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...?" These questions in Zen don't have the same meaning as they have in common language. When a Zen master asks, "Where are you going?" he means, "There is no way to go anywhere, you are everywhere. Where can you go? Your consciousness is as wide as the whole universe - WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" In a simple question, there is the tremendous implication that, you are not the body you...
.... Let the body breathe, but you go deeper and deeper within yourself, leaving the body almost like a shell surrounding you. This. This very moment is your buddha-nature. This is your eternity. Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Come back to life, totally, intensely. Nobody should remain in his grave. If anybody is left in his grave give a special beat for him, Nivedano... (Drumbeat) This is what Zen is all about...
... could not achieve higher peaks. If you compare the Hindu scriptures, the Upanishads, with The Bible, The Bible seems poor and childish. The words are the same, the experiences are also the same in a way, but Christianity still remains a religion. Religion - the organized body - and mystical experiences are two different things. Question 3: AREN'T AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCES ALWAYS THE SAME? They are, but...
... concerned with physical bodies and physical needs; they are more psychological. If a poor man falls ill the illness is more or less concerned with the body. If a rich man falls ill the illness is more or less concerned with the mind. America needs more and more psychologists and psychoanalysis now because now the greatest number of madmen exist in America. American psychologists say that at least three...
... out of four people are off the rails, not normal. Your mind's needs arise for the first time when your bodily needs are fulfilled. And religion is a need of the mind, not a body need. That is why animals can live without religion, but man cannot - the mind has come in. When you are rich, ninety-nine percent of your concern is diverted to the mind. A rich individual may not be religious and a poor...
... opening of the door of your inner world. You are not just the body and you are not just the mind. You are much more, you are a mystery that can never be reduced to any language. These anecdotes are efforts out of compassion to bring to your notice this inexplicable, inexpressible reality of your inner world. ONCE IN AN ASSEMBLY OF MONKS, UMMON, a great Zen master, HELD UP HIS STAFF, AND SAID, "WE...
... eating, drinking, clothing your body, when everything is nothing? These philosophies can be reduced to a single word - maya, illusion; everything is illusion. And there is a very subtle reason for the insistence on illusion. They want you to renounce the world because it is illusory. As far as I'm concerned, if it is illusory, then there is no need to renounce it. It is not there - what are you...
... disappear in a universal rhythm. This is the staff Ummon was talking about. And this is the Bird's Way, the solitary cuckoo in the forest. Allow the obvious and drop the mind. See directly into yourself. This is the very secret of the buddhas, of the awakened ones. Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) Everybody dies ... Die completely - let the body breathe, but you go on and on and on inwards. Don't leave any space...
... somewhere the remaining parts of the body. And thousands of people - it was impossible to figure out who you were looking for. Why did he do that? So that nobody could be recognized. Even if somebody was found dead, he could not be recognized; he did not even have his whole body. And you say that man is civilized? And this is not the end of the story. Seeing the second world war, one would have thought...
...?" All the rights are, in a way, not very rational. For example, in this long declaration, the right to leave the body when one has lived enough and is now weak, sick, old, a burden, and of no use... One is suffering unnecessarily and waiting for death. Why wait? Why put this man unnecessarily in torture? The society is responsible for thousands of people who are in torture - in hospitals or in...
... child's growth - it is perfect food. Second, it comes from within the mother's body, so it is warm, easily digestible; and because it comes from within, it cannot be carrying any infection, any disease which may be around. The child is protected." They said, "Right! Now, the third?" There was a moment of silence because he could not figure it out - what is the third? The first two also he...
... there is no need to fight for freedom, there is no need to create an inner revolution which makes you really free - free from everything, free from the body... because the body is a bondage. The East is far more truthful. It says you are born in bondage, not that you are born free. Your body is a prison and your mind and your brain are prisons. Your consciousness is confined in a very small space, and...
..., dormant; it has to be made dynamic, has to be made fully mature. It should be brought to flower and fruition. But to tell people, "You are born free - and equal in dignity and rights".... People can go on lying so smoothly, with such beautiful words - destroying those words. Nobody is equal. This is a psychological truth. Neither in your body nor in your mind nor in your talents... nor among...
