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... a sense of direction - taking each step deliberately, in full awareness of why, to where? Or are you just imitating others? If they are running, you are running; if they are after money, you are after money; if they are after power, you are after power. Are you just imitators? Then your life will be imitation. Are you simply following others? Then your life will be a carbon copy. You will never...
... bright, that the torch of your mind is burning from both the ends simultaneously. In that light one knows naturally that God is. God is not to be searched for; what is to be searched for is consciousness. Unconscious people can believe in God, but their belief in God is just like their belief in money. They believe in notes, they believe in God, they believe in stone statues, they believe in dead...
... Jerusalem had become a place of robbers; subtle robbery was going on. There were moneychangers inside the temple and they were exploiting the whole country. Jesus alone entered the temple and upturned their boards - the boards of the moneychangers - threw their money around and created such turmoil that the moneychangers escaped outside the temple. They were many and Jesus was alone, but he was in such a...
... long journey, because whatsoever you know will be left behind: your friends, your family, your money, your power, your prestige, all will be left behind. You will be going all alone, even your body will be left behind. You will not be able to recognize your own face, because you don't know what your original face is. You know only the bodily face, that too you know through the medium of the mirror...
.... You have not encountered your reality, you have not gone into your inner being, you have not seen yourself, you don't know who you are. All the friends gone, family, money, power, prestige, body... will you be able even to recognize that it is you? You will be simply in a chaos. Buddha asks you: WHAT WILL YOU TAKE WITH YOU? Tomorrow is death - YOU ARE LIKE THE YELLOW LEAF - next moment is death...
... towards the peaks, you will have to be very watchful. People are watchful of wrong things. If you have money, you are very watchful. You go on constantly looking into your pockets. You look again and again into your suitcase to see whether the money is safe. That's how thieves come to know that you have something. When a person constantly goes on touching his pocket, he himself is inviting thieves. He...
... need for me to do anything more. I can rest.' Life does not believe in rest; it is a constant movement from perfection to more perfection. Listen to me: from perfection to more perfection. It is never imperfect, it is always perfect, but always more perfection is possible. Logically these statements are absurd. I was reading an anecdote.... A man was charged with using counterfeit money to pay a bill...
.... At his hearing, the defendant pleaded that he didn't know the money was phony. Pressed for proof, he admitted: 'Because I stole it. Would I be stealing money that I knew was counterfeit?' After thinking it over, the Judge decided that made good sense, so he then tossed out the counterfeit charge. But he substituted a new charge - theft. 'Sure, I stole it,' the defendant conceded amiably. 'But...
... counterfeit money has no legal value. Since when is it a crime to steal nothing?' No one could find any flaw in his logic, so the man went free. But logic won t do in life. You cannot go free so easily. You can come out of a legal trap legally and logically because the trap consists of Aristotelian logic - you can use the same logic to come out of it. But in life you will not be able to come out because of...
... on radio consisted of nothing but silence. On one of his radio shows, Jack Benny, notoriously the cheapest man in the world - at least in the image he has built up for himself - was stopped by a thief who said, 'Your money or your life!" There followed a lengthening silence, and in due course the audience, catching on, began to laugh louder and louder and louder. Finally, just in case there...
... were a few people who didn't get the point, the thief said, once the laughter had died down, 'Come on! Your money or your life!" To which Mr. Benny replied, 'I'm thinking. I'm thinking.' " Money or life? If life is gone, what are you going to do with the money? If you have understood me, in that very understanding is the dropping of the ego. Not that you drop it. How can you drop it? You...
... rests with the hormones, with your body's chemistry. Or, seeing money may drive you crazy, so much so that you may completely forget what you are doing. Hindus used this story to indicate that even a moment of sensuality hides the eternal Brahman. But Buddha used the story quite differently. It will help if you understood some of the basic differences between Hindu and Buddhist thinking. Hindus say...
