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Because in the very seeing of the fault in one’s own vision the mistakes

start dying and the birth of a new person begins.

156. Love.

Do not fight with yourself.

Such a fight is futile.

Because victory never, ever comes through it.

To fight with oneself

is nothing other than a gradual suicide.

Accept yourself.

Happily. In gratitude.

What is, is good.

Sex too, anger too.

Because whatsoever is, is from the divine.

Accept it and understand it.

Search and uncover the hidden potential in it.

Then, even sex feels to be a seed towards the divine.

And anger becomes the door to forgiveness.

Evil is not an enemy of goodness.

Rather, evil is only imprisoned goodness.

157. Love.

Strive for meditation.

Then all problems of the mind will disappear.

In fact, mind is the problem.

All the rest of the problems are only echoes of the mind.

Nothing will come of fighting

each and every problem separately.

Fighting with echoes is futile,

there is no outcome of it other than defeat.

Do not prune the branches, because four other branches

will replace that one pruned branch.

By pruning branches, the tree only grows more.

And, the problems are the branches.

If you want to cut at all, cut the roots,

because by cutting the roots the branches disappear on their own.

And mind is the root.

Cut this root with meditation.

Mind is the problem.

Meditation is the solution.

Mind knows no solution.

Meditation knows no problem.

Because, there is no meditation in the mind.

Because, there is no mind in meditation.

Absence of meditation is mind.

Disappearance of mind is meditation.

This is why I say: strive for meditation.

158. Love.

Don’t be in haste.

Maintain patience.

Patience is a fertilizer for meditation.

Go on tending meditation,

the fruit is bound to come,

it always comes.

But, do not be anxious about the fruit.

Because such an anxiety itself becomes an obstacle for the fruit.

Because such a worry distracts the attention from meditation.

Meditation requires total attention.

To be divided won’t do.

Partiality won’t do.

Meditation is not possible without your totality.

Hence, stay with the act of meditation and leave the fruit of meditation

in the hands of the divine.

And the fruit comes.

Because drowning totally in meditation is the birth of the fruit.

159. Love.

Life is not divided, either in time or in space.

If life is anything, it is undividedness – it is an undivided flow.

Past, present, future – these are human lines drawn on the undivided

flow of time.

Indeed, they are nowhere except in the minds of men.

Mind is time.

Similarly, space is also undivided.

The body is not one’s limit – in fact, the limit or non-limit of the whole

is one’s limit.

But, the mind does not rest without dividing.

It is like a prism; to divide is its function.

Passing through it the ray of existence becomes divided into many rays

and many colors.

What is one at the root becomes many at the branches.

The root is eternal – beginningless, endless.

Branches are in time – they have their beginning, they have their end.

Branches are change.

The root is ever-lasting.

Neither the root changes nor can it be changed.

Yes – one can desire it to be changed, and then such a desire

inevitably takes one into failure and anguish.

Branches go on changing.

They cannot be stopped from changing.

But certainly it can be desired that they don’t change, and then

such a desire inevitably transforms itself into failure and anguish.

The West is in the first kind of failure and anguish.

The East is in the second kind of failure and anguish.

And so far man has not been able to give birth to such a culture

which not only succeeds but becomes fulfilled too.

The two realities I have talked about above – the reality of the root

and the reality of the branches; the law of the intransient

and the law of the transient – it is only in the harmonious balance

of these two that such a culture can be born

which will neither be polar nor lopsided,

which will use the tension of the opposite poles, the same

as architecture

uses opposing bricks in creation of an arched door.

The truth of life is pluralism.

And, the stream of life always flows taking the opposite poles

as its banks.

160. Love.

We just do not know life, that is why we get bored.

We make life mechanical, that is why we get bored.

We are not living life, we only drag along with it, that is why we get bored.

Boredom is not in life, rather it comes out of our fear of living.

We are not only afraid of death – we are afraid of life as well.

In fact, we fear death because we fear life.

Otherwise, death is not the end of life – it is the completion of life.

This is why I say: live – live fearlessly.

Let go of the past: man goes on carrying it because of fear.

And do not invite dreams of the future, because in order to avoid living today

man plans for living in the future.

Live today, and now, and here.

‘Tomorrow’ is a deception –

the ‘tomorrow’ that has passed as yesterday, as well as the tomorrow

that is yet to come.

Only this moment is.

Only this moment is eternal.

161. Love.

Life is a mystery.

It can be lived.

It can also be known by living it.