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... will not be able to carry your money or your power. You will be standing naked, utterly ashamed. There is a beautiful story: When Alexander the Great was coming to India, he met one strange man, Diogenes, on the way. Diogenes is one of the rare flowerings of human consciousness. Alexander was interested in the man; he had heard many stories about him. He was afraid to go to him. It was below him, it...
... Diogenes was lying on the river-bank, on the sand, taking a sunbath naked. He was a beautiful man. When there is a beautiful soul, a beauty arises which is not of this world - which is illogical. If Alexander looks beautiful, it is logical, remember, because he has all that you think one should have. He has power, money; he has all that one can think or imagine to have. His beauty that of possessions...
... just by a single touch. Those ghosts were simple. The ghosts that Sigmund Freud has created are very difficult: you have to lie down on a couch for five years, and then you get up and with you all the ghosts get up. And again you are lying on another couch with some other psychoanalyst, and the same story will be repeated again and again. Slowly slowly, if you don't have much money, understanding...
... will arise that one has to live with these ghosts. There is no point... why not enjoy them? But if you have money then there is a great problem; then the understanding will never arise. In rich people understanding never arises because they can afford it. Understanding arises only in poor people because they can't afford it, they have to understand. They are forced to understand. That's why...
... psychoanalysis is not a business in poor countries. Who can afford lying down on a couch for five years talking nonsense to a stupid person looking at you? Nothing happens. But in the West people have money and time - and what to do with it? And communication has become so impossible. Nobody wants to talk to you, so you have professional listeners - those are the psychoanalysts. Those are professional...
... getting hold of it, of being it? One wants something new. And that which you have you lose all interest in. That's why you are missing God, because God you already have and you cannot be interested in him. You are interested in the world, in money, in power and prestige - those things you don't have. God is already given. God means nature. Who bothers about nature? Why think about it when in the first...
... that Buddha brings to the world - and that understanding has become a ripe fruit in Zen. That is the fundamental contribution of Buddha. A man remains artificial in the so-called world - earning money, power, prestige. And then one day he becomes religious, but again he is moving into another kind of unnaturalness. Now he practises yoga, stands on his head - all stuff and nonsense. What are you doing...
... things, but those are all again the same. The pattern is the same, the gestalt is the same. The change is very slight. The quality is the same. You were earning money, now you are more interested in heaven, the next life. You were interested in what people think about you, now you are interested in what God thinks about you. You were interested in making a beautiful house here, now you are interested...
... rung there is another rung. And you are curious: "Maybe something is there!" so you go one step more. Another rung is waiting for you, and you become curious and you start moving. That's how people move in the world of money, that's how people move in the world of politics. And it is not only that you have to move: because many people are going on the same ladder, you have to push others...
.... And the true sage has no ego; he is an ordinary man. He is utterly ordinary - that is his extraordinariness! SHOULD YOU SEEK THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA ALL NIGHT LONG, SEARCHING, YOU WILL ENTER INTO YOUR OWN MIND SHOULD YOU SEEK THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA ALL NIGHT LONG... The ordinary mind is interested in the outside. The outside is intriguing, wondrous, worth exploring. So we explore it for money, for...
... there is a ten rupee note you may not steal it, but ten thousand rupees? Then you feel a little inclined. And ten lakh rupees? Then you start thinking, then the idea seems to be worth thinking about. You start dreaming... ten lakh rupees? And just for onCe, and people are doing so many sins, you will be doing one and only one. And then you can donate half of the money to the church or to the temple...
.... And it is not so wrong either, because it doesn't belong to a beggar - it belongs to some very rich person, and it doesn't matter to him whether he has ten lakh less or more. And in the first place he has exploited people for all this money. Now you are gathering energy to do it! But if it is ten crore rupees? Then you will not think a second time: you will simply grab it and rush. There is a...
... rushing away from it. All going is dreaming - whether you are going for money or for God does not matter. Whether you think of the body or of the soul does not matter. Whether you want to become very rich, very famous, or enlightened, doesn't matter. All is dream. Becoming is dream. Look into that which you are, and don't go on looking for that which you would like to be. Hope is the secret of the mind...
... dreaming. You call a mind a materialist mind because he dreams of money; and you call a mind a spiritualist mind because he dreams of satoris - but mind is dreaming, mind lives in dreams. It thinks of the faraway, of the distant. It lives in imagination and in memory; both are part of imagination. It never comes to reality; reality is too much for it. Facing, encountering reality it melts and disappears...
