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... the first time.... Six years before he had dropped the kingdom and all the material things of the world, all possessions. He had carried only one longing - for truth. This night, with the full moon in the sky, he dropped that longing too, because that longing had become his desire, and whenever there is even a small desire, mind continues. It does not matter whether you desire money or God, it does...
... Melvin. "In the dark?" The Medical Corporation of America decides that there is only one way to cure AIDS, and that is with money - lots of money. So they arrange with all three TV networks in America to have a giant AIDS-Telethon, to take place on Saturday night. The idea is that Rock Hunk, the famous movie star, will make love to five hundred women on TV, while the American public phones in...
... its pledges. On the big night, Rock Hunk gets up to four hundred and seventy-five women and the money is pouring in. Rockefeller Foundation phones in and donates millions, NASA phones in and donates the funds for the space program. Even Ronald Reagan phones in and donates Nancy's dress fund. Money is pouring in, and it looks like AIDS is going to be cured for sure. But when Rock gets to four hundred...
... and ninety-five, he passes out. They throw buckets of iced water on him and he staggers to his feet and wobbles over to the next woman. At four hundred and ninety-eight, it looks like he is really finished, but the woman somehow manages to arouse him, and the money keeps pouring in. But at four hundred and ninety-nine, Rock passes out, and no one is able to wake him up. The whole country is furious...
... to rush. This was a totally different world view, the world view of timelessness. The East has never been worried about time, about lack of time. The East has never said that time is money. The whole idea that time is money is just stupid. Time as such exists not. Time exists in your desire, in your mind. That which really exists is eternity. It is always there, it has always been there. So the...
... America, nowhere else. The author says in the introduction: 'Are you unemployed? Are you ill? Are you without a woman or without a man? Are you poor? Would you like to have better health, more money? Would you like to win over a woman or a man? Would you like to defeat your enemy? Or anything? Then here is the key.' And this man is pretending to be a spiritual Master. 'Here is the key.' And as a proof...
... path and the possibilities of going astray; who is aware of how many pitfalls there are; who is aware of how many wrong turns there are; who is aware of how many false doors there are and who is aware of the arduous work that one has to do. And a real Master will not promise you instant enlightenment - that is just stupid. There are no short cuts. One has to grow slowly, patiently. Money may be...
... possible instantly - you can become a thief - but you cannot steal God, you cannot become that kind of thief. Money is possible - you can deceive the income tax officer, or the income tax department - but how are you going to deceive God? Money is possible instantly if you use wrong means, but if you use wrong means in your spiritual growth you will be self-destructive. Wrong means are not possible there...
..., trying to make great effort to attain something which once attained they will not know what to do with. That's how people are running after money, after political power. Once you have it you don't know what to do with it. A woman was saying to another woman, "Are you not worried about your husband? He continuously goes on chasing women, any woman - and you know it!" And the other woman...
... money...and then they don't know what to do with it. The accidental man is foolish. The wise man moves deliberately, takes each step consciously. His life is a constant inquiry for truth. He does not go astray. He remains alert in every one of his acts - not because of others. He remains alert because it is only by being alert that he will become integrated, that he will become crystallized. THE FOOL...
... to manage for the money. He may have to borrow, it may take years for him to pay, but he has to purchase it. His ego is hurt. People are living imitatively, very carelessly. Among the Eskimos there is a tradition, a very beautiful tradition, that each year, the first day of the year, every family looks in the house for what is unnecessary and what is necessary - they sort things out. And only what...
... that to show him how little she cares for his money he can make love to her for as long as it takes the hundred thousand francs to burn. He comes back the next day with the money, lays ten bills out in a line with the ends just overlapping, lights the first one and leaps into bed with her. As the last bill burns away, she pushes him off her. "Well, I have had you," he says triumphantly...
... desire, a hope - you feel it, you have it, you are it. HE MEDITATES.... Buddha is not for prayer, he is for meditation, because prayer is again somehow a kind of desiring. When you pray, you desire. Prayer is always for the future; prayer means you are asking for something. You may not be asking for money, you may be asking for God himself, but it is the same. Ask, and you have moved away. Meditation...
... stop either, because it makes you frightened to stop. Everybody else is doing so much, everybody else is achieving, reaching, fulfilling their ambitions, how can you stop? You have to go on, and you have to go on with great speed and great gusto and enthusiasm. And you don't know where you are going, what the goal is. What do you really want to achieve in life? Money? And even if you achieve much...
... money what will you do with it? You can purchase more misery, of course, when you have more money; that's what you are going to do. You will go on purchasing the same things that you are purchasing now. Of course, you can purchase them in bigger quantities, that's all. You will live in bigger houses, but you will live; the house is not going to live it. If you are anxious in a small house you may be...