... AROUND - NOTHING SEEMS TO BOTHER ME. SINCE MY VERY CHILDHOOD, WHENEVER I SAW A DEAD BODY, ALWAYS THE THOUGHT FLASHED TO ME THAT IF DEATH IS TO COME THEN WHAT IS THE SENSE IN LIVING. SINCE THOSE VERY DAYS OF MY CHILDHOOD, A SORT OF NONINTEREST HAS SURROUNDED MY WHOLE PATTERN OF LIFE, AND PROBABLY THAT MIGHT BE THE REASON WHY I GOT INTERESTED IN RELIGION AND COULD REACH YOU. ARE SUCH FEELINGS GOING TO BE...
... juice of life. They will say, "Love is like blood circulating in the divine body of God." Love is to life exactly as blood is to your body. How can they be against it? If you become antilove, you start shrinking. A really religious person is expanding, expanding. It is an expansion of consciousness, not a shrinking. In India we have called the ultimate truth brahman. The word "brahman...
.... Listen. In fact God is seeking you from everywhere. The search is not onesided, that only you are searching; he is also seeking you. But you have to become available. And this is no way to become available. "Since my very childhood, whenever I saw a dead body, always the thought flashed to me that if death is to come then what is the sense in living." That's why there is sense in living...
... seen much. And if you thought that now life is meaningless, then you have missed the point. Seeing a dead body, remember, death is coming. Use this opportunity to be alive as intensely as possible. Then there is rest. Earn the rest! And this is one of the things I would like to tell you: if you don't live well, you will not die well. Your death will also be just dull. It will not have any flame in it...
..., BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF "THIS PERVERTED ACT," AS YOU DESCRIBE IT, HOMOSEXUALITY DID AND DOES EXIST IN THE WORLD. CAN'T THE MOON SIDE MEET THE SUN SIDE IN WHATEVER BODY? IS TANTRA ONLY FOR HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE? SHOULD PEOPLE REPRESS THEIR HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES? The first thing, the questioner has not signed his question. That shows that he is also feeling guilty about it. He does...
... has remained retarded. After the masturbatory period I call "autosexual," the child becomes homosexual. Near the age of ten, the child becomes homosexual. He becomes more interested in bodies similar to the body he has. This is natural growth. First he is interested in his own body; then he becomes interested in others' bodies which are like his - a boy is interested in boys, a girl is...
... like the living man. Everything is just like when the man was alive: the same face, the same eyes, the same nose, the hair, the body. Just one thing is missing, and that one thing is invisible. Life is missing, but life is not tangible and not visible. So when a man is dead, he looks as if he is still alive. And with the problem of morality, it becomes more complex. Morality looks exactly like...
...: just commit suicide. That seems to be the least immoral thing. One act and you are finished, then there will be no immorality. But that too is immoral. And when you commit suicide you are not dying alone, remember. It is not killing one person. You have millions of cells in the body which are alive, millions of lives inside you, which will die with you. So you have killed millions of people. When you...
.... All those people who used to live inside you - small people - they have all died. You have killed all of them. Or there are people who say to fast is like eating meat. Mow... very strange. And that is true, there is a logic to it. When one kilo in weight disappears, where has it gone? You have eaten it! Your body needs that kind of food every day. You go on replacing it with outside food. If you...
... don't replace it with outside food... the body goes on eating because the body needs; for twenty-four hours, the body has to live. It needs a certain fuel. Then it starts eating its own flesh. To be on a fast is to be a cannibal. These moralities can drive you mad! There is no way to choose. Then what is moral to me? To be aware is moral. What you are doing is not the question. If you are doing it in...
... ugly phenomenon. Now the sutras: JESUS WENT UNTO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. He always used to go to the mountains whenever he would feel that his consciousness was becoming dusty, his mirror was covered with dust. He would go to the mountains in aloneness to cleanse his being, to cleanse his consciousness. It is like you take a bath, and after the bath you feel the body is fresh, young. Meditation is like...
... different, for woman it is different. Then it is a very unconscious morality, and very IMMORAL MORALITY. My definition of morality is that of consciousness, and consciousness is neither man nor woman. Consciousness is just consciousness. Only when something is decided by your being conscious will it be classless, will it be beyond the distinctions of body, caste, creed. And only then is it moral. MASTER...
