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... the ego, and wherever ego is bliss is not. When the ego completely disappears, when not even a trace is left behind, bliss is found. Even to say that it is found is not exactly right, because it is our nature; we don't find it because we have never lost it in the first place. We have only become oblivious to it, we have become unconscious about it. We have gone into a deep sleep and we are dreaming...
... problem. With a prostitute you will never feel guilty because you don't love her; she is not your mother. But if you love a woman and then you make love to her - a deep guilt. What are you doing? Not conscious, in the unconscious, making love to your own mother. It is impossible to even think about; a great inhibition, a vast taboo. Some day it is going to be dropped, but it is still there. So this has...
... repulsive to you. She is not your mother. Otherwise nothing is wrong - a woman is a woman. But somehow deep down in the unconscious, the beauty of the breasts has entered. And the bigger the better, because the child feels more confident. The breasts are so full that there is no need to be afraid of the future. Tomorrow also they will be flowing, and the day after tomorrow they will also be flowing. The...
...... premature ejaculation. Or they become so afraid of the woman, feeling - it is in the unconscious; they don't know - that they are going to make love to their mother, that they become impotent. That impotence is not real. Out of a hundred impotent persons, almost seventy-five percent are just psychologically impotent. With the prostitute they are not impotent; when they go to a prostitute they are...
... always understand pictures? That's why, in children's books, you have to have many colored pictures. Text, not much; pictures, many. First they understand the pictures, and then they understand the text. In your dreams, you are again living in parables. You have pictures and pictures and pictures - the text is not much. Your unconscious understands only pictures. Your conscious has become trained for...
... language, words, but your unconscious is still that of a child. When Jesus, a man like Jesus, is talking, he is trying to bridge something between himself and your unconscious. He is not a preacher. When a preacher talks to you, he talks in concepts. He is trying to communicate from one head to another head. When a man like Jesus, Buddha or Zarathustra talks, he is trying to communicate something from...
... the opportunity, were totally different. Perhaps anybody of you, in such circumstances, would have turned out the same, because everybody, deep in the unconscious, carries a lust for power. But it remains unconscious because there is no opportunity for it to become a reality. These people saw that unconscious will to power surfacing because the opportunity was there.There was nobody to prevent them...
... contact with me, you will have to be ready to travel with me. It is a long journey. Much of the load that you are carrying will have to be dropped. Much of the mind which you are thinking is very valuable will prove just junk. Much of your character that you valued so much will prove nothing but forced discipline. Discipline can be forced so much that it becomes unconscious. People are behaving in the...
... will I realize that it is a joke - but first I will be in position." This is discipline. Your morality, your character, are nothing but forced disciplines. They have become unconscious, and anything that is unconscious is of no value at all. Coming along with me you will have to understand that your morality is just imposed. You are an impostor pretending to be moral, not knowing even the ABC of...
... does not fulfill your needs, it simply shows that deep down in your unconscious you are clinging to the idea of friendship. Only fools can be deceived just by changing the words. Existence is so abundant; just don't ask. Because Kahlil Gibran remained a Christian.... Although he was a great intellectual, he was not a meditator. He is repeating Jesus Christ in different words; Jesus says, "Ask...
... split personality. He has to be sorted out - when he starts speaking as a Zorba, and when he starts speaking as a Buddha. He was never able to come to a synthesis between the two - the lowest and the highest. AND LET THERE BE NO PURPOSE... SAVE THE DEEPENING OF THE SPIRIT. But that too is a purpose. Sometimes people who have such clear eyes about everything in the world are absolutely unconscious...
... not about flowers; they talk about paradise, but not about nourishing food; they talk about all kinds of pleasures in heaven, but not on the earth. The earth is a punishment. You have been thrown to earth the way somebody is thrown into a jail. Kahlil Gibran is great in his words, but something of the coward is present in his unconscious; otherwise he should have also added, "Those who are...
... to be conscious of. If there is nothing to be conscious of, then you will become unconscious, you cannot remain conscious. But logic is not existence. And what the mystics are saying is existentially true. And who cares about logic? Logic is something man-made. For example, Aristotle is the father of logic in the West, and for two thousand years he has remained unchallenged. But recently, in these...
..., because pure consciousness also needs an object, and unconsciousness also needs an object. It can be asked, "Of what are you unconscious?" If it can be asked, "Of what are you conscious?" then the same question can be asked, "Of what are you unconscious?" Unconsciousness cannot exist alone, nor can consciousness exist alone. But this is only a linguistic game. In existence...
... multiplying, more and more new ways and means will be discovered to remain unconscious. To be absorbed in the enjoyment of the sense organs, to sit nearer to the sense organs, it is good to keep the mind unconscious and lacking discretion. It is necessary to hold the mind in trance, in insensibility, if you want to be angry or greedy or full of sexual desire. Only in such an unconscious state of mind can...
... outer enemy - the enemy was within man. He created monsters as far as machines are concerned, but he himself remained very retarded, unconscious, almost asleep. And it is very dangerous to give so much power to unconscious people. The same is happening today. Politicians are the lowest kind as far as consciousness is concerned. They are clever, they are cunning, they are mean, too; and they make every...
... effort for a single goal - how to be more powerful. Their only desire is for more power - not for more peace, not for more being, not for more truth, not for more love. And what do you need more power for? - to dominate others, to destroy others. All the power accumulates in the hands of unconscious people. So on the one hand, politicians in all the civilizations that have developed and died - it would...
... never known satiety. But it was so difficult to live with the thirst that you had suppressed it, suppressed it into the unconscious. You had thrown it deep inside your being so that you wouldn't come across it in your day-to-day world. It was there already. When you come to a man who is in deep satiety, whose whole being is flowering, in whom there is no thirst, no hunger, who has attained, suddenly...
... your thirst arises. From the depth of your unconscious it surfaces to the conscious. You become really thirsty and hungry for the first time. If a man has attained, he can allow you a glimpse from HIS window. That is the meaning of the story. He can call you: 'Come near me. Look from this window. Do you see?' So the window is not the ordinary window of a house; it is the window of the heart. And when...
... blind. Number four Gurdjieff calls: one who has become aware. Up to number three they are all unaware, unconscious, fast asleep. They don't know where they are. They don't know who they are. They don't know from where they come. They don't know where they are going. Number four is the one who has become a little alert, who can see. When this old man called the young rabbi to the window, he must have...
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