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... not medicine. If you are fighting with somebody it will not help, it is not an atom bomb. Of what use is laughter? That's why the people who look at life with the eyes of a utilitarian don't laugh. They don't love, because what use is love? To them it is wastage, a wastage of energy, time, life. To them it is stupid because it is useless. They earn money rather than falling in love, because money is...
...? And I say to them, "You are not going to get anything out of it." Meditation is not a means to some end, it is an end unto itself - that's why it has no utility. What utility is there in poetry? That's why in the countries where people become too money-minded poetry starts disappearing. Have you watched it happening in America? Politicians, rich people, businessmen - they live long; poets...
.... He becomes part of the junk. Slowly, slowly he starts shrinking. He starts feeling, "Now only death can relieve me of this uselessness." That's why in America poets and novelists die young. Poetry is not respected. Where money is respected, poetry can't be respected. Money is useful; of what use is poetry? When somebody becomes a poet his family feels very sad. A man was saying to me...
... something useless, useless in worldly eyes. Because it can't be reduced into a commodity, that's why they call it useless. Now if you invent something, a gadget, you can patent it and you can earn money out of it. But if you write a beautiful poem you can't earn any money out of it; it is just wastage. People say, "What are you doing? Why are you wasting your life?" But writing poetry - if you...
... values in life. One is intrinsic value. You sing a song -- it has an intrinsic value, it is the means and it is the end also. Or you sing a song in the marketplace to earn a little money. That money is not intrinsic to the song, that money is an outside value. And if you are singing your song only for the money, the activity is no longer holy, it is profane. If you are singing your song for the...
... happiness that it brings to you.... Maybe as a by-product it brings money also, but that is irrelevant. If it brings, it is good, if it does not bring, that too is good -- but your activity has an inner glow to it, it is intrinsically valuable in itself. If you are happy that you could sing, you are happy that you had an opportunity to sing, then every day will become meditative, holy. If you are doing...
... Jacobs, I need fifty dollars to get out of debt,' sobbed Gottlieb. 'I keep praying to God for help but he doesn't send it!' 'Don't lose faith,' said the rabbi. 'Keep praying.' After Gottlieb left his house, the rabbi felt sorry for him. 'I don't make much money,' he thought, 'but that poor man needs it. I'll give him twenty-five dollars out of my own pocket.' A week later, the rabbi stopped Gottlieb...
... and said, 'Here, God sent this to you!' Back in his home, Gottlieb bowed his head. 'Thank you, Lord!' he said. 'But next time you send money, don't send it through Rabbi Jacobs -- that crook kept half of it.' So please be direct. Don't bring me in. Otherwise some day or other you are going to be angry with me. From the very beginning it is better to be clear. This man is going to take sannyas some...
... business and I want it done in my way or not at all." The broker went off in despair to talk with the girl. "I have got you a fine fellow," he said, "with lots of money. But strictly business he is, and he don't do nothing blind. He must have a sample." "Listen," said the girl. "I am as smart in business as he is. Samples I won't give him - references I will!"...
... virtuous things which you can afford. If you exploit people, you can always give a portion back to them. I have heard: In a church the priest was telling the people, "The building is getting very old and we need money." Nobody responded - all businessmen! Everybody was looking at each other; everybody was waiting and expecting that somebody would be foolish enough. And then a woman stood up...
... - the prostitute of the town! - and she said, "I donate ten thousand dollars to the church." The priest could not believe his ears, his eyes! For a moment he was in shock, and then he said, "But I cannot accept your money - I cannot accept any wrong money." One businessman stood up and said, "You don't worry, that is our money! It is only coming via her - you can accept it...
...!" You can donate a little bit to the church, to some charitable institution, you can give some money to the poor people. These are the consolations. And a place for you will be reserved in heaven. Don't be such a fool - heaven is not so cheap. In fact, there is no place like heaven anywhere; it is something inside you. No charity can lead you there, but if you reach there your whole life becomes...
