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... to struggle hard. The ego can exist only when it struggles, remember -- when it fights. And if I tell you, 'Kill three flies and you will become enlightened, you will not believe me. You will say, 'Three flies? There doesn't seem to be much to that. And I will become enlightened? That doesn't seem to be likely. If I say you will have to kill seven hundred lions, of course that looks more like it...
... Buddha, the master gets very angry. Because he is asking nonsense, he IS a Buddha. If Buddha comes to me and asks how to be a Buddha, what am I supposed to do? I will hit his head. 'Whom do you think you are befooling? You are a Buddha.' Don't make unnecessary trouble for yourself. And understanding will dawn on you if you watch how you make a problem bigger and bigger and bigger, how you spin it, and...
... flying with a dead mouse and twenty or thirty birds were chasing him. The bird was very much worried. 'I am not doing anything to them, I am just carrying my dead mouse. They are all after me.' And they hit him hard and in the conflict, in the struggle, the bird opened his mouth and the mouse dropped. Immediately they all flew towards the mouse; they all forgot about him. Then he sat upon a tree and...
... somebody asleep, he hits him immediately. The hit you can understand, because it is on the circumference. Suddenly the energy rushes upwards in your spine, and you are awake, alert. The Zen tradition says that when the Master hits you, bow down to him in deep respect. He has obliged you; he has taken great trouble to hit you. You know only one kind of alertness -- when you are hit, when you are in some...
... is not only that YOU hate the homosexual, the homosexual also hates the heterosexual; he also thinks that he does not belong to him. We have created unnecessary labels. We have put labels on every man, and not one label -- a thousand and one labels on every man. Remove all the labels! Man is simply man -- homosexual, heterosexual, autosexual, doesn't matter -- man is simply man. Respect man, love...
... made churches, and they would have still been worshiping him. It needs immense courage when you have such consciousness, such clarity, to remain humble and just human - knowing perfectly well that this is the way to death. Sooner or later these same people are going to kill you, these people whom you are trying to make free from all fetters. Still Socrates chose to remain human. That's why you don't...
.... What Socrates was doing twenty-five centuries ago, I am doing now. Twenty-five centuries have gone by without any change as far as humanity is concerned. Three times they have tried to kill me... three attempts on my life. In every possible way the same people whom I am trying to make free, trying to take their chains away, are ready to kill me. Humanity has not changed. It will still do the same...
... dare to do it. Otherwise you will go on moving in the same vicious circle: every time a Socrates is there, you kill him. In the whole history of Greece there is no other name comparable to this man's. Nobody comes even close to his shoulders. He stands high like a great mountain peak. Perhaps people become jealous seeing such a great man - such humbleness, such intelligence, such sharpness, such...
... doors of hell open. Now you can cut. Cut the head off - this is where the doors of hell open." You cannot kill such a man. The master remained the same as he was - but the king changed. He could see the point: that it is anger, it is hatred which open the doors of hell. Hell is not some place somewhere; it is your psychology, it is your mind - a certain conditioning. He put the sword back into...
... them. I don't care about them; my concern is to create a quality of consciousness in thousands of people so that existence itself would like to protect them. Existence is compassionate. And I have already got enough people. No nuclear weapons can kill their spirit, no nuclear weapons can kill their love, no nuclear weapons can kill their goodness of the heart. Existence is on my side, not on the side...
... wars are fought by men but suffered by women. Somebody's son dies, somebody's husband dies, somebody's father dies, somebody's brother dies... Men fight the war, but the woman is the real sufferer. You will be surprised to know that whenever an army invades a country, they kill men and they rape women. That is very strange. Even then, there is a difference. They kill the man... But they are full of...
... sannyasins will be in support and millions of other people who have just a little bit of intelligence will be in support. Just leave the politicians. If they want they can have a wrestling match, a boxing match, do to each other whatsoever they want to do. "Kill each other, we don't care!" Let their fighting instinct be satisfied. The president of America can have a wrestling match with the...
... consciousness has to be aroused, so that soldiers - even if they are SOLDIERS - should go to war just to have a chit-chat with the other party and come back... and let us see what happens. There is no need to shoot anybody, there is no need to kill anybody. You can play cards, you can do anything for the whole day and come back by the evening. Man has to become alert that war is so ugly, that it does not suit...
..., but ready to kill and destroy you. Science has taken the attitude of hatred, and through that, science goes on fighting. If you fight, you miss again. Philosophy theorizes, and misses. Science fights, and misses. How can you live if from the very beginning your whole attitude is based on enmity? A scientist lives a desert life. He may get the Nobel prize award, but LIFE never awards him. Life never...
... or later somebody will come and try to fix shoes on the legs, and you will kill the snake! Art is trying to put legs on the snake. There is no need - life in the raw is tremendously beautiful, it is utterly wonderful. To enjoy it nothing is lacking. The more you decorate it, the more false it becomes. It becomes like the painted face of a woman. I have heard one anecdote. It happened that one saint...
