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CHAPTER 2. THE MAN OF TAO
A violent man starts thinking about nonviolence, then he can be violent again easily. A man who
gets angry again and again always thinks of non-anger, always decides not to be angry again. This
decision helps him to be angry again.
If you really want not to be angry again don’t decide against anger. Just look into the anger and just
look at the shadow of the anger which you think is non-anger. Look into sex, and at the shadow of
sex, which you think is brahmacharya, celibacy. It is just negativity, absence. Look at overeating,
and the shadow of it – fasting. Fasting always follows overeating; overindulgence is always followed
by vows of celibacy; tension is always followed by some techniques of meditation. Look at them
together, feel how they are related; they are part of one process.
If you can understand this, meditation will happen to you. Really, it is not something to be done, it is
a point of understanding. It is not an effort, it is nothing to be cultivated. It is something to be deeply
understood.
Understanding gives freedom. Knowledge of the whole mechanism of the mind is transformation.
Then suddenly the clock stops, time disappears: and with the stopping of the clock, there is no mind.
With the stopping of time, where are you? The boat is empty.
Now we will enter this sutra of Chuang Tzu:
THE MAN OF TAO ACTS WITHOUT IMPEDIMENT,
HARMS NO OTHER BEING BY HIS ACTIONS,
YET HE DOES NOT KNOW HIMSELF TO BE KIND AND GENTLE.
THE MAN OF TAO ACTS WITHOUT IMPEDIMENT.... You act always with impediment, the opposite
is always there creating the impediment; you are not a flow.
If you love, the hate is always there as an impediment. If you move, something is holding you back;
you never move totally, something is always left, the movement is not total. You move with one leg
but the other leg is not moving. How can you move? The impediment is there.
And this impediment, this continuous moving of the half and nonmoving of the other half, is your
anguish, your anxiety. Why are you in so much anguish? What creates so much anxiety in you?
Whatsoever you do, why is bliss not happening through it? Bliss can happen only to the whole, never
to the part.
When the whole moves without any impediment the very movement is bliss. Bliss is not something
that comes from outside – it is the feeling that comes when your whole being moves, the very
movement of the whole is bliss. It is not something happening to you, it arises out of you, it is a
harmony in your being.
If you are divided – and you are always divided: half-moving, half-withholding, half saying yes, half
saying no, half in love, half in hate, you are a divided kingdom – there is constant conflict in you. You
say something but you never mean it, because the opposite is there impeding, creating a hindrance.
The Empty Boat 30 Osho