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Zen is not a religion, it is living life in its
totality, here now!!
Religions are always postponing life: they are giving you beautiful illusions about life somewhere in the future, far away, beyond death. That is a strategy to divert and distract you from the realities of life. That is pure cowardice. It is also a rationalization so that you can be consoled: 'If life is miserable today there is nothing to be worried about, tomorrow everything is going to be well. In fact, to suffer life today is a preparation for enjoying life tomorrow, so the more you suffer the better. There is no reason to complain, no reason to rebel, no reason to revolt against all those things which are causing misery.'
Religion protects the establishment and the vested interests. It is a very
subtle strategy -- so subtle that for thousands of years man has lived under its
weight without ever becoming aware of what is being done to him. Karl Marx is
almost right: that religion and football are nothing but opium for the people. It keeps you
drugged, it keeps you hoping, waiting -- and the tomorrow never comes. Desiring,
fantasizing about life after death is a sheer waste of time, energy, and also it
keeps you stupid. Life is herenow -- there is no other life. Life knows no past,
no future, it knows only the present.
Zen is of tremendous importance. It is the greatest flowering of human
consciousness yet achieved and it is one of the fundamental revolutions: it cuts
the very roots of the so-called religious structure of the mind. It is not
religion, it is pure religiousness. It is not religion in the sense of being
Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Buddhist. Hence to call Zen 'Zen Buddhism' is
wrong: it has nothing to do with Buddhism at all. It is not oriented in the
past, it is not inspired by the past -- it has no goal in the future either --
it is living your life passionately, intensely, ecstatically this very moment.
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The difference between Zen and all these religions is that there is an Enlightened Master there, directing the Meditations. Living Enlightenment is Energy. It is the Juice!! It turns on the Juice IN YOU!! And without juice everything is flat. Nothing spiritual ever works without the Living Flame of Enlightenment. It is the same with Energy Enhancement. There is Satchidanand directing the Meditations. The Buddhafield is there. The Energy is there. The juice is turned on!!! NOW!!!
The very idea of this very moment is shattering to the mind because mind lives
in the past and the future. And Zen is a tremendous energetic blow to the mind: it cuts it
in a single blow, it destroys it, it takes you beyond immediately. Zen is a
device of sudden enlightenment.
Mind wants to be slow, gradual, it wants to move carefully, cautiously,
guardedly, thinking about the pros and cons. Zen is a jump into the very thick
of life. And the juice of life surrounds you within and without. Just as a fish is in the
ocean you are in life. Don't wait for the next moment, live it now. Zen is a
challenge, a risk, a gamble: putting everything at stake for the moment.
The religious people cannot understand it -- I mean the so-called religious,
the unenlightened.
And the world is full of them: there are Christians, and there are Hindus,
Mohammedans, Jews, Buddhists, and Jainas -- these unenlightened people cannot understand Zen
at all. Unless you get rid of all these ideologies you will not understand what
Zen is.
Zen enlightenment is not an ideology, it is not a philosophy, it is living in an existential
way, not in an intellectual way. Zen is not concerned with words, concepts,
theories, hypotheses, assumptions, beliefs, its total concern is with the
immediate reality. The reality has to be encountered without any barrier. Unless
your whole mind is put aside you cannot understand Zen.
Samadhi, it certainly is full of zest, zip, zap and zing.
James Broughton has said: 'Zen is another word for Zest. For zip and zap and
zing. If you have no appetite for life as it is, and are not excited by the koan
of what this here life is about, then Zen is not for you.'
What I am doing here is pure Zen. I am helping you to get rid of your mind.
Mind has many characteristics, many aspects. And each religion has chosen one
aspect of the ego-mind and made much fuss about it, has dragged that aspect to its
ultimate, logical conclusion. This is something to be very deeply understood
because it is fundamental for the understanding of the Zen approach.
Each organised Religion becomes an aspect of the selfish competitive ego.
This type of Religion is only there to innoculate you against the real thing!!!
Ordinarily you think somebody is a Mohammedan and somebody is a Hindu and
somebody is a Jaina. That's not really true. Every human being in his
unconsciousness carries all these characteristics within him: he is a Hindu, he
is a Mohammedan, he is a Christian, he is a Jaina, he is a Jew, he is a
Buddhist. Of course, if he is born into a Buddhist family then the Buddhist
aspect surfaces, becomes too big, too overwhelming, and the other aspects of the
mind are repressed, are covered up. If he is born into a Mohammedan family
another aspect of the mind becomes prominent. But the others are always present
there, and they go on working from your deep unconscious .
