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CHAPTER 10. WHOLENESS
energy – no face, just a solid pillar of energy, swaying. He became afraid and started retreating, and
the pillar of energy started moving towards him, swaying. He threw away his sword and screamed
at the top of his voice, ”Save me!”
The monk sat down again and started laughing. His face came back, the energy disappeared, and
he said, ”I told you before: even your master is no match for me. Go and tell him.”
Perspiring, trembling, nervous, the disciple went back to his master and said, ”How grateful I am for
your compassion towards me. I am no match for you. Even that monk destroyed me completely.
But one thing I couldn’t tolerate, that is why I got involved in it. He said, ’Even your master is not a
match for me.’ ”
The master started laughing and he said, ”So that rascal played the trick on you too? You got angry?
Then he could see through you, because anger is a hole in the being. And that has become his basic
trick. Whenever I send somebody to him, he starts talking against me, and my disciples of course
become angry. When they are angry, he finds out that they have loopholes, and when you have
holes you cannot fight.”
Whenever you are angry, your being has leakages. Whenever you desire, your being has holes
in it. Whenever you are jealous, filled with hatred, sexuality, you are not a pillar of energy. Hence
buddhas have been teaching us to be desireless, because whenever you are desireless energy
does not move outwards, energy moves within. It becomes an inner circle, it becomes an electric
field, a bioelectric field. When that field is there, without any leakage, you are a pillar; you cannot be
defeated. But you are not thinking of victory, remember, because if you are thinking of victory you
cannot be a pillar of energy. Then that desire becomes a leakage.
You are weak, not because others are strong, you are weak because you are filled with so many
desires. You are defeated, not because others are more cunning and clever – you are defeated
because you have so many leakages.
Tathata – acceptance, total acceptance, means no desire. Desire arises out of nonacceptance. You
cannot accept a certain situation, so desire arises. You live in a hut and you cannot accept it; this is
too much for the ego, you want a palace – then you are a poor man, but not because you live in a
hut, no. In huts, emperors have lived. Buddha has lived under a tree, and he was not a poor man.
You cannot find a richer man anywhere.
No, your hut doesn’t make you poor. The moment you desire the palace you are a poor man. And
you are not poor because others are living in palaces, you are poor because the desire to live in the
palace creates a comparison with the hut. You become envious. You are poor.
Whenever there is discontent, there is poverty; whenever there is no discontent, you are rich. And
you have such riches that no thief can steal them; you have such riches, no government can take
them by taxation; you have riches which cannot be taken away from you in any way. You have a fort
for your being, unbreakable, impenetrable.
Once a desire moves and your energy starts falling you become weak through desire, you become
weak through longing. Whenever you are not longing and are content, whenever nothing is moving,
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