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... god is possible when you are turned on totally, aflame... your whole being in a dance. So the first quality for a sannyasin is to attain to a state of 'turn-on' and the second quality is to get off your ego trips. Otherwise somebody can be turned on, but for wrong reasons. A politician can be very turned on for his ego trip. A money maniac can be very turned on and can always be rushing joyously...
... around for more and more money. An adolf hitler is turned on - a power maniac. So, unless the ego is dropped and the ego trips are dropped, just turning on does not help. So the second principle is: get off your trips, and then to be is very simple. One thing is to be joyous, another thing, not to be involved in ego trips... and the sannyasin is born. 'Asti' means to be, and all meditations lead to...
..., in friends' houses. Each painting is worth a million dollars, and Van Gogh lived hungry because he could not sell them. His brother used to give him enough money for seven days. Four days he was eating, and three days he was fasting - to purchase materials for paintings. This fast I call religion - not the fasts of Jaina monks, those are stupid fasts. This man was pouring his blood on the canvas...
... AWARENESS? WHY IS IT LOST, AND HOW CAN IT BE REGAINED? ARE THERE ANY STEPS FOR THE SAME? Awareness is never lost. It simply becomes entangled with the other, with objects. So the first thing to be remembered: it is never lost, it is your nature, but you can focus it on anything you want. When you get tired of focusing it on money, on power, on prestige, and that great moment comes in your life when you...
... for one month, and you have not paid me and I cured your child of smallpox!" Nasruddin said, "Listen. I have been patient enough; otherwise, the reality is that you owe much money to me." The doctor said, "What? I owe money to you?" Nasruddin said, "Yes. Who do you think spread the disease to the whole school? My child! And from all that you have earned during this...
... their land has been taken. On the surface only it looks very civilized; inside the story is totally different. They have been given pensions and no work. Now what will they do with their money? They gamble, they drink, and in their drunkenness their whole life is wasted. And they go on creating more and more children, because each child brings more pension money. They are uneducated, they are not...
... allowed to enter into the mainstream world of America, and they are given so much money -- such a cunning strategy. With so much money what will they do? They will gamble, they will rape, they will have prostitutes, they will drink their whole life away. They don't think at all that America is theirs; they don't have that much consciousness left. That's why they cannot revolt. In fact, revolution will...
..., forgiven for ten dollars and five Hail Marys. Now he can commit another murder, he can commit another rape. All he needs is to go and confess to the priest and give some money, and the priest will give him a prayer to do five or ten times. There is no mention of the person who has been committing crime after crime. He is not being punished, he is being continuously forgiven. And all those people who have...
... is not. It is meaningless to say, "Right now I love you less than I loved you before." It does not happen like that. If I love you, I love you totally or I don't love you at all. For example, if someone steals two cents and another person steals two hundred thousand dollars, you cannot say that one committed a small theft and another a big one. Of course, people who worship money will say...
... multi-millionaire, was having a discussion with another multi-millionaire who was his rival in business. Morgan said, "There are a thousand ways of earning money, but the way of earning it honestly is only one." His rival asked with some amazement, "What is that one way?" Morgan said, "I knew you would ask this question, because you don't know. I was certain about your raising...
... the question because you don't know an honest way to make money." It is the same with love. We cannot formulate a right question about love; we never ask a right question about it. Whatever questions we raise are irrelevant, beside the point, because we don't know a thing about love. Like Morgan, I knew you would ask this wrong question. We can only ask wrong questions about love. And the irony...
... within that there is no space left for any impurity to exist. To be arrogant, to be egoistic, one needs to have something - money, power, prestige. And to be impure one needs things like avarice, anger, hate, and violence. It is significant that while anger is something, non-anger is just the absence of anger. Violence is something; non-violence is just its absence. If a person is utterly empty of...
... everything - greed, hate, violence, money, and fame - he is really poor in spirit, and only such a person is really rich and affluent. And he will, as Jesus says, "inherit the kingdom of heaven. The poorest is the richest, he has everything worth having. In this context there is yet another very significant saying of Jesus. He says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all else shall be added...
