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... upside down; I will always be upside up, downside down." This statement gave an idea to a toymaker to make a doll. It is heavy at the bottom, so you throw the doll any way and it always returns to sit in the lotus posture. You push it, throw it, hit it, do whatever you can do, but it represents Bodhidharma - it always settles in a lotus posture. So is the case with bliss: whatever you do to it...
... sex are contemptible, are to be despised. We have had to invent countless degrading names for sex in order to justify our suppression of it. But we have never worried for a moment that these abuses and objections would eventually poison our entire beings. Nietzsche once made a very meaningful statement. He said that although religion had tried to kill sex by poisoning it, that sex was not dead, but...
.... Similarly, the day fighting becomes imperative in the field of religion the possibility of its survival also comes to an end. Thus, at one time it may have been a land of righteousness, but now it is not. Now people who are eager to kill each other have come together on that very field known as the land of righteousness - dharmakshetra. This beginning is really strange. It is strange in the sense that...
... innermost shrine. At the most, I can help it to be born smoothly. At the most, if something goes wrong I can help you to remove the obstacle. But the child has been getting ready in you; I am just a midwife.... Once you have found your child, your direction, then the path is very spontaneous. Blind one, how can you stumble on a straight spontaneous path? Be spontaneous in your own self, and find the way...
... people to become enlightened. If the desire of the seeker is tremendous, then even an unenlightened Master is enough. It is reported about one great mystic, Milarepa: When he went to his Master in Tibet, he was so humble, so pure, so authentic, that other disciples became jealous of him. It was certain that he would be the successor. And of course there was politics, so they tried to kill him. One day...
.... Almost everybody ran out, except four -- they simply went inside their blankets, they refused to move out. They said, "If God wants to kill us, it's okay. If he wants to save us, he will find some way." So those four were accepted as royal guests. They were! It is difficult -- how to decide? Alexander thought that Diogenes was lazy, and Diogenes thought that Alexander was mad. Alexander tried...
... these new strains of cock became exhausted, and he had, after all, cost him five hundred dollars. Ten minutes later Super-cock returned from the stream where the farmer had reluctantly told him that the ducks were. Now the farmer was really angry at Super-cock and told him that he really had to rest or he would kill himself. 'You must have some turkeys? Which way is it to the turkeys?' cried the Super...
... temple, has to be joyous. If you come to a saint and he has no sense of humor, escape from him, beware. He can kill you, he will prove poisonous. If he cannot laugh, then you can be certain that he does not know what truth is. Truth brings a sense of humor; truth brings laughter; truth brings a subtle happiness, for no reason at all. PRAMU-GITA means: joyous for no reason at all. You are sometimes...
... corner of the church with a heap of small, smashed crucifixes. "What on earth are you doing?" he asked furiously. Said the idiot, "Much better to kill them when they are still small!" Remember it: it is much better. Just first try with very small things which you can easily destroy through your awareness. Then great confidence arises, great certainty that"Yes, it works"...
.... It may come, it has to come, but it is not on your mind. You are playing, you are enjoying. That's what Krishna means when he tells Arjuna to leave the future in the hands of the Divine. The result of your activity is in the hands of the Divine, you simply do. This simply doing becomes a play. That's what Arjuna finds difficult to understand, because he says that if it is just play, then why kill...
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