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... that the people we respect, we almost kill. We don't allow them to be human - if they are human they lose their respectability. So our saints are almost dead; only then can we give them respect, which we think is divine. But it is not respect for the divine, it is respect for the dead. I am absolutely against all life-negative attitudes - and respect for the divine has been life-negative. To make it...
...;and we don't want Zorba to be killed." The Buddhists are afraid that Zorba will kill the Buddha; the atheists are afraid that Buddha will kill the Zorba - because this is how our whole mind is conditioned. And I want to have a breakthrough of all this conditioning, to come out of it and be respectful to life. Reverence for life is the only respect for the divine, because there is nothing more...
... divine than life itself. Anything other than life is going to be dead, and there is no point in being respectful to the dead. It is dangerous, because your respect is going to kill your own livingness, your own qualities of life. At least it is going to poison them: you will feel a certain condemnation of yourself. If your respect is for the dead, then you cannot be fully alive. So let me make it clear...
... because there is nobody to tempt him. It is strange that God goes on allowing the devil to influence people. And the devil is more influential than God himself, because there is a majority of sinners, and rarely... a very small minority of saints. So God does not seem to be as convincing as the devil. But God cannot kill the devil, because in killing the devil he will be committing suicide. He cannot...
... life. Together there will be depth, and there will be playfulness - and life and love and celebration. So you need not be afraid of meditation; it will not kill your experience of rasa, it will enhance it. And your experience of rasa, juice, will enhance your meditativeness. Never be afraid of opposites. Don't choose one; that's where man has got into trouble. Choose both together and you will remain...
... play music, then I cannot enjoy a joke." This is sheer stupidity: the Buddha becomes more and more sensitive. Meditative awareness does not kill your experience of juice, rasa, it deepens it - although it is going to be difficult for the world to accept. But there is no need for any recognition. If you are fulfilled and whole, that's what is needed. And if both are there - the Zorba and Buddha...
.... Confucius - and the whole of China is influenced by Confucius' thinking - believes that there is no soul in a woman, she is only body. Killing a woman is not a murder. So for thousands of years in China, if somebody killed his own wife it was not a crime. It was just as if you want to destroy your chair, your furniture, or anything that belongs to you; you possess it, it is yours - exactly as the woman is...
... yours. You are the possessor; you can kill her. There was no law in China to prevent a husband from killing his wife. And there was no punishment either, because the woman was a thing, not a being. And Confucius is thought to be one of the wisest men in the world. Now, what kind of wisdom is this? He is the founder of Confucianism, but all that Confucius has done is to confuse the human mind and...
... where a woman was sitting before. So they carry two things: a small brush with which they clean the place - as if with a brush you can remove the vibrations - then they spread their small mattress that they are carrying with them, always carrying - you cannot touch it, you are not allowed to touch it - and then they will sit on it. I have asked these monks, "If you are really a little bit alert...
... father was very sick and he would not let me go. So I had to stay and the hospital was just five minutes walk from the temple, so whenever I had time I would knock on the door and the priest would hit his head with his hand and he would say, "I have told you again and again that for you, this temple is closed forever." The man who had made it said, "I wanted to meet you. I can tell the...
... matter at all, it is his doing; he should be worried and concerned about it. As far as I am concerned, I have remained exactly the same. He can come again and be my bodyguard. Nobody else will accept him as a bodyguard, because that is the easiest place from which to kill a man. Just now Indira Gandhi has been assassinated by her own bodyguards. Three bodyguards shot her - eight bullets, creating...
... sixteen wounds, because all the bullets passed through her chest, belly, from the back to the other side. And if the bodyguards want to kill, that is the easiest and the safest place from which to kill a person. But if Shiva comes back and wants to be my bodyguard, I will be immensely happy to have him. It does not matter. He has to take responsibility for whatsoever he is doing, whatsoever he has done...
... simply committing slow suicide. That "no" has been too heavy; he really loved the woman." They moved on, and in the second cell there was a man rolling around like a maniac, hitting the walls, beating the bars, shouting as loudly as he could, "Just leave me! I want to do one thing only - to kill that woman!" And the superintendent said to Alfred Adler, "You will be...
... surprised now, really surprised. The woman who refused the first man - and he has gone mad because he could not conceive of his life without her - is the same woman this man married. And just within six months of marriage things have gone so poisonous that he wants to murder her. He has made efforts to murder her; he was caught by the police and forced into the madhouse." Alfred Adler, in his...
... autobiography, remembers the incident, and he said, "What kind of love is this? They both loved, but the first one, to whom she said no, still loves her; and the second one, to whom she said yes, wants to kill the woman. That is his only goal in life. He said, "Any day, someday you will let me out. My only project is to kill that woman and surrender myself to the police. You can shoot me, you can...
... hang me, whatever you want to do - I am no longer interested. But let me do at least one thing first - kill that woman. She destroyed my peace, my life, my joy, everything."" Love is a blind force. The only successful lovers have been those who never succeeded in getting their beloveds. All the great stories of lovers: laila and Majnu, Shiri and Farhad, Soni and Mahival ... these are the...
