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judgement, a totally new being will arise out of you. Then I will tell you to become active again. But one should be active only if one has attained to passivity, not before it. Then you can do many things and yet remain a non-doer.
That is what Lao Tzu calls 'action through non-action'. You still do but there is no one as the doer. There is no hankering to do. You simply do it because it is needed. Life needs it -- you do it.
So I don't see it as a problem; rather I see it as a solution. But I understand your difficulty. If one has lived on a higher pitch and only in the marketplace with noise noise noise, then when you move into a more silent place, you feel it is almost like a cemetery.
I used to live in a house outside a town. The bungalow belonged to a very rich friend, but nobody lived in it because it was so silent and so lonely that people thought there might be ghosts there; it was called a ghost bungalow.
I told the friend that I would like to live in it. He said, 'Have you gone mad? Nobody wants to live there !' But I said, 'I am going. Don't be worried ! Just give me the key.'
It was really a beautiful place... on a small lake with big forests all around it and hills, and it was ten miles from the town. I lived there for a few months, and by and by the friend and his wife started to come and see me because they became aware that there are no ghosts and that the house is not haunted or possessed.
They decided to move in with me, so I said it was perfectly good because it was a big place. They came but the wife could not live there. They had always lived in the marketplace. She said, 'It is so dead. I cannot live here, I cannot sleep at night.'
They used to live exactly in the middle of the town and almost all night the t would continue. They were accustomed to living in that noise, so when they came to that silent place they could not sleep. They were disturbed -- disturbed by the silence. I tried to convince the woman that it was a beautiful place, but they had to return to the town.
For a few more days I would like you to continue to relax. Stop condemnation, stop judgement, and start enjoying
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