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.... Have you seen people in a crowd, how happy they look? Mohammedans going to destroy a temple, or Hindus going to kill Mohammedans - just see how happy, bubbling, radiant with energy. Dull people... you have seen them before, walking on the streets - dull, dead. Now suddenly they have become very alive - shouting, cheering each other, rushing towards, as if something beautiful is going to happen. Why...
..., was too much. I was lost. The crowd was doing something, I simply became a part of it. I have not done it.' Ask single Mohammedans, 'Can you burn a temple or murder Hindus?' Ask Hindus, 'Can you murder Mohammedans - individually?' This is a miracle, but we don't observe it. No individual Mohammedan is bad, no individual Hindu is bad..individuals are beautiful people, as people are always beautiful...
.... He cannot be objective, he is too much involved. He will kill the child. Some other surgeon is needed who can remain impartial, who can remain far away, aloof, distant, unworried. So if you really want to help humanity, first you have to become unworried. And to become unworried you have to drop unnecessary worries first. Don't think about the world. The world has continued the same and it is going...
... the same boy, or sitting in your lap, laughing, giggling - he has completely forgotten. He carries no ill-will, he carries no hatred. Whatsoever comes, passes. Anger comes like a breeze and passes. If you repress anger then you go on piling it, inside it goes on accumulating. It becomes pus, and then it explodes one day in hatred. A person who becomes easily angry can never murder. A person who...
... never becomes angry and always is in control - beware of him. He can murder someday because he is accumulating. Now, this is a new interpretation. I'm not saying whether this is right or wrong, I am simply saying interpretations change. In the past, anger was bad and an angry person was an evil person. Now the Humanistic Potential Movement has created a new interpretation. They say anger is good, it...
... rather than to be alone, then get married. Then marriages will never kill love, because this love is realistic. Marriage can kill only romantic love. And romantic love is what people call 'puppy love'. One should not depend on it. One should not think about it as nourishment. It may be just like ice-cream. You can eat it sometimes, but don't depend on it. Life has to be more realistic, more prose. And...
... red letters it was written, "New spray guaranteed to kill flies IMMEDIATELY!" She read the sign and as she flew away, muttered to herself, "There is too much hatred in the world!" You live in the world of the valley. There, everything is guaranteed to kill immediately. You live in the valley of death - nothing else is guaranteed there, only death is guaranteed. Have you ever...
... always existed, and they will continue to exist because you are not changing in any way. Man is not transforming himself. Wars will exist because they are a deep will to die. You want to kill and you want to be killed. Life is such a burden that suicide seems to be the only solution. If you have not committed suicide up to now, don't think that you are truly a life-lover. No! You are simply afraid. You...
... will last. You can crucify a Jesus, but you cannot neglect him. And those who crucified him still suffer for that crucifixion. Just a single man was killed, an ordinary son of a carpenter - nothing important. The Jews must have thought that way because nobody was bothered: if you kill a carpenter's son and you kill according to the law, there is no problem. But Jews have suffered for two thousand...
.... They were the chosen few; God had chosen them and the son of God was going to be born in a Jewish family - the ego felt very good about it. But when this chosen man came and knocked at the door and said, "I have come to fulfill the promise," they said, "No, you are not that chosen man, and if you try to say that you are, we will kill you!" What was the problem? The problem is...
... the sun - they tried to hide the truth. They crucified the truth. But truth cannot be crucified, you cannot kill it; it is eternal, it is deathless. And still they have not become aware why they have suffered so much. The guilt... they still feel guilty deep down. A Jew is never without guilt - the guilt follows like a shadow. The guilt is that they refused the promised one when he came. And Jews...
... do their work well because he created doubt. He said, "What are you doing? This is a river and this is a bridge - and you are building your house here, in this market? Seek the eternal, the truth!" Socrates became such a nuisance that they had to poison him. In the valley, that has always been happening. If a man with eyes comes to a town of blind men, they will kill him - or if they are...
... everything becomes a system, an organized pattern, a ritual - the state of Sufism simply disappears from there. Christianity killed Jesus. Jews could not kill him. They crucified him, of course, but they failed. They could not kill him. He survived crucifixion. That is the meaning of resurrection - not that physically Jesus survived, but that the crucifixion proved futile. Jews could not kill him. They...
