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religion; you may not be a hindu or a mohammedan or a christian. You may not even use the word 'god', but if you say yes to life you have started growing.
With yes we grow; with no we stop. With no we are disconnected; with yes we are reconnected.
[The new sannyasin, who has spent seven years in India, says he has been thinking about things a lot.]
If thinking can lead you to a man who can teach you how to drop thinking, then it has done its work!
[The sannyasin says: It is difficult to drop thinking... It is difficult to know when to say yes to life or not.... What is to say yes to life, for example in my case?]
Somebody holds your hand: see whether holding his hand you are saying yes or no. You will immediately feel... You want to take your hand away? -- you are saying no. Somebody hugs you: just watch whether you are in the hug or are withdrawing, and you will know whether you are saying no or yes. Somebody is talking to you: watch whether you are saying no to him or yes. You can be polite and you go on saying no. You are feeling tired, you want to get rid of this man; he is boring. You go on saying no. On the surface you are polite and you are listening -- and you are not listening at all, because how can you listen with a no?
In fact I have never come across any boring person in life, and I have come across so many people -- some of them very very famous for being boring! But I have not felt them to be boring because when you say yes, even a boring person becomes interesting. It is a phenomenon; boredom is not an ordinary art, mm? If you listen to him with love and with acceptance, even he is something beautiful to look into. When you say no, that creates boredom.
So, next time when you are feeling bored, say yes, and see the change immediately coming. It is an instant change -- the whole climate changes.
Just this way, by and by become alert about when you say yes and when you say no.... And there are a thousand and one ways of saying yes and no. Sometimes you say verbally, sometimes you say existentially; sometimes you don't say at all, but you keep it inside. Sometimes by your movement, body movement,
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