Love takes you beyond good and evil.
If you can´t be with the one you love, love the one you are with. Each love affair is an open window to Tao, but don´t get stuck on the frame. The diamond thunderbolt. It is a sudden experience, with no preparation, no rehearsal, no discipline, no path. Suddenly you open your eyes as if a thunderbolt has hit you and the sleep of millions of years is broken. In that awakening you know the mystery of existence. You cannot love enlightenment, you cannot hate enlightenment. These are not possible ways of approaching enlightenment. You can be enlightened or not, there is no question of loving enlightenment or not loving enlightenment. And it is not enough to love the master because that may become a consolation: that you are with the master, you love the master, what else is needed? Loving the master has only one meaning -- that you open up to such a point that the master can hit, and cut like a sword all the barriers to your enlightenment. You will need someone else and you will have to trust because he is opening your heart or opening your brain and who knows what kind of man he is. But ordinarily you do trust a surgeon even though you do not know him. The function of the master is far more deep. It needs a very conscious love and trust on the disciple's side because the master is going to tear down all your personality and shatter all your mind habits to bring out the hidden flame with all its splendor. You don't have to love it. You will rejoice, you will dance, you will sing, you will share, you will now love all that surrounds you. No master can force anybody to be enlightened. No master can create a fetter for the disciple. No master will say, "Remain with me." It is the disciple's heart that wants to remain. It is not an order from the side of the master, it is the love from the side of the disciple. It is a great love affair, `the great matter'. Love takes you beyond good and evil. If you love, then don't bother about good and evil. The master is just like a raincloud, ready to shower. And the disciple is ready to receive -- open, with no windows closed, holding nothing back -- totally available. Whenever a disciple is totally available and the master is overflowing with his ecstasy, the Tao happens. The man of tao can only open the door. He wants you to get out by yourself, not to be dragged out, because dragging you out into freedom is not possible. Dragging you into slavery is possible; but dragging you out into freedom is not possible, nobody can do it. You will have to walk on your own feet.
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