... just like dewdrops disappear in the morning sun. Whenever the mind comes to herenow, to the breakfast, suddenly it evaporates. Try it: taking y our breakfast, just take the breakfast and don't think of God and the Devil and money and the woman and the man, and love and a thousand other things - don't think. Just take the breakfast, just be there, totally there - in it. Don't go here and there...
...," Ko Hsuan says, "These words are for you." If you are only a worldly person - by "worldly" he means one who is interested in money, power, prestige - then it would be better if you don't bother about such great things; they are not for you - at least not yet. You have to become fed up with all your so-called worldly desires. First go into those desires. Unless you become...
... tremendously frustrated, unless you see that they are all futile: that whether you succeed or fail you always fail; that whether you have money or you are poor you are always poor; that whether you are a beggar or an emperor you are always a beggar... When that insight dawns on you, then only you can really become a seeker of the beyond. Otherwise, if you pretend to be a seeker of the beyond, you will bring...
... listen to anybody. She had been out of work for many months so she had no money, and because for many months she had been unemployed she had borrowed from almost everybody she knew; she could not get any more money from anybody else. So there was no possibility of her coming to India, but she started planning. And one day at a friend's house she saw a magazine with an advertisement for a ninety-day...
... are. The garb is religious, the jargon is religious, but nothing has changed; the desires are the same. People are asking for money, power, prestige. Whatsoever you are asking for you are asking for something wrong because there is nobody to give you anything. The very idea of getting by asking is absurd. Be utterly silent. Tao is not the path of prayer, it is the path of meditation. ... TAO IS...
... than life itself. Because of the painting he could not work; he was continuously painting so there was no time to work. His brother used to give him just enough money to live by, because nobody was interested in his being a painter. And he was a strange painter too, a very great genius. Whenever there is a genius it takes hundreds of years to recognize him. He was not a traditional painter. He was...
... them. He used to give his paintings to friends just free, because nobody was interested in his paintings; not only were they not interested, they were not even courageous enough to put his paintings in their sitting rooms because people would laugh at them. His approach towards life and nature was so new. His brother used to give him enough money weekly just to live on. He would eat for only three...
... days in the week; four days he would save money to paint. Now how long can you live in this way? By the time he was thirty-seven, only thirty-seven, he committed suicide. And the note that he has left is of tremendous significance. He has written that "I am committing suicide not against anybody - I have no complaint against anybody or life - life has been a great fulfillment to me. I am...
... milk." "Naturally," she replied. "I am his aunt. But I'm glad I came." If you go on repressing things, then on the surface you may look like a saint, but only on the surface. It is better to be a sinner on the surface and a saint in the center than vice versa. The old maid was walking down a dimly lit street when a holdup man jumped out of the bushes. "Give me your money...
...!" he demanded. "I don't have any," she managed to reply. He proceeded to search her thoroughly. Every possible place of concealment was explored. "I guess you were telling me the truth," he finally muttered angrily. "You don't have any money on you." "For heaven's sake," she wailed, "don't stop now! I'll write you a check!" I am not in favor of...
... are going farther and farther away. And life gives you many opportunities to wake up. But rather than waking up, rather than using those opportunities, you start searching for even deeper drugs to drown you in unconsciousness. When suffering comes that is an occasion to wake up, but then you start searching for a drug. The drug may be sex, may be alcohol, may be LSD; the drug may be money, may be...
... we come, alone we go. Aloneness is our ultimate nature. But in between these two, how many dreams we dream! One becomes a husband or a wife, a father or a mother. One accumulates money, power, prestige, respectability, and knowing perfectly well that you come empty-handed and you go empty-handed. You cannot take a thing from here - still one goes on accumulating, still one goes on becoming attached...
... own accord. You will not be greedy - who can be greedy when things are empty? You will not be ambitious - how can you be ambitious when things are empty? If you know that the president's chair is just empty, who bothers? Because you give it too much substance, you make it too real, you become ambitious. When you know money is empty, who bothers? One can use it, but there is no question of worrying...
... the world is real - have more money, have more power, have more name, fame. They are unreal people. They have lost their center completely, they don't know who they are, the self has become a shadow. And the other kind of people, whom I call the religious people, are those who take the reality from the outside world and put it back where it belongs. They start gaining substance, they start gaining...
... being. They have MOTE being. And whenever you come across a person who has more being, you will feel a magnetic force. If Buddha attracted thousands of people it is because of this substantial being. You can see it. If you look into the person who has political power you will find him just hollow, stuffed with straw and nothing else. The man who has much money and thinks that he has something - look...
