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surrender to the whole
Man is vicious because only man can be Machiavellian. Other animals are simple, very simple, and when you think that they are doing something viciously, you are wrong. You think that mosquitoes are disturbing your meditation? They don't know. They don't know you at all, you are just food for them, and they are seeking their food, a simple thing. When you go to a tree, to an apple tree or to any other fruit tree and you take the fruit from the tree have you ever thought that you are vicious to the tree? No, the idea never comes. The same is being done by the mosquito to you and mosquitoes are very impartial, even to a Buddha they will do the same. They did. Sarnath is the place where Buddha gave his first sermon. Buddha moved around only a small part of India, the Bihar, so in forty years of wandering he passed through every village many times, but to Sarnath he never came again. He visited it only once, the first time, and he never came again. Why did Buddha never come again? Maybe mosquitoes. Sarnath has the biggest mosquitoes in India. Mosquitoes are impartial. They don't bother whether you are a Buddha or not; whether you are meditating or murdering someone they are in search of their food. And as you are in search of your food and you never feel that you are vicious, why should they be thought as vicious? Nobody is vicious. Even the germs that can kill you, they too are not vicious; they are in search of their food. Even the germs that create a cancer in your body that will certainly kill you, that no medicine can help, even they are not vicious, they are not Machiavellian, they are not politicians. They are simple people, just in search of food and they are very happy that they have found a home within you. They are not doing any harm to you knowingly because they cannot do anything knowingly. They are enjoying life as you are enjoying life. That doesn't mean that you just sit naked and become food for them, that is not the meaning. You protect yourself, but don't think them vicious. You protect yourself. If the tree could have protected itself it would have protected itself against you. You protect yourself. Even the mosquito protects itself, even the mosquitoes become immune to DDT. Everybody has to protect himself. If you think that you should become a victim and, thinking that mosquitoes are not vicious, you should sit naked and allow them on you because they are in search of food, then you are moving to the other extreme, to another foolishness. You protect yourself, everybody protects. Even the mosquito will protect himself, but don't think that they are vicious, because the idea that life around you is vicious is very dangerous. That idea will harm you more than all the animals, because that idea will give you a feeling of separateness from life, that idea will give you an enmity towards life, that idea will never allow you to surrender to the whole.
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