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one problems. They are unnecessary problems but they can create them. Each place that I find they create trouble about. So movement has become difficult but still, within six months, three months, we will move.
They have been doing that to me for my whole life. And it is natural -- they have to do it. I am a danger to their whole pattern and to their whole tradition. They are becoming more and more frightened. As more people come to me, they have more fear. It is becoming a force now, so they don't want me to have more land to move to because then it will become a world centre and that will be very difficult for them to cope with.
But it is going to happen; it is just a question of time so just wait three, four months more, and then all the children can come. If they want to stay here, they can stay here. No problem. Good!
Let Go!
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
3 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7804035
ShortTitle: LETGO!03
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[A woman, with a six-year-old child, takes sannyas. She says she is worried about her child who is very closed.]
She is a born meditator! Don't make a problem out of it. Allow her her own space. Let it be so: if she enjoys being inside herself, allow it. Don't force and drag her out, that will be destructive. We never accept children as they are. We always find something or other which has to be fixed, changed. We don't have respect for them as they are. Who are we to decide what will be right for her? We can only help her to be herself. If she is happy, just allow it; don't try to drag her in some other direction.
I can understand your problem. You must be worried about her future: if she does not open up, if she does not relate, what is going to happen to her in her life? How will she love, how will she move, how will she ever be independent? Don't be worried -- just accept her as she is. She will find her own way and she will live her life; don't interfere. The problem is in your mind, not in her being. The problem is in the mother's caring. The mother is worried. She would like to have children who are
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