... married, and she would be condemned everywhere. It would be better for her to die than to live. But all the doctors were absolutely certain that this dead child was not conceived by her. She had carried the small, miniature child in her body since her very birth, and when she became sexually mature the child started to grow - exactly then, because for the child it made no difference.... For the child it...

... poor fellow from being a bastard; otherwise no Holy Ghost can help. All that is nonsense. One thing has to be accepted, that half of your being is alive in your mother, even before you are conceived. And half of you is to be contributed by your father - that too has to be contributed alive. When the sperms leave your father's body they are alive, but they don't have a long life, they have only two...

... sometimes the opposite way, that the girl is the doctor and the boy is the patient?" No, the girl is not interested at all in such curiosities. The woman is not so much attracted by man's body; she is attracted more by man's charisma, impressiveness, personality - the way he walks, the way he talks. She is not much interested in his physical beauty she is interested in something which is not tangible...

..., because the body is going: this mind is not going to be with him, this brain is not going to be with him. But the desire released from this mind will cling to his soul, and this desire will decide his future life. Whatever has remained unfulfilled, he will move towards that target. Your life begins far back before your birth, before your mother's impregnation, further back in your past life's end. That...

... the side of the river, and jump! Many neighborhood boys would come with me, and they would try it. But they would just go to the very brink and come back; seeing the height they would say, "Suddenly something happens." I used to show them again and again that "If I can jump - I don't have a steel body - and if I go on managing, surviving, why can't you?" They said, "We try...

... Indian wrestling you don't hurt the other person. A very good wrestler simply touches the other person, and the other person falls flat. It is an art, a craft; the body has been taught point by point. Howsoever strong the other person is, if at a perfect angle behind the knee you just hit him this much - just this much - the man will fall. Howsoever strong he is, that does not matter; you just have to...

... you going so easily, but we cannot jump - we know people have died from here." That bridge was known as Death Bridge and that was the easiest, cheapest way to commit suicide. Even if you purchased poison, some money was wasted, but from that bridge it was simply easy. The river there was the deepest and it took you away. Nobody would even find your body because just after a few miles it met a...

... opens and their tongue comes out, hold them with both your hands. Don't let them turn upwards. "The snake has its glands of poison in the top of the mouth, and its method of biting is, first, it bites with its teeth; that is just to make a wound in your body. Then it turns itself upwards, so from its gland the poison starts flowing on your wound. He does not bite you really, his teeth are not...

... poisonous. His teeth are just to create a wound so blood is available to pour poison in; then the blood will take the poison around your body. So even if he opens his mouth, don't be worried. Just don't let him turn upwards - hold him." I tried it with the river snakes. That was a great experience. They are really quick, it is not so easy. Once I had learned with water snakes, I told the man, and he...

... thing the Physiologist says and the latest research is re-establishing the very old secrets once more. The modern Biologist says that our eyes and our feet are formed of the same kind of cells. There is no difference in their composition at all. The only difference is that the older cells have specialised in one particular function. The substance of the body is the same. It is only that a particular...

... skin of any other part of the body if trained, can develop the quality of seeing, tor both are made of the same elements. When a child is conceived in the mother's womb, it has neither eyes, nor ears, nor nose nor limbs. In the early stages of conception there is nothing save the cells. The initial cell divides and re-divides. Therefore all these cells cannot be different in composition from the...

... initial cell. Then gradually some specialise and form the eyes, others form the ears, yet others form the heart and so on. It is the same cell that spreads and causes the differentiation evident in the body. The tree is one but the branches seem different and apart. The life-stream is one, but each thing as it unfolds, looks different and apart. The cell that is formed in the mother's womb is initially...

... difference between the two. This is why we cannot call the Rishis of the Upanishads as mere poets, though their poems are unsurpassed; and our poets as Rishis, for their work is born out of the wonder of ignorance. Our poet is a child that has never grown up! He grows in body but in whom there is no dividing line between his dreams within and the world without. He is a mere child and therefore it is not...

... fact that though they grow in body, their minds remain immature and childlike. Deep within they are still children. This is the reason why they can write poems but for this very reason their actual lives are so disturbed and chaotic. Therefore they can paint a beautiful picture but their lives become veritably ugly; they can compose beautiful songs but are crude in themselves as far as their own...

... wall, and it is even more. We do not feel the weight of air as its pressure is distributed equally all over our body. There is otherwise, the pressure of thousands of pounds of air on us. If this pressure is distributed in any other way, we would die of the weight of atmosphere. When there is a strong wind, you feel it is the wind behind you that pushes you in front. It is not so. The wind behind...

