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... intellectual and less and less intelligent. We force the child to be more and more prosaic and less and less poetic. We force the child to become more and more concerned about the non-essential - money, prestige, power, ambition - and more and more uninterested in the real joys of life. We turn the child from a playful being into a worker. The work ethic enters. Now duty becomes more important than love...
... exploiters. These are the people who are sitting on your heart and blocking your energies. They can remain in power only if you are miserable. Remember it. By being miserable you are helping a gang of exploiters. Be happy and you bring the greatest revolution in the world. Sometimes people come to me and they ask, 'Why don't you teach something so that the society can be changed?' That's what I am doing...
... drop the husband himself. It may be just because of fear that you go on staying with this ugly man. Your children will not like you to drop fear. Because you are afraid, your children have some power over you. Your parents will not like you to drop fear. Nobody will like you to drop fear. You have to decide to drop it - because it is against you and in favour of all. It is destructive for you and a...
... very moment you start disappearing, you start melting. People like Sri Aurobindo will give you a new kind of ego, a spiritual kind. You start striving for supra- mental states, supra-conscious states, and you are again in the same rut. The race has started again. First it was for money, power, prestige; now it is for supra-mental states. And ALL that comes as a shadow to it will be there. Then there...
... does not need correction. Awakening is not a correction in sleep - it is simply dropping sleep. It is moving into another kind of reality, having a totally different kind of relationship with existence. Moralists, politicians, puritans, priests, they are always after you, calling for correction. Everything needs to be corrected, every person needs to be corrected - that is their power. The world is...
... dominated by politicians because of it. They always go on finding what has to be corrected, and they always go on deluding you that now the correction can be done. But there is only one way: if THEY are in power then the correction can be done. First they convince you that the correction is needed; then naturally when you become convinced, the correction is needed. And why do you become convinced? Because...
... have some investment in your neurosis. There are people who live on people's neuroses, there are people who live on other people's madnesses. The priest lives on that, he has lived down the ages on that - a subtle exploitation of the helplessness of man. And he makes man more and more helpless, because he knows that only if man is helpless is he then in HIS power. Avoid anything that makes you afraid...
... 1917, before the revolution in Russia, people were as religious as they are in India. In fact, Russia was one of the most religious countries in the world. Then what happened? Within ten years' time, all that religion, that centuries-old religion, disappeared like vapour - as if it had never been there. What happened? The people in power started saying "God is not." And the masses only...
... toppled down, monasteries evaporated: within a few years, all was gone. And do you think if communism comes to India, things will be different? Not at all. I see into people's eyes - their religion is as bogus as it was in Russia, as it was in China. If the people who are in authority and power start saying there is no God and they start shouting on the TV and the radio, "There is no God!"...
..., because words do not matter. Your whole being will show your love; your eyes will show your love. There will be no need to say it, there will be no need to repeat it continuously. You repeat to convince the other and at the same time to convince yourself -- because deep down, jealousy, possessiveness, hatred, the urge to dominate, a deep power politics, are hidden. In his epistles St. Paul uses 'in...
..., 'How are your two children?' He said, 'Both are good.' I said, 'How old are they?' He said, 'The doctor is five and the lawyer is seven!' Already the future is fixed in the mind of the father. One has to become a doctor, the other has to become something else. The children have not been asked. Now the father will enforce. He can enforce, he has power. The children are helpless. And if the child was...
..., very dangerous to follow your own voice, very dangerous to follow yourself, because then you are alone and society is not there to support you. They used to tell a story of the Russian dictator, Stalin. The dictator walked into a movie incognito and sat in the last row. Suddenly his picture flashed on the screen and everybody rose in salute. He remained seated, enjoying the spectacle of his power...
... for momentary pleasures, indulgence, food, sex, money, power, prestige...just drops of honey. How sweet it tastes, and in that moment we completely forget what is going to happen. The moment takes possession of us and we become oblivious of the reality of life: that it is rooted in death, that it is going to disappear. Buddha says: FOR A WHILE THE FOOL'S MISCHIEF TASTES SWEET, SWEET AS HONEY. BUT IN...
... had come to the earth. Then you will feel the bitterness of it, that you wasted your whole life for something which is not going to be with you. You wasted your whole life in power, politics; you wasted your whole life in becoming respectable, and now death has come and all will be taken away. And you have not tasted a single moment of your eternal reality - you have not tasted anything deathless...
