how hypocrisy goes on working
In the sweet young thing's opinion the bench was far too public. Her gallant immediately suggested that they change their seat to one some distance away where it was more discreet and darker too.
"And you will promise not to hug me?" she asked coyly. Her lover nodded acquiescence.
"And you will promise not to kiss me?" Again her lover nodded.
"Then what on earth's the use of going over there?" demanded the girl angrily.
This is how hypocrisy goes on working: it pretends one thing, it hides just the opposite of it.
A man arrived at his local pub for a Friday night drink. Just as he was about to open the door, a nun jumped out from the shadows and said fervently, "My son, stop before it is too late! This pub is the House of the Devil! Repent your sins and forget the demon drink!"
The man had a bright idea and said to the nun mischievously, "How can you condemn something that you have never experienced? Have you ever tried alcohol? Have you ever felt it is health-giving and has many good properties in it?" "Never!" she cried. "I am a nun!"
After some very serious persuasion the drinker convinced the nun to try a little. "But wait," said the nun, "in these clothes I will be recognized. Why don't you bring some drink out to me in this old china cup?"
So the man entered the pub, walked up to the barman and said, "Evening, Jim. Give me a pint of your best and a large gin and tonic in this cup, please."
"By Christ!" exclaimed the barman. "Is that old nun hanging around outside my pub again?"
First see it clearly, watch it, all its subtle ways, its whole mechanism. It must have gone deep. You will have to be very aware of it. And nothing else is needed to be done -- because if you do something, that will create repression.
The miracle of awareness is that whatsoever is wrong, the moment you become fully aware of it drops on its own accord, and whatsoever is right, when you become fully aware of it, it becomes your very being.
Awareness is the most alchemical phenomenon in the world.
Just go on becoming more and more aware. Watch each act, each thought, each dream. And don't do anything -- don't be in a hurry to do something. Just simply go on watching, taking notes what is happening inside you, how you are living your life. And slowly you will become aware of a change happening on its own accord. And when any change happens by itself it has a beauty of its own.
