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then I am no more a mirror to you, I am just a wall; then the relationship is meaningless. Unless a mirror reflects you it is not a mirror. You surrender to me so that I can give yourself back to you.
So finally you are following yourself, mm? -- I am just a 'via media'... and that has to be remembered. I only reflect you, I throw you back on yourself. I am a mirror; that's the only function.
If I can fulfill that, if I can make you aware of your real face, my work is finished. Then there is no need for the mirror: you know your face, the mirror can be forgotten.
The Further Shore
Chapter #4
Chapter title: Religion is a courting, not a conquering
4 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
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Jivan kavya: life poetry.
And poetry is the right approach towards life: prose is not the right approach. They are worlds apart -- poetry and prose -- and they are the two approaches to know.
By prose I mean the logical approach, the argumentative, the rational, and by poetry I mean the feeling approach, the aesthetic approach, the intuitive approach. Prose is male, poetry is female... and life is known only through the female. It is through the feminine that life exists -- the very centre of it is feminine, and sannyas has to be more and more feminine.
That is the difference between religion and science too: science is more male-oriented, religion is more female-oriented. Religion is soft, science is hard. Science is more like aggression, an effort to conquer nature; religion is more like courting with nature, not conquering, persuading nature, loving nature. Yes, love too conquers, but in a totally different way.... So become more and more poetic.
[The vipassana group is present. One participant says she sees things when they come within her range of vision but feels nothing inside in response... ]
I can understand. This is good; this is the first step. First one has to see things clearly, only then in the next step does feeling arise. If without a clear vision feeling arises, it will be more
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