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it is tremendously beautiful. The desire makes everything ugly. Everything happens when the desire is not there, because when the desire is not there, you are not there. You are the desire. Through desires you cling. Through desires you remain.
Desire is a projection of the ego, so when you cut out the desires, the ego drops. When the meditator is gone, meditation comes in. When the seeker is not, then God seeks you.
So it is good that you have understood that desire creates the problem and becomes the barrier. Remember this, because once you understand that desire creates the barrier and the trouble, the mind creates a new desire -- the desire to be desireless. Beware of that. Just understand that the desire creates the trouble. This very understanding will become the dropping of the desire. You will not create a new desire for desirelessness... otherwise that desire is again the same. Only the name has changed, but the disease continues.
Just looking into the desire one understands. One says, 'Right, so this is what is causing the whole trouble.' Stop there. Don't say, 'Now I will not desire,' because again the desire will come. Just that is enough -- 'I have understood'. A full stop. In that very understanding desire burns out, is reduced to ashes and disappears. And you are left without a trace.
Good... this group has been very good.
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
Chapter #18
Chapter title: None
2 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7604025
ShortTitle: PLAN18
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[A sannyasin says she is afraid of leaving for the West.]
Don't be afraid of such things.
It is always difficult to leave the ones you love, but it becomes difficult because when we are with them we don't love them. If you really love them, feel for them, care for them -- and you will be there for three, four months -- you can leave them without any fear. And they will not feel hurt. This is one of the things to be understood.
The fear arises because we don't know how to love; otherwise four months is a long enough time. Even a single moment of
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