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ONE JUDGES HIM.
SUCH IS THE PERFECT MAN --
HIS BOAT IS EMPTY.
And this is going to be your path. Empty your boat. Go on throwing out whatever you find in the boat until everything is thrown out and nothing is left, even YOU are thrown out, nothing is left, your being has become just empty.
The last thing and the first thing is to be empty: once you are empty you will be filled. The all will descend on you when you are empty -- only emptiness can receive the all, nothing less will do, because to receive all you have to be empty, boundlessly empty. Only then can the all be received. Your minds are so small they cannot receive the divine. Your rooms are so small you cannot invite the divine. Destroy this house completely because only the sky, space, total space, can receive.
Emptiness is going to be the path, the goal, everything. From tomorrow morning try to empty yourself of all that you find within: your misery, your anger, your ego, jealousies, sufferings, your pain, your pleasures -- whatever you find, just throw it out. Without any distinction, without any choice, empty yourself. And the moment you are totally empty, suddenly you will see that you are the whole, the all. Through voidness, the whole is achieved.
Meditation is nothing but emptying, becoming nobody.
In this camp move as a nobody. And if you create anger in somebody and you collide, remember, you must be there in the boat, that's why it is happening. Soon, when your boat is empty, you will not collide, there will be no conflict, no anger, no violence -- nothing.
And this nothing is the benediction, this nothing is the blessing. For this nothing you have been searching and searching.
Enough for today.
The Empty Boat
Chapter #2
Chapter title: The Man of Tao
11 July 1974 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7407110
ShortTitle: BOAT02
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 129 mins
THE MAN OF TAO ACTS WITHOUT IMPEDIMENT,
HARMS NO OTHER BEING BY HIS ACTIONS,
YET HE DOES NOT KNOW HIMSELF TO BE KIND AND GENTLE.
HE DOES NOT STRUGGLE TO MAKE MONEY,
AND
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