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... great humanity and compassion that Kedarnath left the ashram in the middle of the night just to avoid a clash, because now it was becoming clear that Mahatma Gandhi had lost control of his own disciples. Kedarnath did not want to create any conflict. Sri Aurobindo had a certain clarity. He was not an enlightened man of the category of J. Krishnamurti or Meher Baba, but he was very close. Perhaps one...
... of people who are attentive to them. It is a politics of numbers. The Catholic pope is against birth control, against abortion, not because he is compassionate, saying, "This is absolute cruelty and violence," not because he is life- affirmative -- the whole Catholic attitude is life-negative, it is against life. Then why this insistence that there should be no birth control and no...
... awarded prizes by the Indian government, all because she is taking care of orphans. But nobody thinks that that care simply means converting those orphans into Catholics. Naturally Mother Teresa cannot be in favor of birth control -- from where will she get the orphans? Christianity cannot be in favor of a world which is rich. The scientists are declaring continually that we have come to such a point of...
.... Brahmacharya is energy. Not to be angry is energy. But this is not suppression. If you suppress anger, you have used energy again. Don't suppress - observe and follow. don't fight - just move backwards with the anger. This is the purest method of awareness. But certain other things can be used. For beginners certain devices are possible. So I will talk about three devices. One type of device is based on body...
... it. But you can look only if you are not active. If you begin to act, your mind is distracted. Don't act inside. Anger is there - don't act, don't condemn, don't appreciate, don't indulge in it, and don't suppress it. Don't do anything - just look at it! observe it! Understand the distinction. What happens ordinarily is quite the reverse. If you are angry, then your mind is focused on the cause of...
.... This man does not know the rule of opposites. If he stops speaking altogether, he will keep on talking within, all twenty-four hours of the day. He will never be able to observe silence. He alone can attain silence who, when he speaks, speaks with such authenticity that his whole being pervades his speech - so much so that his within becomes a void and it is his very soul that shapes the words. When...
... such a man stops speaking, he enters perfect silence. Life works on the rule of opposites. If you speak with all your being, with perfect authenticity, you will enter silence as soon as you stop speaking. But we think otherwise. We say that in order to be silent one should not speak. If we had no sleep at night we feel we should stop all activity in the day. If we desire peace, we shun all places...
... the conditions that give rise to anger - his serenity is a deception. This is so ninety-nine times out of one hundred. Otherwise there is no reason to fear these conditions and run away from them. "HE WHO EMBRACES THIS TAO GUARDS AGAINST BEING OVERFULL." This is yet another basic rule of Tao. "BECAUSE HE GUARDS AGAINST BEING OVERFULL, HE IS BEYOND WEARING OUT AND RENEWAL." These...
... same rule that applies to the veena applies to life also. If the strings of life are allowed to fall loose in worldly pleasures, they create no music. If they are strung too tight in the performance of penance, they create no melody either. In the strings of life, also, there is a state when they are not too tight nor too loose, when a man is neither at one extreme nor the other. Then only is the...
... should not be alive twenty-four hours." There are proper times to cry. But when a child feels like laughing what is he supposed to do? He has to control, and when you control your laughter it goes bitter and sour within you. The energy that was going out has been held back. Holding back the energy, you become stuck. The child wanted to reach out, to run around, to jump and jog and dance; now he is...
... would like to flow. Life is flow; death is frozenness. Unhappiness comes because many of your parts are frozen. They were never allowed to function and, by and by, you have learned the trick to control them. Now you have even forgotten that you are controlling something. You have lost your roots in the body. You have lost your roots in the truth of your body. People are living like ghosts; that's why...
... have to meditate, and you will have to drop all the controls. You will have to unlearn, undo, and then for the first time you will again become flowing. Of course, discipline is needed, not as control but as awareness. A controlled discipline is a deadening phenomenon. When you are alert, aware, a discipline comes easily out of that awareness - not that you force it, not that you plan it. No, moment...
... you are trying to do against it, but it is the same process. You don't allow things to happen; you always want to remain in control. Now, you even want to remain in control of let-go, and that's what is creating the conflict. It is so clear that your energy is moving in two directions. The first thing: accept it, so that the energy starts moving in one direction. Accept it as one accepts one's...
