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Your constant utilisation
of thought to give continuity to your separate self is
'you'. There is nothing there inside you other than
that.
You are always suffering because you want to be other than
what you are.
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much
too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur
simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light,
reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate
events.
There is no world out there except via concepts.
The only way for anyone who is interested in finding out
what this is all about is to watch how this separation is
occurring, how you are separating yourself from the things
that are happening around you and inside you.
When you are no longer caught up in the dichotomy of right
and wrong or good and bad, you can never do anything wrong.
As long as you are caught up in this duality, the danger is
that you will always do wrong.
The mind is always closed in. As long as the mind is there,
it is that which is preventing you from understanding
things.
That messy thing called 'mind' has created many destructive
things. By far the most destructive of them all is God.
All experiences, spiritual or otherwise, are the basic cause
of our suffering.
The Natural State is acausal; it just happens.
Anything you want to be free from for whatever reason is the
very thing that can free you.
The questioner is nothing but the answer. That is really the
problem. We are not ready to accept this answer because it
will put an end to the answers which we have accepted for
ages as the real answers.
There is no practice necessary, no purification methods
necessary for this kind of a thing to happen - no
preparation of any kind.
A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this
world
We never look at anything. It is too dangerous to look
because that 'looking' destroys the continuity of
thinking.
Art, religion, and that political zeal to improve the lives
of the human lot, spring from the frustration and
impossibility of making any sense out of life.
Stop thinking and start living.
God is the figment of man's fertile imagination.
Religions have promised roses but you end up with only
thorns. Stop looking for roses and there will be no
thorns.
Why should life have any meaning? Why should there be any
purpose to living? Living itself is all that is there. Your
search for spiritual meaning has made a problem out of
living.
What I am trying to say is that you must discover something
for yourself. But do not be misled into thinking that what
you find will be of use to society, that it can be used to
change the world. You are finished with society, that is
all.
I don't have any thoughts which I can call my own - not one
thought, not one word, not one experience.
When you know nothing, you say a lot. When you know
something there is nothing to say.
Spirituality is the invention of the mind, and the mind is a
myth.
Anything you do, any movement in any direction or any level
is strengthening the self.
Your highly praised inventiveness springs from your
thinking, which is essentially a protective mechanism.
The mind has invented both religion and dynamite to protect
what it regards as its best interests.
Forget the rosaries, the scriptures, the ashes on your
forehead. When you see for yourself the absurdity of your
search, the whole culture is reduced to ashes inside you.
The burning up inside you of everything you want is the
meaning of ashes.
You have to be saved from the very idea that you have to be
saved. You must be saved from the saviours, redeemed from
the redeemers.
As long as you are doing something to be selfless, you will
be a self-centred individual.
The total absence of will and the total absence of effort,
all and every kind, may be called an effortless state--but
that effortless state is not something that you can achieve
through effort.
While you are living, the knowledge that is there does not
belong to you. So, why are you concerned as to what will
happen after what you call 'you' is gone?
To be yourself is very easy, you don't have to do a thing.
No effort is necessary. You don't have to exercise your
will, you don't have to do anything to be yourself. But to
be something other than what you are, you have to do a lot
of things.
The man who spoke of "love thy neighbour as thyself" is
responsible for this horror in the world today. Don't
exonerate those teachers.
You are trying to enforce peace through violence. Yoga,
meditation, prayers, mantras, are all violent techniques.
The living organism is very peaceful; you don't have to do a
thing. The peacefully functioning body doesn't care one hoot
for your ecstasies, beatitudes, or blissful states.
The knowledge creates experience, and the experience
strengthens knowledge. This is a vicious circle.
What I am trying to point out is simply that your spiritual
and religious activities are basically selfish.
It is clear to me that to find out for yourself you must be
absolutely helpless with nowhere to turn. The uselessness of
turning to inner or outer sources to help yourself is
something of which I am certain.
You know the story of Alice in Wonderland. The red
queen has to run faster and faster to keep still where she
is. That is exactly what you are all doing. running faster
and faster. But you are not moving anywhere.
