... only when you are miserable -- then there is something to do, then mind becomes dominating, then he can dictate: do this, do that. One has to fight with the misery so one has to take the advice of the mind. When you are happy, mind is not needed. You can discard it, there is no need for it. It is just like when the country is at war the army is needed. Then suddenly you see the army becomes...

... predominant -- everywhere you see soldiers, the military, moving from here to there, all the trains full of them. When the war disappears they also by and by disappear, then you don't see them so much, then they are discarded. Not completely -- because our peace is not complete; our so-called peace is nothing but the gap between two wars. They recede back into their cantonment areas, into their camps, but...

... they go on parading there, preparing there for some war that can happen any moment. But they are no longer dominant. And if a country really attains to peace then the military will have to be disbanded, it will not be needed. Or think.... You are ill, then suddenly the physician, the doctor, becomes important in your mind. When you are healthy you forget completely that doctors exist. When you are...

..., the continuous conflicting attitudes of egos: war, politics - these are all sex perversions. A man whose sex is not perverted cannot become a politician. It is impossible. All politicians as such need deep sexual therapy, otherwise their whole energy will be. moving to gain more and more power. When sex is natural, you feel power, you are not seeking it. Sex is potentiality, power. You feel it...

... humanity is starving. It is unbelievable that man can develop such complex technology that the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb can become possible, and they cannot even find a cure for the common cold - I was suffering for two days! Simply, everything looks foolish. The whole of science is war-oriented, violence-oriented, destructive. If everything goes well with sex - which is very difficult because all...

... beautiful and love is showering who bothers to go to the war? And who wants to become a soldier? You are here not to destroy but to fulfil. So every culture, every religion, every nation, without any exception tries to pervert your sexuality, they don't allow you to enjoy yourself. They don't allow you to be natural. Once you are natural then you are beyond their control. You can be controlled only when...

... love because if a person is really in deep love he cannot be manipulated. You cannot send him to war; he will say: I am so happy! Where are you sending me? And why should I go and kill strangers who may be happy in their home? And we have no conflict, no clash of interests... If the young generation. moves deeper and deeper in love, wars will disappear because you will not be able to find enough mad...

... people to go to the war. If you love, you have tasted something of life; you would not like death and killing people. When you don't love you have not tasted something of life; you love death. Fear kills, wants to kill. Fear is destructive, love is a creative energy. When you love you would like to create - you may like to sing a song, or paint, or create poetry, but you would not take a bayonet, or an...

... FROM WAR, INJUSTICE, ETC.? I don't think of the morrow at all, of what will happen tomorrow. People who will be here tomorrow - they will think about it. This moment is enough for me. And this is the only moment we can live, you cannot live in the future. Don't waste your time on it. And don't be worried about mankind: you will never meet anywhere any mankind or humanity; all that you will meet will...

... war everything is right. But you are so cool and calm, as if we have just welcomed you, greeted you, and you are asking our permission to go ahead." Buddha said, "Whatever you have done, that is your problem. I do not react, I act. Nobody can force me to do something, nobody can influence me to do something. If I want to do it, nobody can prevent me from doing it. My actions are my actions...

... that they want to separate. All civilized societies suffer from marital problems because the husband and wife are almost enemies. You can call them intimate enemies but that does not make any difference. It is better that the enemies are far away and not too intimate. If they are intimate that means that it is a twenty- four-hour a day war, continuously - day in, day out. And the simple reason is the...

... the Jews because you are now in power." Britishers and Americans - because they won the second world war and were in power, and their armies were there - simply handed over Israel to the Jews. I don't think that this was an act of friendship, this was an act of absolute enmity." They have created an eternal trouble spot for Jews for the future, one which will never be solved; there is no...

... he was six months old, a wild cat had jumped on him and sat on his chest. Since that time everything had been done but he could not be helped in any wRy. In fact, it is said, that the war, the first war that he lost, he lost because of cats. The English general, Wellington, brought seventy cats just in front... then the army followed. And the moment Napoleon saw seventy cats, he lost all his senses...

