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is tremendous. Even Buddha and Mahavir, their renunciation is not so total because they are still interested in achieving something -- maybe not in the world; they are interested in enlightenment.
Lao Tzu says, 'All nonsense! The world is nonsense -- enlightenment too!' He simply sits there doing nothing.
Just see the beauty of it. No interest means no desire. No enthusiasm means no passion, no fever, no madness. You are becoming saner, but you have been insane for so long that the sanity will look a little weird. You will have to get accustomed to it.
But I am happy. You may be dull -- I bless you. Be really dull! And I don't see restlessness. I see a certain tranquillity coming, a certain stillness descending on you. I can almost feel it and touch it; it is there. But you have a wrong attitude about it, so that is creating a barrier.
Drop that barrier and let it drown you completely, utterly.
[A sannyasin says:... the last conversation that I had with my father before he killed himself. It was about being a Jew and my feeling that I was on the outside.
I asked him what it meant to be a Jew, because he said to me that my feeling of being on the outside of things had to do with being a Jew. He said to be a Jew was to live in discontinuity.]
Mm mm.... In fact everybody on this earth is a Jew, because this whole world is something that doesn't belong to us, and we don't belong to it. We are wanderers, strangers, outsiders -- man as such is an outsider. Do whatsoever, but you can never become an insider in this world because this world is unreal. You cannot become part of it because you come from reality. Man is a spirit and the world is material. We can go on playing the game, but we remain outsiders. We can try to forget ourselves, we can create a sort of oblivion, but it is just a trick; it doesn't help. We are strangers. This fact has to be realised. And that is the meaning of us being a discontinuity.
When we are in God, we are a continuity. When we are in the world, we are a discontinuity. We are uprooted from our soil... we are no more that which we could be. We are no more in the space that is ours --
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