Search
See
How to Search for an explanation
Found: 3417 articles,
showing 490 - 500
.... Otherwise you remain fast asleep. You are perfectly skillful at doing your things mechanically. Just stand by the side of the road and watch people, and you will be able to see that they are all walking in their sleep. All are sleep-walkers, somnambulists. And so are you. Two bums were arrested and charged with a murder that had been committed in the neighborhood. The jury found them guilty and the judge...
... sentenced them to hang by their necks until dead and God have mercy on their souls. The two bore up pretty well until the morning of the day set for the execution arrived. As they were being prepared for the gallows, one turned to the other and said, "Dam' me if I ain't about off my nut. I can't get my thoughts together. Why, I don't even know what the day of the week is." "This is a Monday...
... simply falls silent; it has no answer for it, no ready-made answer for it. The mind functions in a parrot-like way. That's why Zen masters will hit the disciple sometimes. That is again the same fundamental. Now, when you go to a master you don't expect a buddha to hit you, or do you? When you go to Buddha you go with expectations that he will be compassionate and loving, that he will shower love and...
... put his hand on your head. And this buddha gives you a hit - takes his staff and hits you hard on the head. Now, it is so shocking: a buddha, hitting you? For a moment the mind stops; it has no idea what to do, it does not function. And that nonfunctioning is the beginning. Sometimes a person has become enlightened just because the master did something absurd. People have expectations, people live...
... am talking to my disciples: I am trying to hit them, this way and that. It is all deliberate. When I criticize Morarji Desai it is not so much about Morarji Desai. It is much more about the Morarji Desai in YOU, because everybody has the politician within them. Hitting Morarji Desai I have hit the Morarji Desai in you, the politician within you. Everybody has the politician in them. The politician...
... means the desire to dominate, the desire to be number one. The politician means ambition, the ambitious mind. And when I hit Morarji Desai, if you feel hit and you start thinking, "This man cannot be a really enlightened person, otherwise why should he be hitting Morarji Desai so hard?" you are simply rationalizing. You have nothing to do with Morarji Desai: you are saving your own Morarji...
... been bribed, but when fifty persons see such a thing it is very unexpected if the rumor does not spread. I have met one of the persons who was part of the team, and he said, "This is a truth - but we are poor people, and we are just servants." He said, "It is just like when two armies fight and soldiers kill each other: one party wins, one is defeated, but the name of the victor is...
... the story; you go and kill somebody and all the newspapers are full of it. And what is your history about except these people who have been a nuisance, who have left wounds on human consciousness? This you call history?" I said, "If this is history then it is not for me, because I have a different dimension of history. What you are teaching is really the history of politics. You should...
... something more about these people who; are really the creators; they have put the foundations. But we know only one kind of world, the world where might is right. No, on the second level, right is might. Intelligence believes in finding what is right. There is no need to wrestle with swords or bombs and kill each other, because might does not prove anything right. Do you think that Muhammad Ali boxing...
... with Gautam Buddha... of course he will be the winner - in the first round. There will not be a second round, the first hit will be enough; poor Buddha will be flattened! And seeing the situation he himself will start counting: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. He will not wait for the referee to count. And he will not move from the ground; Lying flat on the ground he will...
... something goes wrong then he will cut off your head. I will unnecessarily be in trouble - you will be gone but I will be in trouble unnecessarily, so it is better to try with a big staff." And I used to know a wrestler too. So I found the wrestler I used to know and told him about this thing. He said, "There is no problem. I will split open that sardar's head into two parts; just one hit, and...
... that's enough." He was a strong man, and when he went to hit Chanchal Singh - just as he raised his hand to hit Chanchal Singh gave a shout, and the staff dropped from the wrestler's hand as if his heart had stopped beating! Whatever happened, his hand lost all its power - just the sound! I said, "How do you make that sound? - because it is nothing special; it can be learned very easily."...
... mind of the person, certain kind of break, a sudden break. But if both persons are egoless then it is very difficult. Then a strange thing is known to happen in Japan, an everyday thing: before you take up your sword to hit the other man, the other man's sword is already ready to defend. It is not taken up after your move, no, but before you have even thought of the move. It is as if in that split...
... second when you think of the move, before your hand makes the move, the thought has reached him and the man is ready to defend. That too happens only if you are absent. Then the sword is not separate from you. You are not doing anything; you are simply there, absent, allowing things to happen. But if both are egoless then it can go on for days. Nobody can hit, even scratch, the other person. This is...
... rupees. He has stolen a little maya, and the judge may be a Vedantin. He has stolen a little illusion -- rupees, diamonds -- and he has to be thrown: for dead diamonds an alive being is to be thrown for five years to rot. Or in deep anger, in a rage, in some mad moment he may have killed. Even the judges go on thinking sometimes to kill. It is difficult to find a human being who has not thought many...