.... The war was not won by Wellington: it was won by cats. Now, just in front of a cat he feels very inferior. The whole idea of comparing creates the problem. You are just yourself. There is nobody superior, there is nobody inferior. People are NOT similar - hence comparison is not possible. Drop comparing. And, of course, those few moments of joy that you feel by being superior will disappear, but...

... Mississipi, and the earthquakes of Los Angeles, and none of them scared me. Furthermore," he continued, after another sip from his drink, "I fought in World War II, the Korean war, and Vietnam, and nothing frightens me." "O'Hara," wailed another drinking pal. "I just saw your wife coming down the street." "Oh, no!" moaned O'Hara as he dropped to his knees and...

... began to pray. You may not be afraid of going into war, you may not be afraid of fighting with a tiger, but you are afraid of your own wife, you are afraid of your own husband, you are afraid of your own children, you are afraid of your own parents. This is pathological. But this is how we are living. All our relationships are based in fear. The husband thinks unless he makes the wife afraid he is not...

... have listened to them, we have worshipped them, but we have never tried them. We have never given a chance to them. Now the time has come that if Buddhas are not tried, then there is no future. Man is doomed - because man has invented, slowly slowly, so many violent forces, man has discovered such dangerous weapons, the next war will not be the third, it will be the last. The next war will be the...

... total war. It will destroy all life - not only human life but all life, life as such. Before it happens, please give one opportunity to those who have been saying again and again - Krishna, Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zarathustra - that the individual has to be transformed. And once the individual is transformed, society automatically changes; that is a consequence. So we are not proposing here any...

... percent of man's energy, seventy percent of man's creativity, goes into war and becomes destructive. Just think of a world where no war exists. It will be utterly affluent. If that seventy percent energy is released in creativity nobody will be poor, nobody will be in a state of starvation, nobody need be ill. It is because of your politicians that nations go on existing. And because of nations, the...

... wars - it seems as if we are here only to fight, only to destroy each other. And so much energy is put into war efforts; if that energy is allowed to be creative we can make a paradise now. Now science has made it feasible, practical - it is no more a utopia. Paradise CAN happen on the earth; people can live in absolute affluence. And when a society lives in affluence it naturally becomes religious...

... the second world war Kirlian photography worked miracles. It is going to help medicine immensely in the future. It is unfortunate that scientists are also divided according to political lines. What is happening in Soviet Russia is kept secret; what is happening in America is kept secret. This is a sheer wastage of genius, energy, time - and time is very short. Before the curtain falls and the drama...

... the Soviet Union it is doing miracles. In the second world war it was discovered, and Kirlian was given the job of finding out - if it works on a rose flower, how does it work on human beings? A man's hand has been cut off, because he was damaged in the war. Kirlian takes the photograph, and strangely enough, the photograph shows a faint energy - hand with all the five fingers intact - and the hand...

... happens? These people have tried... Adolf Hitler first wanted to be a painter. No school of painting accepted him, because he was not a great painter. But my understanding is, if he wanted to be a painter... he may have been amateurish in the beginning. If the chance was given he may not have become a genius, a Picasso, but he would have become at least a good painter - and the second world war would...

.... It is strange: they have all the power, power over millions of peoples' life and death - but no qualification is needed. But if you want to be a painter, qualifications are needed; if you want to be an architect, talents are needed. But if you want to become an Adolf Hitler, no qualification is needed. And he took.... In my view, the second world war was nothing but a revenge against the humanity...

... that had rejected the man, humiliated the man, his creativity, his longing to make something beautiful. The second world war was a revenge with vengeance. If you don't allow creativity, it is bound to become destructiveness. If you don't love, you are bound to hate. If you don't allow your good to grow, you are bound to fall into the darkness of evil. VERILY WHEN GOOD IS HUNGRY IT SEEKS FOOD EVEN IN...