug grave
was there so he climbed into it, somehow calmed himself, closed his eyes, and
waited for the people to pass so he could go home. But the people had also seen
that somebody was there. Mulla had jumped suddenly, so they also became afraid.
What was the matter? Was somebody hiding there, or doing something mischievous?
So they all jumped over the wall. Now, Mulla was certain: I was right, I
inferred right, they are dangerous people. Now nothing more can be done; I must
pretend that I am dead. So he pretended. He stopped his breathing because you
cannot rob or kill a dead man. But the people had seen the man jump so they
became very worried. What was he doing They gathered around, looked in the
grave, and they said: What is the idea? What are you doing? Why are you here?
Mulla opened his eyes, looked at them, then became certain that there was no
danger. He laughed, and said: Now, here is a problem, a very philosophical
problem. You ask me why I am here, and I would like to ask why you are here. I
am here because of you, and you are here because of me!
It is a vicious circle: you are afraid of others, others are afraid of you, and
your whole life becomes a mess. Drop out of this nonsense, drop out of this
vicious circle, don't be concerned with others. Your life is enough, don't be
concerned with others. And I tell you that if you can live unconcerned your life
will flower, and then others can share in it. You would like to share, and you
can give much to others, but first you must stop thinking about others and what
they are thinking about you.
This 'about' is very dangerous. Nobody is at ease, nobody is at home. Because of
others, everybody is chasing everybody else -- and life has become a hell.
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HIS FINGERS BROUGHT FORTH SPONTANEOUS FORM FROM NOWHERE. His mind WAS MEANWHILE
FREE AND WITHOUT CONCERN WITH WHAT HE WAS DOING.
DO! Don't be concerned about what you are doing -- do it so wholeheartedly that
the very doing becomes a bliss. And don't think of great things, there is no
such thing as great or small. Don't think that you are to do great things, play
great music, paint great paintings, that you are to become a Picasso or a Van
Gogh, or something else -- a great writer, a Shakespeare, or a Milton. There is
nothing -- no great things, no small things. There are great men and small men
but things are not great and small. And a great man is one who brings his
greatness to every small thing that he is doing: he eats in a great way, he
walks in a great way, he sleeps in a great way. He brings the quality of
greatness to everything.
And what is greatness? Nature.... Nothing is greater than nature.
Eat like an emperor. That doesn't depend upon the quality of the food, it
depends on the eater, the way he celebrates it. Even with just bread, butter,
and salt, you can be an emperor.
It happened that Epicurus had a garden, just near Athens....
He was also one of the rarest of men, just like Chuang Tzu. He didn't believe in
God, he didn't believe in anything, because belief is nonsense. Only foolish
people believe. A man of understanding has faith, not belief. Faith is
different. Faith means trusting life, trusting it so absolutely that one is
ready to go with it, anywhere.
.... He had a small garden, and he lived there with his disciples. People
thought that he was an atheist, immoral. He did not believe in God, he did not
believe in scriptures, he did not believe in any temple; he was an atheist. But
he lived in such a great way. His life was superb, magnificent even though he
had nothing, even though they were very poor. The king heard about them, and
wanted to see how they lived, and how they could be happy without belief. If you
cannot be happy even with a belief in God how could these people be happy
without God?
So he came one evening to visit Epicurus' garden.
He was really surprised, amazed -- it was a miracle. They had nothing, almost
nothing, but they lived like emperors. Like Gods they lived. Their whole life
was a celebration. When they went to the stream to take their bath, it was not
simply a bath; it was a dance with the river, it was getting in tune with the
river. They sang, and they danced, and they swam, and they jumped, and they
dived.
Their eating was a celebration, a feast, and they had nothing, just bread and
salt, not even butter. But they felt so thankful that just to be was enough,
nothing more was needed.
