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Now the same possessiveness has entered in a new form.
It does not matter what you possess, but if you possess then you remain on the Leaky Road.
Dispossessing things does not mean escaping from things. Things are there, they will be everywhere. In the Himalayan cave also things will be there -- the mountains, the trees -- and you can start possessing them. If you sit under a certain tree, you start possessing it. This is your tree; no other ascetic can come and meditate there; he has to find his own tree. Or you start possessing the temples, the mosques, the churches. Or you start possessing philosophies -- Hindu, Christian, Mohammedan. Or you start possessing scriptures -- the Gita, the Koran, the Bible. Or you start possessing concepts of God: "This is my concept of God. Your concept is wrong and my concept is right."
Buddha cuts the root. He says there is nobody to possess. Just see the beauty of it and the tremendous import of it. He simply cuts the roots. He does not cut the branches and the leaves; they will sprout again, because the roots remain intact. Cut the root and the whole tree dies. Don't drop possessions: drop the possessor. And then you can live in the world and there is no problem. Just live in the world and don't possess because there is nobody to possess.
That's why I don't say to my sannyasins to renounce the world. I say renounce the ego and live in the world. The world cannot do you any harm. All the harm that happens happens through the ego. That's what Buddha calls 'self'; it is his word for 'ego': ATTA -- the self.
MY SELF OF LONG AGO,
IN NATURE NON-EXISTENT...
Buddha worked for six years continuously in search of the self. You have heard the famous teaching of all the ages: Know thyself! Buddha worked hard. For six years he tried from every nook and corner, from every angle, from every possible side, to penetrate into this reality of the self. But he could not find it. Know thyself, and the day you know you will know there is no self.
That day you have known -- when you know that there is no self. There is utter emptiness inside, absolute emptiness, silence undisturbed, virgin silence.
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