... continues. Until yesterday you were accumulating wealth - counting the piles of money again and again everyday - now you will accumulate virtue, but the accumulation continues. Virtue is as much of a wealth to you as money. And remember, just as money is also a social recognition and virtue is also a social recognition. That one hundred rupee bill of yours is a one hundred rupee bill because the society...
... revive a dead man. So those people have put all their money in a trust - that their bodies should be preserved exactly as they were when they died. So if, after ten or fifteen years, science becomes capable of reviving the body, their bodies will be revived. Do you see man's ambitions, his poverty, his inferiority, his fear of death, his lust for life? Even after death they are hoping...! And millions...
... of dollars are being wasted on their bodies because they have a trust; it is their money. They are being preserved, frozen, completely frozen. And even if after fifteen years they come back, what are they going to do? They won't see anybody around whom they had left. Their wives may have gone, their children may have died. And who will want them - even if the children are there? Who would like to...
...,"' the man said. "'Who are you to prevent me? I am purchasing the buffalo with my own money; I am not asking you to give me money. Who are you to decide it?" "Then my friend said, ?I have told you this is not going to happen just because by the side of your field is my farm. If your buffalo enters my farm, I am telling you, I will kill the buffalo. I don't want any nuisance around...
... THESE YEARS, GOVERNMENTS ARE STILL SPENDING MOST OF THEIR MONEY MAKING THESE NUCLEAR WEAPONS. CAN YOU PLEASE COMMENT? The sixth of August can never be forgotten. That day we proved that civilization has not happened to humanity yet, that we are barbarians, that we are cannibals, that we are still animals. Darwin is wrong; the whole idea of evolution is just imagination. Instead of believing in Darwin...
... dying and starving, and they are preparing death for others, knowing perfectly well that now there is no time to become in any way a great world power. Russia and America are so far ahead that by the time you reach that point, they would have moved again, miles further ahead. Now there is no way for them to catch up. It is sheer stupidity on the part of other countries to waste their money on nuclear...
... money goes into making destructive things, no money goes into the service of death. And you should remember, seventy-five percent of the energy of all the nations is going into the service of death. This seventy-five percent of the energy should become available to the poor, the downtrodden. And can you imagine? Seventy-five percent of the finances, if released from the service of death, can make this...
... not relevant. The relevant thing is - you change. Have a totally different vision. What do I mean? There are two types of vision in the world. One, of the unenlightened person. That vision is: accumulate more, whatsoever it is - money? okay; meditation? okay - accumulate more, have more of it. The unenlightened person is interested in having. He knows only one way of being and that is having - have...
... a big house, have a big car, have more money, have more virtue, have more bank balance - in this world and the other also - have more... more women, more men, more love affairs - have more. His only idea of being is having more. Having has nothing to do with being. You can have the whole world - being is not going to result that way. You can have the whole world at your feet, and you will remain...
... - you can have a bigger house, there is no problem about it. Certainly you can have more money. Even if you are a Rockefeller you can have more money. Even if you are a president of a country you can have more power. Even if you are a great saint you can have more virtue. But the whole... the dimension of having is always the dimension of discontent. You can always have more. Imagination has...
... will be very difficult for him to become rich. Money is not poetry: money is blood, money is exploitation. A poet worth the name cannot exploit. And a poet worth the name will have some vision of beauty. He cannot be so ugly himself as to deprive so many people just for his desire to hoard money. Now, you want to become a politician, and you also want to meditate; you want to become a medita- tor too...
... you trust yourself? And I am not saying that you are not to book for the train if you are going tomorrow. I am not saying that you are not to think ahead, how much money you have and how much you can waste in a certain thing and how much you have to save - those are trivia; they don't disturb you, they are mundane things. When I am saying don't project into the future, I mean the psychological...
... Theresa that she wanted to make a great cathedral, one of the most beautiful in the world. She gathered the people of the village where she lived - poor people; they all laughed. They said 'But where - from where are we going to get that much money?' She said 'Don't worry, I have money.' They laughed even more; they thought 'This woman has gone completely mad - because she is a beggar! What money has...
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