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Three miles have passed, and you are still bothered by it?"
This is what happens if you start fighting with anything -- it may be sex, it may be ego, it may be greed, it may be fear, it may be anger, whatsoever -- if you start fighting with it. And how will you drop it? Other than fight, how are you going to drop it? You will push hard but where will you push it? Anything pushed goes deep down into your own unconscious. And anything in the unconscious is far more powerful than in the conscious, because conscious is only one part; the unconscious is nine times bigger than that. And in the conscious mind at least you are aware what is there. In the unconscious mind it is so dark, you don't know what is there; and it is nine times bigger, more powerful. It can take over your conscious effort any moment.
Now, what is happening to this old monk? Many things at the same time. The girl was beautiful; he has missed a chance. He is angry. He is jealous. He is full of sexuality. He is what he is saying the younger one is -- really in a mess. The younger one is completely clean. He took the girl over and left her on the other shore, and that's that, the thing is finished. But the younger monk must have been of tremendous awareness.
That awareness is my teaching. Never fight with greed, ego, anger, jealousy, hatred -- all those enemies that the religions have been telling you, "Fight with them, crush them, kill them. You cannot kill them, you cannot crush them, you cannot fight with them; all that you can do is just be aware of them.
And the moment you are aware, they are gone. In the light, the darkness simply disappears.
Question 2
BELOVED OSHO,
ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF COMMUNISM?
Yes and no. First let us discuss the no. I am against the communism that exists in the Soviet Union, in China, and in other communist countries. I am against the communism that Karl Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, these people, have given birth to, because what they have given birth to is not communism; that's why I am against it.
What they have given birth to is a dictatorial, inhuman, slave society -- undemocratic, with no respect for
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