... more anxious in a bigger house, because you will have more space to be anxious in. If you are ignorant, utterly ignorant of yourself, how is money going to help? How is being famous going to help? You may become a world-renowned person, but that will not change anything. Your inner darkness will remain the same; it may even become darker. The first thing Buddha says is: ...THE MASTER DIRECTS HIS...
... woman, more money, more power, more prestige, so these are the things I also need. Unless I have all these things, how can I be happy?" You make your happiness conditional. And the moment a man makes his happiness conditional he is doomed; he will remain unhappy his whole life. Happiness is not conditional; nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed - and that you are, you already...
.... Many thoughts will crowd your mind, many things. The mind will say, "Why are you wasting your time? You could have earned a little money. At least you could have gone to a film, entertained yourself, or you could have relaxed and gossiped. You could have watched the TV or listened to the radio, or at least you could have read the newspaper you have not seen. Why are you wasting your time?"...
... confusion. I am doing nothing, just clearing the whole confusion that has been put into your mind. They say: Don't desire the world, don't desire worldly objects, don't desire money, don't desire power, prestige - desire God, desire enlightenment, desire heaven, desire virtue. But when you desire virtue, when you desire God, nothing has changed in you. Only the object of desire has changed. Desiring has...
... remained the same. First you were desiring money, now you desire God. The object has changed, now you have an other-worldly object, but have you gone through any transformation? You still desire. The nature of desire is the same, it doesn't depend on the object. God or money makes no difference. You desire - that is the thing. Because in desire, you have moved into the future. In desire you have already...
.... That's how you miss! Desire allows you space to move into nowhere; and you are always here, your concrete existence is always in the present. But the desire helps to create other worlds which are not. Look at a man desiring money. He has ten thousand rupees - he cannot enjoy them because he is desiring ten lakhs of rupees. He is miserable. Those ten thousand don't make him rich. He is miserable. Those...
.... You understand - it has disappeared. Not that you drop desire, because I know, how can you drop it? You can drop it only if some other desire is substituted. If I say: Drop the desire of money because then you can attain to God! - you can drop it, because I am giving you another object to desire. You can drop the old - because with the old you yourself have already become frustrated and fed up. Now...
... always make a joke out of it because they cannot understand. For them God is truth. For the people of the heart God is love. And for the people of the body, the world is God: their money, their house, their car, their power, their prestige. A man who is body oriented needs a different type of religion. In fact only just now in the West, particularly in America, a new sort of work has started which is...
... would look for their situation. If their situation was fulfilled they would receive food; otherwise they would come back without food. The whole town would feel sad, unfortunate, that a monk had returned without food - "That simply shows that we are unfortunate people. We have missed a blessing that could have happened." This luxurious, rich country was not only luxurious and rich in money...
... to see a few of my paintings. He said, "You are mad - these paintings are far superior to mine. You can earn so much money, you can become world famous. I said, "I accept your first statement. You said, 'You are mad' - I am! That's why I am not going to leave these footprints of a madman for others to travel and follow." I have destroyed all those. I love poetry. I have written...
... sick; all the doctors should pay him. Confucius suggested that doctors should be paid for keeping people healthy, not for curing them. Everybody should have a personal physician. Every body should register himself with one physician as his personal physician, and he should pay him every month a certain amount of money for keeping him healthy, If he becomes sick the money is not to be paid to the...
... things." So they arranged for him to see the girl - just in the next village there was a beautiful girl. Gadadhar was so happy when he was dressed in new clothes, and it was almost a procession which went to the other village to see the girl. His mother had put one silver rupee in his pocket "just in case you need it." They were poor people - one rupee was a lot of money. The girl came...
... happen: science will take on a new dimension, as it took on once in the East; and the second thing will be a rise in religious consciousness. If you are no longer preparing for war and wasting seventy-five to eighty percent of your energy, life, and money preparing to destroy - if that eighty percent of energy is released to eat, drink, and be merry, if the eighty percent of energy is released to go to...
... standard of their education goes on falling. Consolidate universities so that each state has one university, all other universities become colleges affiliated to that university. There is no need for so many universities. It is a wastage of money; and when you have so many universities you cannot get the best geniuses as professors. To do that, India has many services, for example, the Indian...
... served with the best that was possible. People loved them, respected them: they have done something totally new. The Hindu religious leaders were not beggars - they were living in richness, accumulating more and more money. They were just ordinary. Gautam Buddha and Mahavira created a problem for Hindu monks, because the monks were no longer respected by the people. They could not be compared with...
