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being free of both he is beyond both, he has a transcendence. He is the total person.
[A sannyasin says: There are just all these fragments and I don't know what to do with them.]
You cannot do anything; just remain as you are. Just as they have fallen apart, they will start becoming integrated.
A man can have two sorts of unities. One unity is of the ego, and the whole work here is to shatter the ego. When the rope of the ego is cut in many pieces, the parts that it was holding before start falling apart.
Then there is another sort of unity, the organic unity, which has nothing to do with the ego but has something to do with the innermost core of your being. When the ego disappears there is a period in which you will remain fragmentary. If you do something deliberately, you will again bring the ego back -- because all that you can do will be of the ego. So you simply have to wait.
It is just as if you have sown the seeds on the farm, and now you wait for clouds to come and the rains to come. the right season to come, and then they will sprout. Mm? you cannot go and persuade them and force them -- that will not be of any help.
Once the ego has broken, one falls into pieces -- it is a great achievement. Then you will see by and by that a new organic unity is arising and your fragments are melting and becoming one with a totally new sort of unity that has never been there before.
But that is something that you cannot do. At the most you can only allow space for it to happen.
For Madmen Only (Price of Admission: Your Mind)
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
3 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7704035
ShortTitle: MADMEN03
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[A sannyasin who is returning to the West says: I feel vulnerable and somehow strong... I just hope you'll be with me... through all of this turbulence.]
Yes, I will be with you. And this is really important, to be vulnerable and strong. There are people who feel strong only when they are not vulnerable; that strength is bogus. It is just a facade, a camouflage; they are weak --
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