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Children are capable of understanding it, but they are not capable of understanding that they

understand it. For that you have to wait a little. But we can prepare the children. We can use

their capacity to understand to make them more free, to make them more adventurous, to make

them more courageous.

If you really love your children you will help them to go on an adventure so that they can find God by

themselves. It is beautiful to find truth; it is ugly to carry somebody elses truth on your shoulders. It

is simply a dead weight. It cripples, kills; it poisons you.

Religion cannot be taught, it can only be caught. You can catch it only when you are in the

company of a man like Jesus or Buddha. When you are in the company of a man like Yoka, Rinzai,

Bodhidharma, you can catch it; it is infectious. But it cannot be taught. A religion that is taught it is

rubbish. But we are very interested in making our children Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan as soon

as possible.

it is so useless that you can always find an argument for anything. Philosophy is a prostitute: it can go with anybody.

Meditate on Murphys maxim: To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.

You can argue for, you can argue against. Philosophy has no anchor. It is a game, like chess:

it keeps you occupied and gives you a sense of doing something great. But remember, it is all

dreaming.

Anurati, please wake up! But people are afraid to wake up. The fear is they will lose everything

because all that they have is nothing but dream stuff. Their philosophy is their dream, their religion

is their dream, their knowledge is their dream, their ego is their dream. In their dream they have

gathered many things, hence they are afraid to wake up, because the moment they wake up all is

lost.

One night Mulla Nasruddin dreamed that a man wanted to give him some money. He was very

generous, but Mulla was insistent, Give me a hundred rupees.

And the man was saying, Take ninety... ninety-one... ninety-two... ninety-three.

But Mulla was insistent on a hundred rupees because Mulla could see that the man was so

generous, he looked so kind that he might agree on a hundred rupees, so why settle for less?

The man said, Listen. For the last time, take ninety-nine.

Mulla said, One hundred! But he said it so loudly that he woke up. He opened his eyes the man

had disappeared and the money had disappeared.

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He immediately closed his eyes and he said, Okay, okay. Give me ninety-nine! But now there was

nobody there. He said, Dont be so angry. Ninety-eight... ninety-seven... But there was nobody

there at all. It was all a dream.

What is the point when you are thirsty to go on thinking about water? Even if you discover by your

thinking that water consists of H20, that is not going to quench your thirst. And thats what philosophy

is: H20. You are thirsty, and philosophy says, Dont be thirsty. Water is simply H20. Just write H20

on the paper and eat the paper!

Philosophers go on eating the papers. They eat great things: Upanishads, Vedas, Korans, Bibles.

They have a great appetite for paper! Thats why there is such a shortage of paper in the world:

there are so many paper-eaters. Crazy people!

In the East, not saying anything is thought to be a sign of agreement: MOUNAM SAMMATI

LAKSHANAM. To be silent means I agree with you. It says more than Buddha saying yes. His

silence says more, it is more pregnant with meaning.

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Just look at what you have been doing to yourself, to your life. What have you made of

yourself? What have you gained? What meaning have you attained? What significance have

you experienced? People dont ask such embarrassing questions because then they feel very

depressed. But these questions have to be asked. Unless you ask these questions you are not

going to change.

Passion means a state of biological fever it is hot. You are almost possessed by biological,

unconscious energies. You are no longer your own master, you are just a slave.

Compassion means you have transcended biology, you have transcended physiology. You are no

more a slave, you have become a master. Now you function consciously. You are not driven, pulled

and pushed by unconscious forces, you can decide what you want to do with your energies.

Deconditioning is possible only through negations, never through affirmations. Affirmation is the way

of conditioning the mind. You have to negate: neti neti. The Upanishads say: Neither this nor that.

You have to go on negating till nothing is left to negate. When there is absolute emptiness and no

content is left to be negated anymore, this is the state of a deconditioned mind.

A deconditioned mind is not a mind at all, it is a nomind. And how can you achieve a no-mind

through affirmations? Affirmations mean that you are repeating something constantly, creating an

atmosphere of autohypnosis. Thats what people have been doing for thousands of years.

