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-- Tao.

So a man of Tao is one who has come to understand that 'I' is the most useless thing. It only creates problems and nothing else -- so he drops it. Really there is no need to drop it, once he understands, it drops -- there is no 'I'. Then he lives, then he eats, then he loves, then he sleeps, but there is no 'I'.'It' lives through him. Then there is no burden and no tension and no anxiety; then he becomes a child; then his mind is free, without concern.

You cannot do anything without concern. Whatsoever you do, the ego comes in, concern comes in, and then there is anxiety.

Look at this phenomenon: a surgeon operates, and he is a perfect surgeon. But if his wife is on the operation table, he cannot operate; his hand trembles. At other times, he works like a perfect mechanism, but when his wife is on the table, he cannot operate -- some other surgeon is needed.

What has happened? Concern has entered. With other patients there was no concern, he was detached. He was not concerned this way or that, he was simply a surgeon, a natural force, working. The mind was not there; he was perfect. But now that his wife is there, concern has entered: Will the operation succeed or not? Will I be able to save my wife or not? Now, these problems are there, his mind has a concern -- then his hand trembles.

Your whole life is a trembling because you have been carrying so many concerns; and then you cannot draw a perfect circle.

And your writing....

There is a science about reading your writing and through it, your mind. There is a definite basis to it because when you write, your trembling enters it. And when you sign your name you are the most concerned. Then your trembling is there, and with a magnifying glass that trembling can be observed, can be detected. That trembling can show much about you because whatsoever you are doing, YOU are doing it. It will carry YOU, it will carry indications about YOU. Just by seeing your handwriting much can be known about your personality.

If a Buddha signs, it is going to be absolutely different. There will be no trembling because there is no concern. And even through the signature

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