... garment,' [signify] that a man is not to use cosmetics as women do. R. Nahman said that a nazirite is permitted [to remove the hair of his armpits],6  but this is not the accepted ruling. The Rabbis said to R. Simeon b. Abba: We have seen that R. Johanan has no [hair in his armpits].7  [R. Simeon] said to them: It has fallen out because of his old age. A certain man was sentenced to scourging...

... continues to grow [beyond this] it falls out. Rab asked R. Hiyya whether [it was permitted] to scratch [the armpits to remove the hair]. He replied: It is forbidden. [To the further question] whether he might [scratch] through his garment,13  he replied that it was permitted. Some say that he asked him whether he might [scratch] through his garment during prayers14  and he replied that it was...

... forbidden intercourse. The mere act of putting on the garments is not wrong. At the same time as he shaves his head when he would in any case be unattractive. How is it possible, if the removal is forbidden. As he was stripped to receive the punishment. As the fact that his armpits were unshaven proved. With scissors. Uncomfortably long, and one should be allowed to remove it for the sake of comfort...

... without transgressing the prohibition. Lit., 'Son of princes'. A favourite appellation of Rab, used by his uncle R. Hiyya. I.e. whether he might scratch on top of his shirt, without touching the bare flesh. To remove a source of irritation. It is forbidden to touch the bare skin during prayers. I.e. scratching through a garment is allowed. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Nazir 59b MISHNAH...

... our oath!"' This is similar to what R. Johanan said: What means that which is written, And sore and faithful sicknesses?7  — 'Sore' in their mission and 'faithful' to their oath. Raba son of R. Isaac said to Rab Judah: 'There is an idolatrous shrine in our place, and whenever the world is in need of rain, [the idol] appears to [its priests] in a dream, saying, "Slay a human being to me...

... and I will send rain." They slay a human being to it and rain does come!' He replied, 'Now were I dead, nobody could have related to you a certain dictum of Rab, viz., What means that which is written, Which the Lord thy God hath divided [halak] unto all the peoples under the whole heaven!8  This teaches that He made smooth [hehelik] their words9  to banish [idolaters] from the world. This...

... between you and the ultimate, kill me, destroy me!" The Master has to teach two things: first he has to teach murder - kill your mother and father, kill your teachers, kill your priests - and one day he has to teach you to kill him so that you can go in absolute freedom, so the Master is also no longer a barrier. When for the first time the center speaks to you there is bound to be great turmoil...

... come to you. You have become so engaged with the outer, the voices that come from the outside, parental voices, teachers, priests. One man here seems to be very obsessed with the mother. He again and again goes on asking - the same man who asked the question about Eklavya. Now he also asks the question: "Who is greater, the mother or the Master?" Now he asks: "If the mother says kill...

... the Master, then have I to follow my mother's order? Or if the Master says kill your mother, then whom have I to obey?" He seems to be obsessed with the mother. He will need to kill his mother. That's what Jesus means when he says, "Unless you hate your father and mother and your brothers, you cannot follow me." And there is a case on record of an even stranger depth. A disciple of...

... Buddha was taking leave of him. He was going on a faraway pilgrimage to spread Buddha's word. He touched Buddha's feet, he waited there for his blessing. Buddha blessed him and said to the assembly, "Look, brothers! This is a rare disciple! And what is his rarity? He has killed his mother and father!" He had never said such a thing. And nobody had ever thought that this man could kill his...

..., "Kill your father and mother!" - not literally, but psychologically. And one day the Master will have to say to you, "Now kill me too!" That's what Buddha says. One day he appreciates this man: "Here is a rare sannyasin, a rare BHIKKU, who has killed his father and mother utterly." And on some other day he says, "If you meet me on the way, kill me! If any day I come...

... unaware of how the inner guide conveys its message to you. The outer Master is just a screen on which you project your Khidr. And the outer Master helps you to understand your inner Master. When you have understood the inner Master perfectly, then the outer Master says, "If you meet me on the way, kill me." Now Khidr is saying this to him without even introducing him to what is going to happen...

... Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Question 1: I AM FIFTY, BUT I DON'T YET FEEL REALLY MATURE AND FULLY GROWN UP. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ME? Maybe you have not yet killed anybody. That's a must. If you want to become mature, you have to become a very very skillful murderer. Unless you kill a few persons you will never become mature. You have to kill your parents, you have to kill your...

... teachers, you have to kill your leaders. They are all clamouring inside you, and they don't allow you to become a grown-up person - they go on keeping you childish. they make you a dependant, they don't allow you independence. It happened, a monk was taking leave from Buddha - he was going far away to spread Buddha's message. And when he came to touch his feet, Buddha blessed him and said to his other...

... when I say, when Buddha says, you have to kill your mother and father, that doesn't mean that you have to go and actually kill your father and mother - but the father and mother that you are carrying within you, the idea. Watch, observe, and you will find it. You are going to do something, and suddenly you will hear your mother's voice: 'Don't do it!' You can watch, and you will hear the voice...

... like me... Bodhidharma is a dangerous man. And Zen people have painted his face, very lovingly, in a very dangerous way. He was not like that - not actually, not physically. Physically he was one of the most beautiful men ever - but if you come across a picture of a Bodhidharma you will start getting scared. If you look into the eyes of Bodhidharma he looks like a murderer, he is going to kill you...

... waste time any more. Kill immediately all the impressions inside you. Wash your inside of all old tapes, unwind your mind. And start living your life, from this moment, as if you don't know, as if nobody has taught you anything - fresh, clean, from abe. And you will see maturity coming very soon - and without maturity life is not worth anything. Because all that is beautiful happens only in a mature...

... some operation.' The doctor said, 'But what do you mean? For what? Have you gone mad?' She said, 'Anything will do - remove my tonsils, or remove my appendix, anything will do. But I am tired of listening to other people's stories about their operations. Whenever I meet a woman, she goes on talking about how her tonsils have been removed, and I have to listen to the whole story. Somebody's appendix...

... has been removed... and the whole story. And I have nothing to talk about. Remove anything whatsoever, let me also have something to talk about.' People talk about their miseries and feel very good. Because the more they have miseries, the more they are: They exaggerate their miseries. You can see it in yourself - when you talk about your misery you exaggerate it, you make it look bigger, you...

... pillow. Two lions walked over to her and started licking her face. her neck, her breasts. The owner turned to his lion tamer still nursing his wounded arm and asked, 'Why can't you do that?' 'I can,' the man answered, 'if you'll just remove the lions.' Why are you waiting? Are you waiting for the lions to be removed? then you will talce sannyas? Then it will be pointless. Yes, it is risky, to become a...

...-thought. That's what meditation is. A Ch'an story describes how the Abbot Hui-ming approached Hui-neng, the sixth patriarch, begging for the doctrine. The patriarch said: 'For the moment, concentrate your mind, not letting your thoughts dwell either on good or evil.' Hui-neng, is just sitting there with his staff, ready to hit. And he says to Hui-ming, 'Just close your eyes. For the moment, concentrate...

... or bad, I am clean of judgement.' Must have been a rare man, this Ming himself - must have been meditating. He was a monk, a sannyasin, may have been meditating for years - otherwise it is not so easy. And you cannot deceive a Zen master; you cannot just pretend, 'Yes, I have attained.' Immediately your head will be hit hard. A Zen master does not believe in politeness, a Zen master does not...

... were ready to understand the revolution and participate in it. He had to kill to remove all obstacles from within, because he was surrounded on all sides by enemies ready to enter the country and finish it. If he had had to face both the enemies, inside and outside, there would have been no possibility for that experiment ever to succeed. And the people he killed... don't think they were individuals...

