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7. All
your experiences, all your meditations, all your
prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is
strengthening the "self", adding momentum,
gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the
opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from
the "self" also is a self-centred activity.
8. There is nothing there, only your
relative, experiential data, your truth. There is
no such thing as objective truth at all. There is
nothing which exists outside or independent of our
minds.
9. Mind or thought is not yours or mine. It
is our common inheritance. There is no such thing
as your mind and my mind. There is only mind, the
totality of all that has been known, felt and
experienced by man, handed down from generation to
generation. We are all thinking and functioning in
that thought sphere just as we all share the same
atmosphere for breathing.
10. You have been told that you should
practice desirelessness. You have practised
desirelessness for thirty or forty years, but still
desires are there. So something must be wrong
somewhere. Nothing can be wrong with desire;
something must be wrong with the one who has told
you to practice desirelessness. This desire is a
reality; that desirelessness is false – it is
falsifying you. Desire is there. Desire as such
can't be wrong, can't be false, because it is
there.
11. Human nature is basically violent,
because thought is violent. Anything that is born
out of thought is destructive. You may cover it up
with all wonderful and romantic phrases: "Love thy
neighbour as thyself." Don't forget that in the
name of "Love thy neighbour as thyself" millions
and millions of people have died, more than in all
the recent wars put together. But we now have come
to a point where we can realise that violence is
not the answer, that it is not the way to solve
human problems. So, terror seems to be the only
way. I am not talking of terrorists blowing up
churches, temples, and all that kind of thing, but
the terror that if you try to destroy your
neighbour you will possibly destroy yourself. That
realisation has to come down to the level of the
common man.
12. The real problem is the solution. Your
problems continue because of the false solutions
you have invented. If the answers are not there,
the questions cannot be there. They are
interdependent; your problems and solutions go
together. Because you want to use certain answers
to end your problems, those problems continue. The
numerous solutions offered by all these holy
people, the psychologists, the politicians, are not
really solutions at all. That is obvious. They can
only exhort you to try harder, practice more
meditations, cultivate humility, stand on your
head, and more and more of the same. That is all
they can do. If you brushed aside your hope, fear,
and naiveté and treated these fellows like
businessmen, you would see that they do not deliver
the goods, and never will. But you go on and on
buying these bogus wares offered up by the
experts.
13. I can never sit on a platform and talk.
It is too artificial. It is a waste of time to sit
and discuss things in hypothetical or abstract
terms. An angry man does not sit and talk and
converse pleasantly about anger; he is too angry.
So don't tell me that you are in crisis, that you
are angry. Why talk of anger? You live and die in
the hope that someday, somehow, you will no longer
be angry. You are burdened with hope, and if this
life seems hopeless, you invent the next life.
There are no lives to come.
14. My interest is not to knock off what
others have said, that is too easy, but to knock
off what I am saying. More precisely, I am trying
to stop what you are making out of what I am
saying. This is why my talking sounds contradictory
to others. I am forced by the nature of your
listening to always negate the first statement with
another statement. Then the second statement is
negated by a third and so on. My aim is not some
comfy dialectical thesis but the total negation of
everything that can be expressed.
15. You never question the solutions. If you
really question the solutions you will have to
question the ones who have offered you those
solutions. But sentimentality stands in the way of
your rejecting not only the solutions, but those
who have offered you the solutions. Questioning
that requires a tremendous courage on your part.
You can have the courage to climb the mountain,
swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of
the Atlantic or Pacific. Th at any fool can do, but
the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two
solid feet, is something which cannot be given by
somebody. You cannot free yourself of that burden
by trying to develop that courage. If you are freed
from the entire burden of the entire past of
mankind, then what is left there is the
courage.
16. You are always suffering because you
want to be other than what you are.
17. 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.
18. There is no world out there except via
concepts.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. The mind is always closed in. As long as
the mind is there, it is that which is preventing
you from understanding things.
22. That messy thing called "mind" has
created many destructive things. By far the most
destructive of them all is God.
23. All experiences, spiritual or otherwise,
are the basic cause of our suffering.
24. The Natural state is acausal; it just
happens.
25. Anything you want to be free from for
whatever reason is the very thing that can free
you.
