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to give. I have tasted it...'
So the only thing you can do is to do something which is not miserly, and taste that dimension of sharing. If it feels good, then there is no problem; you will do it again. If it doesn't feel good, there is no problem. You can fall back on your old pattern. Nobody is hindering the path.
But don't repent and don't condemn. Simply become more alert about your ways and functionings and how the mechanism of the mind works, mm?
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
Chapter #21
Chapter title: None
5 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7604055
ShortTitle: PLAN21
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[A sannyasin says: I have a lot of problems about girls... I really get frightened -- sometimes just of everything, sometimes of nothing. It's just a general sort of fear.]
A few groups will be very very helpful. The fear has to be dropped, but first you will have to go into it. You can drop a thing only when you have understood perfectly; otherwise you cannot drop it.
Fear exists because of non-understanding. There are a few things that you have not understood and they are lurking in the unconscious. They manipulate you from the unconscious, so you are just a victim. You don't know where they come from. They come just out of the blue, and you are in their grip. When you are in their grip, you cannot do anything; almost helpless.
So first those lurking repressed emotions in the unconscious have to be brought to light... they have to be made conscious. Once they are conscious, they start disappearing. It is just as if I give you a lamp and tell you to go inside the room and search for where darkness is. So you take the lamp -- otherwise how will you search in the darkness? And then you go into the room with the lamp but you cannot find the darkness, because when the light is there, darkness is not.
So the whole problem -- not only for you, for every human being -- is how to bring the unconscious into the light, into the conscious, or how to take the conscious into the unconscious dark basement of your being. Once darkness is penetrated by
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