The new is not an outgrowth of the old, the new is not continuous with it – the new is totally new. The new cannot become a continuity with the old. Unless you are ready to die, your interest in meditation is false, because only those who are ready to die will be reborn. You will be there no more, something totally unknown to you will be born out of you. It is a death, because the old will have to go and the new will come into being. The fear of transformation is just like the fear of death. So on the surface you go on thinking that you are deeply interested, but deep down you go on deceiving.
That fear is very real – the fear of transformation. Maybe deep down you don’t want to be transformed. If you go on taking medicine, having treatments, and the illness remains the same – rather on the contrary, it goes on increasing – then your medicine, your treatment, is bound to be false. The deception is very subtle but it is bound to be there. That means they are deceiving themselves. So many people seem to be interested but nothing new arises in them, no new center is born, no new crystallization is achieved. Just through intense interest you start becoming different. If the interest is really deep, it becomes a fire by itself. Many people seem to be interested in meditation, but that interest cannot be very deep because so very few are transformed through it.
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