Zen is not concerned with any God after

death, Zen is concerned with the godliness that surrounds you right now.Zen does not teach renunciation. It teaches understanding, awareness, alertness, the capacity to

see things as they are. And then there is no need to escape from anywhere. Wherever you are, Zen

helps you to relax.

A MAN OF ZEN WALKS IN ZEN AND SITS IN ZEN.

This is of great significance for you all. Meditation has to become something so deep in you that

wherever you go it remains, abides with you; whatsoever you do it is always there. Only then can

your life be transformed. Then not only will you be meditative in your life, you will be meditative in

your death too. You will die in deep meditation.

Thats how Buddha died. Thats how all the Buddhas have always died: their death is something

exquisitely beautiful. Their life is beautiful, their death too. There is no gap between their life and

death. Their death is a crescendo of their life, the ultimate peak, the absolute expression.

When Buddha died he was eighty-two years old. He called his disciples together just as he used

to when he talked to them every morning. They all gathered. Nobody was thinking at all about his

death.

And then Buddha said, This is my last sermon to you. Whatsoever I had to say to you I have said.

Forty-two years I have been telling you, saying to you... I have poured out my whole heart. Now, if

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somebody has any question left he can ask, because this is the last day of my life. Today I leave for

the other shore. My boat has arrived.

They were shocked! They had come just to listen to the daily discourse. They were not thinking that

he was going to die and without making any fuss about death! It was just a simple phenomenon,

a simple declaration that My boat has come and I have to leave. If you have any question left you

can ask me, because if you dont ask me today, I will never again be available. Then the question

will remain with you. So please, be kind and dont be shy, he told his disciples.

They started crying. And Buddha said, Stop all this nonsense! This is no time to waste on crying

and weeping! Ask if you have something to ask, otherwise let me go. The time has come. I cannot

linger any longer.

They said,We have nothing to ask. You have given more than we would have ever asked. You

have answered all the questions that we have asked, that we could have asked. You have answered

questions which for centuries will be fulfilling for all kinds of inquirers.

Then Buddha said, So I can take leave of you. Good-bye.

And he closed his eyes, sat in a lotus posture, and started moving towards the other shore.

It is said: the first step was that he left his body, the second step was that he left his mind, the third

step was that he left his heart, the fourth step was that he left his soul. He disappeared into the

universal so peacefully, so silently, so joyously. The birds were chirping; it was early morning the

sun was still on the horizon. And ten thousand sannyasins were sitting and watching Buddha dying

with such grace! They forgot completely that this was death. There was nothing of death as they

had always conceived it. It was such an extraordinary experience.

So much meditative energy was released that many became enlightened that very day, that very

moment. Those who were just on the verge were pushed into the unknown. Thousands, it is said,

became enlightened through Buddhas beautiful death.

We dont call it death, we call it Mahaparinirvana, dissolving into the absolute just like an ice cube

melting, dissolving into the ocean. He lived in meditation, he died in meditation.

The other is not hell, your desire for the other is hell thats what all

the Buddhas have said down the ages not the other, because when Sartre says, The other is hell,

it seems as if the other is responsible for your misery, disappointment, disillusionment. The other is

not responsible, it is your own expectation that has been shattered. The greater the expectation the

more will be the frustration.

Relationship originates in misery, relating originates in bliss.

And when you start relating with people you also start relating with existence. And thats what true

religion is: relating with existence. It is not a longing for God. You can call existence God, there is no

problem in it, but it is better to call it existence because once you call it God, all the old associations

with the word creep in and you start thinking of an old man sitting somewhere on a golden throne

above in the sky looking at you, watching you, and then strange ideas happen out of it.

God is not a person at all, God is a quality godliness, not God. Existence is full of godliness. When

you are capable of feeling joyous, fulfilled, contented, then meditating on desires, seeing the futility

of desires, desires disappear and you are left without desires. Suddenly a great peace descends

on you. In that peace your self-nature starts exploding. That is bliss. That bliss radiates as love, it

reaches to people, it reaches to trees, it reaches to animals, it reaches to the clouds and the stars.