... bigger and bigger. In fact, the power is there - the power of violence and murder, the power of law and language and logic. A lawyer is a logician. He knew well that this man had a condition: if you remain silent, he will give; if you ask, he will not give - 'But even then not all could keep silent.' It is so difficult to keep silent. You know, I tell you again and again: Be silent! - but is it so? I...
... like me.' Then your ego can grow more if you can come to a point and realize that 'the Master is not higher than me - he is just like me.' Then your ego is strengthened. Rather than dying through the Master, you have revived your dying ego, again you have supplied blood to it. Every disciple when he comes to a Master is entering into a conflict. The Master will try to kill your ego completely...
... and closer, just to kill you - and to kill you so utterly that the very seed of the ego is burnt. That is what Patanjali calls nirbeej samadhi: when the seed is so absolutely burnt that whatsoever you do with the seed, now no sprout can come out of it. The Master is a fire. The Master is a death. FINALLY THE LAWYER FOUND AN UNDERTAKER - HIS LAST EFFORT TO DECEIVE - AND TOLD HIM TO WRAP HIM IN A...
... his trust, because if you don't and you say, 'I have to watch what you are doing,' then surgery is not possible. You have to become completely unconscious - and in unconsciousness, there is total surrender. Even if the surgeon kills you, you will not be there to object. Trust means that you leave yourself in the hands of someone - even if he is going to kill you, you are ready to pass through it...
... hollow, the loneliest place where no one would want to be. Sit where people remove their shoes. Seek no position. Have no ambitions because the language of ambition itself is wrong. Lao Tzu is right. Those who are like water - they also reach. Actually, the first and the last merge into each other at one point. The first is one extremity of the infinite and the second is the other extremity of the...
... expand so much that one day it spreads over the universe. Then, it is bound to explode. The day a person finds that he can declare, "I am Brahma," he finds that the ego has collapsed completely. Or, do not feed the ego. Remove whatever air is in the balloon. Lao Tzu says, "Come back!" Have no thought of filling up that which one day is bound to burst. Why labour unnecessarily? But...
... knew all the answers. What happens to him? In fact, the intellect becomes so tense that it becomes inoperative. It loses its flexibility. Its power to think is lost, obstructed. This obstruction is just superficial. There are methods of removing ;these obstructions. All sadhanas, are devices to remove this hindrance. Whenever a sadhaka approached one Zen fakir, the fakir would order him not to talk...
... of Lao Tzu are devices that work towards somehow creating conditions to break, disperse and remove the various blocks within us. It is as if a river has frozen; it flows no more. What is to be done? We shall have to wait for the morning. Let the sun come out and things will change. The heat of the sun will melt the ice and the river will flow once more. We, too, are like a frozen river whose stream...
... good and what is bad has never been decided and it never will be. This does not mean that you should do as and how it pleases you. It does not mean that you should go and kill a few people because it is undecided whether this act is good or bad. This I do not mean at all. If this understanding goes deep within you and you develop the attitude that "I am no judge," it is impossible for you...
... to commit a crime. Killing is only possible if we decide that a certain person is bad and is not fit to live. Therefore, the more evil we take a person to be, the easier it becomes to kill him. This is why the courts find it very easy to pass a death sentence. The courts gather all the evidence for and against a person and take a decision. No killer kills as easily as a magistrate. It is now clear...
... bad man. And therefore, we decide to kill him! Courts pass death-sentences very easily, because the law has great power in its hand. The magistrate passes the order, goes home and sleeps leisurely. He in no way considers himself responsible for the death of this man. In the absence of responsibility man tends to be irresponsible. And irresponsibility is the greatest disaster. A magistrate is an...
... your act without any qualms of conscience. All battles in life are fought on this principle; all politics in this world works on this formula. You first have to prove that what you are going to do is not bad, is not wrong. Then it is easy to start the battle. Once you start, the opponent also feels it is his moral duty to kill you. But I tell you that a religious man never makes a decision. He says...
... social utility is great - but that man is dead, that man is a machine. Machines have characters; you can depend on them. That's why we are going to remove, by and by, all men and replace them by machines. Machines are more predictable, they have greater characters - you can depend on them. A horse is not so dependable as a car. A horse has a kind of personality - some day he is not in the mood, and...