The emperor was very much impressed, and he asked Epicurus: Next time I come, I
would like to bring some gifts for you. What would you like? Epicurus said: Give
us time to think, we never thought that anybody would give us gifts, and we have
so many gifts from nature. But if you insist, then bring a little butter,
nothing else. Just that will do.
Life can become a celebration if you know how to live without concern. Otherwise
life becomes a long prolonged disease and illness which culminates only in
death.
.... HIS MIND WAS MEANWHILE FREE AND WITHOUT CONCERN, WITH WHAT HE WAS DOING. NO
APPLICATION WAS NEEDED -- HIS MIND WAS PERFECTLY SIMPLE AND KNEW NO OBSTACLE.
You need to learn everything because you have forgotten your nature completely.
Now psychologists are proposing that there must be training for love, because
people are by and by forgetting how to love. Much literature has come into
existence: 'The Art of Love', 'How to Love?' People have completely forgotten
sexual orgasm, sexual ecstasy. No animal needs any training! Even trees seem to
be more intelligent than you.
Everything has to be taught, even the very basics of life have to be taught.
That means that somehow we are uprooted. We have lost contact with nature, a gap
exists.
And if you are taught how to love your love is going to be false. Real love
should be spontaneous. How can you be taught to love? If you are taught, then
you will act according to the rules and the natural flow will not be there.
Nature does not flow according to your rules; it has its own rules. You have
simply to be with it and it starts functioning. The day is not very far away
when we will have to teach people how to breathe. Right now you laugh about it,
but if you went back and asked Epicurus, 'Will there be a time when people will
have to be taught how to achieve orgasm?' he would have laughed. Because animals
achieve it without any teaching, no Masters, no Johnsons are needed, no Kinsey
Report is needed. Animals simply love -- love happens naturally.
Now there are clinics in the United States where they teach people how to
achieve orgasm. And if through learning and training you achieve orgasm,
remember well, it is not the real thing. Because then you are manipulating it,
then you are controlling it, then somehow you are forcing it, and orgasm happens
only in a let-go -- and a let-go cannot be taught.
You cannot teach people how to go to sleep. If you try to teach then you will
disturb their sleep because if they try -- anything -- it will only be a
disturbance. You simply go to sleep, you simply put your head on the pillow and
go to sleep. If you do something, then that very doing will be the undoing. Life
is just like sleep; life is just like breathing.
NO APPLICATION WAS NEEDED -- HIS MIND WAS PERFECTLY SIMPLE AND KNEW NO OBSTACLE.
When your mind is clear it has a clarity, you need not follow any rules. You
need not carry any scriptures in the head -- you simply look. Everything is
transparent, because you are clear.
SO, WHEN THE SHOE FITS, THE FOOT IS FORGOTTEN; WHEN THE BELT FITS, THE BELLY IS
FORGOTTEN; AND WHEN THE HEART IS RIGHT, 'FOR' AND 'AGAINST' ARE FORGOTTEN.
Remember, this is one of the greatest mantras: When the shoe fits, the foot is
forgotten.
Whenever you are healthy you don't know anything about your body -- the body is
forgotten. When there is some illness, only then can you not forget the body. Do
you know if there is any head without a headache? When there is a headache you
cannot forget the head. When the shoe is pinching then it doesn't fit. When you
don't have any headache, where is the head? You completely forget about it.
Whatsoever is healthy is forgotten but whatsoever is ill is remembered -- it
becomes a continuous note in the mind, a continuous tension in the mind.
A perfect man of Tao does not know himself; YOU know, because you are ill. Ego
is illness, a substantial illness, because you continuously have to remember
that you are somebody. This shows that you are in a deep 'dis-ease'. Disease
creates the ego; a perfectly healthy natural being forgets completely. He is
like a cloud, like a breeze, like a rock, like a tree, like a bird -- but never
like a man. He is not, because only illness, like a wound, has to be remembered.
