The man who knows, also knows that existence is one. Its expressions are millions but the spirit that expresses, is the same. It is one godliness with an infinite variety of creations.
Greed simply means you are feeling a deep emptiness and you want to fill it with anything possible; it doesn´t matter what it is. And once you understand it, then you have nothing to do with greed. You have something to do with your coming into communion with the whole so the inner emptiness disappears. And with it, all greed disappears. That does not mean that you start living naked; that simply means you do not live just to collect things.
Use every opportunity in life for raising your intelligence, your consciousness. Ordinarily what we are doing is we are making every opportunity to create a hell for us. Only you suffer. And because of your suffering, you make others suffer. And when so many people are living together,and if they all create suffering for each other, it goes on multiplying. That´s how the whole world has become a hell.
Life is spread over seventy, eighty years; death happens in a single moment. It is so condensed that if you have lived your life rightly, you will be able to enter into the mystery of death. And the mystery of death is that it is only a cover: inside is your immortality, your eternal life.
Only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core into the other person ? without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without creating "the other," reducing the other into a thing, and without becoming addicted with the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.
Mind has its utilities. It is practical, it is needed, and even when you have become a meditator mind will be needed. But then it will be a servant, not a master.
The intelligent man´s way is the way of the heart, because the heart is not interested in words; it is interested only in the juice that comes in the containers of the words. It does not collect containers, it simply drinks the juice and throws away the container. The mind does just the opposite: it throws away the juice and collects the containers. Containers look beautiful, and a great collection of containers makes a man a great intellectual giant.
I say unto you, there is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep ? and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the whole world. One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing its light.
Live in the world, but not through the mind. Don´t let the past or the future stand between you and the reality. And if you can manage even for a few moments the state of no-mind — that´s what meditation is all about — you will be surprised: suddenly you are in rhythm with existence. You will know what Buddha calls aes dhammo sanantano— the eternal law. You will pulsate with it, vibrate with it. You will be just a wave in the great ocean of the law.
Man is a growing gestalt. Every day new things are to happen. Every day you have to absorb the new and to make a place for the new; the old has to be gone. The old has to be said goodbye to, with all thankfulness.
Time means mind. When the mind stops, time stops. You may have sometimes felt it. When there is no thought in your mind, is there any time left? The procession of thoughts creates time.
Political power is ugly. Power over others is ugly. It is inhuman, because to have power over somebody means to reduce that person into a thing. He becomes your possession.
Life is a love affair, it is poetry, it is music. Don't ask ugly questions like, "What is the purpose?" because the moment you ask it, you disconnect yourself from life. Life cannot be bridged with philosophical questions. Philosophy has to be put aside.
When you are with people, remember, for them still good and bad exist.
Be respectful to them and their dreams. It is not for you to disturb anybody´s dream. Who are you? It is not for you to interfere. Be polite to people and their stupidities, be polite to them and their games. But all the time remember, deep down nothing is good, nothing is bad.
The real opposite of hate is not love, the real opposite of love is not hate ? it is so apparent, who can be deceived by it? The real opposite of love is pseudo-love: love that pretends to be love, and is not.
Every child brings wondering eyes into existence. Soon we enforce dust into his eyes; we cover his pure mirror with dust. Sooner or later, he becomes knowledgeable ? and the sooner he becomes, the more we are happy. Our happiness is really poisoning the child.
Man lives such a dull and drab life that he wants some sensation. Those who are a little wiser, they read scientific fiction or detective stories. Those who are not so wise, they read spiritual fiction.
Avoid those pretenders who decide for you; take the reins in your own hands. You have to decide. In fact, in that very decisiveness, your soul is born. When others decide for you, your soul remains asleep and dull. When you start deciding on your own, a sharpness arises.
Try to relax, and you will find it, that you feel more tense than ever.
Try harder and you will feel more tense and more tense. Relaxation is not a consequence, is not a result of some activity; it is the glow of understanding.
