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... about a nun who used to take a bath in her bathroom with closed doors, but always keeping her clothes on. Other nuns became a little suspicious, "Is she a little crazy or what?" So they asked her, "What is the matter? The doors are closed, you can remove your clothes." She said, "But, God is omniscient. He looks every moment in every place. Are you suggesting to me to be naked...
... flux -- "that we are standing on a bridge which is in a flux? -- it is dangerous. The river is moving, that is true, but the bridge is not moving." The master hit Lin Chi and told him, "You idiot! The river is not moving, the bridge is moving. Meditate over it!" And Lin Chi had to meditate over it and recognized ... in a certain silence the bridge is also moving, but very slowly...
... as a witness. And I think he is capable -- because everybody is capable. It is only a question of when you turn inwards, only a question of when you drop your pretensions and hypocrisies. So I will wait for two weeks -- she says there will be sutras for two weeks more. If he goes astray, he will get hit. But my feeling is, a man who is interested may realize at some point that what he is doing is...
... only intellectual gymnastics -- and that may prove a turning point in his life. If it happens, then this whole series on Ta Hui will be of immense significance, because it will be the story of any man -- wandering, going astray, coming back to the path and then falling again and again, but at the end, finally he becomes a light unto himself. I will also feel at ease, because I don't like to hit...
... deep forests, and he had many sheep because that was his only food. In those deep forests he was keeping all those sheep just to kill them every day, one by one. Naturally, the sheep were very afraid of the man, and they used to run into the forest being afraid that any day can be their day. Their friends are gone, there is no reliability... tomorrow they may be gone. Out of fear they used to go far...
... sheep are killed. You need not hide yourself in the forest; that is very embarrassing, because a lion hiding himself in the forest in the fear that he will be killed... only sheep are killed." And in this way, he managed to hypnotize all the sheep in different ways. He even said to a few sheep, "You are men, human beings, and human beings don't kill each other. You are just like me. Never be...
... full of anger and fire. You will laugh about it later on, at how stupid you were. If you can watch, without getting involved, as if it is something on the screen of a movie house or of a TV screen... something is passing; watch it. You are not supposed to do anything to prevent it, to repress it, to destroy it, to pull out a sword and kill it, because from where will you get the sword? -- from the...
... need to run miles; your life is not in danger. When anger comes to you, Ila, it is not going to kill you. It has been with you many times before, and you have survived perfectly well. It is the same anger that you have been through before. Just do one thing new -- which you have never done; every time you get involved with it, fighting. This time just watch, as if it does not belong to you, as if it...
... his own country, but the enlightened one is respected in the whole world. So strive to become enlightened." I asked the priest, "Please remove this sentence from here. You have spoiled the whole thing. 'A king is respected in his own kingdom.' The emphasis is on respect. 'The enlightened one is respected in the whole world, so strive for it.' You are making enlightenment also an object for...
... idiots would have been trying to reach there. But it is within you. You are carrying it day in, day out; wherever you go it is there with you, within you. Even while you are committing a crime, a murder, it is there. If you can witness your murder, you will become enlightened. It does not matter what you are doing. What matters is whether you are doing it as a witness. Perhaps as a witness you cannot...
... murder, you cannot commit a crime. But that is a separate story. Witnessing you have brought with your birth. But the society, the educational system, the family, all are trying to make you ambitious. My father never knew -- he had eleven children -- he never knew which child was studying in which school, in which class, and whether he had passed or failed this year. He never inquired. Even for our...
.... I wanted to see myself whether it works or not." The professor said to his brother, "I have been telling you that, 'Don't get too much in contact with this man.' Now, he can put some strange ideas in your mind. If he had said, 'At nine o'clock hit your brother,' you would have hit me and there was no way to resist. And if you had hit me then I would have hit you, and that will be...
... tribes the mythology is that in the dream the soul leaves the body and travels. All that you see in the dream is not dream but a reality. In aboriginal tribes where that mythology is prevalent, nobody is awakened from sleep because if you wake up the person and he is not at home - he may be far away, traveling in a dream - you can kill him. And it has happened many times that by some accident the man...
... hijacking their planes. What can their fear be? Perhaps I have touched their very root which is rotten; I have pressed their hurting nerve. They know they don't have any answers to me, and whenever they don't have any answers, then the gun is the answer. But they cannot even kill me. They are really in a dilemma - what to do with me? They cannot kill me for the simple reason that if they kill me they will...
... his life into something else, for example into a parrot. Now the monster cannot be killed; whatever you do will be useless. The monster has become absolutely protected unless you know the key: that his life is in the parrot. Then you need not kill the monster, you have simply to kill the parrot. And as you kill the parrot the monster goes through tremendous suffering. As the parrot is killed, the...
