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Be nonpossessive, and then there is no fear. And
It is not to be mastered, it is not to be eliminated. It
There is no security, internal or external. Security exists not, that’s why existence is so beautiful.
Then one does not bother whether tomorrow is going to happen or not; today is more than enough. If we can love, if we can live, this day is more than enough.
Security is of the world; insecurity is of the divine.
Life can only be lived dangerously—there is no other way to live it. It is only through danger that life attains to maturity, growth. One needs to be an adventurer, always ready to risk the known for the unknown. And once one has tasted the joys of freedom and fearlessness, one never repents because then one knows what it means to live at the optimum. Then one knows what it means to burn your life’s torch from both ends together. And even a single moment of that intensity is more gratifying than the whole eternity of mediocre living.
“Just to witness that you have been cheating me. And not only have you been cheating me, this has been going on all over the world. Every elderly person is cheating young people, telling them, ‘tomorrow,’ and the tomorrow never comes. Now I am twenty-two years old and you have written ‘Twenty-one years’ on the paper. I have given you one year more just in case I am not intelligent enough and have taken a little longer to grow up. But now I am not going to leave, I will stay here until all my questions are answered.”
But this is the situation; teachers don’t know, professors don’t know, priests don’t know, but without knowing they go on pretending they know. And the whole strategy consists of a single trick,
brothers, sisters, never tell lies to them. Be truthful, tell them, “I don’t know and I am searching.” Don’t postpone it for tomorrow.
And nobody had taken any notice while he was alive! These are tricks—tricks to keep death away, to shut the doors and to forget all about death.
His whole personality is borrowed from some source—the university, the church, the state. He himself has nothing of his own.
The work of therapy is to make the person free of that fear. If he is free of that fear, he is free of society, free of culture, free of religion,
He can play with snakes with no fear, the child has no idea of fear or death or anything. Meditation brings the person back to his childhood. He is reborn.
So by preventing the orgasmic experience, religions have made men and women slaves.
What has psychoanalysis to do with Jesus Christ? They are being trained in psychology and psychoanalysis because it is clear that the old priest is disappearing,
real transformation has never happened without meditation, and these are beautiful situations as far as meditation is concerned.
Nobody has known the death of an enlightened man, how beautifully he dies, how joyously he dies.
Our therapies should be that we give the person his individuality back. We give him his childhood and innocence back. That we give him integrity, crystallization, so that he never fears death. And once the fear of death disappears all other fears are very small, they will follow it, they will simply disappear.
the first time you will have known what freedom is. It is not a political freedom or an economic freedom; it is a more fundamental, existential freedom.
call it awareness, enlightenment, consciousness, buddhahood—it doesn’t matter what name you give to it. But it is the absolute responsibility of every human being not to waste time in mundane affairs.
You will die naked, you will be buried in the earth. Nobody will even bother not to tread over you, and you will not be able to object, ‘Keep away. I am Alexander the Great.’ Please drop this idea of greatness. And also remember that even the word ‘Alexander’ is not your name.”
you had come without any name, without any fame, and you will die in the same way.
If you were compassionate enough you should have tried to find some physician to cure his eyes. Light is not an argument; you need eyes to see it and then there is no question of any doubt.”
“I am so grateful to you that you were not philosophical with me, that you did not humiliate me. That rather than engaging in a great debate you simply made a simple point: That it is not a question of light, it is a question of eyes.”
is a question of direct penetration with closed eyes into your own being, hidden behind your bones. Once that is known, a tremendous relaxation follows. Life for the first time becomes a dance. Even death is no longer a disturbance.
good-bye to each other! But with man it is a habit. He has turned even a biological necessity into a habit. You will be surprised to know that according to psychologists and their surveys, every man is thinking about women at least once every four minutes, and every woman is thinking of men at least once every seven minutes. This disparity
Smart husbands bring aspirin home with them! But there are very rarely smart husbands, because if you are smart you will never be a husband.
were always on top in everything. It is very dangerous to be successful in an insane world because everybody wants to kill you—on any grounds; right or wrong, it does not matter.
healthy man wants to love—not to possess, not to dominate.
just wait … wait intelligently, wait without desire; enjoy waiting, make waiting itself a blissful silence, and whatever is your birthright is bound to flower.
The problem exists only when you are thinking about it. If you think of old age you become afraid—
One accepts it as a fact. The real problem is always psychological.
Fear is always about something in the future. Fear never exists in the present moment.
ideas about reality that create the problem.
We have a tremendous capacity to adjust to the fact, but we have no capacity to adjust to the future.
meditation is nothing but an effort to look at reality without the mind—because that is the only way to look at reality.
I am here, you are also here—I don’t see a single problem. If I fall ill, I fall ill. What is there to be worried about? Why make a fuss about it? If I die, I die.
If you want a life that is absolutely painless, then you will have to live a life that is absolutely pleasureless; they come together in one package. They are not two things really; they are one thing—not different, not separate, and cannot be separated.
This has been one of the most basic tricks that all of the so-called religious people have tried: if you want to avoid pain, avoid pleasure.
It’s relative. Something may look like pleasure to you, and the same thing may look like pain to somebody else.
My suggestion is that when there is pain, go deeply into it, don’t avoid it. Let it be so, be open to it; become as sensitive as possible. Let the pain and its arrow penetrate you to your very core. Suffer it. And when the pleasure comes, let that too move you to your innermost core. Dance it.
It is as beautiful as pleasure.
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is a remembrance; you cannot forget pain.
The death of the ego is not your death; the death of the ego is really your possibility of life.
Sometimes have a look at the album of old photographs. Just see, this was you. You will not be able to believe it, you have changed so much. In fact everything has changed—handles and heads and everything! But still, deep down somewhere, something remains a continuity; a witnessing remains continuous. There is a thread, howsoever invisible, and everything goes on changing but that invisible thread remains the same.
