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Meditation is not one pole: it is absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego-trips.
Let me tell you a very famous Sufi story. It happened
A Sufi said, "None can understand man until he realizes the connection between greed, obligement, and impossibility."
"This," said his disciple, "is a conundrum which I cannot understand."
The Sufi said, "Never look for understanding through conundrums when you can attain it through experience directly."
He took the disciple to a shop in the nearby market where robes were sold. "Show me your very best robe," said the Sufi to the shopkeeper, "for I am in a mood to spend excessively."
A most beautiful garment was produced, and an extremely high price was asked for it. "It is very much the kind of thing I would like," said the Sufi. "but I would like some sequins around the collar and a touch of fur trimming.
"Nothing easier," said the seller of the robes, "for I have just such a garment in the workroom of my shop.'' He disappeared for a few moments and then returned having added the fur and the sequins to the selfsame garment.
"And how much is this one?" asked the Sufi.
"Twenty times the price of the first one," said the shop-keeper.
"Excellent," said the Sufi. "I shall take both of them."
Now, the impossibility, because it is the selfsame garment. The Sufi was showing that greed has a certain impossibility in it impossibility is intrinsic to greed.
Now don't be too greedy, because this is the greatest greed there is to ask to be a politician and a meditator together, simultaneously. That is the greatest greed possible. You are asking to be ambitious and nontense. You are asking to fight, to be violent, to be greedy, and yet peaceful and relaxed. If it were possible then there would have been no need for sannyas, then there would have been no need for meditation.
You cannot have both. Once you start meditating, politics starts disappearing. With politics all the effects of it also disappear. The tense state, the worry, the anxiety, the anguish, the violence, the greed -- they all disappear. They are by-products of a political mind.
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