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understands the futility of the mind, one understands the impotence of the mind.
The mind cannot supply wisdom. The mind is a parrot, because it is a bio-computer: it only repeats what it has been fed. It is never original -- it can't be original; it is not in its power, it is not its function. It is just a mechanism to store. It is not creative. It is just a memory, a storage system... good, if one understands its use, but very dangerous if one starts thinking that the mind can give you original insights. It is not possible. The mind can only give you whatsoever is given to it from the outside. It is in the service of the outside. It is a byproduct of the society. Hence there are so many minds, because there are so many societies and so many ways of conditioning.
There is something like a Hindu mind, something like a Christian mind and something like a Communist mind, because in Soviet Russia a different kind of information is fed; in India another kind of information is fed. You can feed the child's mind according to your prejudices, opinions, ideologies. The child becomes conditioned and later on he goes on repeating those same things and thinks that he knows. One can remain befooled for one's whole life. One knows only when the the heart starts functioning.
By 'heart' I mean when you start functioning at your centre, not in the head -- the head is the periphery -- when you start functioning deep down in your belly....
Just the other day I was reading about a professor of philosophy who went to Japan to study Zen under a master. And the first thing that the master did was: he poked the professor's belly button with his staff. The professor was a little bit taken aback -- what was he doing? And he said 'What are you doing?' The master said 'You have to start thinking from there now. Remember.' And he poked again just to remind him. He said 'I will go on poking, because I can see that you are a professor of philosophy. I can see that you are in your head, and I have to bring you down to your belly.'
The heart is the centre of your being. That's why, whenever you are in love, you feel a total change happening. Because love comes
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