Passion 4 Truth ...

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CURIOUS - Curiosity is good, curiosity is beautiful, but don't stop at
it. It is a good beginning, but not the end, because curiosity always
remains lukewarm. It is an intellectual gymnastics. --- It is good to
be curious because that is how one starts the journey of inquiry into
existence; but if one simply remains curious, then there will be no
intensity in it. One can move from one curiosity to another - one will
become a driftwood - from one wave to another wave, never getting
anchored anywhere. --- Curiosity is good as a beginning, but then one
has to become more passionate. One has to make life a quest, not only
a curiosity. And what do I mean when I say one has to make one's life
a quest? --- Curiosity creates questions, but your life never becomes
a quest. Questions are many, a quest is one. When some question
becomes so important to you that you are ready to sacrifice your life
for it, then it is a quest. When some question has such importance,
such significance that you can gamble, that you can stake all that you
have, then it becomes a quest. --- Curiosity is good as a triggering
point for a quest, but there are many people who simply remain
curious their whole life. Their life is a wastage; they are rolling
stones - they never gather any moss. They remain childish, they never
become mature. They ask a thousand and one questions, but they are not
really interested in answers. By the time you have answered them, they
have prepared another question ... But these questions are never
finished, because these questions are utterly meaningless, absurd-so
they are never finished. One can go on asking and asking and asking,
and the whole life can become just a wastage. --- It's good to be
curious as a beginning, but don't remain curious forever. You will
need some more passion in order to grow. Curiosity is not hot enough
to transform your life. It is superficial, shallow. You will have to
create a longing to know truth, an immense, intense passion for
truth. --- Because that needs courage, because risk is involved,
people go on thinking about questions. That is their substitute for
the quest. --- And this is the difference between philosophy and
religion: religion is a quest, philosophy is only curiosity. The
philosopher is never transformed by whatsoever he finds. He remains
the same. For example, if you meet Aristotle you will not find any
impact of his philosophy on his life, no, nothing of it. He will be as
devoid of his own philosophy as you are. He only thinks, he does not
live it. But if you meet the Buddha, then whatsoever he says, he lives
it. He says only because he lives it; saying comes later on. Living
comes first, living precedes it ... Let your curiosity be transformed
here. Let it become a flame in your being, a quest ... Create enquiry
here, not an enquiry that can ever be satisfied by anybody else. Make
us more and more thirsty. One day that very thirst will take us into
our innermost shrine. There truth waits for us. There God abides. ---
EXPLORER - Exploration, one just has to learn the taste of exploration
and then each moment becomes more and more alive, more and more
festive, more and more celebrating. And the ultimate celebration is
when you have found that you are bliss, that bliss is not something
outside you, that God is not something outside you, that you are
freedom, that you are liberation. --- In that moment the ultimate
dance happens. It simply explodes. In that explosion you are lost and
only that which is truth remains. That truth is the longing of every
heart. ---