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improve, not to make you better; you are already better. This world is the most perfect world... it cannot be better.
So I am not a guru in that sense. I am at the most a friend who has understood one thing -- that if one wants to be happy, one should drop all programmes for the future. I am just happy as I am, and that's my whole message: I would like you to be just as you are.
[The new sannyasin says he feels finished with everything except love and laughter.]
No, I can see that there is still something left, otherwise I would not have told you. Consciously you may think...
That cross is there. Consciously you may think that you have nothing else left -- you may think intellectually it is all mumbo jumbo....
[The sannyasin says that he does not know what to do when he returns to the West, but it is a comfortable not-knowing.]
It is perfectly all right not to know. In fact, it will be wrong if you know what to do. That means you will be manipulating the future from this moment. Just be there and see. Whatsoever happens is good... all that happens is good.
Once we have some expectations that it should happen this way and it doesn't, then there is trouble. And even if it happens we are not happy, because then it is just our expectation fulfilled.We knew it already, so there is no thrill, no joy. If it doesn't happen -- and there is ninety-nine percent of the possibility of it not happening -- then we are miserable. If it happens we are not ecstatic, because we knew it would. If it doesn't happen, we are very very miserable; in both ways we lose.
It is always good to remain in a not-knowing mind. That is the true mind -- a not-knowing mind, a mind that does not know what is going to happen tomorrow. About tomorrow, if it comes, we will see and respond. Whatsoever we can do in that moment, we will do. There is no need to rehearse it because no rehearsal is going to be adequate. We don't know what exactly is going to be there so whatsoever we prepare will really be a hindrance in facing the reality that will be there. It will not allow you to see what is there. It will be a prejudice; it will disfigure and distract
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