Remembering is a mechanism for safety and security: if there is a thorn in your
foot, you have to remember. The mind will go continuously again and again to the
spot because the thorn has to be thrown out. If you forget it, the thorn will
remain there and it will become dangerous; it may poison the whole body. When
there is a headache the body tells you to remember it, something has to be done.
If you forget it, the headache may become dangerous.
The body tells you whenever there is some illness, something wrong -- it
attracts your attention. But when the body is healthy, you forget it; you become
'body-less' when the body is healthy. And this is the only definition of health:
health is when there is no consciousness of the body. If there is any sort of
consciousness of the body, then that part is not healthy.
The same applies to the mind. When your consciousness is healthy, there is no
ego -- you don't know anything about yourself. You don't go on reminding
yourself that 'I am something,' you simply relax. You are, but there is no 'I'.
It is a simple 'am-ness', an 'is-ness', but there is no 'I', no crystallised
ego. The self is not there.
SO, WHEN THE SHOE FITS, THE FOOT IS FORGOTTEN; WHEN THE BELT FITS, THE BELLY IS
FORGOTTEN; AND WHEN THE HEART IS RIGHT, 'FOR' AND 'AGAINST' ARE FORGOTTEN.
This is one of the deepest things to be understood. When the heart is right, all
'for' and 'against' are forgotten. When the heart is wrong, ill, then you go on
continuously being burdened, worried: this is right and that is wrong -- and the
right should be followed, the wrong should be avoided. The whole of life becomes
a struggle how to avoid the wrong and how to achieve the right. And this is not
the way to achieve the right! This is the way to miss it forever.
Look.... You have anger, sex, greed. If you say anger is wrong then your whole
life will be passed in an angry state. Sometimes you will be angry, and
sometimes you will be angry because of your anger -- that will be the only
difference. Sometimes you will be angry, and when the anger is gone you will be
angry because of the anger; you call this repentance. And then you will decide
never to be angry again, but you will be angry again, because both states are
anger. Sometimes you are angry against someone else, sometimes you are angry
against yourself because you were angry.
If you are against sex and you say that it is wrong, -- as the whole world has
said -- then you will be sexual, and, after your sexuality has passed, you will
feel guilty. In that guilt you will ponder and think about sex again and again;
it will become cerebral. So sometimes you will be physically sexual, and
sometimes cerebrally sexual -- sometimes sexual in the body, sometimes sexual in
the mind.
Once you make a distinction, once you make a conflict, you will be divided.
Once I was staying with Mulla Nasrudin. A very beautiful widow came to see him
to ask for his advice. She said: I am in trouble, and you have to help me. I am
in love with a very handsome man, younger than me, but he is poor. And an old
man who is very, very rich and very ugly is in love with me. So what should I
do? Which one should I marry? Mulla Nasrudin closed his eyes, pondered, and
said: Marry the rich man, and be good to the poor.
This is how all conflict arises, this is how you choose both the alternatives.
Then you become divided. Whenever you say that this is right and that is wrong
you are already divided, and your whole life will be a conflict -- from this
polarity to the other you will move like a pendulum.
Don't be against anything. Why? Because whenever you are against anything it
means that deep down you are for it, otherwise why be against it?
A man who is not angry deep down will not be against anger. Why should he be? A
man who is not greedy deep down will not be against greed. Why should he be
against it? There is no problem for him, it is not a choice, he has not made any
distinction. Remember, it is always greedy persons who are against greed, sexual
persons who are against sex, angry persons who are against anger, violent
persons who are against voilence. Then what do they do? They create an opposite
goal.
If you are violent, non-violence will become the goal. And how can a violent man
become non-voilent? What will he do? There is only one possibility, he will be
violent towards himself, that's all. What else can he do? A violent man... how
can he be non-violent? An angry person... how can he be without anger? And if an
angry person cultivates non-anger, in his non-anger there will also be anger
because you cannot cultivate anything without you entering it. The anger will
enter the non-anger; the violence will enter the non violence.