... leaves have sprouted out of the earth. Rejoice, and in every way support it, but don't try to hurry up the process. There are processes which cannot be hurried - you can kill them. They are so delicate that they grow only on their own. You can support them, you can put around them everything that they need, but leave them absolutely to themselves. You are exactly in a right space. Enjoy your tears...
... worthy. This should be the only approach of a religious heart. Your question was raised before Gautam Buddha, because he was going to initiate a murderer into sannyas -- and the murderer was no ordinary murderer. Rudolf Hess is nothing compared to him. His name was Angulimal. Angulimal means a man who wears a garland of human fingers. He had taken a vow that he would kill one thousand people; from each...
...: either I will change him, and I cannot miss this challenge; or I will provide him with one finger so that his desire is fulfilled. Anyway I am going to die one day. Giving my head to Angulimal will be at least of some use; otherwise one day I will die and you will put me on the funeral pyre. I think that it is better to fulfill somebody's desire and give him peace of mind. Either he will kill me or I...
... will kill him, but this encounter is going to happen; you just lead the way." The people who used to follow Gautam Buddha, his close companions who were always in competition to be closer to him, started slowing down. Soon there were miles between Gautam Buddha and his disciples. They all wanted to see what happened, but they didn't want to be too close. Angulimal was sitting on his rock...
... somebody else. I can wait; there is no hurry. If I can manage nine hundred and ninety-nine... it is only a question of one more, but don't force me to kill YOU." Buddha said, "You are absolutely blind. You can't see a simple thing: I am not moving towards you, you are moving towards me." Angulimal said, "This is sheer craziness! Anybody can see that you are moving and I am standing on...
... full of love. So there was a contradiction: the hand was holding the sword to kill the person, and his heart was saying, "Put the sword back in the sheath." Buddha said, "I am ready, but why is your hand shaking? -- you are such a great warrior, even kings are afraid of you, and I am just a poor beggar. Except the begging bowl, I don't have anything. You can kill me, and I will feel...
... him, who will initiate him? And I love the man, I love his courage. And I can see tremendous possibility in him: a single man fighting against the whole world. I want this kind of people, who can stand against the whole world. Up to now he was standing against the world with a sword; now he will stand against the world with a consciousness which is far sharper than any sword. I told you that murder...
... pensions so all the red indians have become lazy -- nobody works, there is no need to work, and they get so much money that they simply gamble, fight, murder, rape and drink... they are all drunkards. Now this is destroying them psychologically. And they go on reproducing more children because more children mean more money. Each children brings more pensions. Perhaps this is the first instance in the...
... the phones going out of the commune or coming in the commune, just out of fear because she has stolen the money, she has made a small gang and then this is how crime leads to more crime. Now she was afraid of her own husband because he knew that she has stolen fifty-five million dollars. She tried to kill him, to poison him in a cup of coffee. She tried to kill my personal physician -- four times...
... thinking of killing the person so she can put her own person as my physician, in case she wants to kill me. Then that man will be able to poison me. So she has committed many crimes. She has tried to kill one of the judges of the Wasco County because he was voting against some of the proposals that she was making, she wanted to finish him. She tried to kill the attorney of another county -- Jefferson...
.... Without any dictatorship we dissolved the class differences of poor and the rich. Just by stopping the circulation of money in the commune.... You may have millions of dollars but they were useless. We had not a single beggar, nobody unemployed and for four years in the commune no rape, no murder, no suicide, no theft. This commune had a judge sitting useless for four years. The commune has a police...
.... We were ten, and now we are only nine." The man said, "I can find your tenth man. You are right, you used to be ten, but there is a condition." They said, "We will accept any condition, but our friend...." He said, "It is not a very big condition, it is a simple condition. I will hit on the first man's head; he has to say "one." Then I will hit on the second...
... person's head two times; he has to say "two." Then I will hit on the third person's three times; he has to say "three." As many times as I hit, the person has to speak the number." They said, "If this is the way to find the lost friend, we are ready." So he enjoyed hitting very much, and he hit them in turn. When he had hit the tenth man ten times he said "ten...
... hara. And once the route is created, it becomes more difficult to move it upwards. Hara is equally parallel to the sex center, so the energy can move very easily. It was a great discovery by the Japanese: they found that there was no need to cut your head off, or shoot your brains out to kill -- they are all unnecessarily painful; just a small knife forced exactly at the hara center, and without any...
... Fulfillment Chapter #: 1 Location: pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Archive Code: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. OUR BELOVED MASTER, DOGEN WROTE: TO STUDY THE WAY IS TO STUDY THE SELF. TO STUDY THE SELF IS TO FORGET THE SELF. TO FORGET THE SELF IS TO BE ENLIGHTENED BY ALL THINGS. TO BE ENLIGHTENED BY ALL THINGS IS TO REMOVE THE BARRIERS BETWEEN ONE'S SELF...
.... If the doors are open, nothing is said and everything is understood. When Dogen became a master in his own right, when Ju-ching declared to him, "Now, no more play the role of being a disciple," at that moment he hit Dogen and said, "You have come to understand; now be compassionate on the blind humanity. Now don't go on sitting by my side. You are a buddha. Just because you were...
