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more knowledgeable, more learned, their thinking is growing. When people become more emotional, sentimental, their feeling is growing; but they themselves remain the same.
If you know your being and remain there without going astray, you will find a totally different kind of growing -- not growing old, but growing up; not growing into something else but growing more and more into yourself, being more and more you. And this brings great blessings, immense ecstasies.
Before we enter into ourselves, a little outside evening walk will do.
The zoo has hit upon hard times, and as the animals die, the director can't afford to replace them... until he has a brilliant idea.
Sometime later, Kowalski is walking past the zoo, when he sees a sign, "Strong man wanted, apply within."
So he goes in and the director tells him, "Our star attraction, Gregory the gorilla, has died, and I want you to replace him. All you have to do is put on this gorilla suit, go out there and thump your chest and eat peanuts."
Kowalski starts work right away. Every day he thrills the crowd by jumping and thumping. But the climax of his act is when he climbs up a tree in his pen and throws peanuts at the lions next door, who get really mad and try to climb the fence.
Unfortunately, one afternoon Kowalski is up the tree when the branch breaks and he falls into the lions' den. He jumps up and starts screaming and shouting for help, until one of the lions walks over to him growling and snarling, and then says out of the corner of his mouth, "Shut up, Kowalski, or we will all lose our jobs!"
Meditate over this. It is pure Zen. Everybody is hiding behind a coat: somebody behind a gorilla coat, somebody behind a lion coat; somebody is a mouse, henpecked of course... Come out! And just be. All these coats that you are wearing are not your being.
During their tour of Europe, Ronald and Nancy are visiting Ireland.
One day, Nancy Reagan makes a discreet visit to the office of doctor Rattle O'Bones.
"How may I help you?" asks the doctor graciously.
"Well," begins Nancy, hesitantly, "it is a delicate matter."
"Do not worry,
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