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don't know what I am going to be tomorrow. You cannot predict. If you can predict, you can plan. Then you know where I am going, then you know the direction, then you know my steps. You know my past, you can infer my future. But I am illogical.
If I am logical you can conclude what I am going to say tomorrow. Just by looking at what I have said in my yesterdays you can conclude logically what I am going to say tomorrow. But that is not possible. I may contradict myself completely. My every tomorrow will contradict my every yesterday, so how are you going to follow me? You will go crazy if you try to follow.
Sooner or later you will have to realize that you have to be yourself, you cannot imitate.
HIS STEPS LEAVE NO TRACE.
He is not consistent. He is not logical. He is illogical. He is like a madman.
HE HAS NO POWER.
This will be very difficult to follow because we think that the sage has power, that he is the most powerful of men. He will touch your blind eyes and they will open and you will be able to see; you are dead and he will touch you and you will be resurrected. To us a sage is a miracle-worker.
But Chuang Tzu says: He has no power, because to use power is always part of the ego. The ego wants to be powerful. You cannot persuade a wise man to use his power, it is impossible. If you can, it means some ego was left to be persuaded. He will never use his power because there is no one to use and manipulate it. The ego, the manipulator, is there no more, the boat is empty. Who will direct this boat? There is nobody.
A sage is power, but he has no power; a sage is powerful, but he has no power -- because the controller is there no more. He is energy -- overflowing, unaddressed, undirected -- but there is no one who can direct it. You may be cured in his presence, your eyes may open, but he has not opened them, he has not touched them, he has not cured you. If he thinks that he has cured you, he himself has become ill. This 'I' feeling -- I have cured -- is a greater illness, it is a greater blindness.
HE HAS NO POWER.
HE ACHIEVES NOTHING, HE HAS NO REPUTATION.
AND SINCE HE JUDGES NO ONE,
NO
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