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... Gurdjieff had gone mad. That was his rationalization to avoid seeing the truth, that Gurdjieff was trying to destroy his ego totally. That was the last hit on his head. If he had allowed it he would have become enlightened. He missed the point - and from the last rung of the ladder he missed and fell down. Sometimes it happens: you can miss at the last moment. Then for his whole life Ouspensky was talking...
... and you can also run without a head and do all kinds of things which were not possible before - because of the head. Gurdjieff is right: the false has to be dropped. The false has to cease for the real to be. The second question: BELOVED MASTER, PLEASE NEVER SPEAK AGAINST THE INDIAN MIND BECAUSE I GET SO ANGRY THAT I START THINKING HOW TO KILL YOU. Deva Kumar, people who only think of killing never...
... kill. You can go on thinking; thinkers can't do anything. And why do you get so much disturbed if I speak against the Indian mind? I am against all kind of minds - Indian, German, English, American - and I speak against all kinds of minds, because mind is mind. There is not much difference, just different patterns, different ideas, but the basic structure is the same. Mind means you are not conscious...
... overheard, and then, in a voice that was almost a whisper, he said, "Confidentially and off the record, if you really want to be one of us, there are three things you must do." "Name them," said Rabinowitz. "First," explained the sergeant, "You must drink down a whole quart of our strongest Mount Carmel wine without stopping for a breath. Second, you must kill an Arab...
... to become a sannyasin, but my wife says she will kill herself!" I said, "Let us try, for a change, because I have never seen anybody.... I have one hundred thousand sannyasins all over the world. No wife has yet killed herself, no husband has yet committed suicide, although many have said that." People take these things very seriously. Your wife or your husband may say, "I...
... the point that in this world we come alone, we live alone and we go alone. Yes, we play many games - games of being a husband or a wife, being a friend or an enemy. We play many games because we have to fill the time with something, or else we have to "kill time," as they say, by playing cards, by chess.... And these are all the same kinds of things, nothing more serious. You have seen...
...-nine years," replied the old lady. "Ah, what a beautiful life you must have had," sighed the girl. "And I will bet you never even thought of a divorce." "Well," said grandma, "divorce, no - murder, yes!" Just ask the old people what they have attained, what they have been doing. And if they are true and authentic, if they are sincere, they will tell you...
... ignorant"? Everybody wants to feel that he knows. Ask anybody about God and it is very rare to find a person who will say to you, "I don't know." Very rare... almost impossible. Many will say, "Yes, God is, God exists." And they are ready to fight, to argue, to kill you or be killed, for something that they know not, not at all. And there are a few who will say, "No, there...
... everywhere? But people go on inventing answers. You ask the question and they invent - they have to invent because they cannot accept one thing, that they don't know. A blonde took her dog to the vet who advised her to buy some Nair to remove the excess hair around the Schnauzer's eyes and ears. The blonde entered a pharmacy and asked for the hair remover. "Use it full strength for leg hair,"...
... WHO RULED BY FORCE BEFORE THEY DEPARTED, COUNTLESS MURDERERS WHO EARN ONLY BY MURDER. THERE ARE COUNTLESS SINNERS WHO COMMIT NOTHING BUT SIN, COUNTLESS LIARS WHO LIVE BY THEIR LIES. THERE ARE COUNTLESS BARBARIANS EATING ONLY FILTH BECAUSE FOOD, COUNTLESS FAULT-FINDERS WHO FILL THEIR HEADS WITH SCANDAL. THUS NANAK PONDERS ON THE WICKED AND THE LOW. HOWEVER MUCH I OFFER MYSELF COULD NEVER BE ENOUGH...
... countless methods, truth was lost. THERE ARE COUNTLESS IGNORANT FOOLS AND COUNTLESS WHO ARE BLIND, COUNTLESS THIEVES AND SHIRKERS. THERE ARE COUNTLESS NUMBERS WHO RULED BY FORCE BEFORE THEY DEPARTED, COUNTLESS MURDERERS WHO EARN ONLY BY MURDER. THERE ARE COUNTLESS SINNERS WHO COMMIT NOTHING BUT SIN, COUNTLESS LIARS WHO LIVE BY THEIR LIES. THERE ARE COUNTLESS BARBARIANS EATING ONLY FILTH FOR FOOD...
... the whole distance you are bound to hit the sea bed because then nothing is left of the sea. What can you say with regard to God? For you to say He is boundless you must know Him in his entirety. But at that point all words become meaningless, for the depth has been reached, the ultimate attained. Or you might say you went very far but you did not reach the depth. There, too, you should not use the...
... aware of some horsemen, some troops coming toward him. His mind began to work. Ho thought that they may be robbers, that they may kill him. Or, they may be soldiers of the King and he may be pressed into military service or something. He made himself frightened. And when the horses and their sounds came nearer, he bolted, ran away and jumped into a cemetery, and just to hide from them he lay down in...
