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argued with others about it, that to be in the middle is the right thing. For the first time he had seen it in an action: the woman was not looking to the right and not looking to the left... she was just looking in the middle, focussed in the middle.
The middle is the point from where the transcendence happens. Think about it, contemplate about it, watch it in life. A man is running after money, is mad, money-mad; money is the only god....
One woman was asking another, "Why have you left your boyfriend? What happened? I had been thinking that you were engaged and that you were going to be married -- what happened?"
The woman said, "Our religions are different, and that's why we have broken up."
The questioner was puzzled because she knew that both were Catholics, so she said, "What do you mean by saying that your religions are different?"
The woman said, "I worship money, and he is broke."
There are people whose only god is money. One day or other, the god fails -- it is bound to fail. Money cannot be the god. It was your illusion, you were projecting. One day or other you come to the point where you can see that there is no god in it, that there is nothing in it, that you have been wasting your life. Then you turn against it, then you take an opposite attitude: you become against money. Then you leave the money, you don't touch the money. You are continuously obsessed now; now you are AGAINST the money but the obsession remains. You have moved from the left to the right, but your center of consciousness is still the money.
You can change from one desire to another. You were much too worldly, one day you can become other-worldly -- you remain the same, the disease persists. Buddha says: To be worldly is to be worldly, and to be other-worldly is also to be worldly; to be for money is to be mad after money, to be against money is to be mad after money; to seek power is foolish, to escape is also foolish. Just to be in the middle is what wisdom is all about.
FOR THE FIRST TIME Saraha saw it actually there -- he had not even seen it in Sri Kirti. It was really there. And the woman was true, she said, "You
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