Philosophers can be consistent
Truth is so infinite, so great, that no partial statement can contain it; the opposite has to be included immediately. The whole will always be contradictory, only the part can be consistent -- because the whole has to consider the opposite also. The opposite is there. It exists. Philosophers can be consistent because their understanding is partial. They can be neat and clean, they can afford to be logical. Immediately the whole thing becomes untrue. The opposite has to be involved, the opposite has to be absorbed. If you have a fear, a distrust, then even after surrender you will have to do something, the surrender cannot be complete. If after surrender you have also to do something, then you have to retain yourself, you have to hold back -- surrender cannot be total. And when surrender is not total it is not surrender at all. Surrender can only be total, you cannot surrender in part. You cannot say: I surrender half -- because the half that has been retained will be against the surrender. It can only be retained against it. So surrender can only be total. It is just like a circle, a geometric circle. It cannot be half; you cannot draw a half circle. If you draw it you cannot call it a circle. A circle must be complete. Half, then it is something else, not a circle at all. Surrender can only be total. It is also a circle, a spiritual circle. You surrender from end to end. Nothing is left behind. If you have surrendered, there is no need for anything to be done. Surrender itself is the thing, nothing else is needed. The very phenomenon of surrendering is enough. No further help is needed. Everything will be done by surrender itself. Surrendering means you are no more, surrendering means the ego has been dropped. Surrendering means now the center has been dispersed; you exist but without a center. If there is no center, there is nothing to protect; the walls drop by themselves. If there is no one, your whole structure of defense disappears by and by; it becomes futile. You become an open space. This open space will do everything, this openness will do everything. Tao will pass through you unhindered. Tao can move through you, in and out -- there is nobody to create any barrier. Surrendered, you become open to the divine forces. Everything happens spontaneously after that. The problem is surrendering. After surrendering, there is no problem. Nothing is needed. There is no need! So what to do now? How to say this whole? There is only one way, to contradict consistently. The relationship between a guru and a disciple is a very complex phenomenon. In a way very simple, otherwise very complex. It is simple because the relationship exists only on the part of the disciple. On the part of the master there is no relationship, because the master doesn't exist. He is there no more. He is a nobody. It appears to you that he is. This appearance will persist unless you surrender. Once you surrender, once you become a non-being, suddenly you will see that the master has never been there.
