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the truth, intentionally fleeing it. The purpose of negative teaching is to disturb and provoke man into being himself, since he is fleeing, negating himself. Negative teaching is negation of the negation.
Your whole life is negative; right now, negative. You are escaping from yourself -- this is your negation. Now, this negation can be negated only by another negation. And when two negations meet, they cut each other, they destroy each other, they disappear into that fight.
And the positive is left. It cannot even be called positive -- there is no negative left, so it cannot be called positive. It is the cosmic, the truth. The eternal, the ultimate, the absolute.
Buddha's path is of NETI NETI -- neither this nor that. He says: Go on negating. A moment comes when nothing is found to negate any more, and that is the moment of nirvana. When nothing is left to negate, only nothingness in your hands, then freedom happens. You are freed from the self and all its projections.
WE EAT, EXCRETE, SLEEP, AND GET UP;
THIS IS OUR WORLD.
ALL WE HAVE TO DO AFTER THAT
IS TO DIE.
THIS STATEMENT HAS TWO MEANINGS. The first, for the ignorant man: this is your life, your whole life -- see what your life consists of.
WE EAT, EXCRETE, SLEEP, AND GET UP;
THIS IS OUR WORLD.
That's what you have been doing. Mind must be utterly stupid, otherwise just to do this -- eating, excreting, sleeping, getting up again... and the whole circle starts. This is your life. You move in this way -- day in, day out, year in, year out. Life in, life out, you go on moving in this way.
ALL WE HAVE TO DO AFTER THAT
IS TO DIE.
Only one thing is left out of the circle, that is death. Sooner or later, that too arrives. This is the whole story.
Omar Khayyam in his Rubaiyat says: "Some little talk a while of me and thee there was, and then no more of thee and me." Just a little talk, a repetitive talk, just a little gossipping. Eating, excreting, sleeping and dying: this is all your life consists of.
But the question arises: But this is what even an enlightened person goes on doing. What did Buddha do
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