So as I see it, each person has all these religions in him. That's why you can
find people who can create a synthesis out of all these religions. That
synthesis has no value; it simply shows that they are trying to correlate all
the aspects of their minds.
For example, every person is egoistic, but Hinduism has developed that egoism
to its ultimate flowering of 'holier than thou'. Every Hindu believes he is born
to teach the whole world, he is born with a special message from God. He
inherits the real religion, the true religion, sanantan dharma, the eternal
religion. And he thinks that he is tolerant, that he is accepting, that he is
not a fanatic, that he is not in any way trying to interfere in anybody's life.
In fact, he is doing all these things, but in a very subtle way.
Hindus are very intolerant. Even the idea that they are tolerant shows their
intolerance. Why should you think yourself tolerant if you are not intolerant?
I have never thought that I am tolerant. Why should I think of tolerance at
all? If the intolerance is not there somewhere in the unconscious then tolerance
is not needed, you are simply yourself. But this idea of 'holier than thou',
this holy ego is the basic characteristic of the Hindu mind.
But it is not just in the Hindu mind; it permeates all the religions in
different ways. The Jews think they are the chosen people of God. The Christians
think that Jesus is the only-begotten son of God and there are his followers,
and at the time, the ultimate time of the Judgement Day, Jesus will separate his
flock, his sheep, from the others, and only his sheep will be saved -- the
others will be thrown into hellfire.
And the same is true of the Mohammedans, and the same is true of the Jainas and
the Buddhists and the Confucians and the Taoists and the Sikhs. Everybody has
that idea somewhere. So it is nothing special to the Hindus, but they have
developed it, refined it, cultivated it, made it look very beautiful: they have
decorated it.
The Mohammedan is basically fanatic, utterly fanatic -- he has developed that
aspect of the mind. Every mind is fanatic: if you are living in the mind you
cannot go beyond fanaticism. But the Mohammedan has developed it to its highest
peak. His religion is the latest arrival on the earth. Mohammed is the last
prophet. Now there is not going to be any other prophet; God has sent the last
edition of his message. There have been other messages before, but they are all
cancelled. The last message has come and it is so absolutely correct that there
is no need for any other prophet to arrive on the earth again. This is pure
fanaticism. But this is present in everybody.
I used to live with one of my professors. On a winter morning just like this, I
was sitting in his garden reading a book. His old mother came out -- very old,
eighty years old, and she said, 'What are you reading?' Just to annoy her I
said, 'The Koran.'
That eighty-year-old woman suddenly snatched the book away from my hand, threw
it outside the garden. Suddenly she became so young! It was beautiful to see her
back in her youth. She was so ferocious. She said, 'Don't bring the Koran into
my house! We are pure brahmins. And if you want to read, can't you read the
Bhagavad Gita? Can't you read the Vedas? We have thousands of scriptures, why
read the Koran? Never again bring that book inside my house!'
Her son, my professor, ran from his room, came out: 'What is happening?' And I
told my professor, 'Your mother is a Mohammedan.' The mother looked at me, she
said, 'What do you mean? I, and a Mohammedan?'
I said, 'Yes, because this is the characteristic of a Mohammedan, this
fanaticism. And you are a fool too because that was the Bhagavad Gita!'
She rushed out, bowed down to the book, cleaned the book, brought it back and
gave it to me, and said, 'What kind of joke is this?' -- trembling, shaken. I
said, 'This is the Koran, and you have bowed down to the Koran!'
This fanatic mind is there.
Caliph Omar reached Alexandria, and Alexandria had the greatest library in the
world. It is said that it contained tremendous treasures from all the ancient
civilizations which have disappeared -- the Assyrian, the Babylonian, and even
civilizations which have totally disappeared. Even their names have disappeared.
It had all the scriptures belonging to the continent of Atlantis, which has gone
down into the ocean -- the whole continent has disappeared. Now it is the
Atlantic Ocean, but once it was a great continent; one of the greatest
civilizations flourished there.
