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outside -- the answer can only come from your own heart. In fact it cannot come as an answer, it will come as a growth. It will be a blossoming, a blooming of your being.
So in a way it is foolish, but those moments when you feel that it is foolish are very rare moments of wisdom. You cannot feel foolish always, otherwise you will become enlightened!
In the Zen tradition this incidence is repeated again and again in every age with every master: somebody comes and says he wants to become a buddha and the master hits him very hard -- because the question is foolish.
Sometimes it has happened -- not always, because it depends on what type of person is being hit -- if he is really ready and on the verge, sometimes it has happened that with the first hit of the master the person has become enlightened.
He was able to see in that hit that it was foolish to ask how to be a buddha, because he was a buddha!
Now, to ask how to be a buddha is to ask a wrong thing, and if you try to become a buddha you will go astray -- because you are already that!
So these things are going to happen to ever sannyasin by and by, some day or other. Meditating, suddenly there is a ray of light and you see that it is foolish. Sometime sitting just in front of me asking something -- suddenly the realisation that it is foolish: what are you asking? What can be asked and what can be answered?
But those are very rare moments of wisdom when you feel foolish. It is only a wise man who can feel foolish. Fools never feel that they are foolish; they think they are wise. Mm? that is the definition of a foolish man: he thinks he is wise. And a wise man is one who has come to know that everything is foolish.
Very good! Just go and sit by the side of the river and be foolish!
[A sannyas couple ask about their relationship. She says they seem to love each other at different times -- they don't really meet. The man says he wants them to surrender to each other.]
The first thing: you cannot surrender to each other. You can both surrender to love but you cannot surrender to each other -- and if you want to surrender to each other you are heading
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