That beaten track will lead you nowhere. There is no oasis
situated yonder; you are stuck with the mirage.
If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead
you, and the less phoney he is; the more powerful he is, the
more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will
create for you.
There is no need to express anything. All that is necessary
is to free yourself from the stranglehold of thought.
Every time a godman appears on the stage he is adding
momentum to all the chaos that already exists, and we are
slowly moving in the direction of destroying ourselves.
The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is
responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we
have and what we know. All these therapies, all these
techniques, religious or otherwise, are only perpetuating
the agony of man.
Thoughts come from outside.
The quest for happiness is pointless.
You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give
up. A complete and total surrender. It is a state of
hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any
movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level,
is taking you away from yourself.
The world does not owe me a living. If I want to enjoy the
benefits of organised society I have to contribute something
to it.
Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your
own path.
"Be selfish and stay selfish" is my message. Wanting
enlightenment is selfishness. Charity is selfishness.
When belief is not producing the results you expect of that,
you introduce what is called faith. That means hope.
All our experiences, spiritual or otherwise, are the basic
cause of our suffering. The body is not interested in
anything that you are interested in. That is the battle that
is going on all the time. There seems to be no way out.
Each individual by virtue of his genetic structure is
unparalleled, unprecedented and unrepeatable.
To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are
blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you;
nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express
itself in its own way is a Natural Man.
It is an act of futility to relate my description to the way
you are functioning. When you stop all this comparison, what
is there is your Natural State. Then you will not listen to
anybody.
That beaten track will lead you nowhere. There is no oasis
situated yonder; you are stuck with the mirage.
The Natural State is a state of great sensitivity - but this
is a physical sensitivity of the senses, not some kind of
emotional compassion or tenderness for others. There is
compassion only in the sense that there are no 'others' for
me, and so there is no separation.
Spiritual activities are basically selfish.
What is here, this Natural State, is a living thing. It
cannot be captured by me, let alone by you. It's like a
flower. You can't preserve its perfume; whatever you
preserve of this is only a synthetic, a chemical perfume,
not the living thing;
This Natural State is a state in which questioning has
stopped. It has stopped because those questions have no
relation to the way the organism is functioning, and the way
the organism is functioning leaves no room for
questions.
The world's problems are nothing but extensions of our
personal problems.
The body is not interested in anything you are interested
in. And that is the battle that is going on all the
time.
This body doesn't want to learn anything. Left to itself it
has tremendous intelligence.
All questions are born out of the answers. But nobody wants
the answers. The end of the question is the end of the
answer.
We are only dealing with solutions and not with the
problems. The only problem is in discovering the inadequacy
or uselessness of all the solutions that have been offered
to us.
The human thinking is born out of some sort of neurological
defect in the human body. Therefore anything that is born
out of human thinking is destructive.
Order and disorder occur simultaneously in nature.
The stranglehold of culture prevents your uniqueness from
blooming. You always want to become someone other than what
you are.
You only observe through a veil of ideas put into you by
your culture. A real artist knows that what you see out
there does not tally, does not match with those precious
artistic ideas that you are so proud of. But you will only
be satisfied when you hear what you want to hear.
Your so-called protective instinct is not a natural thing.
it wears you out by its constant demand for permanence. Your
thinking-mechanism which demands permanence is a dead thing.
It cannot touch anything living.
In nature there is no death or destruction at all. What
occurs is the reshuffling of atoms. If there is a need or
necessity to maintain the balance of energy in this
universe, death occurs.
Harsh fact is the greatest teacher. It is that which will
spur you into action.
Consciousness is so pure that whatever you are doing in the
direction of purifying that consciousness is adding impurity
to it.
One eats to prolong life; one also fasts or eats less to
prolong life. In short, delaying death is all that you are
interested in. That is your agony. The body is not
interested in this immortality game. Health itself is a
definition.
All that is necessary for the survival of this living
organism is already there. The tremendous intelligence of
the body is no match for all that we have gathered and
acquired through our intellect.
You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a
poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all
your energy. Act, don't think!
