If you have authority, you want to show it. But then the son also has some authority. He starts jumping, he creates a tantrum, and he knows that he will create trouble and the neighbors will listen and people will think wrong about you, so
you say, “Okay, go.”
In every human encounter you will see it happening – people are throwing their authority all around; either bullying people or being bullied by others. And if somebody bullies you, you will immediately find some weaker person somewhere to take the revenge.
If your boss bullies you in the office, you will come home and bully your wife. And if she is not a lib movement woman, then she will wait for the child to come home from the school, and she will bully the child. And if the child is old-fashioned, not American, then the child will go to his room and crush his toys, because that is the only thing he can bully. He can show his power on the toy. But this goes on and on. This seems to be the whole game. This is what real politics is.
To get out of the political mind is the meaning of this sutra:
It is difficult not to abuse one’s authority. So whenever you have some authority…. And everybody has some authority or other. You cannot find a person, you cannot find the last person who has no authority; even he has some authority, even he has a dog he can kick. Everybody has some authority somewhere. So, everybody lives in politics. You may not be a member of any political party; that doesn’t mean that you are not political. If you abuse your authority, you are political. If you don’t abuse your authority, then you are non-political.
Become more aware not to abuse your authority. It will give you a very new light – how you function – and it will make you so calm and centered. It will give you tranquillity and serenity.
It is difficult to be even-minded and simple-hearted in all one’s dealings with others.
It is very difficult, because people are cunning. If you are simple-hearted, you will be cheated.
Buddha says, be cheated. It is better to be cheated than to cheat. If these are the only alternatives – to be cheated or to cheat – then Buddha says choose the first, be cheated. At least your inner being will remain uncorrupted.
That is the meaning when Jesus says, “If somebody hits, slaps your face, then give him the other side also. If somebody forces you to carry his load for one mile, go two miles. And if somebody tries to steal your coat, give him your shirt also.”
The whole meaning is this: that it is better to be cheated, because when somebody is cheating you, he can cheat you only of immaterial things, meaningless things. When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being…something which is tremendously valuable.
In every human encounter you will see it happening – people are throwing their authority all around; either bullying people or being bullied by others. And if somebody bullies you, you will immediately find some weaker person somewhere to take the revenge.
If your boss bullies you in the office, you will come home and bully your wife. And if she is not a lib movement woman, then she will wait for the child to come home from the school, and she will bully the child. And if the child is old-fashioned, not American, then the child will go to his room and crush his toys, because that is the only thing he can bully. He can show his power on the toy. But this goes on and on. This seems to be the whole game. This is what real politics is.
To get out of the political mind is the meaning of this sutra:
It is difficult not to abuse one’s authority. So whenever you have some authority…. And everybody has some authority or other. You cannot find a person, you cannot find the last person who has no authority; even he has some authority, even he has a dog he can kick. Everybody has some authority somewhere. So, everybody lives in politics. You may not be a member of any political party; that doesn’t mean that you are not political. If you abuse your authority, you are political. If you don’t abuse your authority, then you are non-political.
Become more aware not to abuse your authority. It will give you a very new light – how you function – and it will make you so calm and centered. It will give you tranquillity and serenity.
It is difficult to be even-minded and simple-hearted in all one’s dealings with others.
It is very difficult, because people are cunning. If you are simple-hearted, you will be cheated.
Buddha says, be cheated. It is better to be cheated than to cheat. If these are the only alternatives – to be cheated or to cheat – then Buddha says choose the first, be cheated. At least your inner being will remain uncorrupted.
That is the meaning when Jesus says, “If somebody hits, slaps your face, then give him the other side also. If somebody forces you to carry his load for one mile, go two miles. And if somebody tries to steal your coat, give him your shirt also.”
The whole meaning is this: that it is better to be cheated, because when somebody is cheating you, he can cheat you only of immaterial things, meaningless things. When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being…something which is tremendously valuable.
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