Alexandria has never been surpassed as far as ancient scriptures are concerned.
Omar reached with a torch in his hand -- a burning torch in one hand and the
Koran in the other hand. And he said to the chief librarian, 'I have to ask you
two questions. First, is there anything more in this library, more than the
Koran?' And before the librarian could answer, he himself said, 'If there is
more then I am going to burn this library, because the Koran is enough. Anything
more than that is not needed. If it was needed in the first place it would have
been in the Koran itself. So I am going to burn it. And the second question: Is
there anything in this whole library but that which is written in the Koran
itself?' And again before the librarian could answer he answered himself. He
said, 'If you say that this library simply repeats the Koran in different ways,
then too I am going to burn it because it is not needed. The Koran is enough.
Either way I am going to burn the library.'
This is fanaticism. And he burned it. The library was so huge that it is said
that it took six months for the library to be completely burnt. The fire was
continued for six months in order to consume the library.
Compared to the library of Alexandria, that of the British Museum or the
Library of Moscow are nothing. They are the Biggest libraries now. If the
Library of Moscow were spread around the earth, if the books were arranged in a
row, one book followed by another book just like on a shelf, all the books of
the Moscow Library would go three times round the earth. But this is nothing
compared to the library of Alexandria.
And the British Museum has even more books. They would go seven times around
the earth. But it is said that even both libraries together are not comparable
to the library of Alexandria. It contained the whole past. Now we know only two
thousand years of history, but it contained at least one hundred thousand years
of history. It was of immense value, but a fanatic burned it.
Mohammedanism has developed one characteristic of the mind. Each mind is
fanatic. You want you to be right and the other to be wrong. You are always
right and the other is always wrong. It is not a question of what you are right
about; because it is you who believe in it, it has to be right. The fanatic is
not logical, he is illogical. The fanatic is not ready to understand, he is a
believer and his belief is absolute. He is not open, he is closed. And this is
the characteristic of all minds.
The Jaina is a sado-masochist. And every mind is a sado-masochist. One enjoys
torturing the body because the mind feels powerful. When you torture your body
you enjoy that torture because your mind starts thinking, 'Now I am the master
and the body is the slave.' That's what Jainism has been teaching: master your
body. If the body asks for food, don't give it to the body. You are the master,
you have to assert your mastery. So fasting became one of the most significant
things in Jainism. And the people who can fast for many days are thought to be
great saints. They are simply torturing their bodies -- they are mentally ill.
When the body needs food, food has to be given to the body; the body is a temple
-- it has to be loved, respected. But Jainism has developed that characteristic
to its omega point.
It exists in everybody. You also enjoy torturing your body in many ways, and
you feel good when you succeed in torturing it. When you can force your body
like a slave, like a machine, certainly the idea of power arises in y(3u that 'I
am powerful.' When you cannot force it you feel very dull.
For example, if you want to stop smoking. It may be harmful to smoke, but you
are enjoying it. It must be helping you in some way. It may be relaxing you in
some way, it may be taking your mind away from your constant occupations, your
worries, your anxieties. People smoke only when they are very tense. When they
are not tense they don't tend to smoke. When they are tense they smoke. If you
don't smoke your tension goes on accumulating, which is far more dangerous than
smoking. Smoking is just stupid, not dangerous. Maybe you will live one or two
years less -- so what? What are you going to do even if you live two, three
years more? If you have not done anything in seventy years, what are you hoping
to do in those extra two years? You will go on doing the same nonsense, you will
be living the same misery. So that is not the point. Whether you are healthy or
unhealthy, a little bit unhealthy, does not matter much. In fact, it may prevent
you from being a nuisance.
Just think: if Adolf Hitler had been a cripple or had amoebas or was
continuously getting hepatitis, the world would have been saved. In fact, Adolf
Hitler was against smoking, against alcohol. He was a pure vegetarian like
Mahatma Gandhi.
In fact, both men have many things in common. Both believed in going early to
bed and both believed in getting up early in the morning. Both believed that
vegetarian food is great. Both believed that smoking is bad, alcohol is bad.
Both were great saints. The only difference was that Mahatma Gandhi had the
Jaina characteristic very much developed in him -- he was only ten percent
Hindu, ninety percent Jaina -- so he tortured himself. Adolf Hitler had the
Mohammedan characteristic developed in him: he tortured others, he didn't
torture himself. But both tortured. Whom they tortured is not of that much
significance. They both were enjoying torture.
