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CHAPTER 1. WHEN THE SHOE FITS
And this is the miracle: if you don’t choose to be against anger, then when anger comes you are
simply angry. Don’t choose against anger. When anger comes simply be angry, and when anger
goes, let it go. Don’t repent, don’t let it continue inside the mind, don’t make it a continuity, don’t be
against it. When anger comes, it comes! What can you do? When it doesn’t come, it doesn’t come!
You have no choice.
Then a miracle happens. Without choice you become so alert that your energies are divided no
longer. And when energies are undivided they are so powerful, so tremendous that anger becomes
impossible – because anger is part of weakness. Remember this... the weaker you are, the more
angry; the stronger you are, the less angry. If you are absolutely strong, there will be no anger.
Remember this... the weaker you are, the more greedy – really, the weak has to be greedy to
protect himself – and the stronger you are, the less greedy.
When the energy is total in you, not divided, not split, you are a unity. Greed disappears, because
greed belongs to a weak mind, a split mind. And when you are split, there will be anger, and you will
fight against it, and a bigger split will be created and more energy will be dissipated. And you will
become full of inner turmoil, anarchy, not one harmonious note anywhere. Everything will be out of
tune.
And the more you make an effort to bring it to a tuning, the more trouble there will be – because you
have missed the first step, and you will go on missing it to the very last.
The first step is that WHEN THE HEART IS RIGHT, ’FOR’ AND ’AGAINST’ ARE FORGOTTEN. So
what to do? Forget ’for’ and ’against’ and let the heart settle. One thing is certain, you have been
fighting against anger for so long but still you are angry – so try Chuang Tzu’s way. You are not
going to lose anything.
You have tried to be non-sexual and you remain sexual; on the contrary, you have become more
perverted. Sex has become more poisoned – so try Chuang Tzu, you are not going to lose anything.
Be sexual when sex comes. Just as when hunger comes, you eat food, so when sex comes be
sexual. Don’t make any choice, don’t say this is wrong. It is good. Accept it – it is part of nature. And
suddenly the moment will come when you will be a unity and sex will be transformed automatically
into love.
Because a man who is in unity.... Try to understand what this unity means.
Every man and every woman is bisexual: every man is both man and woman inside, and every
woman is both man and woman inside. No one is simply man or woman – they cannot be – because
one parent was a man and the other parent was a woman, and you carry both within you – half and
half. Half your mother and half your father is carried within you, so you are both male and female –
half and half. This is the deep split. And if you create more split, this split will widen more and more.
Drop all splits, don’t create any fight – don’t choose. Be angry and accept it, be sexual and accept
it, be greedy and accept. What else can you do? Nature has given these things to you so accept
them, and their consequences of course.
If you are angry, then someone else will be angry – accept the anger and the consequences. Then
your split drops, and by and by your inner bi-sexuality becomes a harmony, a circle is created, an
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