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CHAPTER 2. THE MAN OF TAO
so at the marriage she met her husband again, and they had to travel together. The husband fell in
love with her again, so she came to me and asked, ”What should I do? Now he is proposing again,
he wants to get married to me again.”
She was also fascinated. She was just waiting for me to say yes. I said, ”But you lived together, there
was always conflict and nothing else. I know the whole story – how you were fighting, quarreling,
how you created hell and misery for each other. Now again...?”
For the mind the opposite is magnetic, and unless through understanding you transcend this, the
mind will go on moving from left to right, from right to left, and the clock will continue.
It has continued for many lives, and this is how you have been deceiving yourself – because you
don’t understand the mechanism. Again the distant becomes appealing, again you start traveling.
The moment you reach your goal that which you used to know is now distant, now has appeal, now
becomes a star, something worthwhile.
I was reading about a pilot who was flying over California with a friend. He told the friend, ”Look
down at that beautiful lake. I was born near it, that is my village.”
He pointed to a small village just perched in the hills near the lake, and he said, ”I was born there.
When I was a child I used to sit near the lake and fish; fishing was my hobby. But at that time, when
I was a child fishing near the lake, always airplanes used to fly in the sky, passing overhead, and I
would dream of the day when I would become a pilot myself, I would be piloting an airplane. That
was my only dream. Now it is fulfilled, and what misery! Now I am continuously looking down at the
lake and thinking about when I will retire and go fishing again. That lake is so beautiful....”
This is how things are happening. This is how things are happening to you. In childhood, you long
to grow up fast because older people are more powerful. A child longs to grow up immediately. Old
people are wise, and the child feels that whatsoever he does, it is always wrong. And then ask the
old man – he always thinks that when childhood was lost, everything was lost; paradise was there in
childhood. And all the old men die thinking of childhood, the innocence, the beauty, the dreamland.
Whatsoever you have looks useless, whatsoever you don’t have looks useful. Remember this,
otherwise meditation cannot happen, because meditation means this understanding of the mind,
the working of the mind, the very process of the mind.
The mind is dialectical, it makes you move again and again towards the opposite. And this is an
infinite process, it never ends unless you suddenly drop out of it, unless you suddenly become aware
of the game, unless you suddenly become aware of the trick of the mind, and you stop in the middle.
Stopping in the middle is meditation.
Thirdly, because mind consists of polarities, you are never whole. The mind cannot be whole; it is
always half. When you love someone have you observed that you are suppressing your hatred?
The love is not total, it is not whole; just behind it all the dark forces are hidden and they may erupt
any moment. You are sitting on a volcano.
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