... absolute, the man of religion simply feels that he doesn't know anything. He is not an expert. So if you find anybody expert in religion, know well he is not a religious man. He may belong to the false discipline of theology. Theology is the false coin which tries to deceive people that it is a religion. Christianity died because of theology; too much theology suffocated it. The Jews could not kill Jesus...
... out of your coffin and run as fast as you can from all your experts; otherwise they will kill you. They have already killed you. They will bury you. If you want to be alive, listen to life, not to knowledge. If you want to be alive, listen to your own heart. What a foolish man that man must have been who asked the expert to decide! Remember, your own HEART is the only judge. No other judge exists...
... mother. A passerby asks a boy, "Son, can you please tell me what time it is?" "Yes, of course," replies the boy, "but what do you need it for? It changes continuously!" A new transit sign was put in front of the school. It read: "Drive Slowly. Do Not Kill a Student!" The following day there was another sign under it scribbled in a childish writing: "Wait for...
... knife to kill me. He could not tolerate the mirror. He had listened to me for only three, four days, but he became so agitated because what I was saying showed his fanaticism, showed his Hindu chauvinistic attitude, and it became intolerable for him. Jesus became intolerable to the Jews for the simple reason that he was showing their faces. People are carrying ugly faces and without mirrors they...
... come from a small village, Giovanni had never been a train in his life. So one day he decided to go and see one. Standing on the rail he heard the train whistle, "Tooo-tooo!" Before he knew what hit him, the train was upon him and knocked him off the rail. The last thing he could remember was flying through the air. When he gained consciousness, Giovanni found himself laid up in the...
... jumped up, rushed to the kitchen, grabbed the new kettle and smashed it on the floor, kicking it several times. "What the hell are you doing?" cried out his wife. "These things!" shouted Giovanni, "You've got to kill them while they're young!" Atulyo, it is good that in the very beginning you have asked this question that "I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANYTHING...
... by and by they became frightened and scared of this man. They had to kill him, there was no other way. They must have felt relieved when they killed Jesus. They must have felt a stillness descending, because this man had been creating a chaos. This man had been creating such turmoil. He had to create it, because only out of chaos are stars born, and only out of chaos and pain and anguish is a new...
..., money, greed, jealousy, ego, and a thousand and one things. Drop those life-lies, come, follow me. Follow the true, follow the real. Truth liberates. But in the beginning, it is painful. Rather than change themselves, people killed Jesus. Rather than killing their own egos, they found it easier to kill this man. Nobody is responsible, in fact. Jesus had to destroy their illusions, and in their sleep...
... be possible; there would only be enemies in the world. Just think what you have been thinking about your lover: just a little anger, and you would like to kill him. If people could watch each other's minds, you would be completely violated; there would be fear. The man was afraid. These people were asking for the miracles to happen. It had happened, but they were not ready. Because, to see a...
... eternal. But don't be bothered about Christianity much. Jesus has been murdered twice. Once he was murdered in Jerusalem by Jews, but they could not murder him. He survived. After the third day he resurrected. Then he was murdered in Rome, in the Vatican. And they murdered him more efficiently, of course, because they knew that this man had once come out of death. Jews crucified him not knowing that...
... it? Plucking it means destroying it, killing it - it is murder! Nobody has thought about Tennyson's poetry as murder - but it IS murder. How can you destroy something so beautiful? But that's how our mind functions; it is destructive. It wants to possess, and possession is possible only through destruction. Remember, whenever you possess something or somebody, you destroy something or somebody. You...
..., desire dies on its own accord. This is the existential experience of all those who have become awakened. I am a witness to it - I say to you not because Buddha says so: I say to you because this is my own experience too. Watching desire, slowly slowly desire dies on its own accord. You don't kill it, you don't fight with it, you don't condemn it, because if you condemn it slips, dives deep into your...
... were dangerous, rebellious, but he had not acted in any unjust way; so the court gave him a last alternative: If you promise the court that never again will you teach to people what you call truth, then you can be pardoned. Socrates said: It is better that you kill me. Because that is my whole profession - to talk about truth, my whole habit, I cannot drop that, it is better I should die. He was not...
... different energy; it becomes love. But this has to be YOUR understanding. So WATCH. When you are attached to a person, or you feel you love - just watch: Are you possessive? If you are possessive you are trying to kill the person, because no person can ever be possessed, only things can be possessed, not persons. How can you possess an alive person? You can possess a house, you can possess a car, you...
... cannot possess a human being. How can you possess a child or a husband or a wife or a beloved? No. The very effort to possess says that you are trying to kill the person and change the person into a commodity, change the person into a belonging, a possession. And all lovers go on doing this. That's why there is so much conflict. Love is always - the so-called love of course - always a continuous fight...
... wild; when she fights she follows no rules, she simply fights. That's why whenever you are arguing with a woman you will always be defeated, because she follows no rules of the game, there is no logic in it; she jumps from one point to another with no visible link! Men have created all the wars because man is madder. After every ten years a great world war is needed. It relaxes. When man can kill...
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