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his own yoga, because everybody is so different -- how can one follow just a dead rule? The dead rule is just an indication.
It is just as when you purchase material from the shop and then you cut it according to your body and make a dress out of it.
So these rules that are given by patanjali are just material -- you have to cut it and make something out of it for your own use. Nobody can give that to you ready-made.
That's why I am not much interested in yoga. I am more interested in Patanjali -- he gives the basic philosophy of it. If you have understood it, then you can find out your own way. So just don't bother about it.
For Madmen Only (Price of Admission: Your Mind)
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7704045
ShortTitle: MADMEN04
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[A sannyasin returning to the West says he will stay with his brother: My brother is a carpenter on the river -- he works with boats.]
Very good. Just be there, mm? by the river. It is good to be with a carpenter; people who work with their hands are beautiful people. It is not just accidental that Christ was born to a carpenter. It would have been difficult for him to have been born to a moneylender or something like that -- it would have been impossible. That would have been really a miracle!
It is easier to be born of a virgin, not such a great miracle, than to be born of a moneylender or to be born of a politician -- that would have been a greater miracle.
So just go, meditate, sit by the river, mm? and help your brother.
[The sannyasin then says: One day I felt very foolish doing meditations -- they all seemed.... Well, I just felt foolish... and foolish to be sitting here in front of you asking questions.]
Mm, it is a good experience. Sometimes it comes -- because in fact it is foolish. To be seeking is foolish, because that which we are seeking we already have. To meditate is foolish because meditation is not something that you can do -- it is a state of non-doing.
To ask is foolish, because the answer cannot come from
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