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mature reason can decide totally.
Somebody comes and asks, 'What is my right attitude: belief or faith? Reason or faith? Action or inaction? Feminine or masculine? Yin or yang?' And my approach is the same: that wherever you are finding yourself naturally, go in the same direction. If you can go into the same direction far enough, you will turn in the other direction automatically -- because it is a wheel and everything turns into its opposite. That's the whole secret of life. The day turns into night, the night turns into day....
There is no need to be worried about what to choose -- day automatically turns into night and night automatically turns into day; life turns into death, and death turns into life again. That's how it moves, one has simply to accept!
The buddhists have the right word for it -- 'tathata'; one has to accept the suchness of things. Whatsoever is, is -- accept it, and don't hanker for the opposite. Go headlong into it, to the farthest end of it, and suddenly you will see that it has turned into its polar opposite... a miracle. And then you know that life is one.
Will and surrender are two polarities of one energy, like negative and positive electricity. The positive electricity cannot exist without the negative -- neither can the negative exist without the positive.
So will and surrender both exist in your being and both exist together. But will is more primary, so one has to go through the will. Surrender is more ultimate, so one has to go into surrender one day... but there is no need to force it, there is no need to cultivate it, because all that is cultivated is false. Only the natural, the spontaneous, that which comes on its own, is beautiful and true!
So simply accept your being, whatsoever, wheresoever it is -- accept it totally. Let its suchness be welcomed -- that this is where you are, this is how you are. You cannot be anywhere else and you cannot be anybody else. This is the way you are and this is the only way you are. This is the only way you can be in this moment. I am not talking about other moments, you will change, but in this moment this is the only way you can be. So why create
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