If you look around, if you watch rightly, you cannot find more violent people
than those who have non violence as their goal. And you cannot find more sexual,
pervertedly sexual people than those who have BRAHMACHARYA, celibacy, as their
goal.
Chuang Tzu says: Don't make distinctions, otherwise you will be divided. Once
divided, you are two, split.
A person who is split cannot be natural. Nature exists in unity, it is a deep
harmony, there is no conflict at all. Nature accepts everything -- there is no
choice, it is a choiceless let-go. Don't choose. And this is the miracle: if you
don't choose to be against anger, then when anger comes you are simply angry.
Don't choose against anger. When anger comes simply be angry, and when anger
goes, let it go. Don't repent, don't let it continue inside the mind, don't make
it a continuity, don't be against it. When anger comes, it comes! What can you
do? When it doesn't come, it doesn't come! You have no choice.
Then a miracle happens. Without choice you become so alert that your energies
are divided no longer. And when energies are undivided they are so powerful, so
tremendous that anger becomes impossible -- because anger is part of weakness.
Remember this... the weaker you are, the more angry; the stronger you are, the
less angry. If you are absolutely strong, there will be no anger. Remember
this... the weaker you are, the more greedy -- really, the weak has to be greedy
to protect himself -- and the stronger you are, the less greedy.
When the energy is total in you, not divided, not split, you are a unity. Greed
disappears, because greed belongs to a weak mind, a split mind. And when you are
split, there will be anger, and you will fight against it, and a bigger split
will be created and more energy will be dissipated. And you will become full of
inner turmoil, anarchy, not one harmonious note anywhere. Everything will be out
of tune.
And the more you make an effort to bring it to a tuning, the more trouble there
will be -- because you have missed the first step, and you will go on missing it
to the very last.
The first step is that WHEN THE HEART IS RIGHT, 'FOR' AND 'AGAINST' ARE
FORGOTTEN. So what to do? Forget 'for' and 'against' and let the heart settle.
One thing is certain, you have been fighting against anger for so long but still
you are angry -- so try Chuang Tzu's way. You are not going to lose anything.
You have tried to be non-sexual and you remain sexual; on the contrary, you have
become more perverted. Sex has become more poisoned -- so try Chuang Tzu, you
are not going to lose anything. Be sexual when sex comes. Just as when hunger
comes, you eat food, so when sex comes be sexual. Don't make any choice, don't
say this is wrong. It is good. Accept it -- it is part of nature. And suddenly
the moment will come when you will be a unity and sex will be transformed
automatically into love.
Because a man who is in unity.... Try to understand what this unity means.
Every man and every woman is bisexual: every man is both man and woman inside,
and every woman is both man and woman inside. No one is simply man or woman --
they cannot be -- because one parent was a man and the other parent was a woman,
and you carry both within you -- half and half. Half your mother and half your
father is carried within you, so you are both male and female -- half and half.
This is the deep split. And if you create more split, this split will widen more
and more. Drop all splits, don't create any fight -- don't choose. Be angry and
accept it, be sexual and accept it, be greedy and accept. What else can you do?
Nature has given these things to you so accept them, and their consequences of
course.
If you are angry, then someone else will be angry -- accept the anger and the
consequences. Then your split drops, and by and by your inner bi-sexuality
becomes a harmony, a circle is created, an inner orgasm happens -- your female
and your male meet inside. And when they meet inside you have become one; now a
new being is born. This one-ness has love as its shadow. You cannot love. Your
love is a facade, a deception. Your love is just a trick, your love is just to
attain sex. That's why when you attain sex, love disappears.
Once you have had sexual intercourse with a woman or a man, love disappears.
Again after twenty four hours energy will come, you will accumulate energy, and
there will be sex again -- you will become loving again. So love is just a means
to have sex, that's why you cannot love your own wife or husband -- very
difficult. How can you love? The need has disappeared. Love is just a courting,
just a foreplay to persuade the other person to have sex. For a wife or a
husband no persuasion is needed, they are taken for granted. A husband can
demand, a wife can demand, there is no need to persuade. So love disappears.