... happening to them? They are going like robots towards their house because it has become habitual. They don't need to think about where to move right and where to move left, this will be done by the legs themselves. I have seen people counting money on their fingers, I have seen people with lips moving. I have loved a story very much. A man had become the center of attention of a crowd gathered in a...
... fellow... Not a single saint can part from the village who has not been disturbed by you. And we keep the information as secret as possible so you should not come to know that some mahatma, some saint, is delivering a speech. We give you money to go to the movie. " And the moment they gave me money I would say, "Keep the money. I am coming with you. This money is never given to me for the...
... touch any money. And Gurdjieff would reply only in one or two sentences. If another question were to be asked, he would make the questioner pay another hundred dollars. Many times people asked him what he was doing. Those who knew him were puzzled because one moment it appeared as if he was going to keep the money and the next he would distribute it to others. Why then demand a hundred dollars...
...? Gurdjieff said that to tell those who have valued only money in life anything about God free of charge would be of no value. Such people cannot evaluate things that are received without payment. Gurdjieff meant that for receiving anything of value, one will have to pay something in return one way or the other. One who is not ready to pay anything has no right to receive. But people thought that Gurdjieff...
... loved money because he would not reply without receiving a payment. As I see it, in the West where he lived, where people could only value money, only such a teacher could be effective. He knew that when you have shown a readiness to pay for every word, then you have known its value. You will only take home what you have paid for, not something that is received free. Gurdjieff would do things the...
... tomorrow; then he will miss the chance to drop the atom bombs. And they had put so much money and energy and genius into creating atom bombs, they wanted to try them. Man is not important, but money.... Their bombs had to be tried. And you say that because of barbarous acts, the civilized people feel a prick of conscience. Was President Truman a civilized man or not? Even his own military experts had...
... what do you have to do? Things that are not within you, work hard to get them - money, power, respectability - because nobody says, "Every child is born with money, every child is born with political power, every child is born with respectability." Nobody will say that. These things have to be earned. Freedom, consciousness, God, whatever you call it, has to be discovered. It is hidden...
... senoritas?" the hotel keeper said. "They are the three etcetera". So please don't misunderstand my etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. I am using etcetera because each mind fabricates its own illusory world. Somebody lives in greed, somebody lives in anger. Somebody lives in passion, somebody has no desire for sex but is mad after money. Money is his sexual passion. Somebody lives only to love...
..., "You just go! and trust him." She went out... and a beggar was standing there. And he said, "I have forgotten the way. I was going to some other town and I have entered into this strange place. And I have nowhere to stay and no money for food, and I have been hungry for three days. Can you help me?" She gave those five rupees to the man. She came in and Mohammed said, "Do you...
... see? If a man can come in the middle of the night to take five rupees, if we need he will send somebody to give money to us - you don't be worried. You mistrusted, you distrusted - that was my restlessness." He became calm again. He covered his face with the blanket, and it is said immediately he left the body, in utter silence, in utter grace. That small thing was hindering... something was...
... people? -- money, power, prestige. Sekito is saying, "I also love, but not the way the ordinary people love, and not the objects that ordinary people love. I love their subjectivity. I love their subjectivity because I know my own subjectivity. Just as I am there always, they are also always there. They may know it, they may not know it. I don't love their bodies. I don't love their minds, but I...
... IN THE SHOW WINDOW FOR THE PEOPLE TO BUY? A man who has become a buddha, a man who is enlightened can share with you all that he has, but he has nothing to sell. All the religions are selling. They are selling God, they are selling beautiful places in paradise, they are selling bank accounts in paradise. They are selling everything and pocketing the money from you. And you are not getting anything...
..., and you don't know anything about what is going to happen after death. You don't have even a receipt to show to God: "I have deposited so much money with the priest. Where is my bank account? He has not given me even the number of the bank account." And one never knows. One thing is certain that everything you give to the priest goes into his pocket. It never reaches beyond that. And how...
..., and you can go into the darkness of death. It is a tunnel, whether it will end anywhere or not you have no idea. But at least while you were alive you dropped the fear of death. The priest was giving you the consolation, you were giving your money. God is for sale. All churches, all denominations, all religions are selling God. They are the most dangerous people in the sense that they are giving you...
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