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it, you don't control your life any more. You live in a let go and each moment you respond.
There are two ways to live a life. One way is to manage it, to control it, to plan it, to carry decisions from the past and to force the future according to the past. That's what everybody is doing and everybody is creating a hell out of life. Another way -- the enlightened way of life -- is not to carry any plan, not to carry any decision from the past, but just to wait for the moment to come and to respond out of your totality.
Surrendered, you become total. When you surrender the ego, you surrender your plans, your past, your future -- you surrender your mind. Now only emptiness is left behind. You will be acting out of that emptiness. Those will not be reactions -- they will be actions. Not that you will be deciding them -- they will be decided by your totality.
I am here to help you to become as independent as possible. If you become dependent on me, the whole point is lost. I don't want that you should lean on me because that will be crippling you. If you start walking with my legs and you start seeing through my eyes, you will go blind, you will be paralysed.
Learn from me but be yourself. Remain available to me, but don't become an imitator. Remain open, vulnerable, but there is no need to follow me. It is delicate, and great sensitivity is needed to understand it.
Your problem is a real problem; it has to be faced. Two things are simple: either you become an egoist and you say, 'I cannot surrender' -- that is simple -- or you say, 'I surrender. Now I will become dependent.' That too is easy... both are easy.
What I am indicating is to be surrendered and remain yourself. I am asking a paradox, but in that very paradox is beauty and benediction.
[The Tathata group is present. The assistant leader said: It seemed to me in this group that the answer happened before the question came up. I felt like I'd been in that room in those twenty-four hours, for my whole life. Since that time, I ride in a rickshaw, and I feel as if I've been in the rickshaw my whole life. I'm eating a meal and I feel as if I've been eating the dinner
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