Adolf Hitler would have been a great blessing to the world if he had smoked. He
would have been less tense if he had been an alcoholic. I don't think there
would have been the Second World War. If he had been a playboy things would have
been far better in the world. But he was very puritanical, moralistic.
So I don't see that there is much harm in smoking or drinking a little bit of
alcohol. Alcohol is vegetarian. Smoking is also vegetarian! Tobacco is not
anything non-vegetarian, it is vegetarian. And just taking the smoke in and out
is only a way of doing pranayama, doing a little bit of exercise, breathing
exercise -- harmful to you, but not much to make a fuss about.
But people try to control it. If they succeed they become egoistic, which is
far more dangerous. If they fail they feel guilty, they feel depressed, which is
far more dangerous. If they fail they become condemnatory towards themselves,
they lose respect for themselves. And the moment you lose respect for your Self,
remember, you are losing your trust in life. You will be living now just at the
minimum, your life will not have the dance, it will not have the quality of
celebration; it will be only a dragging
But this sado-masochistic idea exists in everybody. Jainism has only reformed
it, developed it, idealized it, philosophized about it, argued about it. It is
only one of the aspects of the mind.
The Buddhist has developed another aspect of the mind, the escapist. Avoid,
escape, go to the mountains, go to the forests. Renounce life. That too is in
everybody more or less. It depends what kind of conditioning has been imposed
upon you.
These are all aspects of the mind. You can develop any aspect but it remains of
the mind. It is not spiritual at all.
Zen is a transcendence of the mind. It does not develop any aspect of the mind,
it takes you beyond the mind. And the only way to go beyond the mind is to enter
into life hero and now. You are not to be a sado-masochist, you are not to be an
escapist, you are not to be a fanatic, you are not to be a phony, a 'holier than
thou', an egoist, you just have to be ordinary, utterly ordinary, in tune with
life, harmonious with life.
Yes, I agree with James Broughton: 'Zen is another word for Zest, living life
passionately, making life a joy, a festival, a feasting, a love, a laughter --
yes, he is right -- 'for zip and zap and zing. If you have no appetite for life
as it is, and are not excited by the koan of what this here life is about, then
Zen is not for you.'
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Then I am also not for you.
If you are trying to attain something in the other world then Zen is not for
you and I am not for you. If you are trying to reach heaven, sacrificing this
life, renouncing this life, condemning this life, then Zen is not for you and I
am not for you.
This is the reason why almost all the religions will be opposed to me, will be
against me, because I will be destroying the mind, and they have all developed
one aspect of the mind. They will all agree at least on one point: in opposing
me. And they are all agreed. They never agree on anything else, but they always
agree whenever there is a person who loves life totally, intensely, without
holding anything back. All these priests are suddenly joined together, because
they can see the point that their whole business is in danger, their whole trade
secret is being made open. Their whole trade secret is to develop one part of
your mind and to create an imbalance in you.
It is like somebody's head becomes bigger and bigger and bigger and the whole
body starts shrinking. Now, that man will be a monster. Life needs to be
balanced, it needs a rhythm. And all these religions have created monsters not
human beings. But they have created beautiful facades, masks for the monsters to
hide behind. And they have been in existence for thousands of years, hence their
conditioning has gone very deep in you, so deep that it has become part of your
bloodstream, your bones, your very marrow.
It is a difficult task for a person like me even to make you understand what I
want to do, because all your conditioning will stand between me and you. Unless
you are really intelligent and courageous, it is impossible to have a communion
with me. You need courage, courage to go into the unknown, into the unfamiliar,
into the uncharted. And you need intelligence, tremendous intelligence to see
the point.
The whole society tries to make you mediocre because the society is always
afraid of intelligent people. Intelligent people like Socrates are dangerous to
the society, dangerous because intelligence is always rebellious. It will rebel
against any kind of slavery. It will rebel against anything that is wrong.
Intelligence is always for freedom, individuality, authenticity. It will fight
all that is phony and pseudo.
Socrates was given the alternative by the court that if he left Athens and
promised never to come back to Athens then they could allow him to go and he
would not be sentenced to death. He refused. The judge asked, 'Why? Don't you
want to save your life?'
