... manifests in many ways. First try to understand love, then the other treasures will be easy to understand. If you ask me what are my three treasures I will say: First, love; second, love, third also, love. And in fact that is what Lao Tzu is saying - but we will understand. Man is a trinity, as Christians have called God a trinity. God may be, may not be, but man is a trinity: body, mind, soul. In fact...

... because of his deep understanding of human beings Christ came to say that God is a trinity. If there is any God he has to be a trinity, because everything that exists has three layers. Hindus call them three GUNAS, three qualities: SATVA, RAJAS, TAMAS. Christ called them the trinity. When love expresses through you it first expresses as the body. It becomes sex. If it expresses through the mind, which...

... substratum of all. They simply called it 'the fourth', TURIYA. In the fourth, love becomes samadhi, nirvana, enlightenment. First, when love - the same energy - expresses through body, it becomes sex. If everything goes well and sex is natural and flowing it is a beautiful experience because you can have a glimpse of the second through it. If sex goes really very deep, so that you forget yourself...

... sexuality, the bodily phenomenon. That's why science goes on insisting that only the body exists: because sex knows nothing other than the body. Science cannot believe that even the mind exists, there is no question of the spirit; and of course 'the beyond' is completely beyond it. Science insists that man is only the body - that shows its inclination. And the whole enquiry of science is based on sexual...

... - particularly destructive science - politics, money and money-oriented search, possessiveness, belong to the body and belong to sex, so, art, poetry, music, painting, sculpture, belong to the second layer of love. When your love is flowing, when you have come to know a certain EN RAPPORTness with a person, a certain oneness with a person, although only for moments - that too is enough to change the whole life...

... into existence through one person - your beloved, your husband, your wife, your friend, your child, your Master, if you have looked into one person and you have seen infinity, if you looked into one person's window and the whole sky of infinity opened, now you know that love can move higher - it can become prayer. Prayer is meeting of spirit with spirit. Sex is very confined to the material body...

... fourth even the other disappears. First in sex the body disappears but the mind remains. In love the mind disappears but the spirit remains. In prayer the spirit also disappear but the other, the Tao, the God, remains. In the fourth even God disappears. Nothing remains - or only nothing remains. In that total emptiness where all dualities dissolve, love is absolutely fulfilled. Love is the key to all...

...-petalled lotus. It is the last CHAKRA in your body. The first is sex, the last is the lotus, the SAHASRAR. Don't get stuck anywhere! That should be remembered always. If you can remember that then nothing can become a barrier to you. It depends on you whether you use it as a barrier or as a ladder. A stone is there - a rock is there on the way. You can think of it as a hindrance; but you can step over it...

... anything higher than their body, foolish to those who have not known anything valuable other than money, foolish to those who have not known anything paradoxical, who, in fact, have not known anything mysterious, who have lived with logic, who are Aristotelian. It is said that Aristotle's Master, Plato, used to call Aristotle THE MIND. That was his name for Aristotle - THE MIND. Whenever he wanted to ask...

... of a rock, close your eyes and feel the rock. Don't think, and don't say it is beautiful - these are all mind trips. Just lie down on the rock, spread your hands and body on the rock as if you are on the breast of your mother feel the rock, close your eyes, touch the rock with your tongue, kiss the rock, and let it give you A FEELING. In the beginning it may not be so easy because rocks have become...

... body-oriented. The whole history of Greece is full of love for your own body. Do you know that the woman in Greece was not thought to be beautiful? Just as everywhere else men managed and dominated societies, Greece was also male chauvinist, but with a difference. Women have been condemned everywhere, but not as much as in Greece. All Greek statues are of men. The whole sculpture is devoted to the...

... beauty of the male body. You are bound to be surprised that this caused even people like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle - the highest you can conceive in intelligence - to become homosexuals. If a man loves his body, naturally he will love another man's body. The woman is so condemned that she is almost treated as subhuman. In Athens perhaps democracy has flowered the best, but it was only for men; women...

..., for the simple reason that they were leaning too much toward the material - they were not balanced people. They thought themselves only bodies; the soul was just an invention. But man is not only body. The Greeks had no religion, and Christianity filled the vacuum. The Greek personality became split. The Greek is materialistic, Epicurean - loves the body, loves good food, good wine, beautiful women...

... wasting his life fighting with himself. The man of guilt is of course obsessed with death - because he is not living and death is coming closer and closer every moment. Perhaps he may not be able to live - and death will finish him. A man who is living totally never bothers about death. His life is so full, death cannot even touch him. Death will come only to the body, not to him. He knows his inner...

