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very fast once they become retired. Psychologists say they die ten years earlier because they don't know what else to do. Death seems the only way to get rid of a life which has become meaningless, which has always been meaningless, which has been just a rush. People are rushing not knowing where they are going. All that they know is they have to go fast and faster and faster without ever being worried 'Where exactly are you going? You may be running in a circle.' That is exactly what is happening: people are running in a circle.
The West is sun-oriented. The East is moon-oriented.
The East has become too passive, too fatalistic: 'Nothing has to be done. Simply wait, God will do it.' This is another kind of foolishness and stupidity. The East is poor, lazy, lousy, and people are not worried by anything. The misery all around, the poverty, the beggars, the illness -- nobody is worried. Everything is accepted. 'What can you do? It is God's will. We have to accept. We have just to wait. When things get too much, God will come. What else can we do?' This is the feminine mind.
THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER says you have to be exactly in the middle, neither male nor female, no leaning to any extreme. Then there is balance. Then one is active and yet remains inactive deep inside. Then one is inactive and yet remains active on the outside. On the outside be sun-oriented, on the inside be moon-oriented. Let sun and moon meet in you, and you be just exactly in the middle. And in the middle is transcendence.
THE WORK ON THE CIRCULATION OF THE LIGHT DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON THE BACKWARD-FLOWING MOVEMENT, SO THAT THE THOUGHTS ARE GATHERED TOGETHER.
Man is a centre and also a circumference. If you move towards the circumference, then you will have many thoughts. The circumference consists of the many. The centre is one. If you move towards the centre, thoughts start disappearing. At the very core all thoughts disappear; there is only awareness. That's what this secret treatise says:... SO THAT THE THOUGHTS ARE GATHERED TOGETHER.
The light has to move inwards.
When you look at a tree your eyes are throwing their light on the tree --
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