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... he is a spiritualist, but I will call him a materialist, and a very primitive materialist. His concern is food and sex. Whether you are for it or against it doesn't matter - your concern shows where your ego is hanging. And I will include the capitalist in it also: his whole concern is how to gather money, hoard money - because money has power over matter. You can purchase any material thing...
... ages, but we don't yet have that insight to see into things. The fourth door was self-extension. The word 'mine' is the key word there. One has to extend oneself by accumulating money, by accumulating power, by becoming bigger and bigger and bigger: the patriot who says, "This is my country, and this is the greatest country in the world." You can ask the Indian patriot: he goes on shouting...
... sinner. Put your whole energy into dancing, celebrating. And then you are ideal, here and now - not that you have to become ideal. Ideology, as such, has lost its truth. In fact it was never there in the first place. And the power to persuade also is gone. Few serious minds believe any longer that one can set down blueprints, and through social engineering bring about a new utopia of social harmony. We...
... just go on thinking mechanically, unnecessarily. You will be capable of thinking if you want to think, otherwise you will be silent.And a man who can remain silent for hours is gathering energy so whenever he wants to think his thinking has some strength, some power, some tremendous energy. The ordinary people's thinking are just impotent, their thoughts are just vagrant... clouds floating in their...
... existing like slaves. They don't have even voting power, only fifteen percent white people have the voting power. And pope is visiting South Africa and teaching those poor South Africans, "Don't use birth control methods. Don't use abortion, this is against God and this is a great sin." They are dying -- overpopulated, hungry, starving -- and this Polack comes there to teach them against birth...
... contentment! If you really want to know what is, become discontented with all that you have been taught, become discontented with all that you have been educated for! Become discontented with your education, with your society, with the power structures around you, the churches, the priests. Become discontented! Become discontented with your own mind. Only in that discontent comes a moment when you become...
... she was a sex maniac. Every night now for weeks and weeks on end, I keep trying to break off the romance, but I haven't got the will power. What can I do? My health just can't stand the pace." "I see," said the doctor grimly. "Tell me just what happens; you can trust me." "Well, every night I take her driving in my car. We park in some secluded street. Then she asks me...
... remain in power and the priest can go on exploiting you. If humanity becomes awake, then there will be no need for these priests and politicians. There will not be any need for any country, state, and there will not be any need for any church, any Vatican, any pope. The need will disappear. There will be a totally different quality to human consciousness. That quality needs to be born. We have come to...
...; money, power, prestige, are still haunting you. And you cannot be a sannyasin unless you are utterly frustrated with the world. And remember, I am not teaching escapism from the world: I teach transcendence, not escape. Be in the world, but don't be of it. A sannyasin is a person who lives in the world but lives meditatively, and meditation creates a distance. Then you can go on doing all kinds of...
... things but you don't become intoxicated, you don't become identified with them. To live in awareness, without any intoxication with money, power, prestige, is the way of the sannyasin. Hallihan and Flannigan were having a few at a new tavern in town. After an hour of heavy imbibing, Hallihan asked the bartender for the washroom. "Go to the door, left of the elevator," said the barkeeper...
...;What do you want? Be finished! Just take it and forgive me and forget all about me. And the man said, "I want something, a power, so that whatsoever I need is immediately fulfilled." So God gave him a box, a golden box -- exactly like the magic box that I give to you -- and told him, "Whenever you are in need you can ask. Whatsoever you ask, the box will immediately give it to you...
... may think the fault lies in our type of education, if we have the right type of education, this would not be. But we err again. Says Lao Tzu: "It is impossible to save an educated person from dishonesty." This is because education makes a person clever, and cleverness leads to cunning. Education gives the power to understand. It does not bring about a change of heart. The heart is the same...
... more we try to cool the world, the hotter it will become. This seems contrary, but there is a deep-seated connection. The more you remain in an air-conditioned room, the less will become your power to fight the heat. It is only natural that that energy which we do not put to use should get less and less. The air- conditioner does for you what normally your body should be doing - fighting the heat...
