... have been lowered into that tunnel, and according to the Egyptian convention every monk was given some money, some clothes, and some food, because he was going for a pilgrimage. It was sixty feet deep and miles long. It happened that a monk had not died, but was in a coma. Others thought that he had died, and they opened the graveyard, lowered the monk, closed the graveyard... and after a few hours...

......." But God has never heard anybody. Over the time of ten years he became a cannibal; he started eating the flesh of dead bodies. Not only that, he started collecting the money that had been given to each monk when he died, and the clothes - in the hope that when he would be rescued, he would take all these clothes and all this money. And slowly, slowly he forgot that the graveyard was stinking; he...

..., but for him it was almost nectar; it was life-giving. And he was the only living man in that miles-long tunnel. As he was moving around in the darkness, slowly, slowly his eyes became accustomed to seeing a little bit in the darkness. And dead people, just skeletons - nobody was there to prevent him, so he was searching everybody, finding money, clothes. And when after ten years the rock was removed...

..., he shouted back up. People had completely forgotten about him. They pulled him out, but he said, "First you pull up my clothes" - he had a big pile of clothes. People could not believe that.... Then he said, "Now pull up my money." So they pulled up his money - he had collected the money from thousands of people. After all his treasures were taken out, he came out. It was...

.... Tonight he encouraged her to go, saying that the only problem was that she was a performer and wanted to impress people, and there was no need to. If they were interested, good. If not, that was their loss.] Always remember, all human beings are the same. Somebody is an editor, somebody is a politician, somebody is a rich man. What is the difference? A rich man is a man who has money. You will not be...

... afraid of a pile of rupees; you will not be afraid of them. You will not be afraid of the man if he is a beggar. Now the beggar plus money and you are afraid! What are you doing? You are not afraid of the money and you are not afraid of the beggar, but once you come to know that the beggar has money, you become afraid. You are not afraid of the beggar but if he stands in an election and becomes a prime...

.... Somebody is living to impress people, somebody is living for political power. Somebody is living for money, somebody is trying to achieve God. And somebody is going to work out his liberation. But a really liberated person is one who has understood that there is no meaning, so he is not seeking, searching, for anything. He lives the moment. It is there - he enjoys it. If he is eating, he eats well; he...

... laborers and slaves are needed. Even slaves were fed by their masters. That was not service. If you don't feed your horse, if you don't feed your cow, you will lose much money. If you don't feed the poor, the capitalist will disappear. Who is going to work for him? Whom is he going to exploit? So it is a very cunning game. The rich man goes on donating a small portion of his exploitation to the church...

.... The church goes on bringing up the orphans, aboriginals, poor people, to the survival level. They are needed alive, because without them the whole system will collapse. So on the one hand, the capitalist goes on giving money in charity; on the other hand, he goes on exploiting the poor. And between the two, the priest has his own percentage -- he is a mediator -- so he is living beautifully...

..., but a rich man cannot enter into the gate of paradise. If that is the case, why serve the poor? If anybody needs service, it is the rich. Steal their money, make them poor, so they can inherit the kingdom of God. Poverty is perfectly right, according to Jesus' own statements. It is good to be poor -- according to Jesus -- it is great to be poor. I hate poverty! And I hate Jesus for making such...

... earned. So this device helps after the point you feel it is good to pay to the government. Ten percent, fifteen percent, okay; when it comes to the point of paying one hundred percent, it is better to give in charity rather than giving it to the government. It is people's money: if they had not given it to charity, they would have had to give it to the government. So on the exploitation of people they...

... are securing their bank balance in paradise. It is not their money; nobody gives his own money. In fact, all rich people all over the world have many charity trusts of their own. Just here, in India, Tata is one of the richest people, amongst the three richest families. He has a great charity trust worth forty crore rupees, and he goes on pouring money into the trust. It is the people's money, it...

... should go to the government, but he siphons off the money. Every rich person around the world is doing the same. Give it to the church, or make your own trust. Open a school in the memory of your father. Open a hospital and become a great man of charity in the memory of your dead mother. At least there will be the name of your mother, there will be your name, that you have made it in your mother's...

... memory. And this is the money that is making people poor. The church is made happy by receiving charity. When I was arrested in America and without any reason they, in their minds, harassed me -- I was not harassed, I enjoyed the whole trip. I saw the other side of the world which I would never have seen -- twelve days being a guest of President Ronald Reagan! They dragged me from one jail to another...

..., and I will slap your face!" Jimmy Bakker's "Praise the Lord!" TV church has not been making much money ever since Jimmy got out of jail. He is sitting in his living room one day when his wife, Tammy, comes home wearing an expensive new dress. "My God!" shouts Bakker. "You know we are broke. You promised not to buy any new clothes this month. What made you do it?"...

.... Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. [A sannyasin who bakes said that because of his work he was unable to do the meditations, and should he do anything else. Osho said that when he had time he could meditate alone... ] ... and baking is a good meditation. Put your love into it, your whole awareness into it. Just don't do it for the money - do it for love also. Do it with care, and then there is no need...

