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playing roles which others have imposed on you. Others are trying to say, Be this; Be that. Just be yourself.
That's why when many people come to me and they say: Why don't you ask your sannyasins to be a little more disciplined? I say, I cannot. If the discipline comes from their own understanding it is okay. If it is not coming, that too is okay. Who am I to force any discipline on you? I am here to make you free.
If out of freedom a discipline is born, and you become mature, understanding, responsible, it is good. If not, that too is good.
But, I am not here to impose any discipline on you. An imposed discipline is a slavery, and when it comes from your innermost core it is freedom, freedom fulfilled, freedom come to its ultimate blossoming.
Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 4
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Bring the other two Buddhas also!
24 August 1975 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7508240
ShortTitle: TREAS402
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 89 mins
Question 1
IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE INSIDE WITH YOU?
Whenever you are with yourself you ARE with me, and there is no other way to be with me. So don't create a duality between you and me. Just try to be with yourself, just try to be your withinness, and you are with me!
Language is not capable of saying anything about a non-dual reality. Whatsoever is said in language is bound to be dual. And when you are with me neither you are nor I am. Whenever you are really YOUR BEING you are a nobody, a vast emptiness a whole sky with no boundaries. And then you are not only with yourself you are with the trees, with the clouds, with the mountains, with the sands and with the seas... when you are with yourself you become the whole.
That is the meaning of the Socratic insistence: Know thyself. If you can know yourself you have know all that can be known -- or that which is worth knowing. If you miss yourself you can know much, but all that knowledge is just rubbish. It may hide your ignorance, it cannot dispel it. It may make you knowledgeable but it will not make you understanding, it will not open the
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