... times in his life to kill somebody. It seems human, the idea. I'm not saying go and kill, and I'm not saying that judges should forgive those who are murderers, no. But a little laughter will help. One man has been murdered: if the judge can laugh a little and the court also can chuckle a little with the judge, it will be difficult for him to send this man to the gallows. Because that is again another...
... murder; and how can you put things right when for one murder the court decides for another murder? Maybe this man needs psychoanalytical treatment. Maybe this man needs to be sent to a monastery to meditate for two years. But not death -- because death.... If it is bad to commit murder, to commit murder in the name of justice is also bad; it cannot become good. But judges are very serious people...
... be blissful, to be ecstatic; the world will be more religious. So when you say, "Sometimes, now, you chuckle in the discourse," I hope I must be becoming holier. Otherwise. there seems to be no other reason. Question 4 VIJAY ANAND WAS A HUNDRED PER CENT SURE THAT HIS FILM 'JAAN HAZIR HAI' WOULD BE A HIT... BECAUSE HIS 'GURU' HAD PREDICTED ITS SUPER SUCCESS.... THE FILM FLOPPED. WILL THE...
.... He changed the pictures: Trotsky was removed; Stain's picture was put instead. And all the old books were destroyed. Trotsky himself had escaped and he was in Mexico, writing history. He was on the last page, when one of the murderers from Stalin hit him on the head with a hammer. Looking at Trotsky's history -- and he was one of the chief characters in the history... Lenin was not a very...
... WERE HIT? YOU WOULD BE HIT BY YOUR FATHER? A: Yes. My father hit me, and he... Q: WITH HIS HAND? A: With his hand. And his whole life he repented for that one hit. Only once... because I had long hairs when I was a small child; I had very long hairs. And my father was in continuous trouble because he was a small shop- keeper, and I was continuously passing through the shop; the house was behind the...
... shop. And everybody will ask, "Whose daughter is this?" That was very much hurting him - - that he has to tell everybody that 'he is my boy, not my daughter'. And one day he became very angry and he said, "This is an unnecessary irritation... and the whole day you are coming in and out. Either you start going through the back door or you cut your hairs." And he hit me. I simply...
... had already reached there, thinking that my father is dead. My father was sitting there, and they said, "What is the matter? I saw your son shaved -- and you are alive!" Then I reached there and he said, "What have you done?" I said, "This is the answer to your hit. If you are against long hairs, you will be half against small hairs" I said, "Let's satisfy you one...
... hundred percent. So I have shaved them completely. And in the future, remember: if you want to hit me, I will not complain about it, but I will respond in my own way." Q: SHOULD CHILDREN DEFY THEIR PARENTS? A: Certainly. If Adam and Eve had not disobeyed God there would have been nothing in the world. Q: WHEN SHOULD CHILDREN OBEY THEIR PARENTS? A: Nobody should obey anybody unless your intelligence...
... CHICAGO? A: I have lived in India which is far worse. Q: AND WERE YOU SAYING THOSE KINDS OF THINGS? A: Yes. I have been saying there and they were trying to kill me. They are responsible because they have accepted religious ideas which make them poor. They have accepted a certain ideology that your poverty is your past life's punishment: in your past life you have committed bad actions -- that's why...
...," SAID RIKO, "AND FEEDS HIM UNTIL HE IS FULL GROWN, HOW CAN THE MAN GET THE GOOSE OUT WITHOUT KILLING IT OR BREAKING THE BOTTLE?" Don't break the bottle -- and the goose has to be taken out -- and don't kill the goose. Now, these are the two conditions to be fulfilled. The koan becomes impossible. The bottle has a small neck; the goose cannot come out from it. Either you have to break...
... the bottle or you have to kill the goose. You can kill the goose, and piece by piece you can take the goose out, or you can break the bottle, and the goose can come out alive, whole. But the condition is the bottle has not to be broken and the goose has not to be killed. The goose has to come out whole and the bottle has to remain whole. Nothing has to be destroyed; no destruction allowed. Now, how...
... beautiful. What he is saying is that the goose has never been in, the goose has always been out. What is he saying, the moment he said, "Riko!"? What happened? Those seven layers of ego disappeared and Riko became aware. The shout was so sudden, the sound was so unexpected. He was expecting a philosophical answer. That's why sometimes the Zen Master will hit you on your head or throw you out of...
... the window or jump upon you or threaten you that he will kill you: he will do something so that those seven layers of ego are immediately transcended and your awareness, which is the center of all, is alert. You are made alert. Now, shouting "Riko!" so suddenly, for no reason at all -- and he has brought a small puzzle to be solved and this Master suddenly shouts "Riko!" -- he...
