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You have to be alert not to allow the mind to disturb
your peace in the
present, and the future will take care of itself. Let your blissfulness be
the only criterion. If
something is making you blissful, it is bound to be
real -- because from the unreal you cannot get blissfulness. And if
your
blissfulness goes on growing, then you are on the right path.
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Freedom in itself has no meaning,
unless it is freedom for something,
something creative - freedom to sculpt, freedom to dance, freedom to
create music,
poetry, painting. Unless your freedom turns into a creative
realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that
you are free: your
chains are broken, you no longer have any handcuffs, you no longer have
any chains, you don’t
have any prison, you are standing under the starry
night, completely free, but where to go?
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"So let
us try to understand what unhappiness is. Unhappiness is the
incapacity to understand life, the incapacity to understand
oneself, the
incapacity to create a harmony between you and existence. Unhappiness
is a discord between you and reality;
something is in conflict between
you and existence.
Happiness is when nothing is in conflict - when you are together,
and you
are together with existence also."
+++
"When you awaken in your deepest core of being, in the
very center of
your existence, then there is only silence, immense joy and celebration.
But to find an expression
for it has not been possible up to now, and will
never be possible -- this much can be said with absolute certainty.
Language
is left so far away that when you try to express your innermost
awakening, it becomes distorted. The medium of language
is not capable
to reflect it in its purity."
+++
Always be alert that mind is cunning and gives you impossible
goals, so
you go on running after them.
Nothing is impossible if you go slowly, if you make many stopovers and
you are not in a hurry. Whether the total change happens or not is not
important. Even small changes in life are precious,
because the total
change will be simply the accumulated effect of all the small changes.
Total change is not one whole
-- it is simply the effect of all the small
changes, the accumulated revolution that happens in you.
So always
remain human.
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To be out of this sickness is very simple. Just go against all these
qualities. When
you feel sad, jog, jump and laugh. When you feel
repressed, express. And don’t be bothered that people may think
you are
mad -- that it is not the time, it is not the right place where you are
expressing. It is their problem. You
remember that you have not to allow
depression to set in. The moment you feel that something is becoming
depressed,
repressed, immediately express yourself in a song, in a dance,
in laughter.
+++
"Life is today! Tomorrow
is death. So when you come across death, it is a
great shock that life has gone by and you have not been able to find
any
meaning in it. And now there is no tomorrow left, and you are
accustomed to search for meaning in the tomorrows.
You have been told
about, taught about, prepared for, tomorrows..."
+++
Watch everything as if it is a
cloud passing by. I can see your difficulty:
you would like to be identified with love, you would like to be identified
with happiness and you would like not to be identified with sadness, you
would not like to be identified with misery.
But this kind of choice is not
allowed by existence. Don’t choose something good and don’t throw away
something
bad. Nothing is good, nothing is bad. Only awareness is good
and unawareness is bad.
+++
When the energy
of watching turns back to the source, creating a circle,
one knows oneself, there is nothing else to know. That’s
what Socrates
was saying to his disciples: "Know thyself, because without knowing
thyself you cannot be thyself."
Unconscious, you simply think you are. But you don’t know who you are,
what you are, why you are. Your whole
life is lived in unconsciousness.
+++
I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself
you
cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not
loved yourself. But before you can
love yourself you have to know
yourself; hence love is secondary, meditation is primary.
+++
Man has not
allowed woman the same status, the same position, the
same freedom as he has allowed himself. The woman has lived down
the
ages as a prisoner. In the name of religion, in the name of morality, in the
name of chastity -- all great names
but hiding a simple and ugly fact:
slavery, spiritual slavery.
+++
Don’t be bothered by any experiences
that people who are taking drugs
will tell you about. Meditation is not concerned with experiences but with
the experiencer.
Experiences are outside things. Meditation is concerned
with you, not what happens to you, not what you see.... A beautiful
rose
? certainly under the influence of a drug it will look more beautiful, more
radiant but still, what is the use?
You remain the same person. Your heart
does not open its petals, you are as dead as before. Except for
meditation
there is no way. Drugs can give you hallucinations, illusory
experiences....
+++
And a man who lives totally
in the moment -- his heart full of songs, his
presence radiating joy -- how can he feel jealous? The whole world may
feel
jealous of him, but he cannot feel any jealousy. These are your
wrong approaches to life, that greed and jealousy arise
in you and create
dark valleys.
This wheel will go on rotating unless you understand and jump out of it.
And
the only way to jump out of it is to live each moment so totally that
it brings such contentment, such fulfillment that
you cannot be greedy.
And you cannot be jealous, and you cannot be in self-condemnation, and
you cannot feel pain.
Existence gives you one moment by one moment.
So if you know to live one moment totally, you know the whole secret
of
life.
+++
You don’t regret if you don’t feel that it should have been otherwise. No,
whatever
has been should have been exactly the same as it has been.
And then you can be perfectly happy with every act and with
every
consequence, because everything has been a tremendous teaching. It is
just that you have to change your outlook,
and the whole of life becomes
a terrific drama.
And you are not victims, you are just actors in it. You can keep
your
witness untouched by whatever happens. And the witness knows no
regret, the witness cannot say, "I am sorry."
+++
If I have to choose between the two, I will choose Zorba, not Buddha...
because the Zorba can always
become the Buddha, but the Buddha
becomes confined to his own holiness. He cannot go to the disco and
become the Zorba.
And to me, freedom is the highest value; there is
nothing greater, more precious, than freedom.
