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... it again and again. Even by his own master, Mansoor was told, "Stop asserting 'ANAL HAQ, I am God, I am truth!' because people are very fanatical, they will kill you." Mansoor said, "That is acceptable, they can kill me. But what is happening in me is so self-evident - even if the whole world is against me it won't make any difference at all. I will still declare 'ANAL HAQ, I am...
..., exceedingly good. But all depends on your interpretations. It was a typical Holy Roller revival service, and the minister had just appealed to the pent-up audience to "hit the sawdust trail". One buxom old dame who had been quivering convulsively all evening suddenly sprang to her feet and yelled, "Last night I was in the arms of the Devil, but tonight I am in the arms of the Lord!" A...
... a QUEST. It is not curiosity, not an intellectual inquiry, it is an existential thirst. Think of a man lost in a desert, thirsty. It is not an intellectual question - he is not worried about the components of water. If you start giving him a long discourse on the element water, on its chemistry, how it is composed, and you try to explain to him the formula of H2O, he will jump on you and kill you...
... ALL OF YOURSELF TO HIS DOOR: BRING ONLY A PART, AND YOU'VE BROUGHT NOTHING AT ALL. Another tremendously pregnant statement. Man is an organic unity. You cannot dissect man; if you dissect, you kill him. If you dissect a rose flower to find out where the beauty resides in it, you will destroy the flower and you will never find its beauty. Beauty is an organic unity; you cannot find it by dissection...
... participation, beauty is known. Beauty is an organic unity. So is your consciousness an organic unity. Nothing has to be discarded. If you discard something, you will be half - and the half will not be accepted. In Afghanistan there is a folk tale, a folk story, a beautiful story. The Afghans believe that you have to die complete - they don't like to be operated upon. If the doctor says, "Remove a kidney...
... THE WOMAN FOUND A DISCIPLE OF THE SHEIK AT THE DOOR. IN HIS HAND WAS A PACKET FROM THE MASTER. SHE OPENED IT, AND SAW THAT IT CONTAINED A GLASS BOTTLE, HALF FULL WITH THREE LAYERS OF PACKED SAND - BLACK, RED AND WHITE - HELD DOWN BY A WAD OF COTTON. ON THE OUTSIDE WAS WRITTEN: 'REMOVE THE COTTON AND SHAKE THE BOTTLE TO SEE WHAT YOU ARE LIKE.' SHE TOOK THE WADDING OUT AND SHOOK THE SAND IN THE BOTTLE...
... CONTAINED A GLASS BOTTLE, HALF FULL WITH THREE LAYERS OF PACKED SAND - BLACK, RED AND WHITE - HELD DOWN BY A WAD OF COTTON. ON THE OUTSIDE WAS WRITTEN: 'REMOVE THE COTTON AND SHAKE THE BOTTLE TO SEE WHAT YOU ARE LIKE.' SHE TOOK THE WADDING OUT AND SHOOK THE SAND IN THE BOTTLE. THE DIFFERENT COLOURED GRAINS OF SAND MIXED TOGETHER, AND ALL THAT SHE WAS LEFT WITH WAS A MASS OF GREYISH SAND. Sadik is trying...
..., love is renunciation. When you love you are ready to give all. By giving, you become white. Intellect is very aggressive, always in a fighting mood - argumentative; hence the colour red. Action is the lowest - body-rooted. But all these three doors are there. There were three layers of sand in the bottle; the bottle was half full. And the Master said, 'Remove the wad, shake the bottle and see what...
... think of anything else so he just closed his eyes and sat in a Buddha ASANA, absolutely like a statue. And Rinzai laughed, hit him hard on the head and said, 'You fool! Get out from here! We have enough Buddhas. Can't you see in the temple?' Rinzai used to live in a temple which was known as the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple. There were ten thousand statues. He said, 'Look, we have ten thousand fools...
... one who has killed his life because that is the simplest way to kill his desire. But he is dead. These are the three kinds of sleepy people and these are the three kinds of NAFS. You have to watch your own - what kind of NAFS YOU have. If you are a hostile, be happy, things are easier. If you are a phony, be happy, things are a little more difficult but still possible. If you are a zombie then still...
... disbelief. If you want to know the truth, you need not have anything between you and the truth, you have to remove all furniture - the furniture of the mind. You have just to see. Your eyes have to be completely unclouded. Simab: 'IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT GOOD FISH AND YOU THINK THAT IT IS A BAD CAKE, YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND LESS...' - because your understanding is wrong, upside-down. It is a fish and you...
