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once you have come to see that which is, without any imagination interfering in it, then there are two possibilities. If it happens accidentally you will go mad; if it happens through a certain growth method you will become enlightened, awakened. That's why Nietzsche goes mad, Buddha becomes awakened.
Hence the need for a master and surrender to a master. If all alone you drop imagination, there is more possibility that you will go mad -- it will be too much. A master is needed who helps you to become stronger, integrated, centred, and helps you to drop imagination only in the right proportion. It should never be dropped more than you can bear. It should be dropped very slowly, gradually, inch by inch. If it is suddenly dropped you will lose all control -- you will not know who you are and where you are and what is happening. So a person working on his own is in a very dangerous state.
And that is what sannyas is all about: to be with a master who has passed through this dangerous point of either becoming mad or becoming enlightened... who has travelled on this hilly and dangerous track where there is greater possibility of losing the way than finding it.
Veet kalpu means -- and it has to be remembered by and by -- that you start dropping your imagination. What is, is, what ain't, ain't. Let that be your mantra.
Do all meditations that are available here, but I am giving you a special meditation too: a zazen method.
Every day at least for one hour, sit silently anywhere -- go to the river, or to the garden, or here in the ashram, somewhere where nobody is disturbing. Relax the muscles of the body; don't strain. With closed eyes, tell the mind, 'Now go on. Do whatsoever you want to do. I will witness and I will watch.'
And you will be surprised -- for a few moments you will see that the mind is not working at all. For a few moments -- sometimes just for a second -- you will see that the mind is not working at all, and in that gap you will have a feel of reality without imagination. But it will be only for a moment, a very small moment, and then the mind will start working.
When the mind starts working and thoughts
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