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never be direct. If you try to convince him, you will simply create much argument; that will not help. He will become more defensive and egos are very argumentative.
When a person is involved too much in something like marxism, he simply lives through the intellect. His whole training is of the mind. From the very beginning he has a negative belief that nothing else exists; he is already prejudiced. It is very difficult to bring news to him that something that he has always believed does not exist, exists. It is easier for him to think that you have gone mad rather than to think that he has always been wrong. That is not easy.
But if you try to convince him intellectually on his own grounds, you will not be able. First he will become defensive. He will become very argumentative -- and when somebody is argumen-tative, then there are many barriers and communication is lost.
And the second thing: whatsoever you have attained, whatsoever you have glimpsed is something beyond the mind. It is something of the heart, something concerned with love, and you cannot propose it like a syllogism. It is not a process that can be analysed. It is an event which cannot be analysed... a simple event. It is not a continuity. When there is a process, you can analyse it. And marxists are very efficient in analysing processes. Their whole methodology is of dialectics; to analyse a process into divisions -- thesis, antithesis, synthesis -- very simple.
But this is something not part of any process, because the innermost being is not a process at all. It is already perfect. It is not moving towards perfection -- it has already arrived. It has never been away. It has never gone on any journey. The innermost being is absolutely perfect, and when it is, it is felt as an event, a simple event; nothing behind it, nothing ahead of it -- an atomic event. You cannot divide it; it is indivisible. You cannot argue about it. You cannot manage proofs for it; you cannot collect evidence for it. You can be a witness but in a very indirect way.
So remember it, otherwise you will mess up the whole thing and you will not be able to help him. It is very possible that he
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