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to help. Why see the sunset if the experience is not total? Why listen to music if the experience is not total? Still, knowing that it is not total and burning for totality, go on accepting whatsoever is available today; and whatsoever is possible today, go on doing. It is only by doing it that slowly slowly you will become m re and more capable. One day it is going to happen. It happens -- I am a witness to it!
[A sannyasin, leaving, says she is pregnant.]
Good. Enjoy pregnancy! Be more and more meditative; it will help the child. Sit more in silence, listen to soft music. Be with the trees, in the sun, in the ocean, on the beach. Let the child experience more of nature from the very beginning. Because whatsoever you experience becomes the child's experience. So start teaching him meditation, joy, beauty.
And for all these days that the child is within you, drop a few things completely: don't be angry, don't be greedy, don't be possessive.
To be a mother is a great art!
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Chapter #6
Chapter title: None
6 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7903065
ShortTitle: NOTHIN06
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Rick Atmo. Rick means a powerful ruler, atmo means your own self. One can rule others or one can rule oneself. To rule others is a poor substitute, because the real ruler is one who rules himself. Because it is arduous to rule oneself, people have chosen the cheaper thing; the cheaper thing is to rule others. The lowest thing in the world is power politics; and by power politics I mean every effort in which you are trying to possess, to dominate, to rule, the other. The highest thing in the world is religion; and by religion I mean the effort to rule oneself, to become a master of oneself.
If you rule others you remain a slave. Your being a ruler is only a facade; deep down you are a slave, maybe a slave of your own slaves. Ruling others does not bring freedom. But when one is able to rule oneself, when one is centred, rooted in one's own being -- when one is not dominated by desires, dreams, thoughts, when one is not just a crowd
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