... by his gurus he will be against all gurus. The association in his mind with the word 'guru' is not good, it is not nice. And for twenty-five years, those gurus.... And they were many, because somebody was teaching him Sanskrit - he had to know ancient Sanskrit because they were preparing him to be the world master. Somebody was teaching him yoga, which is simply torturing your body, distorting your...

... body, forcing your body into unnatural situations, standing on your head.... Somebody was teaching him English because he would be the world teacher, so he had to know English perfectly well. Somebody was not only teaching him but writing books in his name. He was twelve, thirteen years old, and his best book was written at that time: AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER. The book was written by Leadbeater...

... going to be any pope. There is not going to be any shankaracharya. Each sannyasin, in his own capacity, has to represent me. This has never happened - but it is going to happen! You are all my successors. When I am dead, that simply means I have left this body and entered all the bodies of my people. I will be within you. I will be part of you. Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, I AM TREMBLING FROM HEAD TO TOE...

... WORD OF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. There is no need either. A limerick from Yatri: There's a Master in Poona I've heard Who swears that he's not said a word, A thousand come there To gaze at his chair, And he's not even there... it's absurd! The fifth question Question 5: OSHO, YOU ONCE SAID THAT WE CANNOT FOLLOW A DEAD MASTER, SO WHAT SHOULD WE DO IF YOU LEAVE YOUR BODY ONE DAY? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOUR...

... FOLLOWING? SHOULD WE SEARCH FOR A LIVING MASTER? PLEASE EXPLAIN. Barry Boudreaux, YOU ARE NOT YET A DISCIPLE and you are worried. The living Master is here! and you are not yet a disciple, and you are worried whether when I leave my body you will have to search for a living Master. Just look at the nonsense the mind goes on spinning. And if you can find one, again you will ask the same question! Yes, it...

... for truth, you will make Buddha alive again - through your intensity. He is there! dissolved into existence, no more residing in a body. Not that he is not there: he is there, bodiless. Christ is there bodiless. If you can create a tremendous longing, that very longing will function as a body for Christ. He will become alive for you! If you really love Christ and you are ready to die for him, he is...

... living for you, because you will become his body. You will start functioning as HIS body. But that is a tremendous work. Very rarely has a person been able to do it: a St. Francis, a Teresa, an Eckhart. Very rarely. Down the centuries, twenty centuries after Jesus, not more than five people have been able to do that. In four centuries, one person only. It is very rare. Many have done the same with...

... living Master who is still in the body. You need not become his body. You can contact him easily because he is visible. Now about Jesus... you cannot even trust whether this man ever happened, whether he was really historical. There is no proof, there is no certainty, that he was a historical person. How will you drop your doubt? And what Christians say makes his existence even more doubtful; they...

... that was played - a Christ drama - it was never a reality; just a story, a play written by some unknown Shakespeare of olden days. Christians say that after the crucifixion, after three days as a dead body he was resurrected again. Now they make things even more difficult. And all the stories of miracles... and Christ disappears as a historical person. Buddha seems to be more historical - more...

... ancient Buddhas, and these stories will not allow you to believe in the living Buddha either. These stories have been a great poison, a great calamity. It will be difficult for you to connect with a dead Master - dead only in the sense that he has no body any more. Otherwise he is there! Nothing is ever lost. The fragrance is there: the flower is gone. And if you cannot smell the fragrance while the...

... with a living Master, he is constantly at your neck. He is bent upon it to destroy you as an ego. That is very painful. To avoid it, we go on asking unnecessary questions. YOU ONCE SAID, you ask, THAT WE CANNOT FOLLOW A DEAD MASTER, SO WHAT SHOULD WE DO IF YOU LEAVE YOUR BODY ONE DAY? I have not left my body yet, Boudreaux. Tomorrow I may leave, so today is the only day, this moment is the only...

... disciples, "Now I am ready to leave my body. Do you have anything to ask?" For forty-two years he had been answering their questions and nobody was so inhuman as to ask now, when he was dying. They said, "We have nothing to ask, you have answered enough. In fact, we have not followed the things that you have said to us." At that very moment, Ananda, Gautam Buddha's closest disciple and...

... people who will be awakened in the future. That's why Buddha never objected to it - it had nothing to do with him personally. It was something absolutely impersonal. They were talking about the awakening that is not his possession, his monopoly. So whenever you think to thank, thank the quality, not the man. Be grateful to his transformation, but don't become addicted to his formal body. There is no...

