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Then take a small bite and chew it, enjoy it; let it be a meditation. A very small quantity of food will be enough and will give you more satisfaction.
So these few things do for three weeks and then report to me, mm? But try for three weeks. Good!
The Shadow of the Whip
Chapter #4
Chapter title: You are Freedom
11 November 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7611115
ShortTitle: WHIP04
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[A sannyasin who is leaving for the States: For the last three or four days I feel very lost. I don't know what my position is. I don't know what my role is or anything.]
There is no need to know it and nobody knows exactly. And it is better that you don't know it. If you know who you are, if you know what your role is, you will lose all feeling. You will be fixed: you will be a thing and not a person. That's the difference between a thing and a person. A rock is a rock. A man? -- nobody knows what a man is. A man is all possibilities. A rock is an actuality -- there is no possibility. It is simply a rock, absolutely certain of what it is. Its role is predictable: it is a rock.
Man is a potentiality, he can be anything -- he can even be nothing. All doors are open, and each moment you have to decide who you are. Each moment by acting, you decide who you are -- but that decision is only for the moment, it cannot go beyond the moment. If it goes beyond the moment, you destroy all beauty in your life -- you become a thing, you are no more a person. To be a person means to be a freedom. A thousand and one alternatives are there. And you can choose any -- it is your choice.
There is nobody who has fixed your role. When you came into the world you were not given a script to live up to. You have been thrown into the world, absolutely free, to find out who you are -- it is not a given thing. And by doing things, by being a million and one things, you will feel by and by who you are. But when you come to know who you are, again you will not be a thing. Then too, you cannot define yourself. Then you know that you are a nothing. You know that you are a freedom.
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