... way to have a taste of meditation. When sex possesses you, it is God possessing you - on the lowest rung, of course. SAMADHI IS the highest rung of being possessed by God, and sex is the lowest rung of being possessed by God. But in both ways you are possessed by God. In sex God has to function through your body, in SAMADHI he functions through your soul. In music, in art, in poetry, in dance, he...
... no more an individual, you are no more confined to your body. You don't know limitations, for a moment you are unlimited, infinite. That is the meaning of sexual orgasm - that your frozen energy melts, becomes one with this universe, with the trees and the stars, and the woman and the man, and the rocks - for a single moment, of course. But in THAT moment you have a kind of consciousness that is...
... religious, that is holy, because it comes from the whole. The attraction for sex is the attraction for God. The attraction for sex is the attraction to let-go. There is nothing wrong in it; it is the beginning of the search for God. And of course the beginning can begin where you are. You ARE in the body. So only in the body can the search start. It should not remain there, that's true, but it cannot...
... repressed sexuality If you fast if you torture your body, if you go on repressing your natural desires, a moment comes when you are so full of it that the fantasy looks almost real. Then you cannot make any distinction between the fantasy and the real. Then the imagination looks objective. You are in a kind of hallucination. These are hallucinations. No. You ask: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GREAT...
..., and I take great interest in every kind of problem. I get completely lost in their problems, I become completely absorbed. I forget the whole world when somebody is facing me with his problem: that problem is my whole world - whatsoever the problem. Whether is is sex, whether it is money, whether it is over-eating, whether it is body health, meditation, God, prayer does not matter - whatsoever it is...
... alive heart. And whenever any part of the body is repressed, that part takes revenge. If another part of the mind is repressed, THAT part takes revenge. And the heart is the MOST vital part, the MOST fundamental part. One can live without the head, but one cannot live without heart. The head is a little superficial, it is a kind of luxury, but the heart is very essential. The head exists only in man...
... happened in Baghdad that a man was caught because he declared himself a prophet of God. He was thrown in jail. After seven days the Caliph went to see the man. For seven days he had been kept starving, had been beaten continuously and was tied to a pole, swollen, scratched all over the body, very badly beaten, starving, dirty. The Caliph asked him 'Now, what do you think? Do you still think that you are...
... it is not. The difficulty is that Krishna has to use the same linguistic "I" as you do, but there is a tremendous difference in connotation between his "I" and yours. When you say "I" it means the one imprisoned inside your body, but when Krishna says it he means that which permeates the whole cosmos. Hence he has the courage to tell Arjuna, "Give up everything...
... else and come to my feet." If it were the same "I" as yours - a prisoner of the body - it would be impossible for him to say a thing like this. And Arjuna would have been hurt if Krishna's "I" were as petty ss yours. Arjuna would have immediately retorted, "What are you saying? Why on earth should I surrender to you?" Arjuna would have really been hurt, but he was...
... no time to recognize him - he was the king's son - although he was in rags, his body emaciated, his face shriveled and sunburned. He bowed to him and said, "The king has pardoned you and asks you to return to your kingdom." In a second, a split-second, the young man's face was transformed and he threw away his beggar's bowl. In no time at all he ceased to be a beggar and became a king...
... or no body dies. Ultimately it is the truth that counts. Remembering is the essence of Krishna's philosophy of life. Therefore it is not any kind of spiritual discipline, it is a direct leap into awakening, into enlightenment. But we don't have the courage to take such a leap and so we say it is not our cup of tea. We want to move cautiously and slowly, step by step. But remember, if you move in...
... he fasts. But it is not so. Every kind of water, from a well or from the sea, heated to the boiling point, turns into vapor - but every person will not be freed by fasting. Mahavira had fasted and he became free, but it does not mean his freedom was the result of fasting. Mahavira lived naked, so every body who goes naked should be free. Any number of poor people are going without clothes, but they...
.... Question 3: QUESTIONER: HOW IS IT THAT BUDDHA LIVES FOR FORTY YEARS AFTER ATTAINING TO NIRVANA OR THE GREAT EMPTINESS? It is true Buddha lives for forty to forty-two years after he becomes Buddha. Mahavira also lives about the same period of time. But Buddha makes a difference between nirvana and nirvana. Just before leaving his body he says that what he had attained under the bodhi tree was just nirvana...