.... Finally, getting angry at the man, he took hold of his hand and asked him, "Just tell me, if a dead man's body is cut by a knife will it bleed or not?" He said, "I have never experimented. And how can I experiment, I am dead? While I used to be alive I have heard such a thing, but it is only hearsay. I have no personal experience of it." The psychoanalyst pulled him to the side where...

... crawling all over his body, and he was throwing them this way and that way. He could not teach, because most of the time those creatures... nobody could see those creatures. He was told by the principal, "Nobody can see those creatures." He said, "That is one of the strangest things about them, they are invisible creatures. But I can see them." He was brought to a psychoanalyst. The...

..., new kids. The whole body... day and night. I cannot sleep, I cannot eat because they go on crawling in my food." The psychoanalyst and the man had become friends in those three months. The man was also a professor of psychology, so there was a professional relationship and the psychoanalyst was not taking any money from him. Today he was trying his best to persuade the man, so he had pulled his...

... to know one thing: is my body sudra or my soul too?" Shankara had never thought that a sudra could discuss such philosophical matters. But when he had raised the question it had to be answered. And Shankara was in a difficulty - he had never been in such a difficulty. He had encountered all the great masters and teachers and had been victorious in thousands of debates all over India, but he...

... was defeated by a sudra on the steps near the Ganges in Varanasi. Nobody talks about it, but he thought for a moment about what to say. Bodies - everybody's body is made of the same elements. What speciality has the brahmin's body? The sudra was asking very significant questions. And what is the difference between the body of a sudra and a brahmin? So it must be the soul that is sudra.... "So...

... you tell me, who has touched you, my soul or my body? And if the soul is sudra then what happened about your Brahma, the absolute, who is in everybody else - all over the world, in animals, in trees, in stones. You can accept it in stones and you cannot accept it in a living human being. Who has touched you? "If my inside is also part of Brahma, part of God, part of divineness, then there is no...

... need to have another bath. And if you think my body is untouchable, then please prove to me what speciality you have got in your body." This was the first time Shankara had to accept that he was wrong to get angry. The sudra said, "Then simply go on your way, you cannot take another bath." Nobody is lower, nobody is higher, but if for thousands of years... Manu has been the cause of...

... 'woman'. It says that woman means 'man with a womb'. The capacity to receive is a biological necessity. The whole feminine structure is built for that: the whole body, the whole mind. But that is not so if the body is that of a woman and the mind is that of a man. Then there will be constant conflict, anxiety, anguish. A woman cannot be fulfilled unless she becomes a mother and she cannot become a...

... has been reborn in this very life, as a woman. He has become feminine, receptive. There is a basic difference between a man and a woman because of the biological and structural differences. When body structure is different, the psychic structure will also be different because the body structure is something that is added on after the psychic structure is there. The psychic structure comes first and...

... the structure of the body follows. It is not that your mind is feminine or not feminine because of your body. Your body is the way it is because of your mind. Because of these basic, biological differences, all techniques can be divided into two: according to whether they require surrender or require will. If they require surrender, then God will be there. If they require will, then there will be no...

... to himself, "It looks like I'm dying." He began to think about what he should do. "I must behave like a dead man now. The body is the body. My symptoms tell me that I am dead. What do dead men do? - I must think about it." Dead men lie down, so he lay down and closed his eyes. Someone passed by. They thought that Mulla must be dead. He wanted to say, "I am not dead,"...

... must help them" - but of course dead men cannot help. Finally night had come, it was dark. They thought: "What to do? We cannot leave the dead body here. We don't know where to go: where his house is or where the cemetery is. What are we to do now?" Mulla said, "If you don't mind - it's not natural of course: I am a dead man, I should not speak; the rules don't permit it but if...

...; you can find it out for yourself - but to make you understand what type of person you are. Once your particularity is known, the right technique can be given to you. To give the right technique is a great science because each individual differs. Really, there are no two individuals who are alike. Each individual differs; each individual's center of emphasis is different. Each individual's body...

... centers are different, each individual's body electricity is different, each individual's capacity is different. Each individual has stopped somewhere on the path, where no other individual has ever stopped. Each one is on the journey, on the path, but each one is somewhere else; no one else is like him. Only a master can know where one is in his spiritual journey. But for the method of doubt this is...