... atheist than the theist. The atheist is in every way ready, he just has to be hit on the right point. He has no God, he has nothing to cling to. In the communist ideology he is left absolutely alone. That's what is missing in communist ideology: it cannot fill people's hearts, it cannot nourish their beings; hence the communists are going to be first to rise in consciousness. The capitalist has too much...

.... It is not to kill, it is to bring life to those who are living almost as if they are dead. It is bringing awareness to those who are behaving like somnambulists, walking in their sleep, talking in their sleep, not knowing exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it. I want people to be so awake that their whole consciousness goes to the deepest part of their being, and also to the highest...

... throw their guns and sit down and share jokes! And when somebody is telling a joke, can you kill him? When he is bringing laughter to you, can you destroy him? Every man now is responsible to create a buddhafield around himself, an energy field that goes on becoming bigger and bigger. Create as many vibrations of laughter, joy, celebration, as possible; dance, sing, let the whole of humanity by and by...

... ecstasy, your meditation, will create a tremendous force which will be far higher because it is life-affirmative. Your religions are life-negative. Your politicians are life-negative. Your religions prepare you for beyond life, not to live here joyously. And your politicians create weapons to kill you. Politicians kill you and priests console you: "Don't be worried. After your death you will be...

... -- three generations of one family -- amongst the three they killed one hundred million people for no purpose. And you don't bother about these people. How many people did Napoleon kill? How many people did Alexander kill? And how many people has the Catholic church killed? -- you don't bother about it -- and for no reason! Stalin was not killing for any personal reason, and he was not killing those who...

... absolutely right end. There are times when you have to use means which are apparently wrong -- violence, murder. But what can you do with this humanity? If you are in power you will suddenly realize that the only way is to put people back to their senses. When one person is killed, a hundred persons absolutely understand that "this is a difficult problem, keep quiet." Those one million people...

... you were not worried then. Somebody else was being hit and you were enjoying. Now it is your turn. Let others enjoy! I am against every kind of prejudice. This is just a prejudice. If you understand the practicality of it you will not be against it. Theoretically you can go on and on thinking about it: "One million individuals..." Forget that word -- there is rarely an individual. One...

... dinner in a restaurant, it takes money. Sex is free. So everywhere you kill, India is ready to receive! From four hundred million people, just forty years ago, today there are more than nine hundred million people. It seems every year, ten million people are added. By the end of this century the population will have gone beyond one billion people. From where are all these people coming? Richer...

... some day, at some point, you are going to get it. How can you escape? I will go on hitting you from every angle, poking you from every possibility, into every rib. I don't care whether you are getting fractures or not, I will go on hitting you. My hits are more subtle than those of the Zen people. Their hits are more primitive. So whenever you get upset and disturbed, remember, it is a hit. Just take...

... a shower and sit down to meditate. No need to think about it, it was just a hit to wake you up. My speaking to you is not that of an orator or that of a philosopher. My talking to you is that of a master who knows how to disturb you. And your function is not to be disturbed whatever happens, whatever I say. I may call Jesus a crackpot, don't be worried. Just enjoy and have a good shower if some...

... trouble arises... because what have I to do with Jesus? My concern is with you! If I see somewhere in your head Jesus lurking, then I immediately hit Jesus. I am hitting you. What concern have I with Jesus? In fact, nobody knows whether this fellow ever was there or not. But when I talk about Stalin, don't get worried. I have nothing to be concerned with Stalin. He is not my disciple, you are! And you...

... turns back to watching the movie. Five minutes pass, and Martino is bored again. "Hey-a Guiseppe!" he whispers. "I give-a you two thousand lira if you hit-a the bald-a guy again!" Guiseppe takes the money, stands up and hits the bald-headed man -- BONK! -- on the head. The bald man spins around and is just about to climb over the back of his seat, when Guiseppe says, "Hey-a...