26. 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.
27. There is no practice necessary, no
purification methods necessary for this kind of a
thing to happen – no preparation of any
kind.
28. A messiah is the one who leaves a mess
behind him in this world
29. We never look at anything. It is too
dangerous to look because that "looking" destroys
the continuity of thinking.
30. 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.
31. Stop thinking and start living.
32. God is the figment of man's fertile
imagination.
33. Religions have promised roses but you
end up with only thorns. Stop looking for roses and
there will be no thorns.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. I don't have any thoughts which I can
call my own – not one thought, not one word,
not one experience.
37. When you know nothing, you say a lot.
When you know something there is nothing to
say.
38. Spirituality is the invention of the
mind, and the mind is a myth.
39. Anything you do, any movement in any
direction or any level is strengthening the
self.
40. Your highly praised inventiveness
springs from your thinking, which is essentially a
protective mechanism.
41. The mind has invented both religion and
dynamite to protect what it regards as its best
interests.
42. 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.
43. 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.
44. As long as you are doing something to be
selfless, you will be a self-centred
individual.
45. 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.
46. 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?
47. 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.
48. The man who spoke of "love thy neighbour
as thyself" is responsible for this horror in the
world today. Don't exonerate those teachers.
49. 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.
50. The knowledge creates experience, and
the experience strengthens knowledge. This is a
vicious circle.
51. What I am trying to point out is simply
that your spiritual and religious activities are
basically selfish.
52. 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.
53. 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.
54. That beaten track will lead you nowhere.
There is no oasis situated yonder; you are stuck
with the mirage.
55. 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.
56. There is no need to express anything.
All that is necessary is to free yourself from the
stranglehold of thought.
57. 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.
58. 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.
59. Thoughts come from outside.
60. The quest for happiness is
pointless.
61. 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.
62. 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.
63. Only if you reject all the other paths
can you discover your own path.
64. "Be selfish and stay selfish" is my
message. Wanting enlightenment is selfishness.
Charity is selfishness.
65. When belief is not producing the results
you expect of that, you introduce what is called
faith. That means hope.
66. 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.
67. Each individual by virtue of his genetic
structure is unparalleled, unprecedented and
unrepeatable.
68. 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.
69. 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.
70. That beaten track will lead you nowhere.
There is no oasis situated yonder; you are stuck
with the mirage.
71. 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.
72. Spiritual activities are basically
selfish.
73. 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;
74. 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.
75. The world's problems are nothing but
extensions of our personal problems.
76. The body is not interested in anything
you are interested in. And that is the battle that
is going on all the time.
77. This body doesn't want to learn
anything. Left to itself it has tremendous
intelligence.
78. All questions are born out of the
answers. But nobody wants the answers. The end of
the question is the end of the answer.
79. 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.
80. 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.
81. Order and disorder occur simultaneously
in nature.
82. The stranglehold of culture prevents
your uniqueness from blooming. You always want to
become someone other than what you are.
83. 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.
84. 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.
85. 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.
86. Harsh fact is the greatest teacher. It
is that which will spur you into action.
87. Consciousness is so pure that whatever
you are doing in the direction of purifying that
consciousness is adding impurity to it.
88. 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.
89. 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.
90. 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!
91. What makes you unhappy is the search for
things which do not exist.
92. In most situations you want two things
at the same time. That's your tragedy.
93. 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.
94. 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.
95. 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.
96. Accept yourself and others as you are,
because they cannot and will not change and neither
can you.
97. 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.
98. Only if you respect all the other paths
can you discover your own path.
99. 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.
100. 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.
101. 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?
102. 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.
103. 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.
104. 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.
105. 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.
106. The fundamental attributes of life are
survival and reproduction.
107. Man cannot be anything other than what
he is. Whatever he is, he will create a society
that mirrors him.
108. 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.
109. 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.
110. 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.
111. There are no individuals. Society has
created us.
112. 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.
113. You just don't have the courage to be
yourself. That means you have to be alone in this
world – one without a second.
114. If anyone thinks he can help you, he
will inevitably mislead you,
115. 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.
116. Spirituality is the invention of the
mind, and the mind is a myth.
117. 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.
118. Going to the pub or the temple is
exactly the same; it is quick fix.
