You are sitting, and when you sit for meditation many thoughts will come -- uninvited guests. They never come ordinarily. When you meditate, only then do they become interested in you. They will come, they will crowd, and they will encircle you. Do not fight with them. Just say, "I have decided not to be disturbed by you," and remain still. A thought comes to you; just say to the thought, "Go away." Do not fight! By fighting you acknowledge; by fighting you accept; by fighting you will prove weaker. Just say, "Go away!" and remain still. You will be surprised. Just by saying to a thought, "Go away!" it goes away.
But say it with a will. Your mind must not be divided. It must not be something like a feminine no. It must not be like that, because with a feminine no, the more forcefully it is said the more forcefully it means yes. It must not be a feminine no. If you say, "Go away," then do not mean inside, "Come nearer." Then let it be "Go away!" Mean it, and the thought will disappear. If you are angry and you have decided not to be angry, do not suppress it. Just say to the anger, "I am not going to be angry," and the anger will disappear.
There is a mechanism. Your will is needed because anger needs energy. If you say no with full energy, there is no energy left for the anger. A thought moves because deep down a hidden yes is there. That is why a thought moves in your mind. If you say no, that yes is cut from the very root. The thought becomes uprooted. It cannot be in you. But then with the no or yes you must mean what you say. Then the no must mean no and the yes must mean yes. But we go on saying yes, meaning no; telling no, meaning yes. Then the whole life becomes confused. And your mind, your body, they do not know what you mean, what you are saying.
This conscious effort to decide, to act, to be, is now going to be the evolution for man. A Buddha is different from you because of this effort and nothing else. Potentially there is no difference. Only this conscious effort makes the difference. Between man and man, the real difference is only of conscious effort. All else is just superficial. Only your clothes are different, so to speak. But when you have something conscious in you, a growth, an inward growth which is not natural, but which goes beyond, and then you have a distinct individuality.
Buddha was passing a village where many people had come to insult him. He said, "You have come late. You should have come ten years before because now I have become conscious. Now I cannot react. If you abuse me, if you insult me, it is okay with me. I am not going to react. You cannot force me to react."

People have to be freed from fear. People have to be given absolute freedom to be the way they want to be.
What Hassidism and Kabala say about the purpose of the creation is absolutely nonsense! Who says it doesn't matter. There is no purpose. God is not purposeful at all; he is playful. There cannot be any purpose in the ultimate sense, because if in the ultimate sense there is a purpose, that means god is lacking something. If there is a purpose that means he is trying to achieve something. If there is a purpose then the question will arise, 'What is the purpose of that purpose? For what?'
For example, you eat. There is a purpose because you want to live. You want to live, and if somebody asks, 'What is the purpose of that?' maybe you can say you want to love, but then what is the purpose of love? Ultimately you have to come to a point where you say 'Now there is no purpose.' What is the purpose of love? Then it becomes purposeless; it is playful. Love is a play. And that's what Jesus means when he says 'god is love'. Love is purposeless. It is an end unto itself.
So whosoever says it -- Hassidism or Cabala or anybody -- it doesn't matter. Man projects purpose in life because man cannot live without purpose. He goes on projecting ideas into god's mind also. They are all anthropomorphic. It shows the mind of the cabalist, of the Hassid, but it doesn't show the mind of god. The Bible says that god created man in his own image. The truth is just the reverse: man creates god in his own image.
For one month live purposelessly. You have lived with purpose up to now and what is the achievement? So why not give this crazy idea a chance?
Give it a try! And something is going to happen... but you have to give it a try. If you are determined that you won't allow yourself any happiness, that you cannot permit yourself any happiness, then only will it not happen. If you are ready to allow it, it is there just by the comer. It will overflood you! So for these days forget all your questions. Say yes to things that are here. Become a child again! Dance and sing, be loving. Just enjoy, otherwise that mind will hold you, which is burdened by knowledge.
When you see a rose flower, do you agree with it or disagree with it? When you see the moon in the night, you simply see it! Either you see it or you don't see it but there is no question of agreement or disagreement.

Alright, after you've eliminated your desire, and after you've been excellent in her presence, then you must retreat. Be desireless. Be excellent. Be gone. Tao isn't about picking up lots of women. It's about being the best person you can be, and I'm not. Children can understand philosophical concepts more fully than adults much in the same way they better understand languages at an early age. Why else was the original author Lao Tzu called, "Old Boy"? Time to get into the "flow." Athletes call it "the zone." How do you know when you're there? You become an observer of yourself. You shift away from the first person. You watch yourself creating art. You can see the picture already in front of you. You're just tracing it. You no longer care about the outcome, about the cost of the materials, screwing up, deadlines, schedules, and the rest of the world. Everything else fades away and all you see is what's in front of you. Your hand moves with confidence. The lines are sure and smooth. There is no doubt. Later, when you look at what you've created, you get the feeling it was done by someone else. It was. It was done by the creative spirit inside you. When you 'flow,' you're in touch with this spirit. How do you make contact? Music, meditation, environment, exercise, practice, rehearsal. Poor is the student who does not surpass his teacher. It's nice to believe that you can do anything you want, say anything you want, or show anything you want on your web site. After all, you have freedom of speech. Well, sort of. A part of our society sees this unrestricted freedom as a growing problem, one that requires the passage of laws. So laws will be passed, because the number of people who favour some form of censorship outweighs those who believe in total, unrestrained freedom of speech. And so there'll be laws, but not the sort that will please you, or anybody, actually, because these sorts of laws are always born out of the worst kinds of compromise. But protest isn't going to help. What's needed is a solution where everyone feels they've won. What a golden opportunity to channel some of your creative energy into benefiting mankind. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. To start the ball rolling, here's one suggestion -- self control. Eastern Philosophy speaks of the Superior man and the Inferior man. The difference is this: The Superior man is governed from within. The Inferior man is governed by law. The choice is yours.