... has to be destroyed, that's all - and desires can be fulfilled here, the heaven can be created on this earth here." The worldly people say, "You can fulfil your desires - struggle hard." That's what the whole West goes on doing: "Struggle, compete, cheat, by any means and methods! Acquire more wealth, more power!" That's what the politicians all over the world go on doing...

... getting more and more into un-self, into non-self - it is a disappearance of the self. "MOVED BY THEIR SELFISH DESIRES, PEOPLE SEEK AFTER FAME AND GLORY. BUT WHEN THEY HAVE ACQUIRED IT, THEY ARE ALREADY STRICKEN IN YEARS." And Buddha says: Look, you can attain to fame, to glory, to power, to prestige, respectability, in the world - but what are you doing? Are you aware? You are wasting a great...

... alive, more dead. So before this whole opportunity is lost, Buddha says, attain to a state of no-self - then there will be no death. And then there will be no misery. And then there will be no constant hankering for fame, power, prestige. In fact, the more empty you are within, the more you seek fame; it is a sort of substitute. The more poor you are within, the more you seek riches; it is a...

... am. You can drop that subject and go ahead with whatsoever you have to say. Don't be bothered about me - I know myself who I am." Once you have an inner richness of life, you don't seek wealth, you don't seek power. Psychologists have become aware that when people start becoming impotent, they start finding some sexual, phallic symbols. If a person becomes impotent then he wants some phallic...

... symbol to replace it. He may try to have the biggest car in the world - that is a phallic symbol. He would like to have the most powerful car in the world; now his own power is lost, his own sexual energy is gone - now he would like a substitute. While rushing his car to the maximum speed, he will feel good - as if he is making love to his woman. The very speed will give him power. He will get...

... he will become such a flame; his whole life will become a concentrated perfume in that moment, a great luminosity will arise in his being. Before he leaves, he will leave behind him a memory. That's what happened when Buddha left the world. That's what happened when Mahavir left the world. We have not forgotten them, not because they were great politicians or great people of power - they were...

... beautiful, there is no need to go on stuffing it with money, power, prestige, fame. This nothingness is so pure and so innocent and so beautiful that you are blessed in it. You start dancing in that nothingness. That nothingness starts a dance. Buddha hints you towards that dance. When Buddha was dying, Ananda started crying and he said, "What will I do now? You are leaving and I have not yet become...

...? You may be the exception. But nobody is an exception; and death has already happened in your birth, so you cannot avoid it. Now the birth is beyond your power. You cannot do anything about it; it has already happened. It is already past; it is already done. You cannot undo it. Death is yet to happen: something is possible to be done about it. The whole of Eastern religion depends on the vision of...

... great power that has arisen in you; if you move it towards death, you will be able to know immediately when you are going to die. How it happens? When you go in a dark room, you cannot see what is there. When you go with a light, you can see what is there, or what is not there. You move almost in darkness your whole life, so you don't know how much prarabdha is still there - prarabdha, the karma that...

... the hills around Mount Hermon... Jesus loved this river; Jesus loved this sea. Many miracles happened around this place with him. ... The Master loved this sea, and many of the happier moments of his ministry were spent beside it. It is a place filled to this day with serenity and power. The River Jordan flows on south into another sea. Here there is no life, no song of birds, no children's laughter...

... available only to a very few can become part of the normal life of everybody. Nobody is barring the path, but somehow man does not have that creative understanding. Yoga has been misused in the same way. All knowledge brings power, and power can be used positively or negatively. I have heard an anecdote: A drunk shuffled up to a rich banker and asked for sixpence for a cup of coffee. Being an extremely...

...." It depends. A blessing can become a curse. What Patanjali is saying is pure white magic; it is a magical formula. You can make it into a devilish black magic. Then you will be destructive to others - and destructive to yourself. Remember that. That's why first he says become friendly; then he talks about power. People like Patanjali are so cautious. They have to be cautious because of you. They...

... watch their every step. First he tells how to attain to samyama; immediately he talks about compassion and friendliness; then he talks about power. Because when you have compassion then power cannot be misused. BY DIRECTING THE LIGHT OF THE SUPERPHYSICAL FACULTY, KNOWLEDGE IS GAINED OF THE SUBTLE, THE HIDDEN, AND THE DISTANT. Every dimension becomes available - "of the subtle, the hidden, the...

... DYESTUFF. THE SLIGHTEST THING IS NOT APART FROM SELF. I SEIZE HIM WITH A TERRIFIC STRUGGLE. HIS GREAT WILL AND POWER ARE INEXHAUSTIBLE. HE CHARGES TO THE HIGH PLATEAU FAR ABOVE THE CLOUD-MISTS, OR IN AN IMPENETRABLE RAVINE HE STANDS. COMMENT: HE DWELT IN THE FOREST A LONG TIME, BUT I CAUGHT HIM TODAY! INFATUATION FOR SCENERY INTERFERES WITH HIS DIRECTION. LONGING FOR SWEETER GRASS, HE WANDERS AWAY. HIS...