... buried consciousness to the surface once again. This living magnetism of the body has its own science. It has its own cause and causality. Then it is possible that bowing at someone's feet even without faith may prove beneficial. Then it is possible that the living magnetism of this man, enters your body. Just as electricity enters the body by a mere touch and gives a shock, so also the magnetic...

... making the spiritual journey in stages, those who believe in discipline have divided the human body into seven parts. Each part is used as a stepping stone to another. But devotion does not believe in dividing man; it accepts him as one piece - a whole and indivisible entity. Devotion absorbs the devotee wholly and totally into its bosom. Spiritual discipline has a variety of divisions and subdivisions...

..., needs to be understood rightly. What does Krishna mean by non-action? Where there is neither a doer nor a doing, yet things happen, there is non-action. For example, we breathe, which we are not required to do by our own effort. There is neither a doer nor a doing so far as acts like breathing are concerned. Similarly the blood circulates through the body, the food is digested, and the heart beats...

... volition, nor you have a hand in the circulation of your blood through the body. You were not consulted before your birth nor will you be consulted when your time arrives to depart from this world. Do you have a say in when you grow from childhood to youth to old age? Existence was very much here when you were not, and it will continue to be here after you will be gone. You will make no difference...

... it. The basic reason we cannot make some thing whole by putting together its parts. It is like we break up a person's body into pieces and then put the parts together to make a whole person again. It is simply impossible. If the person is whole then his parts will function in unison, but separate parts put together cannot make a person whole again. Parts put together don't make a whole; it is a...

... all the thousand views cannot make a complete Krishna. Putting different parts together is a mechanical process, it cannot be organic. We can break up a machine into its parts and remake it by putting the parts together again. But we cannot do the same with a live, organic body. Please bear in mind this fundamental difference between organic unity and mechanical togetherness. While a mechanical...

... combination is equal to the totality of parts, an organic unity is much more than the sum total of its parts. For example. if we make a list of all the ingredients that make up a human body - like iron, copper, sodium, aluminum, phosphorus and the rest of it, they will be worth four to five rupees, not more, Nine-tenths of a human body is water, which does not cost anything at the moment. And the rest of...

... these things are available in the market. If however, you put them all together in the right proportions they cannot create a live human body. They cannot. A live body is much more than the sum total of its parts, although it cannot be without these parts. An organic unity exists in Krishna's philosophy of life, although it has a thousand different parts. And every part has been interpreted...

... rationalist. Everything he says and the words and concepts he uses to say it belong to the grammar of rationalism. There is a great consistency in the statements of Arvind which is not there in statements from supra-rationalism. You cannot find the same logical consistency in the statements of mystics. A mystic speaks in terms of contradictions and paradoxes. He says one word and soon contradicts it by...

... for me. She knew I did not like long pants; at the most I wore pyjama pants and a kurta. A kurta is a long robe which I have always loved, and slowly slowly, the pyjama has disappeared, only the robe remains. Otherwise one has not only divided the upper body and the lower body, but even made different clothes for each. Of course the higher body should have something better, and the lower body is...

... one, then death cannot do anything." You have disappeared on your own accord; now there is no way to harm you. There is nobody to harm you. The body is not you, the mind is not you. You are just a guest in a house. Don't get identified with the house, just remember the guest. This statement of Eno is tremendously beautiful: GOOD FRIENDS, MY TEACHING OF THE DHARMA TAKES MEDITATION AND WISDOM AS...

..., if you are so smart, do you speak Yiddish?" The parrot fixes Rubenstein with its beady eyes: "Tell me, my friend," says the bird, "you think I should not speak Yiddish with a nose like this?" Okay, Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) Be silent ... Close your eyes. Feel your body to be frozen. Gather all your energy inside. Deeper and deeper ... Take...

... this energy to the very center of your being. Your body is only a circumference. Find the center of your consciousness. Once you have found the center of your consciousness, you are a miracle, a buddha ... the greatest mystery in existence. Don't hesitate ... Take the jump. There is nothing to fear. It is your own world. Finding the center of your consciousness is finding the center of the universe...

... itself. After that, you exist spontaneously -- without any effort, with great grace and bliss. Meditation ultimately brings wisdom to your life. To make it absolutely clear that you are not the body, Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) Relax ... fall dead. Collect yourself as deep within your innermost core as possible ... You are discovering the buddha ... This moment is the most precious moment when one...

... by oneself. Dead objects can be transferred from one person to another, but not experiences. Can I transfer to you the love, the experience of love that I have had? Can I give you the beauty and the music I have encountered? How I wish I could give you the joy I have experienced in such an extraordinary way in this ordinary-looking body of mine! But there is not way to do so. I feel restless and...

... tormented about it but I can do nothing. This is such helplessness! A friend of mine was born blind. How I wished I could transfer my sight to him but it wasn't possible. Perhaps one day it may be possible because eyes are parts of the body and may be capable of being transplanted. But the sight that sees the truth can never be transferred no matter how strongly one might wish it. It belongs to the soul...