He said, 'The same thing will happen wherever I go, I will have to go through
the same process, because I will be doing the same thing there. And sooner or
later they will sentence me to death. So what is the point? And in this old age
going to another place and starting from scratch... it is better to die here and
die a noble death. I will not compromise. Life and death are not as important as
my respect for truth.'
The magistrate felt sorry -- he must have been a compassionate man -- but
because all the respectable citizens of Athens were against Socrates, the
majority were against this man, he had to punish him. He gave him another
alternative. He said, 'Then you can live in Athens. I can see you are old and to
go and live in some other place now will be difficult for you. You can live in
Athens, but promise me that you will stop talking about truth.'
He said, 'That is impossible. Then what is the point of living at all if I
cannot even talk about truth? Not only will I talk about truth I will live
truth. I cannot do anything else. Once you know the truth you have to say it,
you have to live it because you are it. Knowing it one becomes it.'
That's what the Upanishads say: Knowing it one becomes it.
Socrates said, 'Don't be worried about me. You just do your duty and let me do
my work. If I live then I have to sing my song. And I cannot dance to anybody
else's tune, I will create my own music and I will live my own life. And
whatsoever the price I have to pay for it I am ready to pay. Even if life has to
be taken away, it's perfectly okay, I am happy about it, in fact, tremendously
joyous because I can feel great respect for myself. I am dying a noble death for
truth. Truth is a higher value than life itself. A life without truth is not
life, it is vegetating.'
Socrates was given poison. And that has been happening to all the intelligent
people around the world. The society wants mediocre people, stupid people,
unintelligent people. It starts crippling every child.
Every child is born to be a Socrates. Every child brings the capacity of
tremendous intelligence. But the society does not wait even a single moment: it
starts destroying the potential of the child.
In Japan they have a certain art form. I cannot call it art because it is pure
murder, but they call it an art form. It is called bonzai. In Japan there are
four-hundred, five-hundred-year-old trees, and their height is only six inches.
They call it a great art. They put the trees into pots without bottoms and they
go on cutting their roots. So the tree goes on becoming old but it does not
grow. It becomes very old but remains a pygmy. A tree that would have whispered
with the clouds, communicated with the stars, danced in the sun, in the wind, in
the rain, remains just six inches high. You can see its oldness; it is written
all over it. You can see its branches are very old, you can see old age all over
it. But it has been crippled by having its roots cut. It has not been allowed to
achieve its potential.
Bonzai is being practised on every child around the world. So no child reaches
to the ultimate peak of awakening, to pure intelligence, to pure consciousness,
because we go on cutting the roots. There are subtle ways: before the child
starts asking questions we start giving him answers. Even before he has asked
the question we go on stuffing him with answers -- an borrowed, all ugly.
Borrowed means ugly; howsoever beautiful the words may be, if they are borrowed
they are ugly, if they are borrowed they are not true. Truth has to be
discovered by oneself, it cannot be given by anybody else: it is not
transferable. But parents, priests go on forcing beliefs on the child. He
becomes a Hindu, a Mohammedan, a Christian, a Jew, but he misses becoming a
human being.
And he becomes unintelligent because he is told to imitate: 'Become like a
Buddha.' That's what Buddhism is: 'Become like a Buddha.' Why? Why should
anybody become like a Buddha? One Buddha is enough, one Buddha is beautiful, but
filling the whole world with Buddhas will make it monotonous, boring. Just think
of a world where everybody is a Buddha sitting under a tree meditating. Even the
trees will become bored! And life will disappear from this planet, immediately
life will disappear.
Or just think: all the people become Jesus Christs -- everybody carrying their
crosses on their shoulders... Then the problem will arise: who will make the
crosses? And why go on carrying them? Who is going to crucify you? They are
carrying their crosses. That's what Christianity is: carrying your cross. It is
'crossianity', it is not Christianity.
Each child is told to imitate. No child is told to be himself, he is told to be
somebody else. Just think: if you start teaching the roses to be marigolds and
the marigolds to be lotuses and the lotuses to be roses... Fortunately, they
don't understand your language. Fortunately, they won't bother about you. You
can go on lecturing and they will go on swaying in the wind. They won't listen
at all.
