Struggle with yourself

The mind is a chooser .It always chooses something against something else. It creates opposition, contradiction in life and extremes; there is a constant inner war, a civil war. Don't choose, remain choice less.

If you repress sex you will be in a constant war, and you can never win. Failure is absolutely certain because the more you fight with sex, the more you give energy to it. The same is the case with anger, jealousy, and greed. Fighting is not the way of wisdom; it is the fool's path, stupid and the mediocre fight.

The intelligent ones transform; they absorb. We have a freedom to choose. We can live an integrated life; we can become an organic unity or we can remain a crowd – many minds, many fragments, and no unity. Each fragment of your mind wants to become the most powerful one. There is constant inner politics.

You cannot find bliss in this constant inner war. When there are many minds there is conflict, discord, a constant civil war. When you are at war within yourself you are at war with existence too; as within, so without. A Deep down in the bottom of your heart, you are one person, pretending on the surface to be somebody else.

There is a constant conflict between the real and the false. The false is appreciated by society, valued, respected, and the real is condemned. You have to learn ways to be two persons.

I don't want the peace of the cemetery. All the graves are silent – no fight, no struggle, no quarrel. I want the peace of a garden in the early morning when birds are singing, flowers are opening, and the sun is rising. My understanding about peacefulness is that it is not a question of being peaceful with anybody. The basic question is being at peace with you. Out of that, peace arises for everybody. Where is the devil?

It is some condemned part of you. There is no enemy but a part of you which has not possibility of spreading from yourself. You can go on fighting, but you will never win. You cannot fight against the devil; you can only play with him. Society is violent, politics is violent, and nations are violent. The state is violent; the church is violent, because they are political games. Even religion is political. Every religion is trying to defeat other religions.

There is a constant struggle going on, a cold war. How long can you go on fighting a cold war? Sooner or later it becomes heated, and then a hot war erupts.

Man has been going through three kinds of wars. One is with nature, another is with other people, and the third is with him. The first war has become science: the war with nature. The second war has become politics: the war with other people. And the third war, unfortunately, has become religion: the war with yourself.