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be in trouble. You talk, the whole day you go on chattering with friends, and there is no problem. But if I ask you to come here and talk from this chair to the friends who have gathered here, you will be in the same position as the centipede. And yet you have been talking your whole life and there was never a problem.
Why does this problem come in? The problem comes in because now you are self-conscious. Now so many persons are looking at you, watching you, that now you cannot be at ease and spontaneous. Now you project, now you want to plan, now you want the people to like you. Whatsoever you say, you would like them to be impressed -- now you are self conscious.
Otherwise everybody is a talker, a born talker. People go on talking and there is never any problem. But once you put them in a pulpit and tell them to talk to an audience, something goes wrong. What goes wrong? Nothing has changed but self-consciousness has entered, and self consciousness is the problem.
HIS FINGERS BROUGHT FORTH SPONTANEOUS FORMS FROM NOWHERE. HIS MIND WAS MEANWHILE FREE AND WITHOUT CONCERN WITH WHAT HE WAS DOING.
NO APPLICATION WAS NEEDED, HIS MIND WAS PERFECTLY SIMPLE AND KNEW NO OBSTACLE.
HIS FINGERS BROUGHT FORTH SPONTANEOUS FORMS FROM NOWHERE. Nowhere means everywhere, nowhere means the ultimate void; nowhere means the ultimate source, the very basis of life.
From where are you breathing so perfectly? Chuang Tzu says you are not breathing, rather,'It' breathes you. YOU are not breathing, because what do you have to do with it? Nothing.'I am breathing' is a false notion, it would be better to say: Nature, 'It', breathes me. Then the whole gestalt changes, then the whole emphasis is on nature, not on you, not on the ego, but on 'It', the vast, the infinite that surrounds you, the basis, the very basis -- 'It' breathes you.
When you fall in love, is it really you who falls in love -- or does 'It' fall in love through you? When you are angry, are you angry? Because when there is anger, you are not; when there is love, you are not. In anger, in love, in any passionate emotion, you are not. In anything alive, you disappear; then 'It' exists
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