... this cave be yours? I don't see - this is a natural cave. You don't claim it, you can't claim it - you have not made it. And you have renounced the world, your house, your wife, your children, your money, and everything, and now you are claiming, 'This is MY cave - you get out of it!' This is nobody's cave!" He was very angry. He said, "You don't know me - I am a dangerous man! I can't...
... where, what is our source and the cause of our journey into life, into body, in the world, and what we have attained up to now. And if a tidal wave comes - and it is going to come, it always comes; its name is death - all will be gone: children, family, name, fame, money, power, prestige. All will be gone in a single moment and you will be left alone, utterly alone. All that you had done will be...
... knowledge. And it is not that the ego does not claim knowledge; it claims. The ego is very knowledgeable, it collects information. It is a great collector: it collects money, it collects information, it collects every kind of thing. It believes in accumulation. It is greed and nothing but greed; ego is another name for greed. It wants to possess, but all that you possess will be gone. And all that you...
... can do for humanity? I have much money, no children, the wife has died, I am alone. I can do much." Buddha looked at him with very sad eyes and remained silent. The man said, "Why are you silent? Why don't you speak? You always talk about compassion, and I am here ready to do something. Whatsoever you say I will do. Don't be worried - I have enough money! Just give me any task and I will...
... do it." Buddha said, "I understand what you are saying, but I am feeling sad: you cannot do a thing because you still are not. Before one can do something, one has to be. It is not a question of money that you have - but that YOU are not!" That quality of compassion is a shadow of being, and the being is missing. The ego can never be compassionate. The ego is cruel; even in its games...
... the hit of the Master, th. disciple has become enlightened - in a single moment, in a single lightning experience. Buddha said, "You cannot do anything. I know about your money, I have heard about you, but when I look into you I feel very sad for you. You want to do something, but the element that can do something is missing. All that you can do is dream." That's why Vishnu says, "It...
... reason at all you suddenly feel yourself joyous. In ordinary life, if there is some reason you are joyful. You have met a beautiful woman and you are joyous, or you have got the money that you always wanted and you are joyous, or you have purchased the house with a beautiful garden and you are joyous - but these joys cannot last long. They are momentary, they cannot remain continuous and uninterrupted...
... shot. And the story he is telling is just to make me aware that he is awake: it will not be easy to steal anything." So finally he had to declare himself He said, "I am here, and suffering. Now stop and let me go!" My grandfather was such a good man and always nice and helpful to everybody; whoever came to him, he was helping. He would give money to people. If they had come for a loan...
..., and they wanted to put something down as mortgage, he never accepted it. He said, "I don't know - tomorrow I may die, then who will give you this mortgage back? You take the money. If you can manage to give it back, good. If you cannot manage, nothing to be worried about - I have enough." He never took those people's signatures as proof that they had taken money. I told him, "You...
... should have their signatures as proof that they have been lent money." He said, "It is not a loan, it is their money. They may be thinking it is a loan, but I am not thinking of it as a loan. So if they return it, good; if they don't return it, there is no loss because I was never expecting them to. And they are so poor; how are they going to return it?" Such a good man, a beautiful man...
... repress in everybody's mind the idea of dropping out of life. It is a well- known, well-established fact that anybody with a little intelligence thinks in his life - at least one time certainly, that is the minimum - of committing suicide. Why? Because life seems to be just boredom. Marriage has failed. Religion has failed. Politics leads nowhere. You can have all the money in the world, still you are...
... said, "You did something original. Every year somebody needs to do something original." The manager said, "You are supporting him! We are going to give him to the police because he has destroyed the whole thing. Now tomorrow from where are we going to start the story? Tickets have been sold; and people will ask for their money back if the story is finished. It was just the opening day...
... height of point of no return; then one is simply lost. One never comes back. When I say live dangerously, I mean don't live the life of ordinary respectability - - that you are a mayor in a town, or a member of the cooperation. This is not life. Or you are a minister, or you have a good profession and are earning well and money goes on accumulating in the bank and everything is going perfectly well...
