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... need for me to do anything more. I can rest.' Life does not believe in rest; it is a constant movement from perfection to more perfection. Listen to me: from perfection to more perfection. It is never imperfect, it is always perfect, but always more perfection is possible. Logically these statements are absurd. I was reading an anecdote.... A man was charged with using counterfeit money to pay a bill...
.... At his hearing, the defendant pleaded that he didn't know the money was phony. Pressed for proof, he admitted: 'Because I stole it. Would I be stealing money that I knew was counterfeit?' After thinking it over, the Judge decided that made good sense, so he then tossed out the counterfeit charge. But he substituted a new charge - theft. 'Sure, I stole it,' the defendant conceded amiably. 'But...
... counterfeit money has no legal value. Since when is it a crime to steal nothing?' No one could find any flaw in his logic, so the man went free. But logic won t do in life. You cannot go free so easily. You can come out of a legal trap legally and logically because the trap consists of Aristotelian logic - you can use the same logic to come out of it. But in life you will not be able to come out because of...
... on radio consisted of nothing but silence. On one of his radio shows, Jack Benny, notoriously the cheapest man in the world - at least in the image he has built up for himself - was stopped by a thief who said, 'Your money or your life!" There followed a lengthening silence, and in due course the audience, catching on, began to laugh louder and louder and louder. Finally, just in case there...
... were a few people who didn't get the point, the thief said, once the laughter had died down, 'Come on! Your money or your life!" To which Mr. Benny replied, 'I'm thinking. I'm thinking.' " Money or life? If life is gone, what are you going to do with the money? If you have understood me, in that very understanding is the dropping of the ego. Not that you drop it. How can you drop it? You...
... rests with the hormones, with your body's chemistry. Or, seeing money may drive you crazy, so much so that you may completely forget what you are doing. Hindus used this story to indicate that even a moment of sensuality hides the eternal Brahman. But Buddha used the story quite differently. It will help if you understood some of the basic differences between Hindu and Buddhist thinking. Hindus say...
... continues. Until yesterday you were accumulating wealth - counting the piles of money again and again everyday - now you will accumulate virtue, but the accumulation continues. Virtue is as much of a wealth to you as money. And remember, just as money is also a social recognition and virtue is also a social recognition. That one hundred rupee bill of yours is a one hundred rupee bill because the society...
... revive a dead man. So those people have put all their money in a trust - that their bodies should be preserved exactly as they were when they died. So if, after ten or fifteen years, science becomes capable of reviving the body, their bodies will be revived. Do you see man's ambitions, his poverty, his inferiority, his fear of death, his lust for life? Even after death they are hoping...! And millions...
... of dollars are being wasted on their bodies because they have a trust; it is their money. They are being preserved, frozen, completely frozen. And even if after fifteen years they come back, what are they going to do? They won't see anybody around whom they had left. Their wives may have gone, their children may have died. And who will want them - even if the children are there? Who would like to...
...,"' the man said. "'Who are you to prevent me? I am purchasing the buffalo with my own money; I am not asking you to give me money. Who are you to decide it?" "Then my friend said, ?I have told you this is not going to happen just because by the side of your field is my farm. If your buffalo enters my farm, I am telling you, I will kill the buffalo. I don't want any nuisance around...
... THESE YEARS, GOVERNMENTS ARE STILL SPENDING MOST OF THEIR MONEY MAKING THESE NUCLEAR WEAPONS. CAN YOU PLEASE COMMENT? The sixth of August can never be forgotten. That day we proved that civilization has not happened to humanity yet, that we are barbarians, that we are cannibals, that we are still animals. Darwin is wrong; the whole idea of evolution is just imagination. Instead of believing in Darwin...
... dying and starving, and they are preparing death for others, knowing perfectly well that now there is no time to become in any way a great world power. Russia and America are so far ahead that by the time you reach that point, they would have moved again, miles further ahead. Now there is no way for them to catch up. It is sheer stupidity on the part of other countries to waste their money on nuclear...