... the death of the body. With nirvana the mind ceases to be, and with mahanirvana the body too ceases to be. This he calls sovereign nirvana, that which brings supreme emptiness with it. It is not so with Krishna. With him, nirvana and mahanirvana go hand in hand. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...
... masochists - those who want to torture themselves. Torture yourself. Fast. Don't sleep. Don't do this. Don't do that. This is the whole secret of the so-called ascetic attitude towards life: torture yourself. And naturally, your body is helpless, your body is defenceless. It cannot protest. It cannot go against you. There is a possibility that people may revolt against the politicians, but what is the...
... possibility that your body may revolt .against you? There is no possibility. The body is very innocent, helpless. You can go on torturing it and you can go on feeling that you have immense power because you can torture it. You can go on killing it, and feel powerful. And you can attain to a great ego. I here are two kinds of people in the world: the sadists and the masochists. Sadists are those whose...
... cannot even trust what it is. It is so incredibly new, so unknown. It happens to everybody - in rare moments, for no reason at all. You cannot figure it out; you cannot reckon why it has happened. You have been Lying in your bathtub and suddenly something happens. The mind is not rushing in its usual way; the body is relaxed in the hot water. You are not doing anything; you are just being there...
... flooded. He was puzzled because he did not know how to swim and it was dangerous to go into the river.Looking around he saw a man, a saint, sitting under a tree. He had rubbed ashes on his body. So he threw his clothes in the river, became naked, rubbed ashes on his body, and sat under the tree. The police officers came and looked at these two great ascetic saints. They touched their feet - in India...
... sexual, starve yourself of sex - and you will remain sexual. And your mind will go on fantasising. You can just try a small experiment. If you eat well - I'm not saying too much, just the right amount, what Bud&a calls SAMYAK AHAR, right food, whatsoever is needed by your body - you can forget about food. If you fast one day, you will think about food the whole day. And you will fantasise. Fantasy...
... night of a feast because the hunger needs food, and without food sleep will be difficult. The mind has to provide you some substitute, that's what dreaming is. It gives you the feeling that you are no longer hungry; you are eating and you are eating good food, delicious food, food that you like. Now you can sleep without any trouble. The mind has drugged the body through the dream. But a dream is not...
... reality. You can dream of eating but that is not going to nourish you. The mind can befool the body for the time being but the body is going to suffer. Reality is reality, and you need real food. A Christian dreaming of Christ, a Hindu dreaming of Krishna, or a sannyasin dreaming of me - all are doing the same thing. It makes no difference of whom you are dreaming; that is irrelevant. Krishna, Christ...
... compositive but never creative. See the difference between these two words: compositive and creative. It can compose something. For example it can take the head of Jesus and the body of Krishna and compose something which is both Krishna and Christ.... That's what people like Mahatma Gandhi have been doing their whole life: composing - taking something from the KORAN, something from the BIBLE, something...
... the newspaper the thief is caught. So there is a possibility... and this man had great influence on many people. He managed to get some body to make Mohammed's statue, but he was not aware that he was going to be in great trouble. His temple was completely burned, broken, every statue broken, because he had done the most profane act possible according to the Mohammedans. His whole life's work was...
...." Then the psychiatrist tries his final way. He takes his paperknife, cuts Jesus Christ's finger, blood comes out. He says to him, "Two thousand years have passed since the crucifixion and nothing has been heard of Jesus Christ. He must be dead; this is simple arithmetic. He cannot live two thousand years, nobody has lived that long. The only way is that you may be the dead body of Jesus...
... Christ. But dead bodies don't bleed, and blood is coming out of your body. That proves you are alive." And Jesus Christ, this so-called Jesus Christ, laughed and said, "This only proves that dead bodies do bleed and you did not hear me right in the first place: I am the resurrected Jesus Christ. I have left death far behind, two thousand years ago." You cannot convince a madman by...
... and just cut off my head. And don't be bothered if dead men bleed, because I am going to bleed! But it is only a dream. The sword, me, the blood, all is dream. In the morning you will not find that your bedsheet is full of blood, and a body is lying down in your room. Don't freak out! Just throw cold water on your eyes and everything will be okay. Dreams are indicative. Your innermost self is...
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