+++
You
have to be alert not to allow the mind to disturb your peace in the
present, and the future will take care of itself.
Let your blissfulness be
the only criterion. If something is making you blissful, it is bound to be
real -- because
from the unreal you cannot get blissfulness. And if your
blissfulness goes on growing, then you are on the right path.
+++
Freedom in itself has no meaning, unless it is freedom for something,
something creative - freedom
to sculpt, freedom to dance, freedom to
create music, poetry, painting. Unless your freedom turns into a creative
realization,
you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free: your
chains are broken, you no longer have any handcuffs, you
no longer have
any chains, you don’t have any prison, you are standing under the starry
night, completely free,
but where to go?
+++
"So let us try to understand what unhappiness is. Unhappiness is the
incapacity to
understand life, the incapacity to understand oneself, the
incapacity to create a harmony between you and existence. Unhappiness
is a discord between you and reality; something is in conflict between
you and existence.
Happiness is when
nothing is in conflict - when you are together, and you
are together with existence also."
+++
"When you
awaken in your deepest core of being, in the very center of
your existence, then there is only silence, immense joy and
celebration.
But to find an expression for it has not been possible up to now, and will
never be possible -- this
much can be said with absolute certainty.
Language is left so far away that when you try to express your innermost
awakening,
it becomes distorted. The medium of language is not capable
to reflect it in its purity."
+++
Always be
alert that mind is cunning and gives you impossible goals, so
you go on running after them.
Nothing is impossible
if you go slowly, if you make many stopovers and
you are not in a hurry. Whether the total change happens or not is not
important. Even small changes in life are precious, because the total
change will be simply the accumulated effect
of all the small changes.
Total change is not one whole -- it is simply the effect of all the small
changes, the accumulated
revolution that happens in you.
So always remain human.
+++
To be out of this sickness is very simple.
Just go against all these
qualities. When you feel sad, jog, jump and laugh. When you feel
repressed, express. And
don’t be bothered that people may think you are
mad -- that it is not the time, it is not the right place where
you are
expressing. It is their problem. You remember that you have not to allow
depression to set in. The moment
you feel that something is becoming
depressed, repressed, immediately express yourself in a song, in a dance,
in laughter.
+++
"Life is today! Tomorrow is death. So when you come across death, it is a
great shock that life has
gone by and you have not been able to find any
meaning in it. And now there is no tomorrow left, and you are
accustomed
to search for meaning in the tomorrows. You have been told
about, taught about, prepared for, tomorrows..."
+++
Watch everything as if it is a cloud passing by. I can see your difficulty:
you would like to be identified with
love, you would like to be identified
with happiness and you would like not to be identified with sadness, you
would
not like to be identified with misery. But this kind of choice is not
allowed by existence. Don’t choose something
good and don’t throw away
something bad. Nothing is good, nothing is bad. Only awareness is good
and unawareness
is bad.
+++
When the energy of watching turns back to the source, creating a circle,
one knows oneself,
there is nothing else to know. That’s what Socrates
was saying to his disciples: "Know thyself, because without
knowing
thyself you cannot be thyself."
Unconscious, you simply think you are. But you don’t know who you
are,
what you are, why you are. Your whole life is lived in unconsciousness.
+++
I would like you to love
yourself, because unless you love yourself you
cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have
not
loved yourself. But before you can love yourself you have to know
yourself; hence love is secondary, meditation
is primary.
+++
Man has not allowed woman the same status, the same position, the
same freedom as he has
allowed himself. The woman has lived down the
ages as a prisoner. In the name of religion, in the name of morality, in
the
name of chastity -- all great names but hiding a simple and ugly fact:
slavery, spiritual slavery.
+++
Don’t be bothered by any experiences that people who are taking drugs
will tell you about. Meditation is
not concerned with experiences but with
the experiencer. Experiences are outside things. Meditation is concerned
with
you, not what happens to you, not what you see.... A beautiful rose
? certainly under the influence of a drug it will
look more beautiful, more
radiant but still, what is the use? You remain the same person. Your heart
does not open
its petals, you are as dead as before. Except for
meditation there is no way. Drugs can give you hallucinations, illusory
experiences....
+++
And a man who lives totally in the moment -- his heart full of songs, his
presence
radiating joy -- how can he feel jealous? The whole world may
feel jealous of him, but he cannot feel any jealousy. These
are your
wrong approaches to life, that greed and jealousy arise in you and create
dark valleys.
This wheel
will go on rotating unless you understand and jump out of it.
And the only way to jump out of it is to live each moment
so totally that
it brings such contentment, such fulfillment that you cannot be greedy.
And you cannot be jealous,
and you cannot be in self-condemnation, and
you cannot feel pain. Existence gives you one moment by one moment.
So
if you know to live one moment totally, you know the whole secret of
life.
+++
You don’t regret
if you don’t feel that it should have been otherwise. No,
whatever has been should have been exactly the same as
it has been.
And then you can be perfectly happy with every act and with every
consequence, because everything has
been a tremendous teaching. It is
just that you have to change your outlook, and the whole of life becomes
a terrific
drama.
And you are not victims, you are just actors in it. You can keep your
witness untouched by whatever happens.
And the witness knows no
regret, the witness cannot say, "I am sorry."
+++
If I have to choose between
the two, I will choose Zorba, not Buddha...
because the Zorba can always become the Buddha, but the Buddha
becomes
confined to his own holiness. He cannot go to the disco and
become the Zorba. And to me, freedom is the highest value;
there is
nothing greater, more precious, than freedom.
+++
Thank you for your visit
John
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