...: 'What was it that Buddha gave in the lotus to Mahakashyapa? What was it that Mahakashyapa understood when he smiled? What was it? Tell me the answer.' And the young man danced. And the master hit him hard. And he said, 'This is wrong, absolutely wrong.' And the disciple said, 'But just in the morning you said it was right.' And the master said, 'Yes. In the morning it was right, in the night it is...
.... Why did he commit suicide? Finished is his work - he should go with the master. A man who can sell his master for thirty rupees, can you think of him feeling so guilty that he should commit suicide? Impossible. Why should he bother? No, he had simply followed an order from the master. He could not say no - that was part of surrender. He had to say yes. If some day I tell you, 'Kill me,' you have to...
... man is very dangerous, and I have never been able to forget him. And the day I am released from the prison, I am going to that man. I never came across such a man - such quality! I held the naked sword in my hand, but that was nothing. He is the naked sword.' Just these words - 'Hey! Wait a minute!' - and the thief said, 'I am still shuddering.' When you come close to a master, he is going to kill...
... you. How can you kill a master? Even if you have a naked sword, you cannot kill a master. The master is going to kill you. And he kills in such subtle ways that you never become aware that you have been killed. You become aware only when you are reborn. Suddenly one day you are no more the same. Suddenly one day the old man is gone. Suddenly one day everything is fresh and new - birds are singing...
... was growing darker and the children, not being able to locate him, left the field. Early in the following morning, a farmer came and had to remove the straw stack to begin his work. Finding Ryokan there, he exclaimed, 'Oh Ryokan-sama! What are you doing here?' The master answered, 'Hush! Don't talk so loud, the children will find me.' The whole night under that straw he is waiting for the children...
.... It cannot make houses, it cannot make cities, because you cannot depend on animals -- today they are available here, tomorrow they are not available here. And certainly you will kill them, and because of your presence they will escape -- either they will be killed or they will escape. Cities are possible only with cultivation because trees cannot escape, and you have to be there to protect them, to...
... give him the other too." One day a man who was against Christianity found the saint alone, hit him hard on one of his cheeks, looked into the eyes of the saint.... For a moment the saint wanted to hit him back -- but being a saint, remembering all his teachings and remembering that this man sits in his congregation in the front, he gave him the other cheek, thinking that he would not hit it. The...
... man hit him harder on the other cheek! -- and that very moment the saint jumped on the man, hitting him hard on the nose. The man said, "What are you doing? You are a Christian, you have to love your enemy." He said, "Forget all about it. Jesus only talked about two cheeks -- about the third, I am free. Now there is no third cheek to give you. And he has not said that when he hits you...
... on the second, give him your nose too!" Because Jesus has not said why.... Gautam Buddha in one of his sermons said, "Try to be non-mechanical as much as possible. If somebody hits you, insults you, humiliates you, forgive him seven times. Be conscious." Jesus was saying only one time -- because you have only two cheeks, and one he has hit already. Only one is left, so there is not...
..., no Germany, no Japan, no America. It is a single planet, one humanity. But because of the fiction, people go on killing each other. Real people are killed for an unreal idea. Responsibility towards the nation has been the cause of all the wars. If all those people who had gone to the wars had refused: "We are not going to kill anybody for a fiction and we are not going to be killed for a...
... fiction," there would have been no wars, no politicians. The world would have been a peaceful, beautiful place to live in. For centuries we have done nothing else except fight, except kill. Our only profession seems to be war. Sometimes we fight, and sometimes we prepare for a future fight. But all the time we are engaged in a single profession, that of murderers, because we have been taught a...
... Calcutta, at one of the most famous temples of the mother goddess Kali they still kill every day a few goats and then the goats' meat is distributed as prasad, as God's gift to the worshippers. And this is a vegetarian country. A strange kind of vegetarianism! But in the name of God, everything is allowed. When they stopped sacrificing man - because it became more and more hammered in by people like...
... simply because you are my friend. I will kill your buffalo.' "My friend said, 'This is too much. Buffaloes are buffaloes. And I cannot follow my buffalo the whole day wherever she goes. She will go into your farm and I will see then who kills my buffalo. I will kill anybody who kills my buffalo. I will not remember that you are my friend. You are my enemy if you kill my buffalo.'" And the...