... that you have been doing carelessly, start doing carefully. Things that you have been doing for some results, for example, money.... That's okay, but you can make it a plus phenomenon. Money is okay and if baking gives you money, good. One needs money, but it is not all. And just by the side if you can reap many more pleasures, why miss them? They are just free of cost. You will be doing your work...

... synchronises with you; it somehow melts easily and becomes one with you, it cooperates with your system. Food prepared carelessly is cold, it will take a longer time to absorb it, and food prepared with anger, hatred, jealousy, is already poisoned. So do one thing: prepare whatsoever you are preparing - cakes and that - with deep love. Money is secondary. It comes anyhow, that's not the point at all. By the...

... whole problem of bondage and contract and relationship, and doubts and jealousies, and fights and fears... the whole mess has descended on humanity for this stupid reason. It does not matter who owns what, when you are in your grave. Your palace and your money... what difference does it make? Just an ego trip, a very deep ego trip.... When I say surrender to love I am saying that loving is enough...

... every care in her own way. Every month on the first day she takes all the money that he earns, so he cannot go anywhere. One man rushed into his general manager's office and said, "You are such an idiot, and I used to think you were my friend..." They worked in the same office and had the same status. But the first man got a pay raise and just to make his friend's wife jealous, his friend...

... phoned to say, "Your husband has got a raise this month." The wife waited the whole month.... The husband was feeling very happy that she accepted the old salary and she did not know that now he was getting more: "That much I can use for my own purposes." But the moment the wife took the money she said, "Bring out the rest; you got a raise." Now he was caught red-handed...

... deceiving his own wife. She took all of the money and she was crying and weeping. The husband had to console her and he was feeling guilty: "I am sorry that I did it, but how did you manage to know?" She said, "Your friend phoned so I was waiting for the whole month to see... You talk so much about trust and faith. What happened to the trust and faith? You were being faithless and what were...

... you going to do with the money? You tell me in detail what was in your mind! There must be some woman... I have always suspected! The way you enter the house always looks as if you are hiding something. Your very face gives the idea of a suspicious, faithless man. Now you are caught red-handed." And this goes for every point.... I was traveling to Kashmir, and in my air-conditioned coupe there...

... shouts. "Now go straight home and put it back in again!" Hymie Goldberg loses a lot of money on the stock market and is in a terrible state. He goes to visit his doctor and says, "Doctor, doctor, my hands won't stop shaking." "Tell me," says the doctor, "do you drink a lot?" "I can't," says Hymie, "I spill most of it." "I see," says...

... what will you do with beauty? You cannot purchase a car, you cannot purchase a house, you cannot purchase anything. Now beat your head with your beauty - what you will do? So the mind starts thinking that the choice was wrong. But if you choose the disgusting, ugly woman, you would have all that money can purchase: a palace, servants, all gadgets, but you will have to tolerate that woman - not only...

... country for the whole world to put their money in, as the country has cheap labor. India can produce anything. It needs money, and the money is there around the world - and the people who have money, they don't know what to do with it. It needs new industries. It can create any kind of thing, it just needs money, experts. And the labor is so cheap that it competes in the whole world. That's how Japan...

... can have satori or enlightenment; you can have things. You can have money, you can have power, you can have the whole world, but you cannot have enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a thing; it is not possible to possess it. Those who say they have it, don't have it -- they don't even understand the ABC of it. One becomes enlightened -- that's what Suzuki is saying. There is no distinction between I...

... mind which thinks only of money, earning. This has to be remembered while you are studying Zen -- the differences of context. It is said: To arrive at the truth, the German adds, the Frenchman subtracts, and the Englishman changes the subject! I have heard... You can always tell a man's nationality by introducing him to a beautiful woman. An Englishman shakes her hand, a Frenchman kisses her hand, an...

..., how to help you in your businesses. The saying seems to be perfect that behind the success of every great man there is a woman -- in many different senses. Sometimes just to escape from her, one becomes madly engaged in earning money. When Henry Ford was asked, "Why did you go on earning and earning, when you have earned so much? It was time to enjoy and relax." He said, "That was not...

... -- to God? He read the letter and he felt sorry for the man; he must be in really great trouble. He had described that his mother was dying, and he has no money, no employment, no money for food, no money for medicine. "Just for once, send fifty dollars and I will never ask again." The postmaster said, "Something should be done because this man should not feel disappointed." The...

... there are many more chances of being defeated. And even if you succeed you are not happy, because the moment you succeed you become afraid. Now somebody else is going to take it from you. The competitors are all around, violently after you. Before you succeeded you were afraid whether you were going to make it or not; now you have succeeded, you have the money and the power, now you are afraid...

... evaporated; it is still water - hot, but still water. But beyond a hundred, it evaporates - it is no more water. It has changed its form. The transformation has happened. Just like that, when your energy accumulates and you don't go on wasting it on objects.... And people ARE wasting it on objects. Somebody is interested in money - he puts his whole energy on the money. Of course, he accumulates much money...

