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... lotteries should know this. Poverty does not kill somebody as much as wealth if it floods him all of a sudden. I love to tell this story again and again. Someone won a lottery. His wife became very anxious, since it was far too much money for her poor husband. The lottery was worth one hundred thousand dollars. Even five dollars was a big sum for him, and here he was going to get one hundred thousand in a...
... lump. But luckily the husband was not present in the house when the news arrived; he was in his office where he was a petty clerk. So she rushed to the local church and told the priest, "My husband has won a lottery worth one hundred thousand dollars. It is too much money for him. Soon he will return from his office, and I am afraid this happy news might kill him. Can you do anything about it...
... between indulgence and renunciation. Really samyama is neither indulgence nor renunciation; it is a state where you don't tilt the scales to either side. He alone is samyami who maintains equidistance from either extreme. There is a man who is mad after wealth. Day in and day out he is running after amassing money. Day in and day out he goes on adding to his bank balance. Money has become the be-all and...
... someone else. However he may be, good or bad, bring him back." The ministers found the prince standing in front of a dining hall with his broken bowl, begging for money. He was naked. He had no shoes on his feet. It was mid-afternoon, in the heat of summer, a hot wind blowing. His feet were burning and he was begging for a little money to buy shoes. He had a little change in his bowl. The chariot...
... -- jack of all trades, master of none... but he knows everything. So he is very interesting and very influential. Superficially he will impress you on any subject, on anything. You will find out later on that it is just superficial, but by that time he has done his work. All that he does is borrow money. He is a Ph.D. He could have been a professor, but he says, "I don't want to bother with all...
... secondary; the basic question is: Who are you? Out of that, things can be settled -- what your desires, your wants, your ambitions will be. If you are an ego then of course you want money, power, prestige. Then your life will have a political structure. You will be in constant struggle with other people, you will be competitive -- ambition means competition. You will be continuously at others' throats and...
... any crime. Just don't eat too much - just don't be an American! In America there are thirty million people in the hospitals, dying of overeating, and in the streets there are exactly thirty million dying of hunger. Now, any intelligent person can just let these people meet and tell their stories to each other... Sixty million people can be saved from death without wasting any money, anything; just a...
... to give her instructions so that nothing goes wrong. Things go wrong so easily... and because Anando has been in all three communes, and is a law graduate, she understands very clearly why these two communes, created with such great effort, with so much money poured into them, got destroyed. She has a very clear conception. And whatever I say, she manages to do it. I have not heard her saying a...
... you can hope - perhaps, it cannot be guaranteed - that you may become enlightened"... The world has changed in many ways. The most important way is that everybody is in a hurry, not knowing for what. Everybody is running, not knowing where and why. Everybody is collecting money, power, prestige, without ever thinking - what are you going to do with all this? Soon, death will knock on your doors...
... country without any visa. They have exploited the poor people of the country. Their forefathers had no green cards. We have not invaded. We have given more money for this land than anybody else was ready to give. This land was for sale for fifty years, and nobody came to purchase it. The greatest offer was three and a half million. We have given six million dollars for the land. You should compare it...
... politics or through money. All these are different dimensions of your ego. And if you go on fulfilling these desires you can never come to a state of contentment, fulfillment, because the ego is just like the horizon. It looks so close - as if you just have to walk a little more and you will reach it. But by the time you have reached there, the horizon has also moved away. The distance between you and...
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