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....' Jesus can understand the ego, the ego of the righteous man, the ego of the puritan, the ego of the holy man, the ego of the saint. But the ego, whether it is of a saint or a sinner makes no difference; it is the same ego. I came across a sentence of Richard Nixon's:'Violence has no place in America. Anyone who preaches violence should be shot like a dog!' Beware of the cunningness of the mind. This...
... there are Hindus who go on talking about peace, but they have an ideology. There are even Jains who talk of non-violence, peace, no war, but they have an ideology - and if you have an ideology you are the cause of war. A world without wars will be a world without ideologies. A world without wars can be based only on a nonideological love. Love is not an ideology, it is not a theology, it is not a...
... completely in it, you can even have a glimpse of the third through it. And if sex becomes a total orgasmic experience, there are rare moments when you can even have a glimpse of the fourth, the TURIYA, the beyond, through it. But if sex fails, then many perversions happen to the mind. These perversions are expressed in hatred. Hatred is a failure of sex, a failure of love energy. Violence, lust for money...
... showering on you, you don't seek and search for it. But when you miss it there, then a great urge arises to seek power: politics is born. Then wars, continuous violence, are born; hatred, anger, and a thousand and one types of perversions. People become attached too much to things when sex fails, because then they cannot be attached to persons. Because to be related to a person you have to flow, you have...
... humanity is starving. It is unbelievable that man can develop such complex technology that the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb can become possible, and they cannot even find a cure for the common cold - I was suffering for two days! Simply, everything looks foolish. The whole of science is war-oriented, violence-oriented, destructive. If everything goes well with sex - which is very difficult because all...
..., just as you enjoy a bullfight or Mohammed Ali's boxing. All these are of the same type, there is not much difference: what you are enjoying is violence. But the elephant was bound to kill him - where could he escape? This elephant was sent to kill Buddha, but even the mad elephant recognized, when he saw Buddha, that this man was finished with all his karmas; you could not hurt him - rather this was...
..., gusto for fighting. He drove India into a kind of third world war, in which almost the whole country was devastated and destroyed. Everybody - whosoever was alive - became so shaken and afraid of war that they were ready to do anything rather than go to war. And then came Buddha and Mahavira who started talking about non-violence. That appealed very much to people who were so tired of war. And they...
... had seen such a great war that they never wanted to have anything to do with it again. It would be better to be slaves rather than to have such a war and such destruction. Mahabharata is the name of the war, the great Indian war; after that there have been only battles - nothing like the great Indian war. Its magnitude was almost universal: whatsoever was known of the world at that time, every part...
... cows would drink together in a river or in a pond. That seems to be just a lie, a fiction. But what are they saying? They are saying that when a man of nonviolence like Mahavira is present, then violence disappears, even from animals. The lion who would immediately grab hold of the cow is drinking water and the cow is drinking water with the lion, unafraidthere is no problem because Mahavira is there...
...; Mahavira's son-in-law went against him, he betrayed him. He took five hundred disciples of Mahavira with him. Lions are losing their violence, cows are losing their cowardliness - and Mahavira's own son-in-law has not dropped ambition, jealousy, competition, the whole power number! And he not only left, he had enough influence that five hundred other disciples went with him; he had a clique. Now seeing...
..., of nation. All are stupidities. The time has come when the earth should be one. That's the only way to save it from destruction. There is no need for negotiation between the Soviet Union and America. There should be no Soviet Union and no America! What is the need? Each city should be a self-sufficient unit in itself Only once, and only for a short while, a little democracy has existed in the world...
...;tit for tat" is the most fundamental law. If somebody throws a brick at you, reply by throwing a rock at him. If somebody takes one of your eyes, take both the eyes of that man... murder for murder, violence for violence. And Jesus says, "If somebody hits you on one cheek, give him the other cheek too because God is love." But the Old Testament God is not love. God himself declares...
... they impressed him very much. And he started contemplating whether to become a Christian or not. He was born in Gujarat, which is very much influenced by Jaina philosophy. Even the Hindus of Gujarat are almost Jainas. And from his very childhood he had seen Jaina monks and he was very much impressed by the Jaina monks and their idea of non-violence. He wanted to become a Mahavira - but it is always...