... strategy has been used - and that is to divide man in two. Man has lived with the concept of either/or: either be a materialist or be a spiritualist. You have been told you cannot be both. Either be the body or be the soul - you have been taught you cannot be both. This has been the root cause of man's misery. A man divided against himself is going to remain in hell. Heaven is born when man is no more...

... the deepest core of Zorba something is missing: he has no soul. When I look into Buddha something again is missing: he has no body. A great meeting I teach: the meeting of Zorba and Buddha. I teach ZORBA THE BUDDHA - a new synthesis. The meeting of the earth and the sky, the meeting of the visible and the invisible, the meeting of all the polarities - of man and woman, of day and night, of summer...

... because they are very much interested in nude bodies. They have not seen - they are poor people - they have not seen the beauty of a nude body, the beautiful contours of a nude body. They are too much obsessed. They come here, they look all around, and they feel a little frustrated because they don't see anybody nude. You must have come with that idea. Yes, nudity sometimes happens in the therapy groups...

..., because therapy groups are meant to destroy all your hypocrisy. And dropping your clothes is a great step in dropping your hypocrisy. Dropping your clothes is a great step in accepting your body as it is. Why are you so much afraid of dropping your clothes? Many people have ugly bodies. And the reason why they have ugly bodies is because they have never allowed their bodies natural growth. And clothes...

... are a good strategy to hide your ugly bodies behind. People are afraid of being nude because they know their bodies don't look good. They don't accept their bodies. Dropping your clothes sometimes gives you a great acceptance of your body. And dropping your clothes will help you to have a beautiful body too - because then you will start contemplating about it. You have not even seen your own body in...

... total nudity, so you are not aware of what you are doing with your body - that you are eating too much or that you are not eating enough, that your ways of life are unhealthy. It is perfectly good to be nude - perfectly good to be nude with friends, perfectly good to be nude in your family with your children, because if small children know the bodies of their parents from the very beginning they will...

... never become obsessed. They will never become obsessed with anybody's body; they will have a totally different kind of approach. They KNOW what bodies are - they have known their mother, they have known their father, their brothers. But even that is impossible. In deep love relationships one should be nude! - with friends, with family. Once in a while it is tremendously helpful; it brings you closer...

... tremendous significance sometimes to be nude on the beach and to lie down in the sand under the sun, and feel the sand with your whole body and the sun with your whole body. Sometimes it is utterly beautiful to dance nude under the stars, so that you can again feel the cosmic rhythm that surrounds you, the cosmic vibe. But we have made a totally plastic world. We are surrounded not by God's nature but by...

... morning for his sins. Of course, he was respected very much, and many followers gathered. And BEATING oneself became the most important thing in that sect. And the greatest person was the one who would beat himself the most, who would make wounds on his body, who would torture himself. He would be the greatest saint. Now, look at the stupidity. But people are ready to go on a fast, to starve themselves...

... you have taken some drug, or alcohol; it is not that you have been chanting a MANTRA - because MANTRA also changes your chemistry. The constant repetition of a certain sound brings changes in your body chemistry. It is a drug. A MANTRA is a drug, a very subtle drug: it creates certain waves in your being. And if you go on chanting a certain mantra - Aum... Aum... Aum - by and by, the sound 'Aum...

...' changes your whole body chemistry. Or you can go on a fast. And look at the absurdity: people who preach fasting are against drugs, but fasting is a chemical change. It is as much a drug as any other drug. When you fast what are you doing? - you are not living certain chemicals to your body - chemicals which, if not given, the balance of inner chemicals will be changed. It is the same I Either you take...

... fasting as a drug, it is a drug - it can make you high, it can make you weightless. Or you can go on chanting. Chanting creates changes in the physical body chemistry. That's why a few sounds have become very important. Down through the centuries many people have tried many MANTRAS. Then a few MANTRAS succeeded and a few failed. Those that have succeeded are the MANTRAS which immediately bring changes...

... to your chemistry. You may call it Transcendental Meditation: it is again a drug. Now, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is very much against drugs, and TM itself is a subtle drug. Or, you can change your body chemistry through postures, yoga; you can change your body chemistry through certain types of breathing - but all changes are basically chemical. When you breathe deeply you bring more oxygen to the body...

..., and more oxygen in the body starts changing your chemistry - you start feeling high. When you don't breathe deeply more carbon dioxide collects in the lungs. The proportion changes; you feel dull, you feel low, you feel depressed. Yes, that word is right: you feel very'pressed' by something. It is carbon dioxide that brings depression; you are under a rock. But these are all changes - physical...