But just think: if some way could be found... And now scientists are trying to
find ways, and they say, 'Yes, there is a possibility that some communication
can happen between the trees and man, because trees have their own intelligence.
We just have to learn their language and we have to translate our language.'
Sooner or later devices will be available which can translate. You will feed the
device, you will tell the rose, 'Become a marigold,' and the device will
transmit your language into sensations, vibes. And immediately you will destroy
the intelligence of the rose, because once the idea gets into the rose that he
has to become a marigold, the rose will be finished -- because he cannot become
a marigold; that is not inbuilt into his programme. And his effort will be to be
a marigold; he will look with greedy eyes at all the marigolds flowering all
around and he will become disrespectful about himself, condemnatory: 'I am not a
marigold. Why am I not a marigold?' And he will start trying in every possible
way to become a marigold. Only one thing will happen: he will not be able to
grow roses in all this worry, in all this frustration, depression. He will lose
juice, he will lose the zest, the zap, the zing -- he will lose everything. He
will never become a marigold. Only one thing is possible: he will not become a
rose either. He will be without flowers.
That's why millions of people in the world are without flowers, without
intelligence, without freedom, without individuality. They have all been told to
become like Rama, like Krishna, like Buddha, like Mahavira, like Christ, like
Mohammed. That's what all these religions are.
It is perfectly beautiful that somebody was a Buddha and somebody was a
Confucius and somebody was a Zarathustra, but there is no need to imitate them.
Imitation is a way of crippling people, paralysing people, cutting their roots.
And each child is told to repeat the beliefs of his parents. And of course, if
his mind is programmed to repeat the beliefs he will repeat them.
From the kindergarten to the university that's what we are doing. We call it
education. It is not education at all, it is just the opposite of education. The
very word 'education' means drawing something out that is inside the person,
bringing his centre to the surface, to the circumference, bringing his being
into a form of manifestation -- it is latent, unmanifest, it is dormant --
making it active, dynamic. That's what education is.
But this is not happening in the name of education. In the name of education
just the opposite is happening: they are stuffing everybody with ideas. Nothing
is being drawn out of the well; the waters of the well are not being drawn,
instead rocks are being thrown into the well. Soon the waters will disappear;
the well will be full of rocks. And that's who you call a scholar, a pundit, a
professor. They are nothing but stuffed tomatoes, stuffed potatoes -- nothing
else, just stuffed people, stuffed with all kinds of bullshit.
As three Ph.D.s were sitting restlessly in the hospital waiting room, a nurse
rushed in and said to one of them, 'Good news! Your wife just had twins'!
'What a coincidence!' the Ph.D. shouted. 'I'm a ball player, I am with the
Minnesota Twins!'
A few minutes later she returned and said to the other Ph.D., 'My, what good
news we are having today! Your wife just gave birth to triplets!'
'Now there is a coincidence,' the Ph.D. said, 'I work for the Three-M Company!'
Just then the third Ph.D. fainted. The nurse called an intern and together they
worked to revive the Ph.D. As a matter of routine they checked his wallet for
identification. It was then that they discovered that he was a salesman for
Seven-Up!
All these Ph.D.s and D.Litt.s are just stuffed tomatoes. But the whole
education is doing that: making people parrots, giving them stupid ideas.
The son of an intellectual comes to his father and asks, 'Daddy, what is
dialectics?'
The father, not wanting to leave his son without an answer, says, 'Listen to
the following, son. Let us suppose that two men come into a restaurant, one with
dirty hands and the other with clean hands. Which one is going to go and clean
his hands?'
'The one with dirty hands, of course, Daddy!'
'Very good,' says the father. 'Now let's suppose that the two men walk into a
restaurant, one with dirty hands and the other with clean hands. Which one is
going to go and wash his hands?'
'The one with dirty hands, Dad. I just told you!'
'No, not this time, son. The one who will go and wash his hands is the one who
already has clean hands, because he is in the habit of cleaning them. The one
with dirty hands is in the habit of keeping his hands dirty.'
'What a mess, Daddy!'
'That's it, Son! Now you are beginning to understand dialectics.'
A young professor had been invited to address a poultry convention. 'The first
thing you must do, to properly raise a flock,' he said, 'is to separate the male
chicks from the female chicks.'
After he finished, a lady enquired, 'How can you tell male chicks from female
chicks?'
