Taoblog

If you take a fruit from the tree and you eat it, it is absorbed, circulates in your blood, moves in your muscles, has become part of your body. Just a few hours before, it was part of the tree. Just a few hours before, it was the other. Now it is no more the other -- it is you. It has entered your boundary. It is fused in you. This is fusion.

If you don't understand, if you are not rightly digesting, then there will be confusion. Confusion simply shows that so many things are bombarding you and you are not able to digest them. It creates an indigestion -- indigestion in the head, indigestion in your psyche... a psychic disturbance. So the more possibility there is for fusion, simultaneously the more possibility there is of confusion.

If you don't eat anything, there cannot be indigestion. Or if you eat just the minimum -- that which is enough for survival -- there will be no indigestion. But if rich food is available, very vital food is available and you eat too much of it.... And that happens. If a person has been starving for many days and then rich food becomes available, he simply cannot stop himself. He goes on eating.

Another problem is also that you have a certain wrong notion that for love one first has to be worthy. That is absolutely absurd. Then nobody will be able to love, and nobody will ever feel worthy.

Love is nothing like that. Nothing more is required but you. Worth is not significant. Whether you are worthy or not is not a question for love. As you are, you can become a love object, but from your childhood you have been wrongly conditioned. Every child is wrongly conditioned because parents go on using this need of the child -- the need to be loved, the need to be hugged, the need to be cuddled. They use it as a technique to educate him. They exploit this need. They are in trouble as to what else they can do and how to educate the child, so they make a bargain with him.

They say, 'If you do things we like you to do, then we will love you. You have to deserve it. If you are good in the school, if you are good in the house, if you are good with the neighbours, with the guests, with your mother, with your father, then you will receive love. If you are not good, if you are not worthy, then you will starve. We will not love you; we will withdraw ourselves.'

And the need of the child is so much. It is just like food. He cannot survive without food, and he cannot survive without love. In fact the need for love is even deeper than food, because without food, only his body will wither away; without love, his very soul.

A very intelligent man, Timothy Leary, served seven years in jail because he was teaching that LSD can make man in every way superior to what he is now: his consciousness can be wider, his love can be deeper, his sensitivity can touch unknown peaks which have never been touched before. In every dimension LSD can be a tremendous boost for human growth. Just because of teaching these things he was put in jail. He was a professor, perfectly acquainted with the chemistry of LSD and the chemistry of the mind. He was not an illiterate person; what he was saying was based on scientific discoveries. But still, because he was teaching a philosophy supporting drugs, he was imprisoned for seven years. He was not a man of great guts; professors rarely are. He may have never thought that just by teaching a philosophical attitude you can get into so much trouble. Since he had been out of jail he had forgotten all about his philosophy. Now he was teaching something else -- he had to teach, he had become a world-famous man. He couldn't remain silent, he couldn't keep quiet. The old thing he could not teach again; otherwise he would be back in jail. Now he was teaching something absolutely absurd. Now was the time that he should be in a madhouse. Those seven years in jail were absolutely unjustified. On the one side these politicians go on talking about the freedom of speech, and on the other hand a man cannot say something which he feels is a scientific fact. It may not be -- then prove it! Timothy Leary was wrong but he should have been encountered on philosophical, psychological, scientific grounds. Sending him to jail simply shows that the country, even a country like America, which is the most sophisticated and cultured in the world, is still barbarous. It does not know how to handle questions, problems. This is not a way of handling a philosophical ideology. It simply shows a very primitive society. And Timothy Leary did not prove to have guts. When he came out he started talking about taking a trip to the moon; he started recruiting people, because he wanted a few hundred people to go with him to the moon. And there were fools who were getting recruited. Nobody was asking "What are you going to do on the moon? Why don't you do it here?" On the moon they are going to expand their consciousnesses. But why on the moon? This man had to do something. He had lost his job, the university won't take him back. He could not go back to his old philosophy because that meant jail again. Out of all this mess had arisen a great idea: go to the moon because this earth is going to be finished soon! So many fools became interested. They didn't even know that on the moon you cannot exist. The oxygen is not enough, water is not there, nothing grows on the moon. You cannot live on the moon. The idea of expanding consciousness ... you will not be there at all to expand anything. But he was getting money, support.