...!" whispers Martino. "I give-a you ten thousand lira if you hit-a the man with the bald-a head again!" Guiseppe puts the money into his pocket, gets to his feet, and hits the bald head -- SMACK! -- with his hand. The man spins around in his seat. "Hey-a! Francesco!" says Guiseppe. "You know, downstairs there is a guy that looks just- a like you!" One day, Joseph...

... shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast].5  A man excludes a minor; [that] lieth with a beast — whether it be young or old; he shall surely be put to death — by stoning. You, by stoning; but perhaps one of the other deaths decreed in the Torah is meant? — It is here said, [and] ye shall kill [the beast]; and it is stated elsewhere, But thou shalt surely kill...

..., what is his penalty? Death! Will you slay him twice? It has been taught likewise: He who commits pederasty with his father or with his paternal uncle incurs a twofold penalty. Some say that this does not agree with R. Judah [of the Mishnah].13  But others maintain that this may agree even with R. Judah, and he deduces a twofold penalty by reasoning from the minor to the major, basing his...

... contracted under him.31  Whilst riding, he saw Orpah his [sc. Ishbi-benob's] mother spinning. On descrying him, she broke off [the thread of] the spindle and threw it [the spindle] at him, intending to kill him. Then she said, 'Young man, bring me the spindle.'32  but he threw it on the top of her head instead, and killed her. When Ishbi-benob beheld him, he said [to himself], Now that there are...

... two they will slay me. So he threw David up [in the air] and stuck his spear [into the earth], Saying. 'Let him fall upon it, and perish;' but Abishai pronounced the Divine Name, by means of which David was held suspended between heaven and earth. (Why did not David pronounce it himself? — Because 'a prisoner cannot free himself from prison.') [Abishai] then enquired of him, 'What dost thou...

.... Abishai then [again] pronounced the Divine Name and brought him down36  [from midair, where he was still suspended]. Now Ishbi-benob was pursuing them. When they reached Kubi37  they said to [each other], 'Let us stand [and fight] against him.' [But they were still afraid, and proceeded further.] When they reached Bethre38  they said, 'Can two whelps kill a lion?'39  So they taunted...

...-candles in Rome. V. Ginzberg, Legends. VI, 264, n. 87.] II Sam. XXI, 17. At some distance from where Ishbi stood (Rashi). A town near the border. [Horowitz, Palestine, p. 158 identifies it with El-Kabbu S.W. of Bethar.] Bethar, where the last stand in the Bar Cochba revolt was made (Neubauer, op. cit. 103). Surely not; i.e., 'we are too weak, even combined, to slay him.' The remark was suggested by the...

.... Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. BELOVED BUDDHA, ONCE KAKUSAN WENT TO SEE KYOZAN. RAISING HIS FOOT, KAKUSAN SAID, "THE TWENTY- EIGHT INDIAN PATRIARCHS WERE LIKE THIS, AND THE SIX PATRIARCHS OF THE COUNTRY OF T'ANG WERE LIKE THIS, AND YOU ARE LIKE THIS, AND I AM LIKE THIS!" KYOZAN CAME DOWN FROM THE ZEN SEAT AND HIT HIM FOUR TIMES WITH THE WISTERIA...

.... AT THIS, THE MONK SHOUTED LOUDLY, "KWATZ!" KYOZAN COMMENTED, "THERE IS SUCH A THING AS SAYING 'KWATZ,' BUT TELL ME, WHERE WAS MY MISTAKE?" THE MONK REPLIED, "IN IMPROPERLY POINTING TO AN EXTERNAL OBJECT" - AT WHICH KYOZAN HIT HIM. Maneesha, the new situation, the new responsibility that I have taken upon myself has raised many questions from different quarters. Perhaps...

... people who have known the ultimate flowering of consciousness. KYOZAN CAME DOWN FROM THE ZEN SEAT AND HIT HIM FOUR TIMES WITH THE WISTERIA STAFF. Kakusan was standing on one foot. KYOZAN CAME DOWN FROM THE ZEN SEAT AND HIT HIM FOUR TIMES WITH THE WISTERIA STAFF - the Zen staff. What is the meaning of this? He hit him four times because unless you can remain balanced in times of difficulties, in dark...

