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Everybody gone and you are left to do your own thing. Now there is no problem of any consideration... nobody is going to hinder you -- the government, the society, friends, enemies, the lover, parents -- nobody at all. Just completely free. But what will you do? Nothing is left to do now. You will simply throw away your instrument and commit suicide.
Life is with people. Life attains to higher and higher peaks the more you can make a symphony in relationships. The greater the harmonies, the bigger the orchestras, the more people involved, the higher goes the peak, mm? So to consider yourself, consider others. My insistence remains on being selfish, because this is my observation -- that a really selfish person is always altruistic. Good.
[A sannyasin says: I made an appointment to see you and I had a question, but it went.... I can't think of anything now.]
(chuckling) That's very good. That's the beauty of the appointment (laughter). If you can come to me immediately, you will bring a thousand and one questions which are useless. So Laxmi goes on delaying you, delaying you.... By the time you come, the question is gone!
It simply means it was a momentary question, not in any way significant. Always remember to make a distinction between the momentary and the essential. The essential question persists. The momentary is just coincidental, arbitrary. In a certain situation something has provoked it. But the situation gone, the question will also be gone. It has nothing to do with you as you are.
Then, very good. That's my whole effort here (laughter) -- to help people to come to such a situation where they can't think of any question, mm?
[The Vipassana group was at darshan tonight. The groupleader said: It was a very small group... they were very still in walking and eating slowly. It was very enjoyable, very quiet.
It seems that when there are more people in the room it becomes more like a silent encounter.]
You need a bigger place. Even if people are sitting silently they need a certain space, otherwise they create a crowded feeling.
Scientists say that even animals have a certain boundary around them.
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