Just watch the
politicians in the world: when one party is in power the opposite party goes on
creating trouble in the country. They are the law-breakers, the
revolutionaries. And the party which is in power goes on creating discipline.
Once they are thrown out of power, they will create trouble. and once the
opposite party comes into power they become the guardians of discipline. They
are all trouble-makers. The male mind is a trouble-making phenomenon -- hence
it overpowers. it dominates. But deep down. although you may attain power, you
miss life -- and deep down, the feminine mind continues. Unless you fall back
to the feminine and you surrender. unless your resistance and struggle become
surrender. you will not know what real life, and the celebration of it, is.
Every revolution fails because once a certain group of politicians comes into
power, it has to use the same methods. The mind is never for the new, it is
always for the old. If you want to control others, you will not be able to
meditate...about that one point be absolutely certain. The mind lives in a sort
of sleep, it lives in a sort of unconscious state. You become conscious only
very rarely. If your life is in tremendous danger you become conscious;
otherwise you are not conscious. The mind goes on moving, sleepy. Stand by the
side of the road and watch people and you will see shadows of dreams on their
faces. Somebody talks to himself, or makes gestures -- if you look at him you
will be able to see that he is somewhere else, not here on the road. It is as
if people are moving in deep sleep. Somnambulism is the ordinary state of the
mind. If you want to become a meditator, you have to drop this sleepy habit of
doing things. Walk, but be alert. Dig a hole, but be alert. Eat, but while
eating don't do anything -- just eat.
OshO
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