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that you can hope for the future and somehow bear the frustration and tolerate it, and console yourself.
Mind and time are not two things but aspects of one thing. When both disappear for the first time YOU ARE in your absolute glory. Say it this way -- you have become a god, a Buddha.
And ask the awakened ones: they all say the same thing, that it has to be accomplished without any effort on your part. It is the effort that has created the whole mess.
Dropping all effort, just sitting silently looking within -- WU-WEI.
Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 3
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Don't do Nothing!
12 August 1975 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7508120
ShortTitle: TREAS302
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 77 mins
Question 1
IS NOT THE SEARCH FOR ENLIGHTENMENT A SELFISH SEARCH?
Yes, it is. And the most selfish. There is nothing like it, it is incomparably selfish.
And one has to be selfish, there is no other way to be. And all the teachings that go on telling you not to be selfish have not helped; rather, they have distracted your being, they have made you unnatural.
Self is your centre, and to be selfish is the only way there is to be. The more you try to be NOT SELFISH the more you become eccentric. (The word eccentric is beautiful; it simply means off-centre.)
Then you are rooted no more in yourself, then you are grounded no more in your being, and a man who is not grounded in his being lives a false life, lives an artificial life. His whole life is more like a dream than like a reality.
And deep down you cannot help. Deep down you remain selfish. At the most you become hypocrites.
You try to be unselfish, but that is an impossibility. Even in your effort to be unselfish you will remain selfish. So you create a duality, a conflict, and whatsoever you say on the surface deep down you go on denying it -- and you know it well because how can you deceive yourself.' The surface says one thing, the depth goes on broadcasting just the opposite.
It happened, there was a case against Mulla Nasrudin in the court and
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