... more than you possess it. The possessor finally becomes the possessed. You-think you have so many things - riches, power, money - but deep down you are being possessed by those same things, you are being encaged, enchained, imprisoned by those same things. Look at the rich people. They don't possess riches - they are as poor as any other poor man in the world, they are as beggarly as any other beggar...
... the best policy.' Even honesty they have made into a policy. Policy means politics. 'It pays to be honest,' they say. So honesty is also a useful instrument to earn more money, to earn more prestige, to be more respectable. But how can honesty be a policy? Just to say such things - that honesty is the best policy - is to utter a profanity. It is almost saying that God is the best policy, or that...
... taking his wife everywhere with him. 'I can understand your marrying that painfully ugly woman for her money,' one of his close friends remarked frankly, 'but why do you have to bring her with you every time you go out?' 'It's simple,' the husband explained. 'It's easier than kissing her good-bye.' It is easier to have knowledge, very cheap, costs nothing; it is very difficult, arduous, to attain to...
... not miss this pleasure,' he said. So he decided to get married. Because he had so much money he immediately found a beautiful girl. Off they went on their honeymoon. He took the married friend and his wife with him as guides in this new exploration. The next morning they met in the motel at breakfast. The friend had given him every bit of information about sex and how to make love and what to do and...
... of dollars, achieving this, attaining that, becoming this, becoming that, the power, the prestige, the money, the respectability - nothing counts. Finally you have to say only, 'I have lost my being.' In running, rushing into the dimension of having, only one thing happens - you lose your being. Life is a great opportunity, a great opportunity. In fact, there are millions of opportunities in it to...
... which have bad side effects can be removed from the drugs. Rather than forcing millions of people into jails around the world, rather than wasting money on all these prisoners, the better and wiser way will be to give the money and the project to the scientists. LSD can be more purified, can be more ecstatic, without having any side effects. But nobody is ready to do it. Why are they not ready to do...
... raised the Taj Mahal. But it took twenty years. Exactly on the other side - you can see from Taj Mahal to the other side - he was making another memorial, so that when he died the memorial would be ready. He knew that his sons would not be so interested in making the memorial, which was to be better than the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal had taken so much energy, so much money, that his successor was not...
... beggars, and whatsoever they earn comes to the man who is doing this business. Beggary in India is now a very strange phenomenon. The blind man to whom you are giving money will not get it - he will get only food enough to live. All the money will go to the boss who is running the whole factory where he creates crippled people. "So the crowd," he said, "caught us both and they said, 'They...
... bar, Johnny noticed a horse sitting beside him with a huge pot full of money in front of him and sipping slowly from a glass of beer. Not believing his eyes, Johnny asked the barman what was going on. The barman explained to him coolly, "It is a bet. If you can make the horse laugh, you get all the money. If you fail, then you put 10inthepot." "Oh, that is no problem for me!"...
...; said Johnny and immediately leaned towards the horse and whispered something in his ear. The horse started laughing like hell, fell off his chair and rolled onto the floor, kicking and groaning with laughter. Johnny took the money pot and went home. The next day, while ordering his drink, he noticed the horse again with another huge pot full of money. "This time," explained the barman...
..., "You have got to make the horse cry." "Oh, it is not a problem for me," said Johnny. He took the horse outside and after a while came back. The horse was crying, completely heartbroken, with tears flooding down his cheeks. "Man!" exclaimed the barman, "Take the money but you must tell me how you did it!" "Oh!" replied Johnny, "It was very easy...
... INNER CENTERS? HOW SHOULD A SEEKER SELECT A MAHAMANTRA MOST APPROPRIATE TO HIM? A seeker's journey can proceed on two paths; one is of power, the other of peace. The journey into power is not the journey into truth, it is a journey into ego - whether the power is derived from money, prestige, or from chanting mantras. To have the desire for power means that you have no desire for truth. Any power you...
... sought after and could not achieve in the marketplace, the same we go in search of in the temple. The search is the same. What we sought in money and could not achieve, the same we seek in religion. The search as such remains the same, and the one who is searching has not changed at all. When you fail in one place, you simply try to succeed in another. But why in the first place do you want to become...
... are not. Yes, the power-trip into siddhis will strengthen you, and this is why those who practice the use of mantras seem to be so full of ego. The ego of the rich man does not even compare, nor that of the politician who prides himself on his position. And there is a good reason for this. Money can be snatched away, money can be stolen; what is the value of money? And one cannot rely too much on a...
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