... whole night. That too changes the body chemistry. Buddha simply says: One thing is needed, and that is that you should not move in the future, you should remain present herenow. You should remain contented with the moment. Move with the moment, don't go ahead, don't jump ahead. Let there be no passion. 'Passion' means: jumping ahead of yourself. Then you create anxiety, then you create frustration...

... dreamings. Buddha says: Your innermost core is simply empty. It has never done anything. It cannot do. It is a witness, by its very nature. Watch it. Find out whether what he says is true or not. Try it in your life. You were a child, now you are no longer a child; then you were a young man, now you are no longer young; now you have become old; the childhood body has gone, the childhood mind has...

... disappeared. Then you had another body in your youth - that has gone. The vigor, the vitality, the youth, the beauty - everything has disappeared. You had a different type of mind - too ambitious, too desirous, too egoistic. Now all that is a story of the past. Now death is coming; you can hear the sound of its coming closer every day. You can feel that every day the distance is becoming smaller and smaller...

... the body. Eighty percent of your sensitivity belongs to the eyes. A man who is blind is only twenty percent as sensitive as a person who has eyes. A man who is blind is enclosed in a subtle darkness, and there is no way to get out of it. He lives surrounded in a very subtle prison. It is very difficult to escape it. Your outer eyes give you some glimpses, some visions, and you can start thinking...

... consciousness exists within you right now, this very moment. You may not be able to see it. I can see it. It is there like a mirror, and you get identified with all that reflects in the mirror. Drop your identifications: start seeing that you are not the body; start seeing that you are not the mind; start seeing that you are not the emotions, not the thoughts; start seeing that you are not pleasure and pain...

... scriptures in the head - you simply look. Everything is transparent, because you are clear. SO, WHEN THE SHOE FITS, THE FOOT IS FORGOTTEN; WHEN THE BELT FITS, THE BELLY IS FORGOTTEN; AND WHEN THE HEART IS RIGHT, 'FOR' AND 'AGAINST' ARE FORGOTTEN. Remember, this is one of the greatest mantras: When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. Whenever you are healthy you don't know anything about your body - the...

... body is forgotten. When there is some illness, only then can you not forget the body. Do you know if there is any head without a headache? When there is a headache you cannot forget the head. When the shoe is pinching then it doesn't fit. When you don't have any headache, where is the head? You completely forget about it. Whatsoever is healthy is forgotten but whatsoever is ill is remembered - it...

... become dangerous; it may poison the whole body. When there is a headache the body tells you to remember it, something has to be done. If you forget it, the headache may become dangerous. The body tells you whenever there is some illness, something wrong - it attracts your attention. But when the body is healthy, you forget it; you become 'body-less' when the body is healthy. And this is the only...

... definition of health: health is when there is no consciousness of the body. If there is any sort of consciousness of the body, then that part is not healthy. The same applies to the mind. When your consciousness is healthy, there is no ego - you don't know anything about yourself. You don't go on reminding yourself that 'I am something,' you simply relax. You are, but there is no 'I'. It is a simple 'am...

... sexual - sometimes sexual in the body, sometimes sexual in the mind. Once you make a distinction, once you make a conflict, you will be divided. Once I was staying with Mulla Nasrudin. A very beautiful widow came to see him to ask for his advice. She said: I am in trouble, and you have to help me. I am in love with a very handsome man, younger than me, but he is poor. And an old man who is very, very...

... then you will not be fooled and you will not be fooling others. Once you are a unity, Chuang Tzu has happened to you also, and: WHEN THE HEART IS RIGHT, 'FOR' AND 'AGAINST' ARE FORGOTTEN. NO DRIVES, NO COMPULSIONS, NO NEEDS, NO ATTRACTIONS: THEN YOUR AFFAIRS ARE UNDER CONTROL. YOU ARE A FREE MAN. Right now you have obsessions, compulsions, you have to do certain things. Continuously the body forces...

... the trouble of looking after an empty pot? If the vessel is not to be filled, the walls become useless. They were made for a specific purpose - that of filling. In the same manner when a person decides to become empty, the walls of the body fall off. This is what we call - not reborn again. Take it this way: There is an emptiness within us which is the soul. Our body is the vessel - a wall of clay...

... pots. This is the last one you have made. I thank you for all the pots you made for me. Oh Mason, no longer will you have to build a house for me! For now the dweller no longer wishes to dwell within. I need a house no longer!" Every time, it is our desire to fill ourselves with something that causes the body to be born. The day we are prepared to become empty, there will no longer be any need...