... life for ordinary, mundane things. To be spiritual means to understand that these small things should not be given too much importance. I am not saying that they are meaningless. I am saying that they are meaningful, but not as meaningful as you think. Money is needed. It is a need. But money is not the goal and cannot be the goal. A house is needed, certainly. It is a need. I am not an ascetic and I...
... don't want you to destroy your houses and escape to the Himalayas. The house is needed - but the house is needed for you. Don't misunderstand it. As I see people, the whole thing has gone topsy-turvy. They exist as if they are needed for the house. They go on working for the house. As if they are needed for the bank balance - they simply go on collecting money and then they die. And they had never...
... and money, and suddenly you see - you are just empty and your whole life has been a wastage. Things have accumulated and you have disappeared. Things are there, possessions are there, but the master is missing. This is the nature of desire. Everybody feels stuck. I FEEL STUCK. I FEEL I HAVE AN ESSENTIAL BEING INSIDE WHICH WANTS TO GET OUT. That is not your essential being. Because the essential...
.... IT WANTS TO GRAB GIRLS AND SEXUALLY ENJOY. First thing to remember - if you grab a woman, you will never enjoy. Because enjoyment cannot be forced. It is a subtle rhythm. When a woman also loves you, only then this music arises between the two which gives joy, delight. You can grab a woman - and that's what people are doing. Somebody is doing just by physical force, somebody is doing by money-force...
...... because he has money so he can purchase any woman... somebody is doing by some other means. As I see, out of a hundred, ninety-nine people have grabbed women and men. Rarely it happens that a person is in love. When you are in love, you don't grab the woman and the woman does not grab you. When you are in love, love possesses you both. When you are in love, you don't possess each other. You possess not...
... - because that which does not correspond to your inner reality cannot be real. It is just like money: if you go to the market, it has value. If you simply sit alone with your money, it has no value. The value comes only when you relate with others, because the value is just an agreement between you and the others. That's why money has a beautiful name: it is called currency.'Currency' means: when money...
... moves it has value; when it does not move it has no value. If you go on keeping it in your pocket always and always, it is meaningless. You can keep anything else instead of it; it will be the same. Money has value when it changes hands. From one hand to another - then there is value. Value is in its being a currency, a moving force. When it moves from you to somebody else it has value. Again, if it...
... is stuck there it loses value. That's why miserly people are the poorest in the world: they have money but they don't know that money has value only when it is a currency. You can hide it in your treasure chest; you will remain poor. Time is also a currency between two people, between relationships, between societies. But in the inner world, when you are alone, it is simply meaningless. All the...
..., he is a slave. We want slaves here, we don't want masters and rebellions. We want to run our business, our industries, our whole empire for earning money - we want people here who are always obedient. Husbands have proved the best people because they are trained, tamed, they are not wild. Their wives have done a great service to all the vested interests." He told me, "I had this encounter...
..., that only our people are not allowed illegal activities. What about others? And we are a small minority. But perhaps he has not been conscious of what he is demanding. He will become a laughingstock in the court. And in the court, we are going to demand that all these police people be given salaries from public money to teach people illegal activities. They should open a college in Poona: whoever...
... mother is dying and nobody is bothering about it. He has not even enough money for medicine or to call a doctor. What do you want him to do? He was sentenced to three years in jail, and when he entered the jail cell there was one person resting on his bed, and two other criminals were giving him a massage. The man asked, "For how many years are you going to be here?" He said, "Three...
... humiliated by anything. He had no money. As he was released from jail he hired a tonga, a horse-driven vehicle. The driver asked, "Where do you want to go? because you don't have a home...." He said, "I have a home, and I am coming out of there. Three-fourths of the time I rest in my home, one-fourth of the time I come out in the world to see what is happening - just for a change. You take...
... me to Mr. Mody's shop" - that was the place where he was caught stealing, and Mody was the person who had managed to send him for five years into jail. The driver said, "You are really a unique person...." He said, "Where else can I go? He has destroyed my home, he sent me to jail. I don't even have money to pay you; he will have to pay you. He will have to pay money to you and...