119. 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.
120. The body has no independent existence.
You are a squatter there.
121. 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.
122. All experiences however extraordinary
they may be are in the area of sensuality.
123. Man cannot be anything other than what
he is. Whatever he is, he will create a society
that mirrors him.
124. It would be more interesting to learn
from children, than try to teach them how to
behave, how to live and how to function.
125. All I can guarantee you is that as long
as you are searching for happiness, you will remain
unhappy.
126. 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.
127. You eat not food but ideas. What you
wear are not clothes, but labels and names.
128. 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.
129. That messy thing called "mind" has
created many destructive things. By far the most
destructive of them all is God.
130. Atmospheric pollution is most harmless
when compared to the spiritual and religious
pollution that have plagued the world.
131. Nature is busy creating absolutely
unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a
single mould to which all must conform. It is
grotesque.
132. Your constant utilisation of thought to
give continuity to your separate self is "you".
There is nothing there inside you other than
that.
133. If you have the courage to touch life
for the first time, you will never know what hit
you. Everything man has thought, felt and
experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its
place.
134. Whether you are interested in moksha,
liberation, freedom, transformation, you name it,
you are interested in happiness without one moment
of unhappiness, pleasure without pain, it is the
same thing.
135. We don't want to be free from fear. All
that we want to do is to play games with it and
talk about freeing ourselves from fear.
136. When the movement in the direction of
becoming something other than what you are isn't
there any more, you are not in conflict with
yourself.
137. What I have found of and by myself runs
counter to everything anyone has said in any field
of human thought. They have misled themselves and
misguided everybody. You still fall for all that
because if, for instance, you were to change your
diet you would die of starvation. But I want to
live forever! Can you keep me alive and healthy,
the way I have lived for ninety years of my life?
No? But that’s all that interests me!
138. When once it throws out everything that
has been put in there by your filthy culture, this
body will function in an extraordinarily
intelligent way. It can take care of
everything.
139. If at any time I accept anything, it is
not what the religious people have told me about
the way the body functions, but what the medical
doctors have found. Yet, what they do not know is
immense; and they will never know how this body
functions.
140. I have never taken any medicine nor
have I ever seen a doctor. All the doctors who have
advised me not to live the kind of life I had been
living are now dead and gone.
141. Although I assert that all doctors
should be shot, I don’t advise others not to
see a doctor. I don’t know what I will do if I
am in a situation where I want to prolong my life a
little longer. So I would never tell others not to
see a doctor.
142. I brushed
aside everything born out of human
thought. Everything they told me falsified me. And
what you are trying to get you
can never get, because there
is nothing to get.
143. What you are is a belief; if you let
one belief go, you must replace it with another;
otherwise, you will drop dead. I am telling
you, a clinical death will occur. It is not the
near death experience of those "near death"
scoundrels.
144. If it stumbles into this of and by
itself, such a body will be so unique that it will
be unparalleled in this world and will function in
an extraordinary way. Such a body has never existed
before on this planet. And such a man will be more
spiritual than all the other claimants.
145. All those filthy religious people are
fooling themselves and fooling everybody, living on
the gullibility and credulity of people, making an
easy living, selling shoddy pieces of goods and
promising you some goodies that they can never
deliver. But you want to believe all that nonsense.
It’s a reflection on your intelligence that
you fall for all that crap to which you are
exposed.
146. Nobody has given me the mandate to save
you people or save the world. The human species
should be wiped out for what it has done
to every other species on this planet! It has no
place on this planet. If I am sure of one
thing, it is that. If it were not for your
destructive weapons, you would have been wiped out
a long time ago. And you are going to be
wiped out, because now others have the means
to wipe you out. But you are not going to
go gracefully without taking every form of life on
this planet with you.
147. With minimum means you can wipe out the
maximum power.
148. The body knows what it needs to do to
survive. If it does not have the means to survive,
it goes gracefully. The only reason for this
organism to exist is to give continuity to the
human species. Sex is only for reproduction, but
you have turned that into a pleasure movement. What
else is sex for than reproduction?
149. The human kind appeared on this
planet and it thinks all this has been created for
its use. You think you were created for a grander
and nobler purpose. The human being is a more
despicable thing than all the other forms of life
on this planet.