... ways. People are playing cards. If you ask them they will say, "We are killing time." The cinema houses are packed. What are people doing there? Killing time! They go to hotels, clubs. What are they doing there? Killing time! But you cannot kill time. Time only can kill you. So no one is now without time. And do not think that time is a limited quantity. Do not think that every day consists...
.... Therefore no matter how much you fill up this room - you may fill it with cement completely - even then the emptiness remains where it was. It cannot move out, it cannot be destroyed. Then supposing we decide to stay within this room, would we have to bring back the emptiness? No, we have simply to remove the things that are in it. The empty space will be there where it was once again. Objects merely hide...
... the empty space. Remove the objects and the empty space appears to view. We also are like that. Emptiness is our nature. It is our religion, it is Tao. We keep on adding things to this emptiness, so much so, that it is completely smothered. It cannot do smothered though. What is meant is, it is hidden from view. Then what is to be done? Lao Tzu says, "Be on guard against this desire of fullness...
... such a man? We use the word 'empty' so that the eye can begin to see emptiness. The day a man throws out everything within him, the day he gives up all planning for perfection and becomes absolutely empty, he becomes perfect. To be freed from incompleteness is to be perfect. This is the actual meaning. One way is to unfold each imperfection and remove it bit by bit and become perfect, another way is...
... kill someone, do I realize that I am only waiting to run a knife through grass? Someone's presence delights me and someone's absence fills me with sorrow. Have I then realized that figures of grass can bring about such a wave of emotions within me merely by their presence or non-presence? Lao Tzu says, "Nature has nothing to do with you. It only knows you as dogs of grass." You do not exist...
... tell you," said the Guru, "whether your answer is yes or no in both the cases this staff shall descend on you. So think first." Rinzai replied, "Let me touch your feet first and let the ritual of the staff be done with. Then we shall talk." Saying thus, he put his head on the fakir's feet and requested him to hit him with the staff. The Guru kept his staff down and said...
..., the disgust, the invectives the mother and daughter expressed against each other. So much so, that I found myself in a fix. I was afraid that if their problem is not solved quickly - they had to return to New York soon - there would be chaos. Then I had to carry out processes to remove all their hatred. There they sat - the mother and daughter - and they said such things to each other as a daughter...
... contradiction is visible and the collaboration on which it actually works is not. Let us examine this from different aspects in order to understand it better. If we were to remove Ravana from the epic of RAMAYANA, nothing would remain of the epic except Rama; and with him alone, it would not be possible to construct the narrative. Rama could have existed on this earth without Ravana, but then the Rama of the...
... that a person who clings to your neck, today and vows that you are aU that means anything to him in the world and life would be meaningless without you, would thrust a knife into you. Logic needs consistency. But here, there is no consistency. How can this very person kill you? But the reality of life is that he can. This is the very depth of life. He who has no relationship with you does not bother...
... to kill you. He is not interested in you. Can you make someone an enemy without first making him your friend? Also, one who becomes your sworn enemy could not have just been a slight acquaintance. The proportion is equal: the greater the friendship, the greater the enmity. Machiavelli, in his book THE PRINCE, has written, "The greater the intimacy, the more cautious you should be of your...
... place where you have centered your desires is perishable. So they say remove your desires from there and fix them on the eternal. Lao Tzu does not suggest changing the direction of your desires. He tells you to eradicate them. Understand this difference well. I am running after wealth. Somebody reasons with me, "What is this madness? What is there in wealth? Tomorrow you will die. And then? Death...
... moment. I desire a palace. When I can fulfil my desire is unknown but in my mind I will begin to live in the palace. Desire is the remedy to remove the distance. Desire is the bridge between me and my goal. The goal is like a rainbow. It is visible but does not exist. He who is filled with desires can never be established in his self. He is always somewhere else, far far away. He can be anywhere but...
.... "Forget what you have done or you will be crushed under the weight of all your good deeds!" Bodhidharma advised him, "We are not crushed by the weight of our sins alone. The burden of virtuous deeds also kill. A load of any kind drowns a man. A man tries to shake off his sins sometime, but he holds on to his good deeds like a vice. These are stones round your neck, oh king! Drop them...
... restless." Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable. We all accept the other and not our own self. If we could...
... hide maybe more and maybe less but clothes cover the body. Clothes can be transparent. Then they will hide the least. Yet they will hide. If a person wishes to be nude, he has to remove his clothes. However transparent the clothes, they have to be removed. Then only the nakedness is revealed. Nature is our intrinsic nakedness. Culture, past impressions, education, are our clothing. These clothes hide...
... removed on the slightest provocation. Such a tradition, such a teaching, which is not a burden on the self and which can be removed at a moment's notice, is a religious teaching. Those teachings that cling to the atman like the skin clings to the body, and which are impossible to remove, are irreligious teachings. A religious teaching is that which also shows you the way to be rid of it. Religious...
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