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... Mansoor. Whenever he was in that state - what Sufis call HAL - whenever he was in that state, he would start singing and dancing. And those utterances would simply overflow; it was not possible for him to control them. There was nobody to control; all control was lost. Junaid understood his state, but he knew the state of the people too - that sooner or later Mansoor would be thought to be anti...
... the hierarchy. Those who are coming closer to the goal are higher; those who are not coming closer to the goal are lower. The whole Christian church depends on a single phe-nomenon disobedience. Buddha says there is nobody to command and there is no way to obey. Life has no goal as such. Life itself is its own goal - the goal is intrinsic. The value of life is in itself; it does not come from...
... used for many reasons. One thing: if you hate your parents, you are not yet detached, you are not free. Hate means you are against, so they will control you still. They will control in a subtle way: you will go on doing things that they wanted you NOT to do. because you hate them. Your parents were saying;, "Don't smoke," and you will go on smoking because you hate them. This is the way you...
... Tzu throws all the rules to the dust, and he says the only golden rule is to have no rules. This is a balancing. Lao Tzu is religion, Confucius is culture. Religion is needed like a medicine, it is medicinal. You are ill, you need medicine; the more ill, of course, the more medicine. A society becomes ill when the natural is lost. A man becomes ill when the natural is forgotten. And Tilopa is all...
..., because if you want to live with anger you cannot live with anybody else. It creates trouble, and then the moral teachers are there who are always ready to help you and they say, "Suppress it, throw it, don't be angry, reject it!" You start rejecting. The moment you reject you start becoming unnatural, because whatsoever you have, nature has given it to you - who are you to reject it? A part...
... of the mind playing the role of the master with another part of the mind? - and both are the parts of the same. It is not possible. You can go on playing the game. And the part who is the anger does not bother about your other part who is trying to suppress it, because when the moment comes it erupts. So there is no trouble for the part which is anger, the part which is sex, the part which is greed...
.... Politics is a way to rule over others. Love never wants to rule. The very effort to rule and possess and be powerful is violent. It is part of hatred. Love gives, and gives unconditionally. Love does not possess. Love is not a monopoly, is not a power-lust. How can love be politics? Please don't use that word with Jesus. He's not interested in changing the society. He is interested in changing the heart...
... even in ordinary love affairs. Hence nobody can define love. Thousands of definitions have been tried - all have failed. Love remains indefinable, very elusive, very mercurial. The more you want to grasp of it, the more difficult it becomes, the farther away it goes. You cannot catch hold of it, you cannot manage to know what exactly it is, you cannot control it. Love remains unknowable. Man wants to...
...? - impossible, even to conceive. The priests have made God so ugly just to dominate people, because people can be dominated only through fear. Remember this: the whole trade secret of the priests, Hindu, Christian, Mohammedan, Jaina, Buddhist - their philosophies differ but their trade secret is the same. That trade secret is: always keep people afraid, trembling. If people are afraid, they are ready to...
... submit. If people are afraid, they are ready to be slaves. If people are afraid, they cannot gather courage to rebel. Fear keeps them impotent; fear is a psychological process of castration. For centuries it has been done: fear has been the greatest weapon in the hands of the priests and they have used it very liberally. The Goldbergs' son, Jake, refused to take school seriously. He never did homework...
... being political, to dominate, to dictate, to control, to manipulate; your ego is enhanced. You start killing. The more love settles, the more love dies. Something else arises. Then there is only a corpse, a dead memory. Something was beautiful - every lover thinks: What happens? what goes wrong? Something is beautiful in the beginning, then where does everything go wrong? The moment the mind enters in...
... to the source, you can drop out of the journey of the total circle. Physical activity has been used by hatha yoga. Hatha yoga developed a total science out of it: how to move just by physical activity, by sheer physical force, to the source. Hatha yogis are powerful people, they have control over their bodies - nobody can claim that much control. They can lie down underneath the earth for months...
... you fall to the ground. That falling would give a beautiful glimpse. Whenever - this is the rule - whenever you are taken possession of by the whole and your ego is no more functioning, the whole functions - you have a beautiful feeling; but these beautiful feelings are not the goals. They are toys to play with, chocolates - nothing more; chocolates on the path of spirituality. Enjoy them but don't...
.... SINCE HE LOVED THEM THE KING WANTED TO SHOW THEM MERCY, BUT HE COULD NOT ACQUIT THEM BECAUSE EVEN A KING'S WORD CANNOT PREVAIL OVER THE LAW. SO HE GAVE THIS VERDICT: A ROPE WAS TO BE STRETCHED OVER A DEEP CHASM, AND, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, THE TWO WERE TO WALK ACROSS IT. WHOEVER REACHED TO THE OTHER SIDE WAS TO BE GRANTED HIS LIFE. IT WAS DONE AS THE KING ORDERED, AND THE FIRST OF THE FRIENDS GOT SAFELY...
... SHOW THEM MERCY, BUT HE COULD NOT ACQUIT THEM BECAUSE EVEN A KING'S WORD CANNOT PREVAIL OVER THE LAW. SO HE GAVE THIS VERDICT: A ROPE WAS TO BE STRETCHED OVER A DEEP CHASM, AND, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, THE TWO WERE TO WALK ACROSS IT. WHOEVER REACHED TO THE OTHER SIDE WAS TO BE GRANTED HIS LIFE. A parable has an atmosphere, a very homely atmosphere - as if your grandmother is telling you a story when you...
... America you will find 'Keep to the Right'. In the world there are only two types of people: a few keep to the left, a few keep to the right. The third type is the very pinnacle of consciousness. And there the rule is 'Keep to the Middle'. Don't try it on the road but on life's way keep to the middle: never to the left, never to the right. Just to the middle. And in the middle there will be glimpses of...
... right. Most of the people are simply brown bags. Never open anybody. It happened in my childhood: India became independent but the British government had left some Indian states. India was in two separate sections; only one was under British rule. There were small pockets all over India of Indian states which were still ruled by Indian kings. They were under British government - their foreign policy...
..., and Shri Nath Batt was behind me holding the end of the two poles. The head of the man, the dead man, was at my end, and the legs at his end. I had just read somewhere that when a man dies of course he loses all control - control over the bladder also, so if you put his head upwards and his legs downwards .... I thought, "This is a good chance to see whether that idea is right or wrong,"...
... right have you to take it away?" It is said the judge resigned, apologized to the man and said, "Perhaps I have done many crimes in my life." A strange thing all over the world is that unless you are proved innocent, you are guilty. This goes against all humanitarian ideals, democracy, freedom, respect for individuality; it goes against all. The rule should be: unless you are proved...
... talks about being civilized, cultured - he is not civilized, not cultured. The death penalty is a proof enough. This is the rule of a barbarous society: An eye for an eye, and a head for a head. If somebody cuts off one of your hands, then in a barbarous society, this is a simple law: one of his hands should be cut off. The same has been carried down the ages. The death penalty is exactly the same law...
... proof that beating is the right treatment. But is used to happen only once in a while; ninety-nine percent of the cases were unnecessarily beaten. But that one exception was the rule. It was thought that he was possessed by spirits, ghosts; then too beat him, because if he is possessed by ghosts the beating will reach the ghost, not him. You are not beating him, you are really beating the ghosts who...
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