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penetrates you.
Mind is just a reflecting system, just like a mirror. You stand before the mirror and it reflects you, but the person who is reflected in the mirror is just a shadow, and howsoever beautiful, is not there. And if you start chasing that reflection, you go on infinitely chasing mirror upon mirror, and you completely forget that you are chasing reflections.
It is as if you see the moon in the lake, and you dive into the lake to catch the moon. It is not there. And the more you miss, the more desperate becomes the search. The moon is somewhere else -- it is only reflected in the lake. Nothing is wrong with the lake, nothing is wrong with the reflection, but the reflection should not be taken for reality. Then you can use the mind, and you will not be used by it.
There is nothing wrong with the mind. It is one of the most beautiful things in existence, the most complex, the most subtle thing. The universe has taken so long to evolve mind -- so it is valuable, tremendously valuable -- but one should not get identified with reflections. Use the mind and don't be used by it.
And the second thing that you ask is that you would like to create the heart. In fact there is no need. The heart is always there, only you are cut off. The bridge is broken or blocked because the whole energy moves in the mind, so the heart is left by the side, is no more...
[The visitor says: ... the mind will corrupt something that is given from the heart.]
No, mind cannot corrupt anything, because mind cannot create anything. Mind only goes on reflecting. The mirror cannot corrupt anything. What can it corrupt? If you are already corrupt, then the mirror can reflect that, it can show the corruption.
Lord Acton has said, 'Power corrupts, and corrupts absolutely.' It looks absolutely right, but it is not. Power never corrupts -- it only reveals corrupted people. In the first place, corrupted people are attracted to power. An innocent person is not worried about power. He is not interested in whether he is going to be a president or a prime minister -- the whole thing seems futile.
But a corrupted person needs more power -- to
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