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Friends,
It is time, ripe time for a Zen manifesto.
The Western intelligentsia have become acquainted with Zen, have also fallen in love with Zen, but
they are still trying to approach Zen from the mind. They have not yet come to the understanding
that Zen has nothing to do with mind.
Its tremendous job is to get you out of the prison of mind. It is not an intellectual philosophy; it is not
a philosophy at all. Nor is it a religion, because it has no fictions and no lies, no consolations. It is a
lion’s roar. And the greatest thing that Zen has brought into the world is freedom from oneself.
All the religions have been talking about dropping your ego – but it is a very weird phenomenon:
they want you to drop your ego, and the ego is just a shadow of God. God is the ego of the universe,
and the ego is your personality. Just as God is the very center of existence according to religions,
your ego is the center of your mind, of your personality. They have all been talking about dropping
the ego, but it cannot be dropped unless God is dropped. You cannot drop a shadow or a reflection
unless the source of its manifestation is destroyed.
So religions have been saying continuously, for centuries, that you should get rid of the ego – but for
wrong reasons. They have been asking you to drop your ego so you can surrender to God, so you
can surrender to the priests, so you can surrender to any kind of nonsense, any kind of theology,
superstition, belief system.
But you cannot drop the ego if it is a reflection of God. God is a lie, out there in the universe, and
ego is a lie within your mind. Your mind is simply reflecting a bigger lie according to its size.
Religions put humanity in a great dilemma: they went on praising God, and they went on condemning
the ego. So people were in a very split state, in a schizophrenic space. They tried hard to drop the
ego, but the harder they tried, the harder it became to drop it – because who was going to drop it?
The ego was trying to drop itself. That’s an impossibility. So even in the humblest so-called religious
people, the ego becomes very subtle, but it is not dropped.