... very easily, because if you repress you will be far more in the power of the mind than you ever were when you were in the life of indulgence. And the mind will have a far stronger grip on you. Buddha learned it through his own experience - six years of great torture. With Buddha the world entered into a new phase of religiousness. Before Buddha nobody had said this: that repressiveness, austerities...
..., power, prestige. And everybody is carrying a deep desire, a great longing to succeed one day in becoming the most famous man in the world, the most powerful man in the world. This is the Alexander type, the extrovert, the worldly; he accumulates money, possessions, but he loses his soul. And there are very rare, very few people in the world who belong to the Buddha type, who are no longer interested...
... wounded yourself because there is nobody else, it is all oneness. OFFEND IN NEITHER WORD NOR DEED. EAT WITH MODERATION. LIVE IN YOUR HEART. SEEK THE HIGHEST CONSCIOUSNESS. Simple statements, not a very complex theology that he gives to the world. He says: Don't offend anybody, avoid it. Don't hurt anybody. People enjoy hurting, because the more you can hurt, the more power you feel. But the power is of...
... COME UP IN SPITE OF THE GOOD INTENTIONS. HOW ARE YOU HANDLING IT HERE? ARE YOU ALLOWING IT FREE PLAY SO THAT PEOPLE CAN WORK IT OUT OF THEIR SYSTEMS - OR ARE YOU NIPPING IT IN THE BUD AND WEEDING OUT THOSE THAT SHOW THE SLIGHTEST TENDENCIES? MY HUMBLE EXPERIENCE IS THAT SOME PEOPLE CAN NEVER, NEVER GET ANYTHING GOING WITHOUT POLITICS - WITHOUT GETTING THEMSELVES HIGHER AND HIGHER IN THE POWER GAME...
... awareness. Ambitious people also laugh. Just the other day I was reading that when Jimmy Carter came to power he was laughing so beautifully that you could have counted his teeth. And some people have counted - eleven teeth were showing. Now only seven are showing. Now the smile is disappearing because his prestige is falling every day. People's expectations are not fulfilled: what he has promised he...
... people, they are caught in your net; you can exploit them. Guilt is the spider's net. Make people feel guilty and they are in your power. Then you can manipulate them. You can force them to surrender. You can force them to do things for you, for the church, for the priest. They are guilty. They are afraid they are going to suffer, they want to find a way out. First create guilt, then they are bound to...
... power and a sense that you are somebody and a sense of intelligence. When you stop carrying this burden of scriptures, doctrines, doctrinaires, suddenly you realize that you are an idiot, because now the ego is no longer on firm ground, it is trembling. In fact I'm trying to take the earth away from your feet. The moment will come when you will realize that you are an idiot - it is a beautiful moment...
..., it is very easy to say no. No is always ready on their lips. No gives them power, the feeling of power, that they can argue and they can destroy. Knowledge does not know how to say yes, and it misses much, misses all. Because the existence is known only by one who has given a total yes to it, who has signed a blank cheque and given it to existence. Only in that trust are mysteries revealed. You...
... again open a door of desire. In the world you desire money, power, prestige; then you get fed up with it, then you see the whole thing is just rubbish - even if you get it you are defeated, if you don't get it you are defeated. Then you come to feel that this whole thing is nonsense. Now suddenly you start playing new games: enlightenment, meditation, yoga, God, the other world, the other shore! Again...
... do? Smoke with meditation, don't worry. Enjoy it. If you can enjoy it, the whole power from it will be gone. The power is very symbolic - you are rebelling against your parents, against the society - these are simple gestures of rebellion: you don't like things as they are. But in rebelling against them you are harming yourself - that's your foolishness. Smoking is not bad, simply harmful. It is...
... - rape, theft, homosexuality, AIDS. He becomes aware of everything - that is his power over you. You cannot leave the Catholic religion. You can leave Hinduism very easily; there is no problem because the Hindu priest knows nothing about you. But the Catholic priest has a whole file against you, he can expose you. He can inform the government, he can inform the authorities, he can inform the medical...
... on the couch, paying hundreds of dollars for one hour, naturally you think it is better to do something. And you start saying things which you have not even been aware are within you. Psychoanalysis helps people, it helps them to become aware of their repressed part. And awareness has a magical power: of anything you become aware of, its grip, its power over you is finished. You are no more in...
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