What makes you unhappy is
the search for things which do not exist.
In most situations you want two things at the same time.
That's your tragedy.
First the death must take place, then yoga begins. Yoga is
actually the body's skill in bringing itself back from the
state of clinical death.
You say, "I love you, I miss you", but you think twice
before you make a long-distance call. That's why, folks, I
always talk about money. That's the thing that reveals where
you are really at.
By giving money they control you, and by not giving money
they control you... As long as you want something from
someone, there will always be someone out there to control
you.
Accept yourself and others as you are, because they cannot
and will not change and neither can you.
Knowledge is power. There is nothing like knowledge for the
sake of knowledge. The quest for knowledge is to dominate
your neighbour. This organism doesn't want to learn
anything.
Only if you respect all the other paths can you discover
your own path.
Whenever enlightenment happened, it happened to those people
who had given up completely and totally all their search.
That is an absolute requisite for that kind of a thing.
You cannot experience the death of anybody, not even the
death of your near and dear ones. What you experience is the
void created by the death of someone you love.
Death is a release for the person who is suffering. But even
here, you would rather maintain your permanent relationship
with the suffering man and keep him going with the help of
all those life-support systems, rather than face the void
created by his death. Do you see how selfish you are?
Thought can never capture the moment of life, it is much too
slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur
simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light,
reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate
events.
All the accumulated knowledge, experience, and suffering of
mankind is inside you. You must build a huge bonfire within
you. The you will become an individual. There is no other
way.
You know the story of Alice in Wonderland. The red
queen has to run faster and faster to keep still where she
is. That is exactly what you are doing. Running faster and
faster. But you are not moving anywhere.
Nature is interested in only two things - to survive and to
reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that,
all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of
man.
The fundamental attributes of life are survival and
reproduction.
Man cannot be anything other than what he is. Whatever he
is, he will create a society that mirrors him.
One thing I want to make very clear. I am not here to
liberate you at all. What is it that you want to liberate
yourself from? You are trying to ask for something which you
already have.
This moment is not a thing that can be captured,
experienced, or given expression to. The moment you capture
what you think of this moment you have already made it part
of the past.
It is mortality that creates immortality. It is the known
that creates the unknown. It is the time that has created
the timeless. It is thought that has created the
thoughtless.
There are no individuals. Society has created us.
Real silence is explosive, it is not the dead state of mind
that spiritual seekers think. This is volcanic in its
nature; it's bubbling all the time - the energy, the life -
that is its quality.
You just don't have the courage to be yourself. That means
you have to be alone in this world - one without a
second.
If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead
you,
My mission, if there is any, should be, from now on, to
debunk every statement I have made. If you take seriously
and try to use or apply what I have said, you will be in
danger.
Spirituality is the invention of the mind, and the mind is a
myth.
It is a little easier to talk to those who have attempted
thought-control - who have done some spiritual practice -
because they experience the futility of it and can see where
they are hung up.
Going to the pub or the temple is exactly the same; it is
quick fix.
All I am trying to point out is that all this knowledge you
are so proud of flaunting isn't worth a tinker's damn.
The body has no independent existence. You are a squatter
there.
The appreciation of music, poetry and language is all
culturally determined and is the product of thought. It is
acquired taste that tells you that Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony is more beautiful than a chorus of cats screaming;
both produce equally valid sensations.
All experiences however extraordinary they may be are in the
area of sensuality.
Man cannot be anything other than what he is. Whatever he
is, he will create a society that mirrors him.
It would be more interesting to learn from children, than
try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to
function.
All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching
for happiness, you will remain unhappy.
We have no future at all as long as we try to get the
answers from the past that is dead. Anybody who says, "Look
back or go back", has no answers to offer us.
You eat not food but ideas. What you wear are not clothes,
but labels and names.
The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you
create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that
you are living.
That messy thing called 'mind' has created many destructive
things. By far the most destructive of them all is God.
Atmospheric pollution is most harmless when compared to the
spiritual and religious pollution that have plagued the
world.
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, where
as culture has invented a single mould to which all must
conform. It is grotesque.
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