... worthy of it but you made me. I am not worthy to be sent back, but still, your compassion is great. At least one time more, send me back." Life remains growing. Nothing ever is perfect -- or whenever something is perfect it disappears, it goes into annihilation. The Buddhist word is nirvana. Nirvana means annihilation, nirvana means cessation. Literally, nirvana means "blowing out the candle...
...." Just as you blow out a candle and suddenly the light is gone, gone forever, has disappeared into nothingness -- that is nirvana. All the buddhas say whosoever becomes perfect moves into nirvana, goes into annihilation. Don't hanker for a perfect painting, Murti, otherwise the painter will die. And you have yet to sing many songs. And the painting cannot be perfect, the song and the dance cannot...
... inhuman, that is violence. And whenever you find a saint trying to fix you into some system, trying to force you into some system, remember, he is a murderer, he is very violent. His violence may have a sugar coating to it - all your so-called mahatmas are like that, very violent, tremendously violent people; trying to fix you into a mould. The mould is prefabricated. The mould was already there when...
... non-violent; a really non-violent man accepts all violence that is inside him. A very sexual man goes on trying to become celibate; a real celibate accepts all the sexuality that is in him. A sinner goes on pretending to be a saint. A real saint is one who knows how many possibilities of getting into sin are still alive in him. Now he says: "Now I am getting a feeling that I am becoming brave...
... CAN WE STOP THOSE GREEDY HANDS WHICH ARE TORTURING NATURE AND ENSLAVING MEN IF WE DON'T FIGHT AND STRUGGLE? IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE OLD NOT NECESSARY FOR THE BUILDING OF THE NEW? Giovanni, THAT is one of the oldest traps into which man has fallen again and again. Yes, I say the world is a very beautiful world, but it is in wrong hands - immediately your mind starts thinking how to destroy those...
... down the ages. Joseph Stalin proved a far more dangerous czar than the czars that had ruled Russia before communism took over. Why? - because he had learned the strategy from the czars. Fighting with the czars, he had to learn the ways and means, the same ways and means that they were using. The whole life spent in fighting, practising violence: by the time Joseph Stalin came to power he was a czar...
..., far more dangerous obviously, because he had succeeded against the czars. He must have been' more cunning, must have been more violent, must have been more ambitious, must have been more Machiavellian. Otherwise it would have been impossible to win against the czars. And he did the same on a far greater scale: he defeated all the czars! All the czars put together had never done so much violence, so...
... disappear?" Question 1: Maneesha has asked a similar question: OUR BELOVED MASTER, NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD WANT TO BE EXTINGUISHED. SO WHO OR WHAT IS IT INSIDE US THAT FEELS A PULL TOWARDS OBLITERATION? It was absolutely right to ask Buddha, "Your teaching is strange: meditating seems to be the ultimate suicide. Why should one desire extinction?" But Buddha's answer was very clear...
... ultimate annihilation, dissolving into the universe - so that you don't have any personal needs, any personal problems; so that you don't have any burden, not even of being, because being is also a burden. Buddha's insight is so great that he is still ahead of his time. Even though twenty-five centuries have passed, he has not yet found his contemporaries, because what he is saying is so ultimately true...
... Indians here; they are all against me. Again they find another buddha teaching annihilation, extinction, teaching ultimate death. But only very intelligent people can understand it. Buddhism is for the most sophisticated, for the most intelligent. It is not for the ordinary people, for the mediocre. They will go on suffering, but they will never understand that their very being is suffering. Non-being...
... subtle weapon - minding. They have dangerous teeth, dangerous nails; they are more powerful than man; they can instantly kill a man completely. But they lack one weapon - minding. Because of that weapon, man could kill, survive. So the mind is a survival measure. It is needed; it is necessary, and it is violent. The mind is violent, it is part of the long violence man has had to pass through. It has...
... been built through violence. So whenever you sit down, you will feel inner violence - thoughts rushing, violent thoughts, a turmoil, as if you are going to explode. That is why no one wants to sit silently. Everyone comes and says, "Give me some support, some inner support. I cannot just sit silently. Give me a name that I can repeat like 'Ram,Ram,Ram...' Give me a name that I can repeat; then I...
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