Follow the yes

FOR one month follow only the yes, the path that says ‘yes’. For one month don’t follow the path that says ‘no’. Give more cooperation to the yes – that is from where you will become united. No never helps to attain unity. It is always yes that helps, because yes is acceptance, yes is trust, yes is prayer. To be able to say ‘yes’ is to be religious.

The second thing, the no has not to be repressed. If you repress it, it will take revenge. If you repress it, it will become more and more powerful and one day will explode and destroy your yes. So never repress the no, just ignore it.

And there is a great difference between repressing and ignoring. You know it is there and you recognise it. You say “Yes, I know you  are there, but I’m going to follow yes.” You don’t repress it, you don’t fight with it, you don't say “Get out, get lost, I don’t want to do anything with you.” You don’t say anything in anger to it, you don’t want to push it away, you don’t want to throw it into the basement of your unconsciousness in the dark mind. No, you don’t do anything to it; you simply recognise that it is there. But you are following the yes, with no grudge, with no complaint, with no anger. Simply follow yes, not taking any attitude about no.

 Ignoring it is the greatest art to kill no. If you fight with it you have already become a victim, a very subtle victim; the no has already won over you. When you fight with no you have said ‘no’ to no. That is how it has taken possession of you from the back door. Don’t say ‘no’ even to no – just ignore it.

For one month follow yes and don’t fight with no. You will be surprised that by and by it becomes lean and thin because it is becoming starved, and one day suddenly you see it is no more there. And when it is no more there, all the energy involved in it is released and that released energy will make your yes a great stream.