... maintained up to now that Mohenjodaro was built seven times and destroyed seven times by earthquakes. This does not seem plausible: that seven cultures could disappear in the same place, one after the other. It seems more plausible that the culture must have reached such a peak where it became absolutely necessary to go more and more underground. Man must have lost all his power to bear the conditions...
... the fundamental. Hence, Buddha says, "You can drop desiring money, wealth, power, prestige - that's nothing. You can stop desiring the world - that's nothing - because those are secondary desires. The basic desire is to be." So people who renounce the world start desiring liberation, but liberation is also their liberation. They will remain in moksha, in a liberated state. They desire that...
... even towards the most exalted states of enlightenment..." Patanjali calls it paravairagya: the ultimate renunciation. You have renounced the world: you have renounced greed, you have renounced money, you have renounced power; you have renounced everything of the outside. You have even renounced your body, you have even renounced your mind, but the last renunciation is the kaivalya renunciation...
... needs a bigger house, somebody thinks of more power, politics, somebody thinks of a better wife or a better husband, somebody thinks of more education, more knowledge, somebody thinks of more miraculous powers, but it makes no difference. Desire is desire, and desirelessness is needed. Now the paradox: if you are absolutely desireless - and in absolute desirelessness, the desire of moksha is included...
... all inner phenomenon, it is such interiority, that you cannot see it from the outside. You have to go into it, you have to be it. They argued and they argued. ONE SAID, 'HE HAS PROBABLY LOST HIS FAVOURITE ANIMAL.' That is reason, always thinking of possessions: of the house, of the car, of the animal, of the farm, of the factory, of the money, of the power and prestige. That is reason. reason is a...
.... Your first move into the world was through sex and your last move out of this world will also be through sex. When the sex energy that your father and mother gave you is finished, you will die. For seven, years you run on it, it is your power. By and by it is dissipated, one day it disappears -- and you die, you disappear again. You will have to wait again for somebody else to make love so you can...
... has a beauty... the beauty is that it is a non-exploitative joy. If you want to have more money you will be exploiting others. You cannot have more money without making somebody poorer somewhere. If you want to have more political power you will be snatching it away from somebody else. All joys except meditation are exploitative. Even if you are in love with a beautiful woman it is exploitative...
..., once you don't worship the god of eros, then what are you going to do? ALL creativity is closed you become destructive - then wars, vio-lence, aggression, competition, money mania, power politics - they all arise. Man has suffered much because of this stupid attitude about eros. It has given all kinds of perversions. Somebody is after money. Can't you see the perversion? - money has become the god...
.... He does not love a woman, he loves money instead. Somebody loves his car, and somebody loves power, respectability. These are perversions of eros, and these are the really dangerous people. They should not be there. Genghis Khan and Tamerlaine and Alexander and Adolf Hitler and Stalin and Mao - these are the really dangerous people. These are the people who are destructive. Their joy is destruction...
.... You can have power but you will not have joy; you can have respectability but you will not have joy. Joy arises out of eros. And the last thing I would like to tell you: It is only through eros that eros is transcended, never otherwise. It is only through eros that one day you transcend it. ANYTHING THAT HAS BEEN LIVED TOTALLY IS ALWAYS TRANSCENDED. Hangups simply mean that you have not lived...
... them simply through shaktipat - through somebody else's power you can have them but that's not good. And to ask for experiences means you are still in the mind. The mind is always asking for more and more experiences, more new experiences; it is infatuated with experiences - and we have to go beyond the mind. So the real spiritual dimension is not the dimension of experience. In fact there is nothing...
... truth: when you see it rising within you, no proof is needed, no witness is needed. Even if the whole world is against it, you know you are right. Hence the power of truth. People cannot be against it for long; sooner or later they start falling in love with it. It is natural. In the beginning they resist, they fight back, they are afraid, they cling to their darkness, but it is natural in the...
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