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has the right to enjoy a little. But if you don't enjoy it then the very understanding of its cause will help. You will get rid of it, and without being torturous. For one month, don't kick yourself; rather go into the process.
[A sannyasin says: For fifty years I've been looking for something and now I'm here.]
Mm mm. Stop looking, and it will happen! Looking too much for it becomes the barrier, because there are things which happen only indirectly, you cannot look for them directly. All that is beautiful happens only indirectly -- happiness, love, god. It catches hold of you unawares, it is always a surprise. But if you are looking for it, that means you will not allow it to be a surprise. And you have been looking too intently, hence you have been missing. Because to look intently means one becomes very tense, and for something to happen you have to be relaxed.
Forget all about it. Just be here, meditate, enjoy, for no specific goal as such but for the sheer joy of it. And then one day you will be surprised and you will not be able to believe that it has happened while you were not looking for it.
[The sannyasin answers: I read a lot of indian scripture... ]
Just forget all about it. Those indian scriptures are very dangerous; they destroy people's minds, and ninety-nine percent of them is just rubbish.
[The sannyasin continues: I loved Zen buddhism.]
Love won't help, because love is also your intellect. You liked it...
Mm, intellectually it was a pleasure to you. But these things are not to be loved or liked; you have to become a Zen person. And that's what I'm trying to say -- to relax and forget all about and burn all the scriptures. That's what Zen is... and zen scriptures are included. When you burn scriptures, burn not only Christian and Hindu; Zen scriptures are included. And when you destroy the statues, Buddha's statues have to be destroyed with others. Then one becomes clean. You have been looking too much, that's why you are wearing such big glasses! Rather than finding anything, you have simply harmed your eyes.
Do a few groups here.
These three groups I suggest to you; try to manage
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