..., but in accumulating it he dies, dissipates, becomes empty, becomes a beggar. Money goes on accumulating and he goes on becoming more and more beggarly. Somebody puts his energy into politics, into power. He becomes a prime minister, but deep down he is a beggar. He may be the greatest beggar in the country.... If you put your energy into objects, you will live a life of non-understanding...

... have to give a certain name, otherwise it will be impossible in the world - how to call him? How to address him? How to send a letter to him? How to give money or borrow money from him? How to drag him to the court? It will be so impossible if everybody is nameless. It will be sheer chaos! This world cannot exist; it will be a totally different kind of world. And it will be very difficult to remember...

... retire, but his savings account was spare. "Miriam," he confided to his wife, "I'm tired. I want to retire, but I don't know how we're going to afford it." "Don't worry," said Miriam, "I have plenty of money." And she produced a bankbook with regular deposits stretching back the entire forty years of their marriage. "Where did this come from?" cried...

... just go on making shoes for others? Just by making shoes he is not going to become rich, that much is certain; he has to find some quick way. So he starts purchasing a lottery ticket... every month he saves enough money to purchase at least one ticket. This went on for almost twenty years. He even forgot why he went on purchasing them; it became a habit, an obsession. But one day what happened was, a...

... ticket number. Yes, you have won the lottery!" What happened to the poor man? He immediately locked the shop and threw the keys into the well - because now what was the use of those keys and that shop? - and he took the suitcases full of notes to his house. In one year's time, he wasted all the money: prostitutes, alcohol, gambling - whatever was possible, whatever money could do - he did...

... everything. But after one year, when he opened the suitcase, all the notes were gone. He looked in the mirror - that whole year he had been so engaged he hadn't even looked in the mirror. There had been so much to do, and so much money; he had been perhaps the busiest person in the whole world. When he looked in the mirror he could not believe that it was he, because he had grown at least ten years older...

... in just one year. Money does that too. He had wasted himself. He looked sick, but he had never been sick. He was a healthy man, but now with alcohol and prostitutes and gambling - with all that together - he looked as if he was just going to die within a few days. He said, "My God, what have I done?" He went to the well and jumped in to try to find his keys, because again the shop had to...

... possible way. These people were servants of the people; they had lived a life of sacrifice, they had renounced their money, their families, their comforts, and they had suffered all kinds of punishments, imprisonments, beatings. Nobody could have thought.... These were the people whom Gandhi had trusted. And there was apparent reason to trust, because when British government soldiers were beating them...

... American dollar. The American dollar is going higher and higher. Our people, who come from all over the world for the festival, are feeling in a great difficulty because this time they will have to arrange at least four times more money to participate because the dollar costs four times more. This cannot go on forever - economically there is a limit to everything. At a certain moment the dollar will...

... enjoying, because all Americans are enjoying: "President Reagan has proved a great president - the dollar is going higher, American prestige is going higher, American money is going higher. We are at the top!" But those fools don't understand that sometimes when you fall from the top then only do you understand that those who were at the bottom were far more fortunate because they could not...

... poisoned any fool, but it has poisoned Socrates - one of the most wise men ever born. It has not crucified any fool, but it has crucified Jesus. Two hippies, short of cash, hit on a way of making money. With their long hair and beards, a couple of nightshirts and a makeshift cross, they headed one Sunday morning for the local Baptist church, arriving in the middle of the service. The first hippie entered...

...!" "Right! Watch this: Bastard.... Hey, come on now - she doesn't want to stop! Bastard! Bastard! Bastard! We made it! See, she stopped." "Phew, bloody hell, that was close...!" THE FOOL IS HIS OWN ENEMY. SEEKING WEALTH, HE DESTROYS HIMSELF. By "wealth" Buddha means everything that is outside you: power, prestige, money, sex - anything that is outside you. The fool is...

... extrovert; he never looks in. He accumulates everything on the outside. His whole life is devoted to money, power, prestige, and then one day death comes, but then it is too late. When death comes, he realizes that all that he has been doing has been simply stupid because all is slipping out of his fingers. All that he has been doing was making sandcastles. Just a blow of death, and everything disappears...

... dragged the man towards the gates of hell. The wife followed shortly. "Next!" called Saint Peter and the second couple shuffled forward. "Name!" "Smith," they both replied shakily. "Hmm... Sutherland... Spencer... ah yes, Smith! Hmm... well, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, this one doesn't look too good either. Money, money, money - that's all you two have ever been after - even...

... waste your total energy in that which is momentary. Go on remembering the other shore. By "the other shore" Buddha means that which is beyond time and beyond space. This shore is outside you and the other shore is within you. This shore consists of money, sex, power, prestige, and that shore consists only of awareness, silence, peace, prayer. SEEK RATHER THE OTHER SHORE. WEEDS CHOKE THE...

..., then you are balanced. The very word 'sannyas' means a state of equilibrium, of balance, of absolute balance. I am the gate, but I am the gate only for those who are ready to pass through me. You have to pay the price - and sannyas is the price. And if you love me, then love is always ready to sacrifice. And I am not asking for your money, I am not asking for your house; I am not asking anything of...