... sometimes the bottle is also useful. It can be put to a thousand and one uses. The ego can be used if you know that you are not the ego. Then the ego cannot use you, you can use it. And there are methods which will save the bottle and kill the goose -- self-destructive methods are there -- so one becomes more and more unaware. That is what I mean when I say kill the goose: one becomes more and more...
... unaware. Drugs can do that. Drugs have been used in India for thousands of years. They can kill the goose. The bottle remains protected, but the goose is killed. If you take some foreign chemicals inside your being and your nature is not ready to absorb them, by and by you will kill the goose, your consciousness will be gone, you may fall in a coma. The first possibility, if the bottle is broken and...
... pass and it will not deteriorate. In this ever-changing world the diamond is the symbol of changeless existence. Hence its value; otherwise, it is just a stone. Its value lies in its changelessness, its stability. You eternal nature is a diamond. All sadhana is designed to remove the layers of dust that are covering this diamond. Since the covering layers ar dust, they are easily removed. It is the...
... constantly-changing that covers the changeless, so it is not difficult to remove it. Mantra is a method for removing these layers. Let me tell you a short story: Mulla Nasruddin met a friend who he had not seen for many years. The friend asked the Mulla about his family. "What about your daughter, Nasruddin?" "Oh, my daughter," said the Mulla. "You won't believe this, but I have to...
...; otherwise, do not dabble in it. It has to be used like medicine. You don't consider drinking the whole bottle in one swallow. That won't cure anyone; it might kill him. The action of mantra is very subtle, so it requires homeopathic doses. The first requirement is patience, great patience. Do not expect quick results; the fruits of mantra ripen very slowly. It is not an annual plant which you can expect...
... temple or mosque is ideal because of its emptiness. If this is not possible, clear out a corner of your room; let there be nothing in it. Remove all the pictures of gods and goddesses, for they too can create problems. Only emptiness is God. All else is a play of the mind. And the mind is so crazy! Look for yourself at the shrines that people set up in their houses to worship in. You will find pictures...
... are not to use the body any more; therefore now the eyes have to be closed. The body must now be very still. The 'Om' vibrations should hit the walls of the body from within and fall on the mind, just as in the beginning they hit the walls of the room and were then reflected back to the body, which purified the body, just as the internal vibrations cleanse the mind. As the vibrations deepen you will...
... draw the energy back into the body; so if you so not hit somebody or something, the energy will remain in the hand. It does not matter whom you slap; even if you hit empty space, you will discharge that energy; but there are no channels to draw that energy back to the center. In this way energy gets blocked in various parts of the body. In any twenty-four hour period energy will be blocked in many...
... also kill. It is not only sorrow that kills, for both contain a stimulant that causes excitement; and wherever there is excitement something is bound to break. The only thing that can remain constant is your non-excited nature, and this need not be practised. It is always within you. You cannot lose it, for it is your very nature. Hence the search of all religion is the search for the individual's...
.... When a young sadistic homo-teen begins, for the first time, sense the demons of degeneracy impulses of domination, attack, aggression, murder he can: 1. Join the local street gang (or create one of his own) and begin to rob and kill the local normal people. 2. Join the police academy. To become a policeman and to begin to murder and attack the local members of the criminal structures. Do you see the...
... a cover, screen, decoration. The true goal of these degenerate clubs is to find out who are the active homo-maniacs, who will not stop under any circumstances in order to crawl to power. REMEMBER. POWER IS THE STRONGEST DRUG THERE IS. Q: Do you think there is world conspiracy? A: World conspiracy... You see, degenerates are like the microbes of a plague. They kill the healthy human organism, but...
... also perish with it. Degenerates are like AIDS viruses. They attack and destroy the defense mechanisms of the organism and lead to its death. Are microbes engaged in conspiracy to kill a healthy body? Do they have a plan of attack on defense mechanisms? I don't think that the microbes and viruses would engage in a world conspiracy against the healthy people. They simply destroy and kill according to...
... the people had the right to vote, and all the people had the right to decide things of importance - and there could have never been a more important problem than whether to keep Socrates alive or kill him. Socrates was the cream of the whole Athenian intelligence. But when you ask the mediocre people - who are in the majority... they had heard Socrates' arguments, but they could not understand. They...
... continue to speak the truth to my last breath, while I am alive. You are kind enough to suggest to me that I can leave Athens. You know perfectly well I cannot do that either, because if Athens - which is the most cultured city in the whole world - has decided to kill me, where do you think I can survive? I will be killed anywhere, and in a far more primitive way. "And I feel this time is perfectly...
...; Mahavira was against shoes for the simple reason that the best leather is from calves - the younger they are the softer is their leather. The older the animal... then you get leather which is not good. The best comes from the youngest animals, just born; you kill the child, then you get the best leather, the most comfortable and the most soft. But now there is no need.... That's what I call stupidity...