... said, "Good morning," and Mr. Mody was trembling. He entered the shop, sat on a chair and told him, "Pay the driver, because I don't have any money. And now find me a place to stay and give me a job - or a salary without a job, I don't mind." I was present. I said, "Bartak, there are limits. That man is in such a situation, he may have a heart attack! You could have come to...
... the very choice that you did something - many things will be good and many things will be wrong after that. You think of any action: you go and you give some money to a beggar - you are doing good; but the beggar goes and purchases some poison and commits suicide. Now, your intention was good but the total result is bad. You help a man - he is ill - you serve him; you take him to the hospital. And...
..., "No! because painting is not going to give you enough money, and painting is not going to give you any respect in society. You will become a hobo, and you will be a beggar. So don't bother about painting. Become a magistrate!" So you have become a magistrate. Now you don't feel any happiness. It is a plastic thing, this being a magistrate. And deep down you still want to paint. While sitting...
..., you are happy. Or, you are a lover of money and you have found a bag full of hundred rupee notes by the side of the road - and there is happiness. Or, you are an egoist and a Nobel Prize is awarded to you - and you dance, there is happiness. These are conditional, you have to arrange for them. And they are momentary. How long can you be happy with a conditional happiness? How long can the happiness...
... remain? It comes only like a glimpse, for a moment, and then it is gone. Yes, when you find a bag full of hundred rupee notes you are happy, but how long will you be happy? Not too long. In fact, for a moment there will be a surge of energy and you will feel happy and the next moment you will become afraid - are you going to be caught? Whose money is this? Has somebody seen? And the conscience will say...
..., "This is not right. It is a sort of stealing. You should go to the court! You should go to the police - you should surrender the money to the police! What are you doing? You are a moral man..." and anxiety and guilt. But you have brought it home; now you are hiding it. Now you are afraid: maybe the wife will discover it; maybe somebody has really seen; somebody may have looked - who knows...
...? Somebody may have reported to the police. Now the anxiety. AND even if nobody has reported and nobody has seen, what are you going to do with this money? Whatsoever you are going to do will again and again give you a moment of happiness. You purchase a car, and the car is in your porch, and for a moment you are happy. Then...? Then the car is old; next day it is the same car. After a few days you don't...
... all over the forest; wherever he goes, there is the smell. It is said that sometimes he becomes almost mad, not knowing that the musk is within him. And so is the case with man: man goes mad seeking and searching - sometimes in money, sometimes in respect, this and that, but the musk is within you, the honey is in your mouth. And look at what Saraha is saying: THE HONEY IN THEIR MOUTHS, AND TO THEM...
... manages the money - that is his power. Muscularly, he is more strong. Down the centuries he has conditioned the mind of the woman that he is more powerful and she is not powerful. In every way he has always tried to find a woman who is in every way lesser than him. A man does not want to be married to a woman who is more educated than him, because then the power is at stake. He does not want to marry a...
... without any taboo and without any inhibition, politics will disappear and there will be no revolutionaries there will be no need. When a man represses sex, he becomes too attached to money; he has to put his sexual energy somewhere. Have you not seen people holding their hundred rupee notes as if they were touching their beloved? Can't you see in their eyes the same lust? But this is ugly. To hold a...
... come that is certain; if you give them money they will not come. They will say 'Keep your money. The love season is on! Keep your money.' And if you say 'We can make you President of India', they will say 'You keep your presidency. The love season is on!' But man, if you make him a president, can kill his beloved. If that is the stake, he can do that. These are substitutes. You cannot befool animals...
... parrot. 'Ooo-Ooo' said the lady owl. 'Not you, you goggle-eyed freak!' said the parrot 'I can't stand women who wear glasses!' Substitutes won't do. Man is living with substitutes. Sex is natural, money is unnatural. Sex is natural; power, prestige, respectability, are unnatural. If you really want to hate something, hate money, hate power, hate prestige. Why hate love? Sex is one of the most beautiful...
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