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the truck driver.
"No," lisped the man, "it's just that I'm on the wrong side of the bar."
That's how the mind goes on playing the game -- rationalizing everything.
The psychiatrist was telling his patient, "It took us three years, but now you are cured. This is your last treatment."
"Thanks, Doc," said the patient. "But before I leave, kiss me."
"I tell you that you're cured. You are a healthy person again."
"I know, Doc, but kiss me."
"You don't understand. I got rid of all those crazy ideas. You are cured."
"Sure," his patient persisted, "but just kiss me."
"Kiss you? I shouldn't even be on the couch with you!"
Now, the psychiatrist and the patient, the helpers and the helped, the guide and the guided are all in the same boat.
Unless you can find a buddha you will be following some other blind person. Unless you are with a man like Buddha, Jesus, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, you will be with people who are just like you. That is one of the greatest calamities that is happening to the modern mind, to the modern man. The spiritual guides have disappeared -- long ago they disappeared. They were replaced first by the priests. Now the priests are being replaced by the psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychologists. The priests were blind, now the psychiatrists, the psychoanalysts are blind. They don't know what they are doing, they don't know where they are. They go on helping people and they are unconscious, sometimes even more than the patient. They are insane, sometimes more so than the patient, but they are professional experts, they have studied, they are full of information. They know everything about light without ever having experienced any light. They know everything about what integration is, but it is only ABOUT -- they don't have any inner integration. Their own beings are in fragments, falling apart.
One can be helped only by a buddha, by one who is awakened, because only the awakened can wake those who are fast asleep. If you are asleep and your psychoanalyst is asleep, who is going to wake you up?
In the ancient days people searched far and wide for a buddha; they traveled
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