... masses cannot have. His criticism is one of the examples of the highest reaches of logic. Nietzsche says, "If somebody hits me on one of my cheeks, I am not so inhumane as to give him my other cheek. That is egoistic. It is trying to prove that 'you are just an ordinary human being - I am a messiah, a messenger of God. I forgive you and if you enjoy hitting me, you can hit me more.' Nietzsche's...
... point is that you are reducing the other person to utter humiliation. Nobody in two thousand years' history has raised this question. Nietzsche says, "If somebody hits me, I will hit him as hard as I can because I am just as human as you are. I don't want to prove myself holier than you, higher than you, superior to you. I respect your humanity and I accept your challenge. You have slapped my...
..., "Just for a nose, losing God is stupidity. So many people cannot be wrong... and they are my people." He called them and asked them, "Tell us exactly what happened." They told the king, "We met this great master and he said that there is not much of a problem. If you are just ready to remove your nose, the curtain is opened; God is available, and everything that saints have...
... remove our noses because it does not look right that the king has achieved God-realization and you are living with a God-realized person, still in ignorance." They told the man, "You go back to your home town. Otherwise, you will have to remain in jail." This man certainly seems to be criminal. But all your religions are doing almost exactly the same in different ways. The therapist has...
... coming. And the fire came but the elephant remained determined not to kill the rabbit. He died in the fire. Gautam Buddha said, "I was born as a man because of my small act of compassion towards the rabbit." No animal, no tree, nothing in existence is incapable of becoming enlightened. It may take a little time, or a little more time, but enlightenment is a destiny. It is a destiny of the...
... whole existence. The whole existence has to become one day a festival of lights. The idea of non-violence in the East arose because of this discovery: that each animal has the potential to become the highest peak of truth, consciousness, love. It is ugly to kill them for eating. The idea of not killing animals for eating came from the experience that they all are capable of becoming gods in their own...
..., you are killing, you are murdering the child. The spirit needs freedom - it grows in freedom and only in freedom. If you are really a father, you will be happy if the child is rebellious, because no father would like to kill the spirit of the child. But you are not fathers. You are ill with your own illnesses. When you force a child to follow you, you are simply saying that you would like to...
... by forcing you are killing him. You are not giving birth to him, you are destroying him. The child who follows will look good - because he is dead. The child who is rebellious will look bad because he is alive. Because we have missed life ourselves, we are against life. Because we are already dead, dead before death, we always want to kill others. Subtle are the ways. In the name of love, you can...
... kill. In the name of compassion, you can kill. In the name of service, you can kill. Beautiful names we find - deep down, the murderer is sitting. Realize this, then you will not think in these terms - that this child is good and that child is bad. Don't interpret! Every person is unique, every person is different. The divine creative force is such that it never repeats. So only say this much, that...
..., which is higher - the body is undivided flow. He will come to discover his sexual parts, and parents become disturbed. Whenever a child, boy or girl, touches the sexual organs, immediately we say: Don't touch! We remove the hand. The child is shocked. You have given an electric shock to him. He cannot understand what you are doing. And this will happen many times. You are hammering into the child that...
..., worry, despair. If the woman were not forced by man to commit suicide, no woman would commit suicide. In fact, the woman's suicide is really a murder - murder by the man: man's society, man's rule, man's power. And the woman has survived all along without any complaint. That is strength. Man forcing the woman to commit suicide should be punished - it is a murder. But behind the word suicide he is...
... in the commune have more responsible posts than men. This is just a compensation - small, but it may become the model for the whole universe. And they are running the commune better than any society run by men. In four years of the commune's existence there has not been a single crime, not a single murder, not a single suicide. Man has not been able to create a society where crimes are not growing...
... them pseudo, not true; mythological, not existential. The Africans are not even at that stage where they have a pseudo religion. They are far away, back in the world when there was no religion, only magical rituals. I am condemning the religious people. What can I say to Africans who are five thousand years behind? They are still believing that a certain ritual can kill a man, that a certain ritual...
.... The black people had to be black because they had to absorb the sunrays; otherwise they would be too much, they would kill them. They had to create a device, a simple device - to be black. It is not very costly, it is a very small amount of pigment. Things are becoming more and more costly, but still the black pigment is not more than half a dollar's worth. But it protects them from being burned by...
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