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to be in you, then an equilibrium is attained. That's why my sannyas looks contradictory, paradoxical, because I am giving sannyas to people who are going to live in the world, I am not telling anybody to move to the monastries. I am insisting -- Remain in the market. If the market and the meditation can both go together there will be an equilibrium attained -- which is what Lao Tzu says: THE SECOND IS, NEVER TOO MUCH.
Even too much of God is bad. Too much of meditation is a disease. Too much of anything is wrong. It has happened in the East, we have done too much meditation. In Zen monastries they are doing eight hours, ten hours, per day. It seems they are born here only to meditate, nothing else. Their whole life seems to be just sitting. They don't enrich life. They don't enrich themselves by life experiences. They don't move in the world -- they are afraid; fear-ridden. And all their meditation is nothing but deep suppression. Meditate, but go to the market, because there is the test -- whether you have been meditating rightly or not.
THE THIRD IS: NEVER BE THE FIRST IN THE WORLD.
That's very beautiful -- and that too is a part of love. Whenever you love you don't want to be first in the world; that's why I said: When love goes wrong, politics is born. Politics is the effort to be first in the world -- to be the president, to be the prime minister, to be the richest person in the world, to be the most famous in the world, to be first in the world.
Have you watched? If you love somebody you would like HIM to be the first in the world, not yourself. Suddenly a change of inner being happens. If you love somebody you would like HIM to be the first. And if you love the whole world -- then you would like to be the last.
That's what Jesus says: Those who are first in this world will be the last in the kingdom of my God. And vice versa.
Lao Tzu says: THE THIRD IS: NEVER BE THE FIRST IN THE WORLD. The very ambition of being first shows that you missed life. You are not blessed. You are not exalted. You are not fulfilled.
Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.
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