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He will have to disappear.
This world exists for the imperfect. This world exists in dialectics.
So don't try, otherwise that will be a suppression. Accept that no-part. I accept it. When I give sannyas to people I know, and I am not in any way befooled that their surrender is total. They are taking a risk. Maybe at the most fifty-one percent of their being is saying yes and forty-nine percent is saying no; that's enough. I say that's enough. There is no need for ninety-nine or one hundred percent. That type of purity is impossible.
[The Vipassana group is present. The group leader said they had been trying unsuccessfully to do something about people's posture. The photographer had taken photos of the group and when people saw them they became more aware of their posture. He asks if they should do that in each group.]
No, no need. It may be helpful but it will be against the Vipassana mood, which is that the person should rely on his own inner feelings.
Even a mirror can deceive. In fact when your photograph is being taken, even that can change you. It is very difficult to take a photograph which is natural. When you go to the mirror you are not the same person, and when you look into it you are not the same person. There is a very subtle change, because you can observe yourself, and the observation changes the observer. You start being deceptive; you start looking the way you are not. You can manipulate yourself.
That's why the mirror is loved so much. It helps you to manipulate your own body. But it is looking at yourself from the outside, and the whole Vipassana attitude is to feel yourself from the inside. This is an extrovert thing.
So it is better to tell them and to let them see from inside how they are sitting, how the body is feeling, what the body language is saying, where there is pressure or tension, whether they are relaxed or not. Teach them to feel from within.
In fact buddhist monks are not allowed to look in the mirror, because to look in the mirror means that you are preparing for others.
You are taking a bath and suddenly you become aware that somebody is watching from the keyhole.
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