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descends in you, surrounds you, refreshes you, gives you a shower. You are bathed and you are again new.
The second thing: peace can be negative or peace can be positive. If it is negative then it is simply a kind of withdrawal, a disinterest, an indifference to life, to existence. One is no more interested; life has lost all joy. This is the peace that so many saints in the monasteries experience; it is the peace of the cemetery. Of course when you are not occupied and when you are not in the world, you attain a certain kind of stillness, but it is negative. It is not dancing, it has no song in it. It is stagnant, it has no flow in it.
So the real peace has to be also blissful, cheerful, dancing, singing. That is the second thing to be remembered: peace alone, in itself, is not enough, because it can be negative. It has to be overflowing with joy. Then it is not the peace of the cemetery but the peace of a garden where birds sing and flowers bloom.
[A sannyasin, leaving, says she is afraid to go to the West.]
It's always... the fear is always there, and when you go from here it is very natural....
Come back again. And this fear will disappear. Once you are there, within three to four days it will be gone It happens to every sannyasin, Mm? This becomes your home; you start living in a different kind of energy system and a different energy-field, and then in going to the world you feel hesitant. You feel you are going into something which is not going to fit, you will be in a discord; that is the fear. But there is nothing to be worried about.
Just continue one meditation every day, whichever you choose. That will help you and that will keep you connected with me. Whenever you need me just put it (a box) on the heart, Mm? -- within three, four days the fear will disappear.
And come back again. Help my people there. Good.
The Shadow of the Bamboo
Chapter #7
Chapter title: None
7 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7904075
ShortTitle: BAMBOO07
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Anand Ralph. Anand means bliss, ralph means wolf. The wolf is an ancient
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