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too.
And I know -- life is complicated: if you do one thing, you have to leave something else. And one has always to choose -- one cannot have all the things. But always remember: whatsoever feels to be more blissful to you, choose it, whatsoever the cost.
[A sannyasin says: I've become very floaty, very floating, while I've been here... almost a different person.]
That's how it should be! That's the right way to be. Frozen people are dead people. Floating people are alive people.
Float as widely as you can. Don't believe in boundaries, never believe in boundaries, and never allow anything to confine you -- whatsoever it is, howsoever precious it is. Never allow anything to become your imprisonment. Go on floating, moving. The more one is like a river, the closer one comes to the ocean.
The really miserable people are those who are no more rivers but have become tanks, reservoirs. They are not moving, not going anywhere -- they are just stuck, stagnant; they only die. Their life is a monotony, boredom writ large. But millions of people have decided to live that way... for a certain reason: it gives security, it is safe -- one is out of danger.
When you are floating, you are always moving into danger, because you are always moving from the known to the unknown, from the familiar into the unfamiliar. The charted is always left behind and you are going into the uncharted. One never knows.... And the mind is clever only about the past, because it knows it. It is very knowledgeable with the familiar, efficient, capable, but with the unfamiliar it is impotent, it knows nothing. One feels ignorant. That is the fear. One has to learn moment to moment, but that's how one learns. The more you move into the unfamiliar, the more knowing happens. Knowledge will be less but knowing will be more. And knowledge is meaningless -- knowing is the real thing. It gives you being.
This is my whole purpose here: to help you to become riverlike. You have melted, things have started moving. Don't get frozen again, because you will be living with frozen people. And when one is moving and others are non-moving, there is a kind of maladjustment
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