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time when you come to me, if you find what you are really swallowing, tell me, mm? It will go. Things are, going really well. Good.
[A saanyasin says: The group was very good for me. I feel like a lot has happened.]
You look open. You were like a bud -- closed. Now a few petals have opened and you look a little open. Very good.
In Tao, go deeper and cooperate with the processes in the group. Never be a miser. When one is doing something, one should do it totally, wholeheartedly. So make all the effort that you can, all that is humanly possible.
A great intensity is needed to transform a person because intensity creates fire, and fire is a must for the alchemical change -- so that the lower metal can be transformed into a higher metal. Great fire is needed -- and that fire comes only by intensity.
You did well. Make a little more effort. Go a little deeper and higher in Tao....
The Great Nothing
Chapter #5
Chapter title: None
23 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7609235
ShortTitle: GREATN05
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[A visitor says: The way I feel at the moment there is that there is no such thing as sannyas... Who is there to be a sannyasin?]
That's the point to be understood. If you can understand that you are also not there, then you have understood rightly. But if sannyas is not there, religion is not there, meditation is not there, and you remain there, then you have not understood at all.
... So saying is just meaningless. Then this is just a trick of the mind so that whatsoever you want to remain, you remain, and whatsoever you are afraid of, you say it is not there; there is nothing like sannyas.
But there is something like the ego. So if you have understood, drop the ego. Then there really is no sannyas, no religion. But if the ego remains then there is sannyas, there is religion, there is Buddhism and there is Buddha.
These are all devices to help the ego to disappear -- nothing else. These are all remedies for a certain illness. The remedy is not there if the illness is not there. That Prajnaparmitasutra
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