There is no need to court. It is almost impossible to see how a wife can love
the husband, how a husband can love the wife. They can only pretend. And that
pretension becomes a heavy, heavy thing on everybody. Pretending love! Then your
life feels meaningless.
That's why people get into extra marital relationships: it gives you a little
energy again, a little feeling of love, because with the new person you have to
court again. You cannot take the other for granted, you have to persuade. Before
you seduce, persuasion will be needed. Your love is just a persuasion. It cannot
be otherwise, because love happens only when you have become a unity -- not
before. The word 'sex' is very beautiful. The original root of the word 'sex'
means division -- sex means division.
If you are divided inside, then sex will be there. When you hanker after a woman
or a man, what is happening? Your one part is hankering to meet the other part
but you are trying to meet the other outside. You can meet for a single moment,
but again you will be alone, because outside there can be no eternal meeting.
Sex is bound to be just momentary because the other is the other.
If you meet your inner woman or man inside then the meeting can be eternal. And
when all divisions are lost this meeting happens. This is an alchemical
transformation: your woman and man meet inside and you become one. And when you
are one, you will have love.
Love is a quality of a Buddha or a Christ or a Chuang Tzu. You are just playing
with false coins, you cannot love. And the more you understand it, the better it
is, because then you will not be fooled and you will not be fooling others.
Once you are a unity, Chuang Tzu has happened to you also, and: WHEN THE HEART
IS RIGHT, 'FOR' AND 'AGAINST' ARE FORGOTTEN.
NO DRIVES, NO COMPULSIONS, NO NEEDS, NO ATTRACTIONS: THEN YOUR AFFAIRS ARE UNDER
CONTROL. YOU ARE A FREE MAN.
Right now you have obsessions, compulsions, you have to do certain things.
Continuously the body forces you, the mind forces you to do them. If you don't
do them then you feel uneasy, if you do do them, you feel guilty -- there seems
to be no way out. If you move into sex, you feel guilty, you have done something
wrong; if you don't move into sex, you feel uneasy because energy gathers and
where can you release that energy? Then the energy moves inside and forces you,
compels you; your life is one of compulsions and obsessions. And whatsoever you
do, you will be in trouble, because if you move into sex, you will feel
frustrated; all dreams will be shattered, nothing will be achieved. You have
been imagining so much, you were projecting so much, but the real thing is never
in any way equal to that which you were dreaming.
The more you dream, the more the actual will be frustrating, and then you feel:
Why waste energy? Why get into relationships and unnecessary complexities?
Because when the other enters, he will bring his own problems
So every relationship becomes a burden, it is not freedom -- because every
relationship arises from compulsions.
Only a man whose heart is at ease, one who has become a unity, is a free man.
That doesn't mean that he will go to the Himalayas, or escape to Tibet. No! He
will be here, but he will be here with a different quality. He will love, he
will have compassion, there will be relationships; but he will remain free. No
relationship comes out of obsession, it is just his sharing, he shares his
being. He has too much so he gives it. And if you accept his gift, he feels
deeply grateful to you. Look.... Your love is just a technique to obtain sex,
his love is not to achieve anything. His love is not to get anything from you,
his love is just a sharing. He has it, he has so much that he gives some to you.
And the more he gives, the more it grows. His being moves in a different
dimension.
Just look... go into the garden and see. If flowers are left on the plants, then
more flowers will not come. have been observing it. I have never allowed anybody
to pluck flowers, but if on a rose bush, five flowers have grown and you don't
pluck them, no more will come, and those five will soon die. If you pluck five,
ten will come; if you pluck ten, twenty will come. The more you pluck, the more
flowers the tree will give you.
The same is the case when you are a unity: you have become a flowering tree. The
more you give, the more you find will come; the more you share, the more you
grow in it. Bliss grows higher and higher, ecstasy goes deeper and deeper --
share it, because unshared, everything dies.