.... This heat is very very friendly to you, this heat simply shows you: Do something, inside there is a crisis - and if you treat the symptom you will kill the patient. Putting ice on his head won't do. Giving him a cold shower won't help. It is destructive, because it will give a false coolness on the surface. But how, just by giving a cold shower, can you hope that the inner turmoil and the inner fight...
... in the germs will stop? - they will continue and they will kill you. The fool is always treating the symptoms. The wise man looks to the root, to the very cause. He doesn't try to cool down the body, he tries to change the root cause of why the body is becoming hot. And when that root is changed, the cause is changed, the cause is treated, the temperature comes down by itself. Temperature is not...
... a civilization, a society, a culture, where animal situations no longer exist - but deep inside the mechanism remains the same. Whenever you are in a situation when you feel somebody is going to be aggressive to you, somebody is going to hit you, insult you, do some harm, immediately the body comes into the situation: it releases poisons in the bloodstream, your temperature rises high, your eyes...
... thieves are born not made. But is this a way to teach? If I stay alive I will kill this old man! I will go home and cut his head off immediately!" He was really angry - anybody would have been in his situation - but there was no point in being angry. Right now something had to done and he could not think of anything. The mind simply stopped. That's what meditation is: the mind simply stops. It...
... was the parrot in his cage. As the cart moved along the rough road it occasionally hit a hole in the road. Each time a hole was hit, the parrot's cage fell off and someone would rush to pick it up. Then the cage was placed back on top of the huge pile of furniture. By the fifth fall, the parrot was very irritated. When he fell again the sixth time he exclaimed in frustration while frantically...
... to his disciples,'If you utter Buddha's name, go and rinse your mouth immediately.' Joshu also used to say,'If you meet the Buddha on the way, kill him immediately.' And he used to worship Buddha every day. Ordinarily Zen looks puzzling, but it is clear-cut. It is following Buddha. When Joshu says,'If you meet the Buddha on the way kill him,' he is a right disciple because that was Buddha's...
... are going. Have compassion on us.' Buddha opened his eyes and said,'APPO DEEPO BHAVA. Be a light unto yourself, Anand, nobody can be a light for you.' When Joshu says,'Kill the Buddha if you meet him on the way,' he is a true follower of Buddha. In Zen, following is very, very delicate. Great intelligence will be needed if you want to be a follower of Zen. It is very easy to be a Christian or a...
..., so you cling? Because you cannot be alone you use this person so as not to be alone. Then you are afraid. If the person dies or moves somewhere else or falls in love with someone else then you will kill this person and you will say, 'I was so much attached.' Or you may kill yourself and you will say, 'I was so much attached that I cannot live without her or without him.' It is sheer foolishness. It...
... is going to cool down completely then too it is difficult to see that a stampede will be created. You are so lazy you will say, 'Tomorrow? Tomorrow never comes.' And you may start living even more madly because, 'Tomorrow? Maybe this man is right.' So whatsoever you have not done up to now, do it. You were thinking about murdering a man -- murder. Or you were thinking about kidnapping a woman...
... easily. And if you go deeply into somebody, somebody else will go deeply into you also -- it is always proportionate. If I go very deep in you the only way is to allow you also to go that deep in me. It is a give and take, it is a sharing. Then one may get entangled too much, and it will be difficult to escape and the pain may be much. So people learn how to play safe: just let surfaces meet -- hit-and...
... is no problem for you and nobody is going to kill you because how can anybody kill you when you are already dead? Enter a grave and be finished. Then there is no illness, then there is no anxiety, then there is no problem -- you are out of all problems. But if you are alive, then there are millions of problems. The more alive the person, the more problems there are. But there is nothing wrong in it...
... kill time." Time is killing you and you think you are killing time. Nobody has ever been able to kill time: time kills everybody. And when you tell them to meditate the immediate response is, "But where is the time to meditate?" And it is not that they are consciously saying it; it is a very unconscious reaction. It is not that they are deceiving, they are deceived. It is not that they...
... to live in a prison cell, you are going to do everything possible to get out of it. Society is very much afraid of buddhas - hence the crucifixion of Jesus, the poisoning of Socrates, the murder of Mansoor. Many attempts were made on Gautam Buddha's life. It is strange that man has always been against those who could have helped humanity; you have been against those who would have taken you to the...
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