... self - only a witnessing, a silent watchfulness - you are enlightened by all things. TO BE ENLIGHTENED BY ALL THINGS IS TO REMOVE THE BARRIERS BETWEEN ONE'S SELF AND OTHERS. To be enlightened simply means: neither I exist nor you exist. What exists is something transcendental to I and thou, something more, something bigger and higher. THEN THERE IS NO TRACE OF ENLIGHTENMENT .... In such a small...
... completely that they are enlightened because there is no need to remember it. Their masters have hit them on their heads. The Zen stick came into existence for very certain purposes. One of the purposes was that somebody who has become enlightened and is still sitting silently has to be hit to be made aware, "Now go away! Get on! Pick up your rented bicycle! What are you doing here?"...
... they were leaving and asked him, "Can you do something, for God's sake?" He said, "I never do anything without money. I don't know God or God's sake - just money." A real businessman's son. The Catholic priest said, "Okay. I will give you a quarter dollar if you keep the old man awake. Whenever he snores wake him up - just hit him with your knee." He said, "In...
... advance, because I don't do anything without the money in advance. And if the old man comes to know, there is going to be trouble. So better give me the advance first, I am taking a risky job." The priest had to give him a quarter dollar. The next Sunday morning, when the old man started snoring, the little boy hit him again and again to wake him up. The old man said, "What has happened to you...
... priests, the rabbis. Who crucified Al-Hillaj Mansoor? - the Mohammedan imams, the Mohammedan priests. Who made many efforts to kill Gautam the Buddha? - the Hindu brahmins. Many efforts were made to kill him; they could not succeed - that is another matter. Efforts were made to kill Mahavira too... This has been always so. Still today the same is the story; nothing has changed. The priest goes on doing...
.... Of course, it is a religious thing! - God should initiate the woman into the secrets of love. And the god is nothing but a stone statue... Behind the statue is hidden the priest Pouring out his troubles to his great and good friend over a couple of triple martinis, Brad had to confess that things were not going too well at home. "My wife and I just don't hit it off at night," he was...
... people; they are the same people. It is easier to love your enemy, it is far more difficult to love your neighbor. But Jesus says even that: Love your neighbor. This is on one hand. And the same man says: Unless you hate your parents you cannot follow me. Very strange... Buddha goes even a step further. He says: Unless you kill your parents you cannot follow me. Now, Buddha is one of the most non...
...-violent persons in the whole history of humanity, who will not even kill an ant, not even a cockroach, not even a mosquito. And he says: Unless you kill your parents you cannot follow me. What he means is not to be taken literally. He is saying that unless you drop all the conditionings that your parents have put inside you, unless the mother and the father disappear from your inner world totally, you...
... he should leave out an item or two. (What should this be? R. Papa says: The hors d'oeuvre of salted fish.) A woman can put on all her ornaments, but leave off one or two. (What should this be? Rab said: [Not to remove] the hair on the temple.)15 For so it says, If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I remember thee not, if I...
... Israel go their way: it is better that they should err in ignorance than presumptuously.24 - To Next Folio - Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Zeph. II, 1. The English version translates, 'Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together.' Resh Lakish, however, derives it from the word kash, stubble, and translates, 'Remove the stubble from between your own eyes, and...
... afterwards remove it from others.' I.e., has he not tacitly abandoned his right to the intervening space? Whom the law follows in this matter, so that, as usually in a dispute between R. Johanan and Resh Lakish, the law follows the former. In the original width of the street. Since the destruction of the Temple. Which seems to show that where a right has been acquired by prescription, if it once lapses it...
... Hadrianic persecutions when the rite was prohibited in order to remove any suspicion that they were engaged in a religious observance. Others explain the term as denoting the seven days festivities that followed the birth of a child. V. Bergmann. J., M.G.W.J. 1932, 465ff; and cf. Krauss, op. cit. II, 438. The expression 'the week of the daughter', [H] also occurs in Nahmanides' Torath Ha'adam, 35b. This...
... slant serpent and Leviathan the tortuous serpent he created male and female; and had they mated with one another they would have destroyed the whole world.19 What [then] did the Holy One, blessed be He, do? He castrated the male and killed the female preserving it in salt for the righteous in the world to come; for it is written: And he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.20 And also...
... force is in the stays of his body,23 — this refers to the female. There also, [in the case of Leviathan], he should have castrated the male and cooled the female [why then did he kill the female]? — Fishes are dissolute.24 Why did he not reverse the process?25 — If you wish, say: [It is because a] female [fish] preserved in salt is tastier. If you prefer, say...
.... Behemoth eat up daily the grass of a thousand hills. Others render 'sterilised'. Job XL, 16. The previous verse speaks of Behemoth. Cooling would not be effective in preventing their fertility. Kill the male and preserve the female alive. Ps. CIV. 26. Lit., 'way of the earth', Heb. Derek Eretz. [H] proper manners'. That the dry land may be seen. Job XXVI, 12. That of his dead body. Isa. XI, 9. I.e., Sea...
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