... money goes into making destructive things, no money goes into the service of death. And you should remember, seventy-five percent of the energy of all the nations is going into the service of death. This seventy-five percent of the energy should become available to the poor, the downtrodden. And can you imagine? Seventy-five percent of the finances, if released from the service of death, can make this...
... not relevant. The relevant thing is - you change. Have a totally different vision. What do I mean? There are two types of vision in the world. One, of the unenlightened person. That vision is: accumulate more, whatsoever it is - money? okay; meditation? okay - accumulate more, have more of it. The unenlightened person is interested in having. He knows only one way of being and that is having - have...
... a big house, have a big car, have more money, have more virtue, have more bank balance - in this world and the other also - have more... more women, more men, more love affairs - have more. His only idea of being is having more. Having has nothing to do with being. You can have the whole world - being is not going to result that way. You can have the whole world at your feet, and you will remain...
... - you can have a bigger house, there is no problem about it. Certainly you can have more money. Even if you are a Rockefeller you can have more money. Even if you are a president of a country you can have more power. Even if you are a great saint you can have more virtue. But the whole... the dimension of having is always the dimension of discontent. You can always have more. Imagination has...
... will be very difficult for him to become rich. Money is not poetry: money is blood, money is exploitation. A poet worth the name cannot exploit. And a poet worth the name will have some vision of beauty. He cannot be so ugly himself as to deprive so many people just for his desire to hoard money. Now, you want to become a politician, and you also want to meditate; you want to become a medita- tor too...
... you trust yourself? And I am not saying that you are not to book for the train if you are going tomorrow. I am not saying that you are not to think ahead, how much money you have and how much you can waste in a certain thing and how much you have to save - those are trivia; they don't disturb you, they are mundane things. When I am saying don't project into the future, I mean the psychological...
... Theresa that she wanted to make a great cathedral, one of the most beautiful in the world. She gathered the people of the village where she lived - poor people; they all laughed. They said 'But where - from where are we going to get that much money?' She said 'Don't worry, I have money.' They laughed even more; they thought 'This woman has gone completely mad - because she is a beggar! What money has...
... again and again. And to be trapped by the mind is to be in misery. To be free of the mix(l is to know what bliss is, is to know what benediction is. The last question: Question 4: I HAVE BEEN OBSERVING THAT WHENEVER PRESS PEOPLE COME TO THE ASHRAM THEY ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEGATIVE - SEX, MONEY, ETCETERA, ETCETERA. CAN'T THEY SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE? They can see. They see it but they...
... hankering for it. People are interested in money - their whole interest is in money, money is their god. So when the newspaper people come here, that is natural; they will only be looking for something negative. And if they can find it... and you can always find it; whatsoever you search for, you will find. The rosebush has thorns too, and they only look for the thorns. And not only that, they magnify the...
... foolish questions. Even at the very edge, when death is coming, we go on asking the same routine, rotten questions, and we go on seeking for answers. I have heard, it happened in a bank, the bank robber shoved a note across to the teller which read: "Put the money in a bag, sucker, and don't make a move." The teller quickly wrote out a note and shoved it back: "Straighten your tie, stupid...
...;Before I leave my body I would like to know one thing - whether this man I have been serving for thirty years has yet attained or not." The suspicion is natural, because the man has not yet abandoned the whip and the rope. The prostitute asked, "What am I supposed to do?" The woman said, "I will give you as much money as you want. You just go in the middle of the night. He will be...
.... Knowing also, he goes on moving in the old trap, in the old track, in the old routine. He is a weakling - that he knows, repents. Many times he decides not to go into the old trap again, but again goes. He knows his weaknesses, his limitations. His ego cannot be very sharp. It happened: Mulla Nasruddin went to a psychiatrist. He said, "I don't have much money, I don't have any time to waste on that...
... 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...
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