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saying that if you do either to excess, you will go mad or you will die.... ]
The same rhythm has to be followed in all the layers of life. Move... people are beautiful. You can learn much from them. Much will happen in contact with them. Life is a relationship. So allow people to come close to you... become vulnerable. It will give you many many happinesses; it will give you many painful experiences. It will make you in some moments tremendously delighted; in many moments tremendously depressed. But both are needed -- one becomes enriched. Then move in your aloneness and you will feel good.
And anupassana is a beautiful word. It simply means awareness, meditation, contemplation. It doesn't mean that one has to be alone. Meditation can be done in the marketplace. You can also remain alone in the crowd.
So try this. This ashram is going to be a world family. Many more people will be coming every day. It is going to become bigger and bigger and bigger. That's how anything that is alive, grows. Anything, even an institution, when it is alive, grows. New branches, new leaves come to it... new flowers. It is going to be a continuous movement.
Be here, but remain alone. Remain centred and you are alone.
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
Chapter #6
Chapter title: None
18 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7603185
ShortTitle: PLAN06
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[A sannyasin says: I don't want to be here -- and I don't know why. Since Vipassana died I have felt afraid of death. And Amitabh (her boyfriend) seems different... I feel frightened. Sometimes I don't even want to be human any more.
But I also don't believe that if I went away I would feel any different.]
(laughing) I will scare you... that's right! Wherever you go, I will continue to. There is no escape!...
Everything goes... and clinging creates misery. One has to understand that we are lonely, and that all relationship... and once we understand this, then immediately loneliness disappears. Try to understand me. If you go on trying...
(a chuckle) Mm mm... if you think you will
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