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so I have to do it. I have to be spontaneous." You have misunderstood. That is not going to make your life beautiful, blissful. You will be continuously in conflict again -- now with outside people.
By'spontaneity' Tantra means a spontaneity full of awareness. So the first thing in order to be spontaneous is to be fully aware. The moment you are aware, you are neither in the trap of the mind nor in the trap of the body. Then real spontaneity flows from your very soul -- from the sky, from the sea, your spontaneity flows. Otherwise, you can change your masters: from the body you can change to the mind, or from the mind you can change to the body.
The body is fast asleep; following the body will be following a blind man. And the spontaneity will just take you into a ditch. It is not going to help you. Impulsiveness is not spontaneity. Yes, impulse HAS a certain spontaneity, more spontaneity than the mind, but it has not that quality which Tantra would like you to imbibe.
That's why Saraha says: SO FROM SPONTANEITY THAT'S UNIQUE... He adds the word'unique'.'Unique' means not of impulsion but of awareness, of consciousness.
We live unconsciously. Whether we live in the mind or in the body does not make much difference -- we live unconsciously.
"Why did you tear out the back part of that new book?" asked the long-suffering wife of an absent-minded doctor.
"Excuse me, dear," said the famous surgeon, "the part you speak of was labelled APPENDIX and I took it out without thinking."
His whole life taking the appendix out of everybody's body must have become an unconscious habit. Seeing APPENDIX he automatically took it out.
That's how we are existing and working. It is an unconscious life. An unconscious spontaneity is not much of a spontaneity.
A drunk staggered from a tavern and started walking with one foot in the street and one on the sidewalk. After a block or two, a policeman spotted him. "Hey," said the cop, "you're drunk!"
The drunk sighed with relief. "Gosh!" he said. "Is that what's wrong? I thought I was lame."
When you are under the influence of the body, you are under the influence
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