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quality is different.
I have heard about a woman who was complaining against a man in the court. The magistrate asked, 'Again and again you say that this man raped you. When did he rape you?'
And the woman said, 'When? January. February, March. April, May, June, July, August, September, October, Novem-ber, December. The whole year -- rape and rape and rape and nothing else.'
The magistrate was surprised. He said, 'How could he rape you the whole year?'
The woman said, 'He is my husband.'
But then why do you call it rape? Legally it is not rape.'
The woman said, 'It is still rape. He did not love me.'
You can rape even your wife if you don't love her. The physical act of making love to or raping a woman may be the same, but the inner quality differs.
With the sun energy, science is born: it is the rape of nature. With the moon energy, poetry, art, painting, dance, music are born: it is love playing with nature. The East has lived through art, through music, dance, drama. The West has been trying to use male energy too much. The West has lost balance, but so has the East no society has yet evolved which can be called 'Israel', which can be called Tao, which has transcended both or synthesised both in such harmony that the antagonism has disappeared.
Tao is the goal: to create a human being who is fully integrated, totally integrated, and also to create a human society which is totally integrated.
Now this story. These few things I have told you will help you to understand it.
HUI ANG VISITED KING K'ANG OF SUNG. THE KING STAMPED HIS FOOT, COUGHED AND SAID FIERCELY, 'WHAT PLEASES ME IS COURAGE AND STRENGTH. I TAKE NO PLEASURE IN MEN WHO PREACH MORALITY. WHAT HAVE YOU TO TEACH ME?'
Now look at the attitude. This is not an attitude of somebody who wants to learn -- it is the attitude of the rapist who wants to snatch.
THE KING STAMPED HIS FOOT, COUGHED AND SAID FIERCELY, 'WHAT PLEASES ME IS COURAGE AND STRENGTH. I TAKE NO PLEASURE IN MEN WHO PREACH MORALITY. WHAT HAVE YOU TO TEACH ME?'
This is no way to learn. This is insulting. No Master would agree to teach this man. In
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