But the basic thing is, don't be 'for' and 'against'; then you will be a free
man.
EASY IS RIGHT. For you the case is just the opposite. You always choose the
difficult because the difficult gives you a challenge and challenge gives you
the ego. Difficult is right for you; easy is never right. Because with the easy
there is no conquering, the ego cannot feel fulfilled. The more difficult a
task, the more the ego feels exhilarated, ecstatic. It has to be done -- Everest
has to be conquered, the moon has to be conquered.
Somebody asked Edmund Hillary who was the first to reach the top of Everest:
Why? Why so much effort? For a hundred years man has been trying and trying and
many have died! they never came back. Why this desire to climb Everest? And what
is there? There is nothing! For a hundred years many people simply died, lost
their lives, never came back, but again, every year, a group would go and try.
And this is beautiful: no Indian has ever bothered, and Everest is in India! No
Tibetan has ever bothered, and Everest is on the boundary of Tibet! Why?
Groups come from the West every year. When Hillary climbed it, and came back, he
was asked: Why? He said: Because Everest was there, and unless it is conquered,
I cannot feel easy. It remains there, unconquered, a challenge to the ego. Just
because it is there, it has to be conquered.
The difficult attracts. The more difficult it is, the more it attracts you. It
becomes more valuable because through it, if you conquer, you will achieve a
greater ego. Even if you fail, you will achieve a greater ego because you at
least tried, while others have not tried at all.
If you achieve with the easy, nothing is achieved, because the ego cannot feel
greater. And if you fail, much is lost, because everybody will say: Such an easy
thing, and you couldn't achieve it? Ego is always attracted magnetically to the
difficult, but EASY IS RIGHT. So ego is never attracted towards the right, it is
always attracted towards the wrong.
A person becomes a criminal because crime is difficult, a person becomes a
politician because politics is difficult, a person becomes mad about money
because making money is difficult. For anything that is difficult, people will
go mad. Not that anything is achieved, but just because it is there like an
Everest, a challenge, it has to be conquered.
Look at your successful people, those who have succeeded. Look at them! What
have they attained? They may have reached Everest, okay, but there is nothing
there. One has to come back. Look at your presidents, prime ministers,
Rockefellers, what have they achieved? Nothing! They know deep down that they
have achieved nothing. But one thing they have done, the most difficult thing --
history will remember them.
History always remembers foolish people, because fools make history and fools
write it!
Chuang Tzu makes no history, because EASY IS RIGHT. So how can you make history
if you are easy? If you win a war and kill millions of people you make history.
If you just brush your teeth in the morning how can you make history? And EASY
IS RIGHT! You take a bath, and you sing a little song, how can you make history?
You eat your food and you silently go to sleep without any dreams. How can you
make history? No! History takes no notice of persons who are easy and natural.
History takes notice of people who are mad, obsessed with something, who create
trouble in some way or the other. And difficult is wrong, easy is right; be easy
and don't try to be in history. Leave it for fools and mad people, you just stay
out of it. Because you cannot have both. Either you can have life, or you can be
remembered in history. If you have life, you will be just an easy and simple
man, doing simple and small things, and enjoying them. You will not create any
trouble for anybody, nobody will take any notice of you; you will exist as if
you never existed. That is what easy is -- existing as if you are not existing,
existing as if you are not, not in anyone's way. Nobody will know about you but
there is no need. You will enjoy, you will attain to the highest peak of
ecstasy.
EASY IS RIGHT. EASY IS RIGHT. BEGIN RIGHT, AND YOU ARE EASY. And this is the
criterion: Doing anything, if you feel easy doing it, it is right. If you feel
uneasy doing it, something is wrong. If you are tense, it means you are living
an uneasy life. If you cannot sleep, cannot relax, cannot let go, it shows you
are living an uneasy life -- you are after difficult things, impossible things.
