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footprints of the bull. Behind sex are the footprints of the bull. If you escape from sex, anger, greed, this and that, you will be escaping from the footprints of the bull -- and then it will be impossible to find who you are.
These two things: that man is interested in fictions more.... Have you seen people in the theater looking at a movie, how different they are there? They cry; if something happens on the screen, tears go on flowing from their eyes. In real life you don't find them so kind, so compassionate. In real life they may be very hard. But looking at a picture -- and nothing is there on the screen; just light and shadow, a game, a dream -- they cry and weep and they laugh, and they become excited. Rather than watching the movie, it will be more valuable if you watch the audience. What is happening to these people?
Man seems to be more interested in illusions than in reality. And if you try to awaken somebody from his illusions he gets angry; he will never forgive you. He will take revenge -- you disturbed him. These fictions of the mind and a constant readiness to escape are the two problems which have to be faced.
I have heard: One mother wanted to spend Saturday afternoon downtown, and father, a statistician, reluctantly agreed to give up his golf and sit with the children. On her return, the father handed over the following report on the afternoon:
"Dried tears -- nine times. Tied shoes -- thirteen times. Toy balloons purchased -- three per child. Average life of balloon -- thirteen seconds. Cautioned children not to cross the street -- twenty-one times. Number of Saturdays I will do this again -- zero."
A statistician is a statistician. Mind is very mathematical; that's why mind has become so powerful. That's why it is so difficult to get out of the mind. So much is invested in it: your whole efficiency, your whole caliber, your whole career -- everything depends on the mind. And in meditation you have to come out of it. Hence many times you decide to come out, but deep down you go on clinging.
Mind pays in many ways. Particularly in the world, if you exist with no-mind you will not be able to compete,
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