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Listening silently does not mean that you are agreeing with me. It is not a question of agreement or disagreement.

Listening silently does not mean that you are accepting me or rejecting me. If you are accepting you are not silent, activity is there. The activity of accepting.

If you are agreeing with me that means you are already translating me. If you are rejecting me that is negative activity, if you accept me that is positive activity.

To be silent simply means no activity at all. You are simply here, just being here, only available, no question of agreeing or disagreeing.

And the beauty of truth is that the moment you hear the truth something inside you responds, says yes. It is not agreement of the mind, remember. It comes from your totality. Every fiber of your being, every cell of your body, nods in tremendous joy, “Yes!” Not that you say yes. It is not said, it is not verbalized at all. It is silently there.

And when you hear some untruth, in the same way there is a no. Your whole being says, “No.” That too is not mental.

This is a totally different approach. The West has not been able to evolve it yet. The East has evolved it. For centuries we have been working on this subtle method, polishing it, polishing it. It has become a mirror.

The East knows how to just sit in silence, without agreeing or disagreeing because we have discovered one fundamental thing: truth is already inside you. If you hear the truth from the outside your truth will be awakened, it will be provoked.

Suddenly you will say, “Yes!” As if you had known it already. It is a recognition. It is a remembrance. You are simply being reminded by the master about that which you have forgotten. It is not a question of agreement or disagreement, no, not at all.

I am not interested in creating beliefs in you. And I am not interested in giving you any kind of ideology. My whole effort here is, as it has always been of all the buddhas since the beginnings of time, to provoke truth in you.

I know it is already there, it just needs a synchronicity. It just needs something to trigger the process of recognition in you.

The master speaks not to give you the truth, but to help you to recognize the truth that is already within you. The master is only a mirror. You see your own original face in deep silence, sitting by his side.