change - known to unknown

Real Change

A change is possible only from the known to the unknown, not from the known to theknown. Do please think this over with me. In the change from the known to the known,there is authority, there is hierarchical outlook of life - 'You know, I do notknow. Therefore, I worship you, I create a system, I go after a guru, I follow youbecause you are giving me what I want to know, you are giving me a certainty ofconduct that will produce the result, the success and the result.' Success is theknown. I know what it is to be successful. That is what I want. So we proceed fromthe known to the known, in which authority must exist - the authority of sanction,the authority of the leader, the guru, the hierarchy, the one who knows and theother who does not know - and the one who knows must guarantee me the success, thesuccess in my endeavor, in change, so that I will be happy, I will have what I want.Is that not the motive for most of us to change? Do please observe your own thinkin g, and you will see the ways of your own life and conduct. …When you look at it, isthat change? Change, revolution, is something from the known to the unknown, inwhich there is no authority, in which there may be total failure. But if you areassured that you will achieve, you will succeed, you will be happy, you will haveeverlasting life, then there is no problem. Then you pursue the well-known courseof action, which is, yourself being always at the center of things.