... for the body. However, we commit the same mistake with the body as we do with the water-pot. We take the walls of the pot as the vessel and our own walls (body) as our self. We neither recognise the emptiness within us as to what it is, nor do we recognise the emptiness of the pot as to what it is. It is the space within that is important, for things are fitted within this space. You buy the pot on...

..., becomes one with the Parmatman. You may call this moksha or nirvana or whatever you like. The vessel (body) then becomes redundant. when you want to store something you need the vessel. When you have nothing to store you do not buy a container. In the same way we need a body as long as we feel the need to fill it. When this need is no more, there is no question of the body. Lao Tzu says that this...

... space within your house will fill the pot. But since you are only concerned with filling the vessel, the space within makes no difference to you. So this statement of Buddha caused a lot of difficulty. Everyone thinks there is one particular atman that resides in each body - and that alone is the atman. Buddha says, "No. As you travel the atman changes. You are the container that travels and the...

... a desire. For that also, something will have to be done. This doing is an indication of yet some kind of attachment towards the vessel. It shows you are still in some sort of relationship with the vessel. Buddha or Mahavira say, "We are now empty - that is alright. Now let the body live out its life according to what we had desired in our last birth." You go to the potter and ask for a...

... pained unnecessarily. He is a poor, lonely fellow. The food he had cooked was barely enough for me. He was so filled with joy that I found no reason to mar his happiness!" "But this could kill you!" They insisted. "On my part, I am dead ever since desires have faded and passions have ended." The body lived by its own momentum and lasted as long as it was to. And if someone...

... be in haste to stop filling. Merely watch with all alertness, how and from where this filling takes place. Man is such, he fills his mind till the last breath in his body. Nasruddin was bitten by a rabid dog. He did nothing about it for the first few days. People advised him to see a doctor since the dog was rabid. By the time he did go to the doctor, the poison had spread within him. The doctor...

... have heard about the third eye. You have two eyes: two eyes means duality. And all those who have looked inwards, they say there comes a moment when the third eye opens. The third eye is one, single. There is no third eye physiologically in your body; it is a metaphor. When two eyes disappear and become one, when you don't look into existence with a dividing mind, you look into existence with...

... he was mad! He was standing ... his feet, his legs had become so thick. His whole body's blood had gone into the legs. Ten years of just standing, he had become just legs. The whole body had shrunk. He had elephant legs. Now even if he wanted to sit he could not. The flexibility of the body is there no more; the elasticity is lost. And I looked into his eyes; I have never seen such an idiotic...

... capable of seeing things which are not. And by seeing things which are not, you will miss seeing things which are. So the hallucinatory effort has to be avoided. Don't deprive -- don't deprive your body either of food or of sleep or of rest. Don't deprive your body of anything. Let your body function as healthily as possible, as normally as possible. Don't torture the body, because your mind is part of...

... the body. If you torture the body, the mind goes berserk and starts seeing things. And once you start seeing things you are trapped. Then you want to avoid them or kill them, or, if they are beautiful things, you want to attain more of them. That which is needs no deprivation. You need not lie down on a thorn bed and you need not go on a fast and you need not torture your body by not sleeping. In...

... any ideology. It makes no sense; it is simply a nonsense sound. So is mu. If you ask a Zen Master, "Has a dog buddha nature?" he will say, "Mu". It means neither no nor yes. If you ask, "Do Buddhas exist after they have left the body?" he will say, "Mu". Or my disciples can use the word "hoo". This word "mu" has no meaning. ... As a good...

... STUDENTS WERE DOZING OFF HE STOPPED LECTURING IN MIDSENTENCE AND SAID, "IT IS A HOT AFTERNOON, ISN'T IT? CAN'T BLAME YOU FOR GOING TO SLEEP. MIND IF I JOIN YOU?" Now, a perfectionist will not be able to do it at all. How can a perfectionist fall asleep before his students? Howsoever hot the summer is, and he may be feeling sleepy, because the body is the body ... Whether it belongs to an...

... enlightened person or to an unenlightened person doesn't make any difference: the body follows its own laws. He must have been feeling sleepy; it was really hot. But a perfectionist will try to pretend. A holist, a totalist will not pretend. The moment he felt sleep was coming to him he stopped in midsentence. He would not complete even the sentence; he lives moment to moment. Even to wait to complete the...