...; Rabindranath has written: "I could, by and by, control myself and bring my ecstasy under control, with great effort. Otherwise I yearned to embrace everybody and everything I met. Until now I was yearning and praying, 'Oh God, where is your door?' Now God was my door, and now wherever I looked I saw his door. Up until now I was searching for him and asking, 'Where are you hiding?' But now I was amazed...
... people. In four years not a single child was born. All methods of birth control should be used, and the pill, to me, is the greatest revolution that has happened in the whole history of man. It is such a simple method. THE PILL HAS OFTEN BEEN FOUND TO BE CANCER-PRODUCING. No. This is just the idea spread by popes, priests, Mother Teresa. These are the criminals who are teaching people to go on...
... man also, so there is no need for that kind of experiment again. Swallowing a pill is not much of a problem. NOW THAT YOU'RE BACK IN INDIA, DO YOU THINK IT'S IN THE AREA OF POPULATION CONTROL THAT YOU'RE GOING TO APPLY MOST OF YOUR TIME AND ENERGY? No. My time and energy is applied to the people who are working for spiritual growth. But I am not one-dimensional; I look around at the whole situation...
.... So moments of crisis are both... and that is what is happening all around the world. There has never been so intense a search for spiritual growth, for meditation. But there has never been so much madness either. Both are happening because the status quo is no longer powerful; it has lost control. When Galileo found that the earth moves around the sun, not vice versa as THE BIBLE says, the pope...
... world, a man like Gautam Buddha or Chuang Tzu or Pythagoras is possible, we can conceive that in the atmosphere that the new mind will create, a thousandfold more awakened people, enlightened people will become easily possible. If the new mind can prevail then life can become an enlightening process. And enlightenment will not be something rare, that it happens once in a while to somebody very special...
... difference; you can also threaten them. And you can threaten them in such a way that they will have to accept your right to choose what you want to do. I made it absolutely clear to them, "If you can convince me that what you are saying is right, I will do it. But if you cannot convince me then please don't dictate. Then you are teaching me to be a fascist; you are not helping me to be a liberated man...
... sitting in a stagecoach and a lady entered. She said to Dr. Johnson, 'Sir, you smell!' But he was a man of language, letters, a grammarian. He said, 'No, madam. You smell. I stink!' Smell is a capacity. 'You smell. I stink.' Linguistically he is right. That's how it should be if you follow grammar. But the very word has become very condemnatory. What has happened to smell? Once you suppress sex, smell...
... really alive. A really alive life is, in a way, chaotic. In a way, I say, because that chaos has its own discipline. It has no rules because it need not have any rules. It has the most basic rule in- built in it -- it need not have any external rules. Now the Zen story. ONE WINTER DAY, A MASTERLESS SAMURAI CAME TO EISAI'S TEMPLE AND MADE AN APPEAL: 'I AM POOR AND SICK,' HE SAID, 'AND MY FAMILY IS DYING...
... samurai was bewildered. He had not expected this. Even he must have thought that this was sacrilege. What type of man is this? He is a follower of Buddha and he has destroyed the statue. Even to touch the statue is sacrilege and he has taken away the halo. This is the difference between a real religious person and a so-called religious person. The so-called religious person always Looks to the rule; he...
... like I don't have the courage to be authentic and just let things flow through me.] That is not the problem. The problem arises because of the choice. In the old days people were taught to hold themselves. That was the idea - to hold oneself... to remain centred, in control. That has been the ideal for all the ages past: the controlled man, the disciplined man, the man who holds his energy in himself...
... be worried. Don't hold... don't try any control on your part, that's all. If energy itself is storing, that's the moment to store, that's the moment to conserve; that is the moment to become a reservoir of energy. When the reservoir is full, it will overflow. Then don't hinder it when it overflows - that is another moment, the other extreme of sharing, of going out, moving on the periphery, living...
... little hungry. It is good to get up when you are still feeling a little hungry. Fill the stomach three-quarters, rather than feeling nauseous and stuffing yourself, and having to be carried out by others. That is not good. And directly from the table to the hospital is not good (laughter). That is the rule, the law for everything. When you are still feeling good in a relationship, it is very very...
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