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mother, your shadow helps the substance -- then the mind is strengthened more, then again you create the
same world on the same lines. From where to start a transformation? How to change?
IF YOU LOOK, the first look will say to change the world, because it is so apparent around you.
Change it! And that's what you have been doing for many lives: continuously changing the world, changing
this and that, changing houses, bodies, wives, husbands, friends -- changing, but never looking to the fact
that you remain the same, so how can you change the world?
That's why a false tradition of renunciation came into existence all over the world. Escape from the
house and go to the monastery. Escape from the market, go to the Himalayas. Escape from the world! To the
Himalayas you can go easily, but how can you escape from yourself? You will create the same world
THERE -- the same! It may be a miniature world, it may not be so vast, but you will do the same. YOU are
the same -- how can you do anything else?
Deeper insight reveals that: change the mind, then the world changes. Then wherever you are a different
world is revealed. You go deeper, and then you understand that if you want to be really without the world
around you.... Because howsoever beautiful the world is, sooner or later it will become a boredom and you
will be fed up. Even if it is a heaven you will start longing for the hell, because the mind needs change. It
cannot live in the eternal, it cannot live in the non-changing, because the mind hankers for some new
curiosity, some new sensation, some new excitement. It is not possible for the mind to stop time and to
remain timelessly.
That's why the mind cannot live in the now, the here, because now is not a part of time. It never
changes, it is eternal. You cannot say it is unchanging, it is not permanent, it eternal. It is simply as it is.
Nothing happens there. It is emptiness.
Buddha has called it SHUNYATA -- absolutely empty. Nothing happens there, nobody comes, nobody
goes. There is nobody, because if somebody is there then something or other will happen.
Mind cannot live in the eternal now. Mind wants change and goes on hoping, and goes on hoping
against all hope. The whole situation is hopeless, but mind goes on hoping.
I have heard:
Mulla Nasruddin remained unemployed for many many years because he wanted to be an actor and he
had no talent. But every day, religiously, he would go to the agent. Hopefully he would knock at the door,
enter the office, and inquire, "Has something happened? Am I booked somewhere?"
And the agent would say always the same: "I cannot do anything, nothing is possible."
Days passed, weeks passed, then years passed and the Mulla's knocking became a routine. Whatsoever
the season, the climate, good or bad, but one thing was certain for the agent -- that Mulla would come. And
he would again ask hopefully, and the man would again say the same thing: "Nasruddin, I cannot do
anything, nothing is possible."
Then one day the knock was different, a little sad. And when Mulla came in, even the agent was
surprised: "Why is he so sad?"
Mulla said, "Listen, for two weeks don't book me anywhere because I'm going for a vacation."
This is how mind functions -- goes on hoping, not for many years; but for many lives! You knock on the
same door with the same inquiry and desire, and it is always no. What have you gained through mind except
nos?
Yes has never come that way, it cannot come. Mind is a futile effort. It is desertlike, nothing grows on it,
nothing can grow. But it goes on hoping. Even a desert dreams, and dreams of beautiful gardens, rivers
flowing, brooks and waterfalls. Even a desert dreams... and that is the dream of the mind.
One has to be alert. There is no need to waste any more time -- no need to knock on the agent's door.
Enough you have lived with the mind. Nothing have you achieved through it. Is it not the right time to be
alert and aware?
Of course you have gathered many miseries and many hells -- if you call them achievements then it is
okay -- anguish, frustration. And wherever you move with the mind something goes wrong, because mind is
the mechanism of the wrong. You look: something goes wrong.
Mulla Nasruddin's son was entered into the school. The teacher was talking about geography and she
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