... KYOZAN HIT HIM. A man like Kyozan always points inwards. Whatever he does, whatever he says, is always pointing towards the internal. Just on the margin... Gautam the Buddha never went outside the state of Bihar, except once. For forty-two years he went round and round in a small state. It has got its name, Bihar, because of Gautam Buddha's walking continuously around and around. 'Bihar' means the...

..., of greater implications. 'Bhante' means a friend who has gone far ahead - you are also on the path, but somebody is ahead of you. So just to help you drop that old, ugly word 'Bhagwan', I suggest you use the word 'Bhante', at least for the transitory period. And if Anando does not come tomorrow with, "Hello, Bhante!" then the German Zen master, Niskriya, has to hit her three times with...

... India. I was amazed when the wife told me, "You are the only man to whom I can say it: for ten years I have been in love with Vilayat Khan." I said, "What is wrong with that? Vilayat Khan? - nothing is wrong." She said, "You don't understand. I don't mean his sitar, I mean him." I said, "Of course - what would you do with his sitar without him?" She hit her head...

..., "Do you think it is okay? My husband's mother is dead, lying dead in front of me, and I just felt so hungry, and was thinking only of good food: paratha, bhajia, pulau, rasogulla - I have never told anybody," she said to me, "because I thought nobody would forgive me." I said, "There is nothing wrong in it. What can you do? You did not kill her. Anyway one has to start eating...

... Chinese or something. What kind of name is that: I-kling? He can't be an American, and when he shaved his beard off he looked exactly like a Chinese. Just by chance I came across him. I could not even recognize him. I said, "What happened to you?" Gudia reminded me, saying, "It is Shunyo." I said, "It is good that you reminded me, otherwise I would have hit him. He looks exactly...

... ordinarily crude, but these are very refined, and made of glass. Let me describe them to you. They are not like any bells you can conceive of. They are like plates, many plates strung together so that when the wind moves them they hit each other, and the sound is really worth hearing. They are beautiful bells. Once in a while California certainly makes some beautiful things. Otherwise they are all...

... he hit the bell at a certain point, which was marked, and strange, the bell repeated the whole Tibetan mantra Om mani padme hum! I could not believe it when I heard it for the first time. It repeated the mantra so clearly. He said, "You will find this type of bell in every Tibetan monastery, because we cannot repeat the mantra as often as we should but we can at least make the bell repeat the...

... mantra." I said, "Great, so this is not a dumb bell." He said, "Not at all. And if you hit it in the wrong place you will know that it also shouts. It will only repeat the mantra when you hit it in the right spot, otherwise it shrieks and screams, and makes all kinds of noise, but never the mantra." I have been to Ladakh, a country between India and Tibet. Perhaps now Ladakh...

..., you see murder, you see rape - and any movie which has not murder, rape, seems to have no appeal. These are essential ingredients which attract humanity. In the unconscious your desires are waiting to be satisfied, and this is a vicarious way of satisfying them. You become identified with the murderer or perhaps with the murdered. You become identified with the rapist or with the raped. And a little...

... difference to it. Whether you kill somebody or you just kill a teddy bear, it doesn't matter. But killing has to be done. In many primitive societies even today they sacrifice to their gods cows made of mud - and with great celebration. And they sacrifice other animals - even men - but they are all made of mud. And the strangest thing about these primitive societies is: there is no violence, people don't...

... you insult somebody and it has to be settled consciously, it is impossible to have any violence. People are utterly simple. The unconscious simply needs fake objects to get rid of its garbage. There is no need to kill anybody; you can kill a statue, you can kill a photograph, you can burn a photograph - and feel at ease. And slowly, slowly, whatever comes in your dreams or in your waking hours from...