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spirit, it is a renegade, a Judas -- don't repress it, because repression is not going to help. Each night, whenever you have any desire, any erotic desire arising, for half an hour close the eyes and let that desire have full play in fantasy. Whatsoever you want to do, do in fantasy. Don't condemn it; it is natural, just human. Devote that half hour completely to it so that it is finished with.
Soon you will start seeing the whole game of the mind, and within six months all ideas of other persons will disappear from the mind. And when that happens, for the first time you will know what love is. Up to now you have only heard the word, mm? So six months. And then every month you go on reporting how things are going. Good, Anupama.
[A sannyasin says she has a tension like a 'greed for God' and cannot accept her stupidity.]
Nothing is to be done. They are needed, they are fun! If you are not stupid at all and you become completely wise, life will be too burdened. A little foolishness is good so that one can enjoy also. And every great man... it is not that he has dropped foolishness, he has used it. He has transformed it into his wisdom.
Nothing has to be dropped and nothing has to be cut away, otherwise you will always remain a fragment, you will never be whole. That stupid pa] t is also you. And who is condemning it? It is the ego. In fact the stupid part is more natural than this ego which goes on condemning and saying that this part is stupid and to drop it.
Don't be serious -- there is no need, no need. And whether you accept yourself or not, you are you. Your rejection doesn't make any change. It only makes you miserable, that's all. If you accept, you can dance and be happy and celebrating. If you don't accept, you become serious and tense. So the real question is not whether to accept or not, but whether you want to be happy or unhappy.
Once Diogenes, who had become a hundred years old, was asked by somebody why he was always happy and what was his secret. He said, 'Every morning when I get up I have two alternatives -- to be happy or not to be happy. I always choose to be happy!'
What is the point in being miserable!
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