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CHAPTER 2. THE TOWER OF THE SPIRIT
throw out discrimination, deliberate intentional division, you will have to throw out knowledge; you
will have to become children again. Only then can the armour be broken. But there is going to
be anguish if you want to try and break this armour because this armour is your whole ego. You
feel good because of it, because you are moral you feel that you have something superior to others
because you are moral.
If you break this armour a chaos will follow. First you have to go mad and then fear comes, and
if you are afraid you will again suppress, you will again put on the armour – you will even make it
stronger. And now you have become afraid to come out of it. It protects you.
I have heard that in a small school, a primary school, the teacher was lecturing to her pupils about
the law of gravitation. She said in conclusion that because of the law of gravitation we are able to
be on the earth. One small child was very puzzled. He stood up and said that he didn’t understand
– how did we manage to stick to the earth before the law was passed?
You think you are here because of the society; you think you are here because of morality – and
all the nonsense that goes with it; you think you are here because of your Bible, Koran, Gita. No!
Nature exists without any laws. It has its own intrinsic laws but they are not laws passed by men.
They don’t need your sanction, they are there, and life goes on following them. If you don’t interfere
you will reach the goal immediately; if you interfere then you will be in trouble. So if you are in
trouble, anguish and suffering, then know well that you have been interfering with nature. Nothing is
possible unless you stop interfering.
This is the whole message of Chuang Tzu – don’t interfere with nature, allow it, move with it, trust
it. You come out of it; it is your mother; it is the source; and one day you will go back to it – it is the
ultimate goal. And in the meantime, why create interference, why fight?
You will have to go back to your childhood, you have to regress. You will have to relive those
moments when society entered and forced you to interfere. So remember one basic thing: whenever
something wrong happens on the path of life, you cannot just dissolve it by intellectual understanding
– it is not so easy. It has become your life pattern. It is in your body and in your bones. You will have
to go back. If you really want to become natural you will have to relive the past – move backwards.
All meditative methods help you to go back. Lie down in your bed at night and make it a one hour
effort every day. In the beginning it will be an effort, but soon effortlessness will happen and you will
enjoy it. The more you go back, the more you will feel free and great.
Nature is vast, and all man created laws are narrow. They are like funnels – the more you move into
them the narrower they become, and a moment comes of cul-de-sac, you cannot move anywhere,
and the tunnel becomes your grave. That is how everyone is stuck.
If you really want to get unstuck, at night, before falling asleep, close your eyes and just go back and
try to relive the past. Move slowly, there is no hurry, you cannot do it in one day – it will take almost
three months. Move slowly. Relive – do not just remember. Remembering will not help because
remembering is intellectual, you remain aloof, it doesn’t touch you. Relive.
What do I mean when I say relive? Just go back as if it is happening again. In the beginning it will be
’as if’, but soon it becomes real. Incomplete, your suppressed being is there, struggling to become
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