Contemporary mind is a contradiction in terms. Mind is never contemporary, it is always old. Mind is past ? past and past and nothing else; mind means memory. There can be no contemporary mind; to be contemporary is to be without mind.
Meditation is looking into your emptiness, welcoming it, enjoying it,
being one with it, with no desire to fill it ? there is no need, because it is already full. It looks empty because you don´t have the right way of seeing it. You see it through the mind; that is the wrong way. If you put the mind aside and look into your emptiness, it has tremendous beauty, it is divine, it is overflowing with joy. Nothing else is needed.
Nothing is good, nothing is bad. When this dawns in your consciousness, suddenly you are together, all fragments have disappeared into one unity. You are crystallized, you are centered.This is one of the greatest contributions of Eastern consciousness to the world.
To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don't take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don't take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.
There is a beginning of the mind and there is an end of the mind, there is a beginning of the ego and there is an end of the ego, but there is no beginning to you and no end to you. And there is no beginning to the mystery of existence and no end to you. It is an ongoing process. Mysteries upon mysteries are waiting for you, hence the thrill and the ecstasy.
Feel ecstatic that there is no end to life, that when you have reached on one peak, suddenly another peak starts giving you challenges, a higher one, a more arduous climb, a more dangerous reach. And when you will have reached the other peak, another peak; peaks upon peaks. It is an eternal Himalayas of life.
The mystery never ends, it cannot end. That´s why it is called a mystery, it cannot be known ever. It will never become knowledge, that´s why it is called a mystery; something in it is eternally elusive. And that´s the whole joy of life. The great splendor of life is that it keeps you eternally engaged, searching, exploring. Life is exploration, life is adventure.
Live totally, and live intensely, so that each moment becomes golden and your whole life becomes a series of golden moments. Such a person never dies because he has the Midas touch: Whatever he touches becomes golden.
If the child sees that the parents are very happy because he has become knowledgeable, he starts gathering more and more knowledge. He starts forgetting the knack that he had brought with his life, that was inborn. By the time he comes out of the university he has completely forgotten one of the most beautiful things that was given by God to him: the capacity to wonder, the capacity to see without thinking, the capacity to contact reality without the mind continuously interfering, distorting.
The body belongs to the earth, you belong to the sky. The body belongs to matter, you belong to God. The body is gross, you are not. The body has limits, is born and will die; you are never born and you will never die.
Feel ecstatic that there is no end to life, that when you have reached on one peak, suddenly another peak starts giving you challenges, a higher one, a more arduous climb, a more dangerous reach. And when you will have reached the other peak, another peak; peaks upon peaks. It is an eternal Himalayas of life.
The mystery never ends, it cannot end. That´s why it is called a mystery, it cannot be known ever. It will never become knowledge, that´s why it is called a mystery; something in it is eternally elusive. And that´s the whole joy of life. The great splendor of life is that it keeps you eternally engaged, searching, exploring. Life is exploration, life is adventure.
Live totally, and live intensely, so that each moment becomes golden and your whole life becomes a series of golden moments. Such a person never dies because he has the Midas touch: Whatever he touches becomes golden.
Man is already where he needs to be, where he is meant to be. Man is in paradise. The garden of Eden has never been left, nobody can expel you from it. But you can fall asleep, you can start dreaming a thousand and one things. Then those dreams become your reality, and the reality fades far away, becomes unreal.
The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath. He never loses it — the wonder the child feels looking at the birds, looking at the flowers, looking at the sky.... Intelligence also has to be, in the same way, childlike.
In the past, only death is the reality not life. In the future also, only death is the reality not life. Those who have missed living in the past, automatically to substitute for the gap, start dreaming about the future. Their future is only a projection out of the past. Whatever they have missed in the past, they are hoping in the future; and between the two non-existences is the small existent moment which is life.
Love knows how to go into the unknown. Love knows how to throw all securities. Love knows how to move into the unfamiliar and the uncharted. Love is courage. Trust love.