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emptiness.
How can you chase emptiness? The chaser has to cease, only then the emptiness is there -- so how can you chase it? How can you seek it? The seeker has to drop. You have to disappear completely, utterly.
People have even made a goal of that. The mind seems to be so addicted, that whatsoever is said, it will make a goal out of it. For example, I go on saying be here and now, and I know well you will try to be here and now. You miss the point -- because in the very trying you have missed. You cannot try to be here and now, because by the time you are trying, the here and now is passing. You can simply relax. You can be, but you cannot try.
If you understand me -- finished! Then there is nothing to be done.
But you go on coming to me. You ask me, 'What is to be done?' I go on telling you, 'Do this, do that.' That is just a way to tire you, to exhaust you, so that one day, by sheer tiredness you say, 'No more!' -- and you relax. Otherwise nothing is lacking. When I see you, you are buddhas -- chasing empty shadows. Then each and everything becomes a nightmare. "An old man was sitting on a park bench, enjoying the late spring sunshine, when another old man sat down at the other end of the bench. They viewed each other cautiously and finally one of them heaved a tremendous, heartfelt sigh.
The other rose at once and said, 'If you're going to talk politics, I'm leaving."'
If you feel that somebody is going to give you an ideal and goal, leave him immediately, because the disease is very infectious and once you are caught in it, it becomes chronic.
Nothing has to be done. The doing has to be dropped -- not by effort, but by understanding.
If you understand that goals have not helped you, if you understand that becoming has not helped you, then in that understanding, something within you stops. In that understanding, something falls, drops, on its own accord. Not that you drop it; otherwise you will continually ask, 'How to drop it? How to drop this constant chasing? How to drop ideals?'
No, you cannot drop it. If you are trying to drop it, again... again here you go. You cannot drop it; it will drop
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