... thing that I can do, because Hinduism is one of the most rotten religions." Because it is the most ancient, naturally it has got to be more rotten. Its very foundations are rotten, so it becomes difficult. Hindu fanatics have made an attempt on my life. The same people who wanted me to be their ambassador-at-large, around the world, have tried to kill me. And now, when I came back to India, they...
... Mohammedanism has nothing to say about this, that it is ugly, inhuman; that you are treating women like cattle. You can kill somebody - according to Mohammedanism - if he resists conversion. Because this the basic belief, that only Mohammedans will be saved. All the religions have the same basic belief, that only their people are going to be saved. It is okay if you just have the idea; but Mohammedans have...
... people onto the right path. And the person whose head is cut off will also be rewarded, compensated: he is saved from hell. So in every way it is perfectly right to kill people for conversion. You will be surprised to know that India is the biggest Mohammedan country, because they have forced.... In almost fourteen hundred years of Mohammedan invasions, rule and slavery over India, they have converted...
... was almost balanced in population between Mohammedans and Hindus. And small and stupid things, which are thought to be religious, spiritual.... For example, if you - with your music, your drums, your songs, your flutes - pass a Mohammedan mosque and don't stop your music, it is enough to kill hundreds of people, to burn dozens of houses. And the first victim of all these riots is the woman. She is...
... - nice, beautiful, very loving people - how do they suddenly change? Just a rumor is enough, and killing and murder and violence start. In the university, one of the professors - a very nice, loving human being - when I saw him putting fire to a Hindu temple I could not resist the temptation to ask him. After the riots were over and the curfew was withdrawn, I said, "I could have believed anybody...
... years before. His name was Valmik; his profession was robbery. And if needed, he had no hesitation in killing people. If they resisted giving him their money, their valuable things, he had no hesitation for a single moment to kill them. He was a strong man. At that time he was not known as Valmik, he was known as Valya Bhil - the bhils are aboriginal, primitive tribes. And who would call Valya Bhil...
... religion or anything. My whole life has been just of robbery and murder. I forgot - instead of ram the order changed; the M of ram came ahead of R. Forgive me." Narada said, "There is no need to forgive you. You are so innocent: without any greed, without any desire to be rewarded in heaven, even repeating mara, mara, you are a new man. Don't be worried. You continue - whatever you have been...
... doing is right." "But," he said, "how can it be? What about my acts of murder? Because I cannot count so I cannot say how many people I have murdered. What about my robberies?" Narada said to him, "Forget it all. You have reached the ocean of your being. It is radiating all over; even a blind man may be able to see it or, at least feel it - the joy, the fragrance. And...
... should I do? These people will kill me! They don't allow me rest, and they bring a thousand and one problems. They should solve those problems. I have given them every capacity, intelligence, to solve all their problems but they want to throw all responsibility on me, thinking that 'Why should we bother? Why did you create us in the first place? If you created us then take care of our problems."...
... disciples asked him, "It was very shameful when he called out your name. You behaved as if you were not Junnaid. It is shameful that you did not protest when your greatest disciple was being tortured -- tortured brutally." No, even animals don't torture in that way. If you want to kill someone, kill. But to cut him piece by piece is so condemnable. The other disciples said, "You should have...
... and daughters is not cultured, is not human. It is subhuman or perhaps even below animals. No animal murders another animal of his own species. No lion will kill another lion, howsoever hungry; he would rather die than kill. But man is the only animal again. He is unique in many ways: he is the only one who kills people of his own species -- not only kills but eats. Just a few days ago in Palestine...
... criminals in the world. Ordinary criminals may murder somebody and you take them to the gallows. Adolf Hitler kills eight million people, alone. Joseph Stalin kills one million Russians, his own people, without any difficulty. All these politicians continue creating more and more weapons to destroy humanity. And they are the leaders, they are the guides of people. With these blind politicians dominating...
... standing together to destroy humanity, and if we can make man free from the political jargon... The only way to free man is to make man loving, peaceful. So he simply drops the weapons and he says, "They are not needed. We are not going to kill each other. And if you have so much urge to fight, then the presidents and the prime ministers can have boxing matches -- and we all will enjoy. It will be...
Search time: 0.073 seconds.
-
Enter a search word or a sentence (not too long).
-
If you want to search for an exact phrase, surround it
with quotes (") like "what is love" or
"how to meditate".
-
You can use AND [in UPPER case] between the words if you are
looking for articles containing all of those words.
-
You can specify which collection and/or chapter to search.
All choice in choice boxes - searches all.
-
Search will also search for synonyms (words with similar meaning)
and all the words with the same stem (root).