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you.
And the definition of meditation is also the definition of the disciple: the art of listening to the master. So really be a Simon!
Crucify the head, crown the heart.
(to Vincente): If you surrender to existence you are victorious; immediately you are the crowned one -- that is the meaning of the word "christ.". But Christ was crucified. His crucifixion was really his crowing ceremony. For those who understand, for those who have eyes to see, his crucifixion is a crowing ceremony because at the last moment on the cross he surrendered totally. He said: "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done." That was his last prayer. That is surrender.
To have one's own will is egoistic; to allow God's will to happen to you is surrender. To be with God and in God is to be victorious; there can be no other victory greater than his.
A sannyasin has to live this paradox: the paradox of surrendering and realizing victory.
(Veet Stanley: beyond the stony field)
We have all been stony fields, hence nothing has grown. We are all rocky inside -- so many blocks, so many stones and so many hindrances to growth. But we go on accumulating them, thinking them to be precious, thinking them to be diamonds. And they are not diamonds. They become more and more weighty on our soul; the heart is crushed underneath. But in the past all the societies all over the world have praised those qualities -- of being hard like a rock. They have been thought to be very manly. They have been praised, honored, because the society needed soldiers. It needed people to kill people and be killed by other people. It needed hard people living in the head and not in the heart. It needed people who couldn't feel, couldn't be sensitive. Only such people can be forced to be slaves because they will function like machines. Efficient they will be, but human they will not be.
The history of humanity up to now is not really a history of humanity. Humanity has yet to be born. Yes, once in a while there has been a human being but that is nothing much to brag about; if after thousands of years one Christ or one Buddha is born, that is nothing much. In fact each one should
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