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... and had nobody to look after him, no money left. Every day he would have to go to the forest, cut wood and sell it, and somehow manage for his bread and butter. But that day it happened that death was passing by. Suddenly he asked - he threw down his load of wood - and shouted to the sky 'Death! Where are you? You come to everybody. I have seen so many people dying. Why are you so angry with me? Why...
.... And it is true, we cannot leave him, because he is going to fetch a fabulous price for us." Diogenes immediately mounts the dock meant for slaves to be auctioned and stands there with the dignity of a king. Then the manager shouts, "Here is a great slave for sale; whosoever has enough money should bid for him." Diogenes first shouts at the manager, "Shut up, if you don't know how...
..., because you have all that you were hoping for: you have the woman that you wanted, the house, the money, the prestige, the power. You have all that you had always dreamt about, now there is no more left to dream: the desert has come. Now you suddenly feel a kind of insomnia. You cannot even sleep, the desert is all around. How to transcend this desert? - the desert of meaninglessness, the desert of...
...- mark that somehow they had managed to forget about - in money, in respectability, in the search for power, in politics, in philosophy, in art. They had somehow got engaged and they had forgotten the problem. Now this man comes and shouts from the tops of the houses. That's what Jesus has said to his disciples: "Go and shout from the housetops. Because people are fast asleep, they will hear only...
... any desire to fill yourself up, to stuff yourself with anything - food, love, money, power - when you are not in any way interested in stuffing your emptiness, then suddenly emptiness changes its color, its quality is transformed. You relax into it. Then you don't feel, "I am empty." You feel, "I am emptiness - and if I am emptiness, I am emptiness." And the purity of emptiness...
... the farm, and they told the other son, "Look - what injustice! You have been with your father, you served him like a servant, you never went astray, you never did anything against him, but a feast was never given in your honor, it was never celebrated. And now that vagabond, that beggar, who has wasted all your father's money and who has lived in sin, is coming back. And look at the injustice...
... lazy, utterly lazy. They are poor because action has completely disappeared - how can they be productive? How can they be rich? And it is not that they are poor because they have been exploited; even if you distribute all the money that the rich people in India have, the poverty will not disappear. All those rich people will become poor, that is true, but no poor persons will become rich. Poverty is...
.... He would say, "Yes, she has always been out. The bottle was an illusion." You are always a buddha; your not being a buddha is an illusion. The bottle is an illusion, you are always out of the bottle. All prisons that surround you -- of the mind, of the body, of money, of the world -- are all irrelevant. As far as your innermost being is concerned, it is not touched by anything. It is...
..., the true treasure, the kingdom of God. We go on remaining concerned with the trivial, thinking, "We are going to be here, so what is the hurry? Tomorrow we will search for God; today let us have a little more money in the bank." ... THAT RICHES AND THE HONOURS EASILY ACQUIRED, ARE EASY THUS TO LOSE. Death will take everything away from you. Empty-handed you come and empty-handed you will...
..., "Why are you wasting your energy like that?" Wasted, we say, because that much energy could have made some money, that much labor could have earned something. So we ask the child, "What are you getting out of what you are doing? What is to be gained?" Ego always inquires after the advantage: what will be gained? People come to me and they ask, "What will be gained through...
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