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  • silence shared in words

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  • I Don't Ask You to Agree With Me

  • Friends,

  • One sannyasin has asked me:

  • Cannot we disagree with you?

  • Cannot we criticize you?

  • A significant question for everyone.

  • This is not a

  • debating club.

  • Neither your agreement is needed,

  • nor your disagreement.

  • What is needed

  • is your right hearing.

  • If you hear rightly,

  • it will be decisive.

  • Agreement is just

  • a mind thing,

  • and disagreement is also the same.

  • Neither of them is going to help you.

  • What is going to help you is to experiment,

  • to experience,

  • but that comes only when you have heard me.

  • The greatest difficulty is

  • to hear rightly,

  • to hear silently.

  • If you are thinking to agree or disagree,

  • then

  • you cannot hear me. Your prejudices are there

  • functioning as a curtain,

  • they will distort everything.

  • I don't ask you to agree with me,

  • and I don't ask you to disagree with me.

  • Our whole approach is beyond the mind.

  • You have to learn how to listen,

  • how to be silent

  • and let your silence decide.

  • Let your no-mind

  • decide.

  • And I know

  • that your no-mind will be in absolute synchronicity with what I am saying to you.

  • I will not use the word agreement

  • that word belongs to the mind

  • nor disagreement.

  • They are two polarities of the mind -- positive/negative,

  • theist/atheist, believer/nonbeliever.

  • I am trying to approach your no-mind,

  • where it is never a question of choice.

  • No-mind functions choicelessly.

  • Once I have approached the no-mind, if you have allowed me,

  • putting your prejudices aside,

  • you won't have to agree or disagree,

  • you will find an immense synchronicity.

  • You will be in absolute harmony with me.

  • And only that harmony can help your evolution.

  • What will you do with agreement?

  • Just a belief will be created,

  • and I am against all beliefs.

  • What will you do with your disagreement?

  • Your prejudice will remain,

  • and your prejudice is your problem.

  • You will remain

  • within the boundaries of your past

  • upbringing, your programming by the family,

  • by the school,

  • by the society,

  • by the church.

  • This is not an intellectual

  • discussing

  • club;

  • this is a place for seekers.

  • It is a totally different phenomenon than you will come across anywhere else around the world.

  • Here, we are searching to find

  • a deep harmony.

  • If you can be harmonious with me

  • it is not agreement

  • you are one with me.

  • Agreement needs two.

  • If you can be harmonious with me,

  • I can transfer

  • much

  • that cannot be said.

  • And only that which cannot be said is going to help your growth

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