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in fact teaching is not possible, only learning is possible. If you allow, then the learning will flower.'
Lieh Tzu was with his Master for many years, just sitting silently, not doing anything, just becoming more and more passive. A day arrived when he was absolutely silent: there was not a ripple of thought in his being, not a wave. His energy was totally there, a reservoir, a placid lake with no waves, no wind blowing -- and he understood.
In a single moment it happens. Truth is not a process, it is a happening. It is not gradual, it needs no time to happen. If time is needed, the time is needed only for you because you cannot be silent right now. If you can be silent. it can happen right now. It happens always in silence.
What happens in silence? When you are silent, you are not the boundaries dissolve, you are one with the total.
Then what is the function of a Master? The function of the Master is JUST to be close to you, so that you can have a taste of someone who has tasted the whole, so he can become a VIA MEDIA. It is difficult for you to taste the whole because you are so full of the ego. Somebody who is egoless, in whom God is flowing easily, one who is glowing with God, streaming with his energy... just by the side of him, sitting silently, waiting, some day you are overflooded.
Let me tell you one Taoist story.
A disciple of Lao Tzu said 'Master, I have arrived.'
Lao Tzu said 'If you say you have arrived. then it is certain that you have not arrived.'
The disciple waited for a few months, then one day he said 'You were right, Master. Now, it HAS ARRIVED.'
First he had said 'I have arrived'. and the Master denied. And then after a few months, one day. suddenly he burst open, and he said 'It has arrived.'
Lao Tzu looked with tremendous compassion and love and patted his head. And he said Now it is right. Now, tell me what has happened. Now I would like to listen. What has happened?'
He said 'Up to that day when you said 'If you say you have arrived. then it is certain that you have not arrived'' I was making effort. I was doing all that I could do, I was trying hard. The day
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