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But after a week, the only son of the old man was teaching a horse, a wild horse, trying to tame it. He fell down from the horse; he was broken all
over, many fractures. He was the old man’s only support, and the people said, “This old man knows, really knows… Now this is a great calamity. The
coming of the horse has been a misfortune. His son, the only support for his old age, is almost dead. He was supporting the old man; now the old man
will have to serve the young man because he will remain in bed for his whole life. And he was just going to be married. Now the marriage will be
impossible!” And they gathered again, and again they talked.

The old man said, “How to tell you? You go on doing the same thing again and again. Only say this much: that my young son has many fractures,
that’s all. Why move into the future? Why do you go so fast into the future? You have seen for these past few days that again and again you were
wrong, but again and again you go away from the present and you start your evaluation.”

And it happened that after a few days, the country went to war with a neighboring country, and all the young men of the town were forcibly taken
into the army. Only the old man’s son was left because he had fractures. They again gathered, but before they gathered the old man said, “Keep quiet!
When will you understand? Life is complex.”

This is the Eastern attitude, in essence. The yogi lives in the original mind, in suchness. Whatsoever happens, happens; he never evaluates it. And
he does not do anything of his own accord, he becomes just a vehicle of the whole. The whole flows through him. He becomes like a hollow bamboo, a
flute. The yogi carries that which comes from the total. That’s why Krishna says to Arjuna in the Bhagavadgita: “Don’t be worried, and don’t think in
terms of whatsoever you are going to do will be violence, and you will kill so many people. If God wills it, let it be so. If he wants to kill, he will kill,
whether through you or through somebody else. In fact,” Krishna says, “he has already killed. You are just instrumental, so don’t become too identified
with your actions. Remain a witness.”

The yogi’s karmas are neither pure nor impure, neither moral nor immoral, but all others are three-fold: pure, impure, and mixed. Whatsoever
ordinary people are doing… By “ordinary,” I mean people who have not attained their innermost core of being. Those who are living with their minds
are ordinary, those who are living with their ideas and thoughts and ideologies and scriptures are ordinary. Whatsoever they are doing, either their
actions are pure, or their actions are impure, or their actions are mixed – but their actions are not spontaneous, not original. They react, they don’t act.
Their response is a reaction, it is not an overflowing of energy. They are not available to this moment, right now.

Somebody asked Lin Chi, a Zen master, “If somebody comes and attacks you, what will you do?”

He shrugged his shoulders. He said, “Let him come and I will see. I cannot be prepared beforehand. I don’t know. I may laugh, or I may weep, or I
may jump and kill the man. Or, I may not bother about it at all. But I don’t know. Let the man come. The moment will decide, not I. The whole will
decide, not I. How can I say what I will do?”

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