...? They all have to go naked. And if you are wasting eight hours just for your clothes, when are you going to earn money for your food? When are you going to earn money to make a shelter for yourself? You need a thousand and one things. The mother is sick, she needs medicine. The father dies, now some money is needed for his cremation; at least you will need wood to cremate him. Your children will grow...
... up, their marriages will have to be arranged, you will need some money. From where is all this going to come? - your whole day is spent in spinning! Who is going to farm the lands? And who is going to create the vegetables, the fruits, and all kinds of necessities? If Gandhi is followed, India is going to commit suicide. I would like to say to Rajiv Gandhi: Be finished with Gandhism. That is poison...
... short: just a few years ago I was also a businessman like you, and beggars used to catch hold of me on the street. Everything was going wonderfully. Then a catastrophe...." The man became interested. He said, "Then what happened?" Mulla Nasruddin said, "My business was very good, money was pouring in continuously. I was a very industrious worker, totally absorbed in my business...
.... And I had a motto on my table: 'Think constructively! Act decisively!' and money continued pouring in. And then..." Mulla Nasruddin's frame started convulsing and he said, "then my wife burned the motto. That motto, 'Think constructively! Act decisively!' - the whole thing depended on that motto. And my wife burned it! That was the greatest catastrophe, and that has led me to this sad...
... a crowd." Nasruddin said, "But the dream was such... let me first tell you the dream. In the dream I went to a wife auction - such beautiful women. One woman fetched ten thousand rupees, another five thousand, and many for thousands. "I had no money. I tried and tried but there was no money. I looked in all my pockets" - and he had one pocket, he would never look in it - he...
... well it is not there." He said, "I looked even in that special pocket - and no money. I was weeping and crying." But his wife was not interested in this. She asked, "Nasruddin, and were there wives there like me also?" She asked foolishly, as any woman will ask, because no woman is interested in other beautiful women; rather, she felt jealous. She asked, "What about...
... wives like me? How much were they fetching?" Nasruddin said, "That's why I screamed. Wives like you those people had put in bundles. One dozen, two dozen - they were selling wives like you at one rupee a bunch. That's why I screamed: no money to purchase, and that was what was happening to my wife!" But he was crying and weeping even out of the dream. Dreams are effective, they go deep...
... just competing with others. Because others are doing things, you have to do them. The American mind is the most shallow, ambitious mind that has ever existed in the world. It is the very basic worldly mind. That's why the businessman has become the top-most reality in America. Everything else has faded into the background; the businessman, the man who controls money is the top-most reality. In India...
... Russia the proletariat, the downtrodden, the oppressed, the laborer is the top-most reality. In America it is the businessman; VAISHYA, one who controls money. Money is the most competitive realm. You need not have culture, you need only have money. You need not know anything about music, anything about poetry. You need not know anything about ancient literature, history, religion, philosophy -- no...
... others have it and they are talking about Picasso, you have to show your culture. You simply show your money. So whatsoever is costly becomes significant; whatsoever is costly is thought to be significant. Money and the neighbors seem to be the only criterion to decide everything: their cars, their houses, their paintings, their decorations. People are having sauna baths in their bathrooms not because...
... missing. The world view, the spiritual world view is missing in the West. Otherwise, many Buddhas could be born. The season is ripe -- despair, meaninglessness is felt; it is in the air. The society has achieved affluence and found it lacking. Money is there, power is there, and man feels deep down totally impotent. The situation is ripe, but the world view is lacking. Go to the West and give the...
... that many so called religious teachers from the East are moving in the West, and they are more materialist than you. They are there simply for the money. They cannot give you the world view of spirituality. They are salesmen. They have found the market because the season is ripe. People are hankering for something, not knowing what. People are finished with this so-called life, frustrated, ready to...
... take a jump into something unknown, unlived yet. The market is ready for people to exploit, and there are many merchants from the East. They may be called Maharishis, that makes no difference. Many merchants, salesmen, are moving in the West. They are just there for the money. With a real Master, you have to come to him, you have to seek him, you have to find him, you have to make efforts. A real...
... message -- because you will not be materialist if you go and spread the news in the West. You will not be materialist because you have been enough, you are finished with it. When poor people from the East go to the West, of course they start accumulating money. That's simple. The East is poor and now the East is not hankering for spirituality, it is hankering for more money, more material gadgets, more...
.... Money is his god. The sannyasi should be Western: one who comes from the roots of the West, who realizes the meaninglessness of life, who realizes the frustration of the whole effort towards materialism, who realizes the futility of all Marxism, communism, and all materialist philosophies. This frustration is in the blood of Western man now, in the very bones. That's why my whole interest is to make...
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