
Wait and see
excerpt
series:
Tao - The Three Treasures
Volume 1 / Chapter 4
June 14, 1975 Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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The last question:
You always say 'Wait and see'. Wait, I can understand. But how to see?
You need not worry about that. You simply wait and seeing will come to you. No need to worry about it. Waiting gives you insight.
When I say "Wait and see," I don't mean that you have to do both. I simply mean wait and you will see. In fact, wait and seeing will come to you. Waiting creates seeing. Patience creates the possibility. Absolute patience creates the absolute possibility to see.
In tense, impatient minds eyes are clouded, filled with smoke -they cannot see. When you silently wait, by and by clouds disappear from the eyes, because they are created by impatience. When you patiently wait they disappear. Vision becomes clear, a clarity is attained. You can see.
Wait and see -- when I say this I don't mean that you have to do both, I mean wait, and you will see. Seeing will come by itself, on its own accord. You simply wait.
You understand me?
If you can wait it means you have dropped the reaching mind, the achieving mind; you have dropped the desiring mind. Only then can you wait. Waiting means now you are here and now, this moment is enough, this moment is all -- and suddenly the eyes are clear. No clouds roam in the eyes then -- no smoke. The flame burns without smoke.
And you see.
Enough for today.
Tao - The Three Treasures
Volume 1 / Chapter 4