'Well,' he said, 'you go out into your yard and dig a pailful of worms. Then
you set them before the chicks, and the male chicks will eat the male worms, and
the female chicks will eat the female worms. '
'Yes, but, Professor, how do you tell a male worm from a female worm?'
'Madam,' came the answer, 'I'm a poultry expert, not a worm expert!'
This stuffed knowledge does not make people wise, it simply hides their
ignorance. This is not education, it simply represses their ignorance. Real
education will help the child to be more intelligent.
But even the teachers and the professors don't like the intelligent children
because they create trouble. They ask questions Which are embarrassing, they ask
questions for Which the professors don't have answers. And they are not
courageous enough to say, 'I don't know the answer.' And that is a sure sign of
an ignorant man: one who has not the courage to say, 'I don't know the answer.'
Everybody tries to pretend that he is omniscient, that he knows all that is
worth knowing. So it is also in their favour to keep people unintelligent.
Sean Maire came into the garage, walked up to the parking place and, squatting
down, went through the motions of driving a car.
'Horan,' said a shocked customer, 'why don't you tell the man he hasn't a car?'
'Is it mad you take me for? Sure, he pays me a pound to wash it every time he
comes in!'
When there is a vested interest, when the person is getting one pound to wash a
car Which is not there at all, why should he say it? It will be against his own
interest.
The professors, the teachers, the priests are all joined together in a
conspiracy against the poor child. And of course, these people are powerful,
they can destroy the child: they can programme the child in such a way that he
will remain unintelligent his whole life.
Zen is not for unintelligent people. You have to put aside all the programming
that has been done on you. And you are capable of doing it, you just need guts.
You have to rebel -- if you really want to live, you have to rebel. You have to
rebel against all kinds of superstitions, against all kinds of stupidities. You
have to rebel against your parents, against your society, against your church.
Unless you do that you will not know anything of the ecstasy that this life
contains.
This life is tremendously beautiful, Samadhi. But only those who live it can
know it; there is no other way.
You ask me: OSHO, DO YOU REALLY THINK ZEN IS FULL OF ZEST, ZIP, ZAP AND ZING?
It is only that, nothing else.
Zen is not a religion -- drop that idea. Zen is not a church -- drop that idea.
Zen is a totally different approach. It is life; it is synonymous with life. It
is living life with such intensity that your ego disappears in it, is burnt out,
that you dissolve into life, that you are consumed by the fire of life. And only
then can you know what a beautiful existence has been given to you as a gift. It
is a sheer joy then, each moment... Each moment then is paradise. Paradise is
now or never.
Zen is the Heart of Reiki, Dr Usui meditated for 21 years in a Zen Monastery before his enlightenment, and Zen is the Heart of Energy Enhancement - Energy Enhancement Satchidanand meditated for many years with Zen Master Roshi Hogen Daido Yamahata, before accepting the mission of Energy Enhancement and indeed Zen is the first Initiation of Energy Enhancement. Initiation in Reiki up to Reiki Master is given free with Energy Enhancement.
From OSHO - Zen, zest, zip, zap and zing
Raja Yoga and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Portion on Absoluteness.
4. The flow of Energy in Meditation Energy Enhancement does not directly cause natural evolution; it just removes the obstacles, the Energy Blockages and sub-personalities, as a farmer (removes the obstacles in a water course running in his field).
5. A Yogi's egoity alone is the cause of (other artificially) created minds.
When something bad happens, particularly whe we are children, the pain causes the ego mind to split and a sub-personality inner child is created which egotistically, selfishly uses all the strategies to GET WHAT IT WANTS!!
We teach how to heal these selfish ego minds by grounding their initial pain cause and then absorb them back into the central soul stem. There can only be One!!!
6. Although the functions in the many created minds may differ, the original mind-stuff of the Yogi, the Soul, is the director of them all.
This finding the director is one of the aims of Enlightenment. As we evolve we naturally create strong sub personalities in our minds. Eventually we have to integrate them back into the even stronger director, the soul which is higher than the mind. However, many people so far have not met the director and are evolving through the subpersonalities. Thus Gautama Buddha said he was there only for those few who had the possibility of change.
In Energy Enhancement we ask the Koan, "Who is in charge??"
Love and commentary on the Sutras by Energy Enhancement Satchidanand
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