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...;Agreed." I said, "This is how I make contracts." And whenever any teacher said, "If you do this kind of mischief...." And they were not mischiefs, just simple things, but people who are in power are always worried - if just a brick is taken out of their power, then the whole house can collapse. One day I had just brought a donkey in the class. Now it is not a mischief, because...
... money, power, prestige, et cetera - all become concentrated on a single desire, the desire for enlightenment. It imprisons more than any other desire because aU other desires are divided: there are many millions of desires, and your energy is fragmented. But the desire for enlightenment, your whole energy pours into it. It is the thickest and the strongest chain that keeps you imprisoned, and it is...
... blessing: they have created a very subtle ego in people. The gross ego is direct. The newly rich you can see by his eyes, by his nose, the way he walks, the way he talks - you can see the gross ego, very gross. The politician when he is in power, you can see. It is not difficult; it is very tangible. But the religious person has a very subtle ego; he says, "I am a humble man." In fact he wants...
...;Walk on water!" And Marpa walked. When Marpa was walking and was just in midstream, the master thought, "It seems as if I am doing something, because how can this happen? It must be my power." He thought, "If just by surrendering to me Marpa can walk on water, why cannot I walk?" So he started walking - and he was drowned. No one has ever heard about what happened to that...
... said, "This is absolutely wrong. You may be a great king, you may become the emperor of the whole earth, but you cannot become greater than Buddha. He has left all kingdoms, and you are still obsessed with wealth, riches, prestige, power. He has left all of them, he has nothing, and only a person who has nothing is the highest, because he doesn't desire. You will have to go and respect him...
... was their very cream - the genius of the whole Greek mind - and they destroyed him. It seems that there has been a conspiracy, going on for centuries, of mediocre people against the genius. And of course the mediocre people are in the majority - they have all the power. They have the government, they have the military, they have the police, they have the nuclear weapons. The genius has nothing...
... liked... no consideration that she has children, that she has a husband, that she has to look after them - no consideration. He had the power. But to have sixteen thousand wives is so stupid - you cannot even remember their names! But it was thought that just because the woman in India is property, the more you have the better. And of course an incarnation of God has to be allowed to have the largest...
... society, the capitalist society, the Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Christian -- no society likes people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous -- dangerous to the establishment, dangerous to the people who are in power, dangerous to the "haves"; dangerous to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, suppression; dangerous to the...
... a false center. And there was no ordinary alternative available -- money, technology, science, political power -- so the only thing to fall back upon was a spiritual longing, the other world. And it is easy, because then you are dealing with invisible goods. Nobody can prove it, nobody can disprove it. It is very easy to live in hope of the other world. But who will create that hope? Then you have...
..., they will pull it out. They will not wear shoes, they will walk barefoot, because shoes are a luxury. Naked, without any possessions, they impress people very much. Extremists are always very impressive. You are greedy, you are after money, after power, prestige; they have renounced all. Certainly, a great respect arises in your heart for them because you know you cannot do this; it is too cold to be...
... wants to have money, it wants to have God too. It wants to have power; it wants to have liberation, moksha, truth, nirvana. It wants to have everything. Buddha saw it and in that seeing he dropped that mad effort and he dropped the very source of ambition. It was a full-moon night. He laughed at himself, at the whole stupidity of six years. He relaxed, he sat under a tree. For the first time after six...
... willpower; the whole secret, the magic secret is willpower. But willpower is only another name for ego power - and ego is impotent, there is no power in it. So people go on struggling unnecessarily, fighting with each other, competing with each other, and the end result is that everybody is miserable. Hence for the Western mind it seems very difficult to surrender. The situation is not better in the East...
... BEAST - DID YOU KNOW THAT BEFORE? AND THE BLINDNESS OF THE BLIND MAN AND HIS SEEKING AND GROPING SHALL YET BEAR WITNESS TO THE POWER OF THE SUN INTO WHICH HE GAZED - DID YOU KNOW THAT BEFORE? AND THE ENLIGHTENED MAN SHALL LEARN TO BUILD WITH MOUNTAINS! IT IS A SMALL THING FOR THE SPIRIT TO MOVE MOUNTAINS - DID YOU KNOW THAT BEFORE? YOU KNOW ONLY THE SPARKS OF THE SPIRIT: BUT YOU DO NOT SEE THE ANVIL...
... POWER OF THE SUN INTO WHICH HE GAZED - DID YOU KNOW THAT BEFORE? The blind man simply believes that there is light. In fact only blind people believe. In other words: all beliefs are blind. The moment you know something, you don't believe. Once a German philosopher asked Raman Maharshi, "Do you believe in God?" And he was shocked to hear the answer. Raman Maharshi said, "No, I don't...
... unique group, the Planetary Prince authorized the reproduction of midwayers without restriction. This plan was carried out as long as the power to create continued, and the original corps of 50,000 was accordingly brought into being. (856.1) 77:1.5 A period of one-half year intervened between the production of each midwayer, and when one thousand such beings had been born to each couple, no more were...
... ever forthcoming. And there is no explanation available as to why this power was exhausted upon the appearance of the one thousandth offspring. No amount of further experimentation ever resulted in anything but failure. (856.2) 77:1.6 These creatures constituted the intelligence corps of the Prince’s administration. They ranged far and wide, studying and observing the world races and rendering other...
... brethren from the beginning. The deliverer will come in power to restore the throne of David’s kingdom. Do you really claim to be the Messiah?” And Jesus replied: “You claim to know me and to know whence I am. I wish your claims were true, for indeed then would you find abundant life in that knowledge. But I declare that I have not come to you for myself; I have been sent by the Father, and he who sent...
... the power of the prince of devils. One near by has just said that I have a devil, that I am a child of the devil. But all of you who deal honestly with your own souls know full well that I am not a devil. You know that I honor the Father even while you would dishonor me. I seek not my own glory, only the glory of my Paradise Father. And I do not judge you, for there is one who judges for me. (1797.2...
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