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.... Death, at least, is unique. And suicide is more unique than death. Why? - because death comes, and suicide is something that you do. Death is beyond you: when it will come, it will come. But suicide you can manage, you are not a victim. Suicide you can manage. With death you will be a victim, with suicide you will be in control. Birth has already happened - now you cannot do anything about it, and you...
... have fallen below mind, and the mystic may have gone beyond mind, but one thing is similar - both are not in their minds. In a primitive society even the madman is respected, tremendously respected. If he decides to be mad, that's okay. Society takes care for his food, for his shelter. Society loves him, loves his madness. Society has no fixed rule; then nobody commits suicide because freedom remains...
.... But a man feels as much as a woman. Then he suppresses his femininity; he goes on suppressing it -- that creates an inner conflict. Rather than using the opposite polarities to flow, rather than using the two opposite polarities as a tension, which creates aliveness, you suppress the polarity, which deadens you, which kills your sensitivity; because a man, if he is not also a woman, is half...
... sacrament. You walk in the sun, and what more do you need? You breathe -- what else is needed to be happy? You love -- what more are you asking? Everything is already given; you are just trying to be exceptional. Follow the rule, the common, and don't try to be the exception, otherwise you will be in misery. Hell is for all extraordinary people. They may be in politics, in art, literature -- wherever they...
..., and all the puritans have been against it, and all the governments have tried to curb and control, but it seems beyond any government to control it. What has been the cause of it? It gives something ... it gives a glimpse into the innocent mind of the child again. Through chemical impact, the mind becomes loosened for a few moments or a few hours. Under the impact of the drug your thinking slips...
... night I am incapable, I am unconscious, so the hole discipline and control disappears." Sigmund Freud's insight is very valuable, that to know about a man you have to know his dreams, not his waking life. His waking life is pseudo. His real life asserts itself in his dreams, because his dreams are more natural -- no repression, no discipline, no control. Hence, psychoanalysis does not bother...
... at the roadside were having a conversation. I happened to be passing by and overheard them. One said, "I wonder what is the purpose of life." "Life is only to live. What else can you do?" replied the other. You are of the second beggar's opinion: you feel what else is there to do in life apart from living? And even that is out of your control; it depends on an infinite number of...
...! Your feet are firmly placed. Here he is filled with self-remembering. He is in total command of his senses. In the intoxication of the drunkard he can commit all sort of mistakes and go astray! In the intoxication of turiya it is impossible for a person to do wrong. Akbar set out one day on his elephant to take a ride around his capital. As he was passing through the streets, a man standing on a roof...
..., you keep adding fresh hindrances at every step. There are people in this world who regulate their lives with control and restraint. They must take each step carefully so as not to go astray. But restraint is not the end; awareness is the ultimate goal. The invitation to wander is always beckoning inside. However much you impose restraints, the raging passions will bring you down at the slightest...
... all religion is filled with such stupidities. Some send water to ancestors, some bathe in the Ganges to wash away sins, yet others sit before idols without any feeling of worship or adoration, merely to ask for worldly things. A thousand foolishnesses prevail in the name of religion. Therefore Nanak insists that religion is not attained through scriptures, nor through tradition and customs, nor...
... he is the Lord of Laxmi, the deity of wealth. So those who lust for wealth worship Vishnu. This is worth pondering over; if you want to approach a man it is best to go through his wife. Not only in ordinary matters of the world does this method apply, but even in matters of the spirit. The rule is: please the wife and the master is bound to be pleased. Please Laxmi and Vishnu is pleased. Vishnu...
... strength, fails before death. This is why we make such efforts not to remember death. If we do remember death our conceit cannot stand up. It falls limp when we confront ourselves helpless before death. Our arrogance cannot accept it. I - a helpless person? I, who am so strong, so powerful; how can I be helpless? So it is best to suppress the fact of death, and then the ego is not hurt! The wise man...
...! The emperor was embarrassed. Hc had come with his whole court and the queens. "What will they think? And what kind of man have I come to receive?" He tried to overlook it out of politeness. He did not want to ask the question, "Why is this shoe on your head?" But Bodhidharma would not leave him. He said, "Don't try to overlook it. Ask directly and be straight from the very...
...; He had brought everybody's specimen! During the reign of the gestapo in Germany, Schloss and Hirsch were walking along a Munich street, when an SS officer approached them. Schloss had proper credentials but Hirsch did not. "Quick," said Hirsch, "you run that way. The nazi will follow you and I'll be able to get away." Schloss tore off in the direction indicated, pursued by the...
... astrologers were called by his father to inquire what he was going to become. All the astrologers except the one who was the youngest raised two fingers. The father asked, "What do you mean by two fingers?" They said, "Either he is going to become a chakravartin, a world conqueror, a world emperor, who will rule all the six continents, or he is going to become a renunciate, a sannyasin, who...
... loosened. Then the mind is no longer powerful over you, then you are released a little. But that no has to be said again continuously. Even if you listen to the mind for one day, again the whole power of mind will return to dominate and possess you. So just a moment's going astray, and all is lost. The man of austerities is doing better; he is doing something more permanent than the man of chanting...
... are somebody in particular, you become convinced yourself. There was a strict rule in the mental asylum: no pets.The warder heard poor Harry talking to a dog called Rover, and marched into his padded cell. There was Harry, leading a tube of toothpaste around on a piece of string. "What is that?" asked the warder. Harry looked at him in surprise. "Surely any fool can see it is just a...
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