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... journeyed into the mountains at all that seems a miracle to me. In this state of dismay I awakened from my dream. And now I see that it was not just a dream after all. All of humanity is in the same condition. WHY IS LIFE SO PURPOSELESS, so meaningless, so mechanical, so sluggish? Why is it so insipid, so boring? It is because we have lost a great power, the sense of wonder. Wonder has vanished. Man has...
... knowledge brings power, knowledge brings respectability, knowledge brings honor and dignity. But these are not the true seekers. The second category that comes to the master is the disciple. Zen masters have reached very high as far as human consciousness is concerned. But they have stopped at the second category of seekers, the disciple and the master. There is another category which Zen is not aware of...
... imperfection man has become a tremendous power. The child of man is the most helpless child, and out of that helplessness great things have happened. Man is born with very weak instincts. That's why he becomes intelligent - he has to become intelligent, he has to substitute his weaker instincts with a stronger intel-ligence. A dog need not do anything, a dog is perfect; he lives through his instincts he...
... source. If you are not the master, then the energy moves away from you - towards things, persons, power, prestige, fame. The energy goes on moving away and away from you, towards the periphery. Once you are the master, the energy starts moving homeward. Kabir, one of the great Indian mystics, has said, "The day I became enlightened, I saw the Ganges flowing upcurrent, flowing back to the source...
... other person something divine. He has made you free, or she has made you free, and love has not become a possessiveness. When love deteriorates it becomes possessiveness, jealousy, struggle for power, politics, domination, manipulation - a thousand and one things, all ugly. When love soars high, to the purest sky, it is freedom, total freedom. It is moksha - it is absolute freedom. Now the question...
... stupid. His love affair is a stupid affair; he is in love with elephants: money, power, prestige. He knows well that this is not possible; he knows that somehow he is going wrong, but feels incapable of resisting, feels incapable of stopping himself, feels weak. He cannot have a great, sharp ego. But the religious ascetic, one who has moved away from the world and has gone to the Himalayas, feels...
... only created rebellions in the world. It has created reactions in people; people have gone just to the opposite end. If a person has any strength, power, dignity, he will go against it because it is so humiliating to follow orders, to be obedient. Unless obedience comes from your inner being out Of love and trust, it is ugly. But when it comes from within your heart, it is not obedience at all...
... certain saint to touch his feet because that has a curative power. Or if the saint blesses you, your promotion is certain. In those moments they don't think about their being intellectuals. I have been a professor myself so I know the whole lot.... I remember one professor who had this idea of being a great intellectual, and still, he was a fanatic Hindu. I said, "These things don't go together. An...
..., power, capacity, then you will be able to break away from a few bondages and you will be able to enter a little into the unknown and the unknowable. Man wants freedom from every side. Deep down in the consciousness of man the yearning is only for moksha. That is why every type of bondage makes him restless. Even when you fall in love you do so in the hope that this love will become a sky, that you...
... substance in your lust, what is the substance in your will to power? Even if you become the most powerful man in the world, an Alexander the Great, what is the substance in it? When Alexander the Great was coming to India he met one great man, Diogenes. In their dialogue there is one point which is relevant. Diogenes asked him, "What are you going to do after you have conquered the whole world?"...
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