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and there is none anywhere else yet, except this one.
A free university simply means that there is no expectation from you. You are helped to be free, you are nourished to be free, you are supported to be free. You are given individuality. If there are expectations, freedom is destroyed. Expectations are a subtle way, cunning way to dominate. And if the expectation is to live in obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ then the whole thing is just a facade -- in the name of freedom they are propagating an old slavery. Jesus is a free man, but Christians are not free.
Friedrich Nietzsche is again right when he says that the first and the last Christian died on the cross two thousand years before -- the first and the last. In fact, there cannot be anybody else who is a Christ. These are rare flowers!
And you are also a rare flower. Maybe you have not blossomed yet, hence you are unaware of your rareness; and you will not blossom if you go on fulfilling these expectations. Don't fulfill any expectations of anybody. You have only one responsibility and that is towards your own being. If you try to fulfill others' expectations you will be in trouble because they will impose, they will dominate, they will cripple and paralyze you. They are your enemies! Anybody who expects anything from you is your enemy -- beware!
A real friend simply gives you freedom. Love gives freedom; there is no expectation, there is no desire to manipulate you, not even indirectly. Freedom is the highest value in life -- and if the freedom was there you would have seen a totally different phenomenon.
You can see it here. People are working here -- in fact I don't think anywhere else people are working so hard, so totally, so devotedly -- but there is great joy. They are rejoicing in it! People who come from the outside cannot understand it. Because they cannot understand it they go on spreading rumors.
Just now hundreds of newspaper clippings are coming from Germany -- so many rumors, so many false statements about Vimalkirti's death. Nobody seems to try to understand. They are all saying that he was forced, regimented, almost as if he was in the army.
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