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CHAPTER 5. MONKEY MOUNTAIN
He didn’t bother whether the Prince had taken his own advice to his heart or not. The Prince
continued the same, the old, but Yen Pu’i changed his whole existence; he became a disciple of a
sage. And if you want to change your life you have to become a disciple, because alone it is really
difficult, alone it is almost impossible. You need the help of someone who has known. You need to
trust in someone who has gone ahead of you.
Discipline means to learn from someone, to surrender to someone, to be receptive to someone; not
to follow and imitate, but just to absorb his understanding so your own inner flame is lit; just to come
to a lighted flame so that your own flame is lit. Then you can move on your own, then you have
become a universe unto yourself. But before that it is very difficult to find, difficult to move, difficult
to reach the right path.
Near a sage many things become possible – many impossible things become possible because a
sage is the only miracle in the world. He lives in the body and he is no longer the body, he is here
with you and no longer with you, he touches you and yet a vast, infinite distance exists between you
and him. A sage is the only miracle. If you live around him, just silently, just absorbing, drinking his
wine, soon you will feel the miracle and that it has started to change you.
It is just like when you are ill, you go to Switzerland. What can Switzerland do? But the whole
climate is healthy, in that healthy climate your disease cannot persist. Your disease needs support
and there is no support for it, so it falls, without support it falls.
Near a sage, you have changed your climate. You live with people who are ignorant just like you,
you live in a climate, a milieu, then you come near a sage – you have changed the climate, you have
come to the Himalayas, to the Alps, to Switzerland. Now the climate is different, now he is not going
to support your illnesses. He will by and by take away all supports. Without the supports the illness
fails. And when there is no illness, your own health flowers.
All that needs to be done is to remove the illnesses – health is already there, it is not to be given
to you. Only remove the illness and health flowers. Near a sage, the climate changes. But you
have to be open. If you go to Switzerland, and you have iron, steel armour around you, you will not
be changed because your steel armour will carry its own climate within. Go to a sage without any
armour, without any defense – that is what the meaning of surrender is.
WHEN THEY RETURNED HOME, YEN PU’I BECAME A DISCIPLE OF A SAGE TO GET RID OF
EVERYTHING THAT MADE HIM OUTSTANDING.
Look... all that we do in our life is learn how to become outstanding. How to be first in class, first in
the university, how to get the gold medal, how to be a Nobel Prize Winner, how to be outstanding in
some way or other – anything will do.
Once Mulla Nasrudin knocked at the door of the manager of a great circus, and he said: You have
to look at me, I have a terrific act! I am a dwarf. The manager looked at Nasrudin. He was six feet
two inches tall, and he was saying: I am a dwarf! So the manager said: What are you saying? You
seem to me six feet two inches tall! Nasrudin said: Yes, that is right; I am the longest, tallest dwarf
in the world.
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