150. You are just an animal, but you are not
ready to accept that. You are not more intelligent
than the other animals.
151. The native intelligence of the human
body is amazing. That is all it needs to survive in
any dangerous situation in life.
152. The native intelligence is what you are
born with; the intellect is acquired from what they
teach you. So, you don’t have any words or
phrases, or even experiences, which you can call
your own. You have to use that knowledge that
has been put in there in order to experience
anything.
153. There is nothing to your love: if you
don’t get what you want, what happens to your,
"I love you darling, dearie, honey bunch, shnookie
putsie, sugar britches, petit chouchou, sugar
booger?" If you don’t get what you want out of
all that, what happens to your lovey-dovey?
154. The only test for me is money. How
free you are with your money? I don’t mean,
"How wasteful you are with your
money?"
155. Life is movement. You can't capture it,
you can't contain it, you can't express it.
156. The only relationship you have with
anybody in this world is "What do I get out of
it?" That’s all you care about. Other
than that, there is nothing to it!
157. You all fool yourselves thinking that
you are going to get something by hanging around
me… ho ho ho! You’re not going to get a
thing because there is no need to get anything from
anybody.
158. You can’t fit me into any
religious frame. I don’t need to fool people
and thrive on their gullibility and
credulity. Why should I? I’m telling you,
you will lose everything! You are not going to
get anything from anybody. There is
no need for me to say you’re not going to get
what you want from anyone else
either. That you will find out by
yourself. But that you can’t do
either by your own effort or by your volition or by
anything you do or do not do. That is not something
that happens in the field of cause and effect.
160. Everything was thrown out of my system.
I don’t know how I was thrown off
the merry go round. I went round and round and
round. I was lucky – luck, not in the
sense that when you go to a gambling place and win
if you’re lucky. They put me on a merry go
round; I went on and on and on. I didn’t have
the guts to jump off. I was just thrown off like an
animal thrown from the top of a tree. The animal
just gets up and runs off.
161. Fear makes your body stiff and then you
will certainly break your limbs. My body is never
stiff.
163. The demand for permanence –
permanent relationships, permanent happiness, and
permanent bliss – in any field and in any area
of human existence is the cause of human misery.
There is nothing to permanence.
164. So don’t be a damned fool! Go and
make money. That’s the only thing that
impresses me – cash on the barrel! I
told my grandparents this even as a little boy.
165. I am in perfect harmony with this
world, exactly the way it is.
166. I will never break the laws, no matter
how ridiculous the laws are.
167. I told Bertrand Russell, "The H-bomb is
an extension of your policeman; are you willing to
do away with the policeman?" "You have to draw the
line somewhere!" he said. I just said goodbye and
walked out.
168. There is no need to change this world
at all; and there is no need to change yourself
either.
169. I am not a sociable man; yet I am not
anti-social.
170. What I am trying to emphasise over and
over again is that what has happened to me has
nothing to do with the spiritual nonsense they
preach; it doesn’t have even a teeny weenie
bit of spiritual content. It is a physical
phenomenon pure and simple. Once this body is freed
from the stranglehold of whatever is put in there
either by spiritual teachers or secular teachers,
or by those scientists and medical technology, it
functions in a very efficient way.
171. At the time I was born, when my mother
introduced herself to me as "I am your mommy" and
hugged me and kissed me, I apparently kicked her;
and she died in seven days after I was born. When
they put me into the frame of an enlightened man,
they said that the mother of such a child can never
have any more children or sex, and that she would
die. Actually she died of puerperal fever, but not
because she gave birth to an enlightened man. They
have to put such people into that frame of giving
birth to an enlightened man.
172. You don’t have to take my word for
it. Be miserable and die in your misery.
173. There is no meaning in and no purpose
to suffering.
174. If a body is lucky enough to stumble
into its natural way of functioning, it happens not
through your effort, not through your volition; it
just happens, but not by what you do or do not do.
It is not even a happening within the field of
cause and effect. "Acausal" is the most appropriate
word for it, because a happening can never be
outside the field of cause and effect.
175. The methods of thought prevent you from
understanding the limitations of thought as a means
to directly experience life and its movements.
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