![]() ![]() People who are too afraid of danger start living in a sort of grave they create a grave of security around themselves, and they start living in that grave, a subtle grave, a mind grave. Now nothing can happen to them: nobody can insult them, nobody can kill them, nobody can rob them. ![]() Those who are in their graves are out of danger, out of all danger. Have you ever heard of any man who has lived without danger? To live means to be in danger to die means to be out of danger. “You have helped me to be in touch with my own spontaneity, yet it is the most dangerous quality of life I have ever encountered.” In fact, this is the first time you have encountered life, because life is spontaneity and life is danger. So right, your feeling is absolutely right. You are at the mercy of the whole – this is what danger is. The danger simply means that now the future is not in your hands, the future becomes unpredictable. Heaven opens only when you open and when you open there is danger. Haven’t you noticed some moments in your life when you were not? Those were moments of benediction, moments of great blessing, beautitude. The ego is nothing but accumulated tension of the past, of the future. When the tenseness disappears the “I” also disappears. Remember, the feeling “I am” is the feeling of a tense mind. You are completely drunk with the moment, drowned in it, so relaxed in it that you cannot even feel that you are. You are not in control so you cannot direct. ![]() Now you will be vulnerable – naturally so, obviously so. To enjoy, you have to disappear in the act. A controller can never be inside an act a controller is always on the outside – hence the controller can never enjoy. To control something you have to be outside it. The act is so total that you are absorbed in it you are not standing outside it. Now you don’t know what is happening, you don’t know where you are going, you don’t know what will be the outcome – and you are not worried about it at all, not even a bit. The whole manages – call it Tao – in which you are no longer in control you have dropped your control, you have surrendered your control. A spontaneous act is one in which you are not the manager in which God manages. If you are in control, then the act is not spontaneous, then you are thinking of the consequences, the results, this and that – a thousand and one things. What do I mean? The first thing: when you are spontaneous you are not in control, you cannot be in control. There can never be spontaneity without danger: danger is spontaneity. So I say that it is better to say, spontaneity is danger, then it is not a quality but the very intrinsic nature of spontaneity. To say “dangerous” means that dangerousness is a quality, accidental. It will be better if we say spontaneity is danger. The second thing: spontaneity is dangerous. In the beginning it will be just “as if.” Slowly, slowly, as you get in tune with it, you will come to know that it is not as if, it is the only reality there is. Who is spontaneous? One who lives in this moment as if it is all is spontaneous. It is always a division of now and then, of here and there. You cannot be spontaneous in your actions because you have to think about the consequences. You cannot be spontaneous in this life because you have to think about the afterlife. You cannot be spontaneous this moment because you have to think of the coming moment. You cannot be spontaneous today because you have to think about tomorrow. Why have we lost spontaneity? By what trick? The trick is in dividing. Only then can you be spontaneous, really spontaneous. This is the only life there is, the only dance there is. My whole emphasis is that whatsoever is is right. It is always that wherever you are, you are not right, you should be somewhere else. The “center and the cyclone” is new language, but the habit is very old, the gestalt is very old. Now you think that you are on the circumference of the cyclone and the center has been lost, so now the center must be found. Through division we become split through division we become schizophrenic. The anxiety is created because we are always dividing. Once you understand this oneness of life, then all tensions, anxieties, anguish, disappear. Let me insist on it: the cyclone is the center and there is no other center to it. We have a chronic habit of duality: God and the world, body and soul, the lower and the higher the good and bad. We have a chronic habit of dividing things into two. There is no center to this cyclone, the cyclone is the center. ![]() And what hassles you have created through it! Now I feel totally helpless, too vulnerable, possessed by you and this spontaneous union. You have helped me to be in touch with my spontaneity, yet it is the most dangerous quality of life I have ever encountered – especially in relationships. ![]()
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