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but your consciousness; you are one. Awareness in a sudden enlightening, makes you one, and out of that oneness by and by you will move more totally into things. So just keep alert -- don't force, don't be a fighter. What can be done?
If you are doing something and only half-heartedly -- you are dancing and you feel that you are dancing half-heartedly -- watch. Okay, go on doing it half-heartedly and go on observing that half of your being is not participating. lust watch: the horse is dancing and the rider is not participating or the rider is dancing and the horse is not participating. You become a watcher -- this watching will break these two.
One day out of watching comes fusion. Suddenly you are one, and in that moment you will see that you are dancing totally or you have stopped totally; both are good. I am not saying that you should dance totally -- that is not the point; even if you stop totally, that's good. To be total is good. Either go totally, or stop totally -- either way you become integrated; half-heartedly, you never become integrated. So don't bring will in -- bring more awareness.
Far Beyond the Stars
Chapter #5
Chapter title: Sannyas is pure adventure
7 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7707075
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First, a few things about sannyas.... It is an initiation into the formless. It is not an initiation into some rigid form, it is not giving you a certain discipline -- on the contrary it is an initiation into freedom, into a formless creative chaos.
The old concept of sannyas all over the world was to give you a rigid discipline, to give you a character, to give you a certain form, a pattern, a life style. My sannyas is not like that at all; it is a radical charge. I don't give you any character, because to me the man of character is a dead man.
I would like to take all character from you so you are left in a creative chaos... so each moment one has to respond to life, not out of a certain pattern. The pattern comes from the past, and if the pattern predominates, the past predominates, and to be
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