... not convince me that he was a saint. Simple qualities which are needed just to be human, even those were not there. For example, Mohammedans are all meat eaters. And they become saints if they convert many Hindus - even at the point of the sword, even if they kill to convert people. They have many wives, and most are Hindu women forcibly brought to their house - and Hindus are in a totally different...
... not be able to hear them. It happened once in the second world war that one man was hit very badly in his head by a bullet. The bullet was taken out, but some strange changes happened in his head. He started hearing the nearest radio station twenty-four hours a day - without a radio! Now he had no way to stop it - all kinds of advertisements, all kinds of news, day in, day out. He told the doctors...
... common wisdom of the people has a certain truth in it - that the man was so attached that he could not leave it. So that was the only way - because only snakes can live underground near the pot where the treasure is. And snakes are dangerous; they can protect it. They can kill anybody who tries to take the treasures. Now this man who may have become a snake to protect his money is still out of the...
... there would be some way to bring the goose out without breaking the bottle, but it is not a puzzle. It is made absolutely clear to the disciple that the bottle cannot be broken and the goose cannot be killed. You cannot kill it and take it out in parts - and still the goose has to be out. It is a meditation for the disciple to meditate on, day in, day out. It takes months. Even though he knows the...
... answer, that does not mean that he can go to the master and say, "The goose is out." He will get a good hit on his head if it is intellectual. Because it is written in the books, the answer is written in the books; everybody knows the answer. No, he has to realize the answer himself. That means he has to realize that his awareness is outside of the mind, and it has never entered the mind; it...
... you. If you want to ask for anything that I can give to you, I will be honored." And she said, "In the war that is going to happen please don't kill my husband; he is your brother-in-law. You will be destroying my lover. Remember this thread. You have promised to protect me." Poras could see the strategy, but he was a man of his word. He said, "Don't be worried." And she was...
... he was just going to kill Alexander when he saw the thread on his own wrist. The spear that was going to kill turned back in a second, and Poras said to Alexander, "I cannot kill you. I have promised your wife that I will not harm anything that harms her, that I will protect her." This was the reason that Poras lost the war. But Alexander still could not understand, because he could not...
... nightmare. If you go through the whole nightmare, it was a very soft kind; it was not really a nightmare, it was just a dream. A real nightmare... that you are falling from the mountain and you see the abysmal depth and you know there is no way now: soon you will be scattered in pieces... Just before you hit the ground you will wake up. It is too much: the sleep cannot continue. The same is true about...
... worshippers. You would never have understood them. They were touching your feet; now they are ready to kill you. You should leave this place, you should move to some other place. Here they won't let you live peacefully. You move to the mountains, find a silent place and meditate." What he said was very surprising. He said, "I can do everything - fasting, yoga asanas... I can chant mantras for...
... inside you see yourself reflected in millions of mirrors. You are one, but your reflections are millions. It is said that once a dog entered and killed himself in the night. Nobody was there: the guard had left the temple, locked it, and the dog remained inside. He would bark at the dogs - millions of dogs. And he jumped from this side to that side and hit himself against the walls. And all those dogs...
...." That dog must have been an intellectual. Naturally he thought, "So many dogs, my God! I am alone and it is nighttime and the doors are closed, and surrounded by all these dogs... they are going to kill me!" And he killed himself; there was no other dog at all. This is one of the basic and essential understandings of mysticism: the people we are seeing all around are only our...
... are reducing his humanity. You are becoming a saint and turning him into a sinner; you are making him embarrassed; you are becoming "holier than thou." It is an insult; it is not respect towards humanity. Zarathustra would like you to hit back and remain human - not become holy. That way you are not insulting the other. That way you are showing equality, "I belong to you; you belong...
... slapped." One man stood up and slapped the missionary. This had never happened before, and he has been preaching his whole life. A discussion followed, but this did not help; he was full of anger, enraged. But in front of the crowd he had to prove that he followed what he preached. So he gave his other cheek, reluctantly, hoping that this idiot did not hit him again. But that man was also not an...
... see to this fellow. Seeing the situation Buddha said, "I take my statement back. I will not say seven times, I will not say seventy-seven times. I simply say, 'Forgive.' I was wrong to give you numbers. I don't give you any numbers; just forgive." But Zarathustra's approach is not to forgive, because if you forgive someone he is not going to forgive you - ever. If you hit him back you are...
..., because in these twelve days we have become perfectly aware that if the government cannot win the case, they will kill you. If you are going to win the case you cannot come out of the jail alive. You can come out of the jail - that has been made clear to us - if you lose the case." They said, "Just have mercy on us and have mercy on your lovers around the world; just for their sakes you simply...
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