... people, when they become retired, die sooner. Psychoanalysts say that at least ten years' life is cut. Politicians, when they are in power, are very healthy; once they are out of power, their health disappears, they die soon - because out of power their whole identity starts disappearing like a dream. Out of the office, suddenly you are nobody. You have been nobody your whole life, but you go on...

..., WILLOWS ARE GREEN ALONG THE SHORE. HERE NO BULL CAN HIDE! WHAT ARTIST CAN DRAW THAT MASSIVE HEAD, THOSE MAJESTIC HORNS? The fourth sutra: Catching the Bull. I SEIZE HIM WITH A TERRIFIC STRUGGLE. HIS GREAT WILL AND POWER ARE INEXHAUSTIBLE. HE CHARGES TO THE HIGH PLATEAU FAR ABOVE THE CLOUD-MISTS, OR IN AN IMPENETRABLE RAVINE HE STANDS. The third sutra is about sensitivity. I HEAR THE SONG OF THE...

.... And out of this wholeness of sensitivity arises the self, the atman - your authentic being. Create a rhythm, create a harmony, create an orchestra of your being. Then the bull cannot hide anywhere. I SEIZE HIM WITH A TERRIFIC STRUGGLE. Struggle is going to be there, because the mind is not going to lose its power easily. The mind has been a dictator for so long; now you want the dictator to come...

... your being, you can catch hold of it. Of course, it is going to be a struggle, because the mind has remained in power so long: HIS GREAT WILL AND POWER ARE INEXHAUSTIBLE. HE CHARGES TO THE HIGH PLATEAU FAR ABOVE THE CLOUD-MISTS, OR IN AN IMPENETRABLE RAVINE HE STANDS. And this energy, this bull, is inexhaustible. Sometimes it is standing on the top of a hill, at a peak of experience. Sometimes in a...

... have not come in even contact. Those were the people who were in contact, and those were the people who created hostility. In fact, that is a simple device of all fascist minds. If you want to remain in power, you have to create hostility in the minds of the neighbors. Q:* YOU MIGHT GO TO AUSTRALIA? A:* No. Unless I get my green card, I am not going to leave America. If I get my green card tomorrow...

... presidents is simply dangerous, particularly at this time when they have so much power in their hands that they can destroy the whole planet. I am not happy with Ronald Reagan. When America has so much intelligent people, what is the need of choosing third-class people? The only reason is, the third-class people fit with other third-class people. They are, of course, in majority. Somehow these third-class...

... have any position. She will have just like any sannyasin: be here and work here. Q:* WHY ARE YOU CONFIDENT THAT THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN IN RAJNEESHPURAM? A:* Because I am speaking. In thirty years it never happened in India because I was speaking and I was in direct contact with the sannyasins. And I don't have any power. The situation is, the people who have power are separate. The people are...

... connected with me, not because I have any power. I have no power at all. My power is of my love, my trust in them. And if I am seeing them every day, then there is no possibility for anybody to exploit the situation. They can ask questions, they can ask everything: if it is going against me.... Every day morning I am answering their questions. And in front of me the president, Hasya, is just a sannyasin...

... no more discussed, heaven and hell no more discussed. Anguish, despair, meaninglessness, boredom. And no answer is coming from any source. So it is multi-dimensional case. Man has lost the will to power, will to live. He does not see any point in living any more. And doctors have known it for long, that once a patient loses the will to live, then no medicine is going to help. Medicine can help you...

.... It has nothing to do with money or kingdom. It has nothing to do with power over people. And if somebody waits to enjoy life only when he has so much money, and so much power, and such a big kingdom, then he is never going to enjoy. He will die a beggar. [Osho told the story of alexander the great, meeting the mystic, Diogenes. Alexander felt envious of Diogenes' obvious contentment with life, but...

... means when he says again and again, 'The kingdom of god is within you,' He was not talking about the political - he was misunderstood. The Roman Emperor became afraid that he was talking about a kingdom... maybe he was after his kingdom! The priests became afraid - maybe he was after political power. He was not talking about politics at all. So when I call you a king, I'm not talking about politics...

... wrote to you about the group.] Yes. A few things I would like to say to you.... Music can be very distracting in T'ai Chi, because the whole point of T'ai Chi is to be centred, to be aware, to remain with your energy, and remain very soft. When there is music, music has tremendous power over the mind. There is nothing else like music. Once there is music, you start being pulled and pushed by it. Then...

... dancing. Music makes people dance... music has tremendous power. It simply hits your energy and you feel like dancing. And music helps people to abandon themselves, to forget themselves. So there are two types of meditative techniques. One is to forget yourself - then music is perfectly good. That's what prayer is - so in prayer you can use music. But in awareness you cannot use music, because that is...

