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think that it is simply available to everyone. It is difficult -- more difficult than meditation, because you can do meditation alone. For love, two are needed. Difficulties are multiplied. She has her difficulties, you have yours, and when you meet they multiply, they criss-cross, and the whole thing becomes a confusion. But one has to grow out of it. Don't be afraid, be brave.... And don't make any problem -- there is none.
Accept the rhythm of life. It is just like night and day: in the day you work, in the night you rest. If you are with her for one or two hours you enjoy it, but then you want to get away because the hunger is gone; one feels satisfied. It is just like you are sitting down at the table, and you go on eating and eating and eating. The food is nourishing up to a point, to a certain limit, but then it creates nausea; if you go on it will make you vomit. The same food which would have become energy, becomes illness.
Remember, the same is true with a human relationship. The love which can become nourishment will become nauseous. When the rhythm is broken, be alert -- leave each other. Remain alone so that you can attain to a certain appetite to be together -- a constant divorce and marriage.
Above All Don't Wobble
Chapter #6
Chapter title: None
21 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7601215
ShortTitle: WOBBLE06
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[A sannyasin says: I am a little homesick. I saw an old friend of mine yesterday, and he brought me all the West, all the remembrances... Sometimes I am very very happy, and there are magic moments. Sometimes I would like to go, to be independent, to go on my way.... ]
Mm mm, it is natural, and nothing to worry about.
Mind goes on changing from negative to positive, from positive to negative. Those two polarities are as basic to the mind as negative and positive poles to electricity. With one pole, electricity cannot exist -- and mind also cannot exist.
In fact deep down, mind is subtle electricity; it is electrical. That's why the computer can do its work, and sometimes will do it better than the
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