..., not to the body. Whatever is achieved in the world of the self is only achieved through self-effort. In the world of the soul, no debt, no borrowing, no depending on others is possible. Nobody can walk there on borrowed legs. There is no refuge there apart from one's self. To attain to truth you must be your own refuge. This is the inescapable condition. It is because of this that I said I am...

..., the knower, the known and knowledge are all one. And so here, words become quite useless. They are not meant to be used in this context. To use them like this is to stretch them beyond their capacity, beyond their potentiality. No wonder they become crippled and lifeless in this tug-of-war. And although they give an indication of the body, of the outer form of truth, they cannot touch the heart of...

... MONK, "TELL ME, DOES THIS LOOK LIKE ME OR NOT? IF IT LOOKS LIKE ME, I WILL BEAT ME TO DEATH; IF IT DOES NOT I WILL BURN YOU TO DEATH!" Zen is going beyond I and you; the portrait can only be of the body, which is not you. The portrait is only of your skeleton but not of your consciousness. Of course it cannot be like Joshu. I am reminded of a great painter. A beautiful young lady was...

... will be followed, but following is a perversion. Zen wants you to act authentically. You should not repeat, you should not imitate. Now you can understand what Banzan is saying. He is saying, "This lunatic has done the thing. He has shown me the way - 'Don't bother, just take a somersault and go out! It is time to go out, you have lived enough in the body. Now what are you going to do with the...

... body was completely smashed. I gave him surgery, and today he is a famous dancer." "That's nothing," says the third. "A guy came to me who was a bomb-disposal expert. One day a bomb went off and all they found was an asshole and a pair of false teeth ... and today he is the president of America!" Paddy and Mickey, the two Dunn brothers, are living with their old mother on the...

... absolutely private. Hence fearlessly open your wings, the whole sky is yours. To bring it to a deeper contrast ... Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) Everybody dies - let the body die, even if it continues to breathe it does not matter. You go in. This small word 'in' is the whole philosophy of all the buddhas. To be centered in thisness is to be a buddha in your own right. Remember! And let this remembrance flow...

... part of group work. And a person is ninety-nine percent a body, so how to work on his spirit? We don't work on gold! QUESTION DIAPPEARS So simply say.... And it is plain! Be finished with it. If he is ready to accept you and your freedom and your work as it is happen-ing, good. Make it clear to him, mm? otherwise he will destroy all your possibilities. One has to risk. Maybe it is economical to...

... always a member. And whenever a man is taken separately from the family, alone, he is a false entity - he is not true. It is as if you take out one of my eyes from my body and then you study it. It is a dead eye... it is not my eye at all - because I cannot see through it, and it cannot see. Why do you call it an eye if it cannot see? It looks the same - it is not, because it existed in an organic...

... unity with the body. Individual psychotherapy is basically false, because you take the individual as if he exists separately. Group therapies, and later on, communal therapies, will take its place. If a person wants to be healed, he has to come to a community, to live there - with five hundred to a thousand people. That is what my idea is - to create here, sooner or later, a further step into group...

... means the in-dwelling spirit. The full name will mean the in-dwelling spirit of love. Love is our very soul. The body lives through breathing; the soul lives through love. Just as the body will die immediately if breathing stops, the soul dies if love stops. And millions of people in the world are soul-less, because love has not happened. They live like bodies, machines. They are zombies, robots...

... arts are trivial compared to it. One can compose good music but if there is no love in it it will remain just a superficial, technical phenomenon. One can write beautiful poetry but if there is no love in it, it is just language and grammar - no soul in it. People can go on doing all kinds of things but it will only be an appearance; something inner Will be missing. It may be a beautiful body, a...

... never been aware before. The day one becomes aware of that something which is beyond pain and pleasure, a great moment has come. And the second thing: don't get identified with any form. Never think 'l am a woman or a man.' That is only the form of the body; it is not your form. Never think 'I am beautiful or ugly', because that too again belongs to the form, not to you. Never think you are black or...

... white; that too belongs to the pigments of the body. Never think you are a child, young, old; that too belongs to the form. Never think you are ill or healthy; that too is part of the form. Remain aloof, detached, far away, just watching. Childhood comes and goes, youth comes and goes, old age comes and goes - the watcher remains, and the watcher has no age. These two things have to be remembered. And...

... possessive. She has possessed the child so totally - it has been a treasure in her being. She has felt the child's heart beating, the movement of the child in her own body. Never again will such unity be known. She is afraid to lose that unity; she also tries to hold it. The mother wants to hold the child in the womb, hence the pain; the child wants to cling to the womb, hence the pain. If the mother is...