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... life is power politics. Even your love, even your social service, even your humanitarian works, are nothing but power politics. Deep down, there is a desire to be powerful over others. The same energy, when the mind is dropped, becomes compassion. And it takes a totally new turn. It is no longer begging; you become an emperor, you start giving. Now you have something -- you had it always, but because...
... gain something out of it, then it is a worldly activity, then it has nothing to do with religion. Listen to it deeply. If I am talking here to gain something from my talking as an end - money, power, prestige, respectability... anything - then my activity is worldly. If I am talking just out of my love, if I am enjoying talking itself - not that something outside it is waiting for me that will make...
... of it and the zero goes on becoming bigger and bigger, and feels very substantial. That's what we are doing in life. A man is born like a zero. Then put a bank- balance in front of him - he becomes substantial. Then tell him that "You have become the president of our country" - he becomes very substantial. The zero carries much meaning now: he has money, power, prestige, name, fame - then...
..., and you are just an owl with an already dead rat, chewing it. And you are alarmed that I am coming to supplant you. Your position, your power is nothing to me but a dead rat. This is no food for me. Ambition is not a way for life, it is only for those who are already dead. I have looked into ambition, and I have found it useless. Once a woman came wailing and weeping to a rabbi, but the rabbi was at...
... them. It is impossible, the face is so ugly. Chuang Tzu has seen the face of ambition. That is why he says: Your power, your position, your prime-ministership, is just a dead rat to me. Don't screech, and don't get dismayed. "THIS UNDYING PHOENIX ARISES OUT OF THE SOUTH SEA AND FLIES TO THE SEAS OF THE NORTH, NEVER ALIGHTING EXCEPT ON CERTAIN SACRED TREES. HE WILL TOUCH NO FOOD BUT THE MOST...
... remember: whenever you practise anything, you are angry at it. Naturally so - because all practising divides you, makes you schizophrenic. One part of you is trying to manipulate the other part. One part of you is trying to enforce some ideas on the other part. And the part that is trying to enforce is a very impotent part, but articulate - your head. It has NO power, but it is very articulate, very...
... in the mundane - the market, the money, the power, the prestige, the politics, the family, and the rut and the routine. You think this is life. This is just the very periphery of life. You are standing in the porch and you think this is the palace. It is part of the palace, but it is just the entrance. There are great treasures in the palace. That's why I don't use just the word 'life', because...
... out whether truth was only talk or there were a few people who had known it. Just a twelve-year-old boy, but he was chosen to join the party for the simple reason that he had great stamina, he had great power. One thing was certain about him: whatsoever he decided, he would risk all for it. He would not look back, he would never escape even if he had to lose his life he would lose his life. And...
... people came back. And the third time only Gurdjieff was there, all the others had disappeared. What happened to them nobody knows. But this man had very great decisiveness: if he had decided then nothing was going to deter him. He was almost killed three times; the only thing that saved him was his mission, that he had to go back, and he pulled himself out of his death. It needed great inner power. He...
... dollars. What is the purpose? -- to kiss the ground at the airport. Where is this money coming from? And these are the people ... all the politicians of the world are corrupt, but just because they are in power nobody can say that they are corrupt. You will be crushed. It is almost impossible to be in power and not be corrupted. Corruption is the force that leads you: whoever is more corrupt reaches the...
.... Then you come to a decision. But the head has no power to implement it; the head is not the executive force in you. The head has no will, it is impotent. It can think, but it can never implement. That's why thinkers go on thinking. If you see their lives, you will simply be surprised. It seems unbelievable! Their thinking is very rich and their lives absolutely poor. They also cannot decide about...
... PLEASE? Mind is always trying to confuse you - because in your confusion is the power of the mind. The more confused you are, the more you have to listen to the mind. If you attain clarity, then the very function of the mind is finished. That's why the mind never goes on holiday. I know one man who is a big officer. I was going to the Himalayas once and I asked him to come with me. He said, "...
... are basically Jews. They are one of the tribes of Jews who lost their way while Moses was finding Israel. It took forty years. In forty years, almost everybody who had started with him was either dead or was going to die, was too old; a new generation had come into power. And Moses was tired of wandering all over the desert of the Middle East. Somehow he convinced his people, "This is Israel...
... money, he had all the power. He was old, but he could purchase any woman. He could give enough money to any man and purchase his daughter. I don't think he even remembered the names of his five hundred wives, and I don't think that all the wives had seen him. Perhaps the early ones may have seen him. And he was not worth seeing anyway, an ugly man, and so superstitious that you will not believe it...
... knowledge is of no use, all your power is of no use, all your money is of no use, all your prestige is of no use. The only thing that could have been of use you ignored your whole life -- and now there is no more time. Death comes so suddenly, without even knocking at your doors -- it does not give you a single moment's notice. It always comes so silently that you cannot hear its footsteps, you are caught...
... life according to their discriminating minds are spiritually sick; they are suffering from the great disease. It happened that Gautam Buddha had come to Vaishali, one of the biggest cities of those days. The old king of Vaishali had died and his son had come into power; he was young and as foolish as young people are bound to be. His old prime minister, who was also the prime minister of his father...
... have much money, no. It is not because I am not politically powerful, no. It is not because I am not very respected, no. I have come to find the basic thing: it is because you are not with me. Have you come upon this basic fundamental of life? People go on thinking they will be happy if they have a little more money; or if they are more respectable, more famous, more known; or if they have more power...
... restlessness than you have known. Your restlessness is very mundane, superficial. You are restless for money, power, this and that - a better house, more money in the bank, a little more of a prestigious life so you can brag that you are somebody - but you don't know the restlessness of a devotee. He cannot say it to anybody, he cannot show it to anybody, nobody will ever understand. He will be thought crazy...
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