Change your style of life, you are on the wrong path. Begin right and you are
always easy, begin right and you are always at rest -- that is the criterion. So
always look at what happens when you do something: if you become peaceful, if
you become restful, at home, relaxed, it is right. This is the criterion,
nothing else is the criterion. What is right for you may not be right for
somebody else, remember that too. Because what is easy for you may not be easy
for somebody else, something else may be easy for him. So there can be no
universal law about it. Every individual has to work it out for himself. What is
easy for you? Don't listen to the world, because there are people who would like
to impose their laws on you. These people are enemies, criminals.
Nobody who has understood life would like to impose anything on you. He will
simply help you to be easy so that you can find what is right for you.
CONTINUE EASY AND YOU ARE RIGHT.
And then live in such a way that you are always easy. Just like a small child,
sleeping happily, eating happily, dancing happily, bubbling with energy -- just
easy. Remember, nobody will take any notice of you. People may even think you
are mad. Because if you are serious, they think you are valuable, if you go on
laughing and you make your life fun they think you are a fool. Let them think.
You be a fool, but be easy. Don't be a wise man and uneasy, because no wisdom
can flower in an uneasy life. That wisdom is false, it is borrowed. Be easy. And
it is not difficult to be easy. Once you understand then you can find your path.
CONTINUE EASY AND YOU ARE RIGHT.
Beautiful is Chuang Tzu, incomparable is Chuang Tzu, unique is Chuang Tzu!
Because he says: Continue EASY and YOU ARE RIGHT. He doesn't say: Be
non-violent, then you are right; be truthful, then you are right; don't be
angry, otherwise you will be wrong; don't be sexual.... No! Nothing! He says: Be
easy and continue easy, and you are right -- and then you choose your own path.
He gives you the essence, not particular directions, but just a universal truth.
THE RIGHT WAY TO GO EASY IS TO FORGET THE RIGHT WAY.
Because if you are too concerned with the right way you will become uneasy. So
even with Chuang Tzu be easy; otherwise you will become uneasy. And you are so
efficient at becoming uneasy, that you can even turn Chuang Tzu into a madness.
THE RIGHT WAY TO GO EASY IS TO FORGET THE RIGHT WAY. Just forget. Be easy, that
is all. AND FORGET THAT THE GOING IS EASY -- that too! Otherwise you will become
too attached to easiness, and then easiness will also become a rock on your
chest.
If you go to Chuang Tzu and say: Now I have become easy. He will say: Go, throw
this! You are still carrying it. When you are easy, you are easy, no concept, no
notion is made out of it. When you are easy, why say it, why even carry it?
Because if you carry it, sooner or later it will become a wound. An easy man is
simply easy, and forgetful. He does not know that he is easy, he does not know
that he is right, he does not know that he is valuable in any way. He simply
lives his easiness.
And whenever you come to a person who lives his easiness easily, simply, without
being aware, you will be able to smell it. Tension has its own smell and
easiness has its own smell; but you may not be impressed by it.
You are so tense, you are always impressed by tense people -- people who act,
people who are sitting on their thrones, like statues. Then you are impressed;
the thing seems so difficult. Are you impressed by a child? Do you look at a
child playing? Nobody is impressed! Then you cannot be impressed by Chuang Tzu.
Then you cannot be impressed by a really easy person because he may not make any
impact on you.
But if you understand, you will smell a different vibration around a person who
is easy. And how will you feel it? What will be the way? The way will be that
near a person who is easy you will also feel yourself becoming easier, more
relaxed.
A really relaxed man will make you relaxed, a tense man will make you tense.
With a man who lives naturally you will feel that you are at home; he will not
force you in any way, he will not try to change you in any way. He will accept
you, he will be accepting. Through his acceptance you can learn acceptance and
if you can accept yourself, nature takes over. And once nature takes over, the
ocean is not very far, the river is constantly flowing towards it.
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