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and the headache. That is the way to live without the head: go with the stream wherever it leads. You don't decide for your destiny, you don't decide for your goal. You leave it for the totality to decide... you move with the whole, and then there is no wall.
This is absolutely the right thing to do. Don't forget it -- because many times you will again and again forget, because the old habit persists and one starts swimming again. Whenever you catch hold of yourself, red-handed, again swimming, immediately relax. Remind yourself and start floating. Let-go is the only way.
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
Chapter #13
Chapter title: None
28 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7603285
ShortTitle: PLAN13
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Marpa is one of the greatest tibetan mystics... one of the rare geniuses. You cannot count more than ten of his equal in the whole world. And anand means blissful -- blissful Marpa. Rad his life, teachings, and everything about him.
... Milarepa. That is another tibetan mystic. Read him -- all the books are translated into English -- particularly his 'A Thousand Songs of Milarepa'; they are tremendously beautiful. And anand means bliss -- blissful Milarepa. Get in tune with it, mm?
[A sannyasin says one part of her wants to stay and the other to go: I feel I always make one step towards something, I feel very enthusiastic about it, and then so much fear arises that I run.]
Mm mm... because going is not bad -- if you are going somewhere. But if you are only going from somewhere and there is no direction where you are going, then it is moving in negativity.
It is good to go somewhere, there is nothing wrong in it -- life should always be a reaching, reaching towards the unknown -- but if you just start escaping from somewhere, it may look like you are going on a journey, but it is not. It is an escape -- because you are not going anywhere. And whenever you feel that you are coming to a point where something is possible, you will again start moving away. This can become such a deep-rooted habit and become so powerful that you
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