....' Music has a tremendous power. It is alcoholic; through sound it intoxicates you. Through subtle vibrations of sound it makes you abandon yourself. So it is good for whirling, for sufi meditations, for bhakti devotion, prayer - perfectly good - but not for T'ai Chi. T'ai Chi is a taoist method. Music has no relationship with it. So right now you drop that idea. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

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... remembers the person and mentally imposes his will on the idol, the idol will become symbolic and active. I have already told you about the tilak and that the third eye, which is between the two eyebrows, has been found through the science of Yoga to have great power stored in it - it is a great transmission center. If you ask your son or a servant to do something, and you feel they may refuse, you can do...

... a small experiment. If you concentrate your energy on the center between your two eyes and tell them what you want them to do, nine times out of ten they will do it. But if you ask them without concentrating your energy that way, nine times out of ten they will not. Any idea or thought conveyed with the energy concentrated between the two eyes moves rapidly and carries with it great power. If you...

... protected for ten thousand years? - there is no deterioration at all. But we have not been able to establish which chemicals were used to preserve them. The huge stones on top of the pyramids could not have been placed there by any crane that we may possess today. It seems beyond the power of man to have put them there, but it is very unlikely that the people of that time had cranes. They must have known...

... are definitely more advanced than people who depend only on the power of their own voice to communicate, just a few hundred feet away, by shouting. But compared to those able to make a bridge to contact the supreme source of life, we are just children. Our electricity, our radio and similar discoveries are just toys. The art of being connected with the ultimate mystery of life was discovered by...

... and muscles, through the whole mechanism of the body. For example, if in my mind the thought has arisen to love you and to take your hand in mine, immediately that thought begins to travel - passing from the brain and the mechanism of the body until it reaches to my fingertips. Rudolf says that when a thought it born it has the power of one hundred units; by the time it reaches the fingertips, only...

... one unit remains. Ninety-nine units of power are used up in the transmission, in translating that thought into action. All thoughts become lifeless by the time they reach the outer surface of the body. That's why more happiness is actually experienced at the thought of taking your beloved's hand than the experience of it. At the moment of the experience you feel the experience was not as satisfying...

... to one unit. Sometimes the potentiality is zero or is even negative. If the body is sick, the energy lost as the thought travels through consumes all the power and turns it negative. So if you are sick, you may have expected to feel happy when you held your beloved's hand, but instead, by the time the thought has traveled to your hand, taking her hand makes you unhappy. The experience becomes...

... such depths.... But strangely enough, although the path is of the razor's edge, nobody has fallen from it. Everybody has felt the fear, but existence supports those who are in search of truth. Its support is unconditional. Existence does not support those who are nothing but living lies. They may have great power, but their own power will destroy them. Many civilizations have existed on the earth and...

... they destroyed themselves by their own power. We are not the first civilization in the world. Atlantis drowned - perhaps the people of Atlantis had reached a far higher civilization than we have. In India we have the story of Mahabharata, the great Indian war that happened five thousand years ago. In minute detail, the story describes weapons which can only be nuclear. The civilization had certainly...

... reached to the same point where we are. But power in the hands of ignorant, retarded crowds is self-destructive. Crowds upon crowds have come and disappeared, but not a single individual seeker has ever fallen from those heights where, David, you are feeling - "What will happen?" I have been watching you. This is perhaps your first question to me.... For all these years you have been silently...

... Sutra, rather Upset the Sutra Yourself Chapter #: 16 Location: pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive Code: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Prem Lyn. Prem means love; lyn comes from a German word "lindy"; lindy means serpent. It is a symbol of wisdom. The serpent power is our intrinsic power. It is called serpent power because it is coiled up like...

... churches: he is another name for nature. Prem Peter. Prem means love; peter means rock. Become a rock of love, because only on the rock of love can one raise the temple of life. Except for love, wherever you make the temple, you are making it on sand. It is bound to collapse sooner or later. It is a false house: just a blow of the wind and it is gone. People make houses on the foundation of money, power...

..." have also dissolved in the suchness of things, in the isness of existence, then this would have been the enlightenment. Just a little more awareness... you are very close to it. But don't take it for granted that you have arrived. The old mind tries to the very end; when you are entering the boundaries of enlightenment, then too, it goes on trying with all its power to hold you back. The...

... - they have forgotten who they are. They have gone so far away from themselves that they have forgotten their home. Drop the will, and immediately that way disappears like a dream. It has no reality of its own. The will gives its power to the way, it creates the way. So the proverb is right, but those who follow it are wrong. One need not have any will, and one need not have any way. Then sit inside...

... forces which are rotten, old, ugly, animalistic - but they are in power. And such destructive power... then these poor birds will not be able to sing anymore, these trees will not be able to have a sunbath every morning, a dance in the wind, in the rain. They are not concerned that the moon will still go on rising but there will be no poet to sing about it. There will be sunrises and sunsets, but no...