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on cutting their roots. so there are trees in Japan, four-hundred-year-old trees, just six inches high. If you cut the roots how can the grow? They think that this is an art and it is appreciated by foolish people all over the world. People go to see those trees and they think something great has been done! They are centuries old and the gardeners have been keeping them generation after generation. The older the tree, if it is not alowed to grow, the more artful it is understood to be. It is ugly to see those trees.
But that is the situation of every child in the world; those trees are very representative. What do we do to children? -- we cut their roots ... unknowingly, of course. We want to help but we are so unconscious that our help is a hindrance, not a help.
So this is going to be your work. This will help you to wake up and this will help the child to grow in the right direction.
(To Hugo)
The time has now come to go beyond mind. Mind is our bondage. Mind means the past, and to go beyond the mind means to live in the present. Slip out of the past, don't allow ot to interfere anymore, because to love through the past is to live a dead life. The past is dead. Living through it is living in a grave. That's why there is so much misery in the world and so much deadness, insensivity, unconsciousness: people are not really alive. They are not flowering; there seems to be no growth happening. They are simply born, and vegetate and one day die. Their whole life consists of very meaningless actovities, trivia. They don't attain any significance. They can't say in the end that life has been a great benediction. They go frustrated, disappointed, disillusioned -- but nobody is responsible for it except themselves. If we live through the mind is going to happen.
Now we start living the life of meditation -- and meditation means the life of no-mind. Don't allow thoughts to interfere. Be in direct contact with existence: with trees, with rocks, rivers, people. Become a child again; then the circle is complete. One is born as a child, one should die as a child. Jesus sys: Unless you are like small children you will not enter into my kingdom
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