The inner music has a strange quality. Outer music needs an instrument, it needs a duality — the musician and the instrument. The inner music does not need duality – the musician is the music, the musician is the instrument, the musician is all. There is no division. Zen people call it the sound of […]
“When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down, “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.” […]
The morning is never far away; it simply needs the heart to open and to sing a song of welcome, and it is there. It is just waiting for you to sing your heart out. The moment you start dancing, the sun cannot resist the temptation to come up on the horizon. I sometimes feel […]
The morning is never far away; it simply needs the heart to open and to sing a song of welcome, and it is there. It is just waiting for you to sing your heart out. The moment you start dancing, the sun cannot resist the temptation to come up on the horizon. I sometimes feel […]
In the morning when the sun is just about to rise, there should be singing, dancing — just as birds dance and trees sway in the wind and everybody is agog, waiting for the sun to come on the horizon, and then suddenly the sun comes. It is a welcoming song, the most beautiful song […]
Life is a miracle. In fact there is no explanation for it, for why it should be. Neither the philosopher nor the theologian, nor even the scientist, has been able to explain why life should exist at all. And I don’t think it is ever going to be explained; the mystery will remain. The mystery […]
Each moment is so inestimably valuable, each moment is such a gift that one cannot be thankful enough for it. There is no way to show our gratitude to existence. Its gift is of such immense proportions that we don’t really deserve it. Existence has given out of its abundance. Knowing this accord, feeling this […]
Man has raw energies. They have to be refined, and then the same raw energies which ordinarily create misery, darkness, despair, start creating great bliss, great celebration. They are the same energies, they just have to pass through a subtle process of meditation, just a little refinement. For example, the sun has the same light […]
Green represents life, aliveness, freshness. It is the color of the trees. For thousands of years the so-called religions have destroyed all greenery in man’s being. They have left man almost like a dead tree: no foliage, no flowers, no juice flows anymore. Hence humanity seems to be so sad and bored. I want to […]
To be cheerful is to be religious, to be sad is to be irreligious. Hence in my evaluation, the so-called saints are not saints at all. They look so sad, so dull, so dead, how can they be experiencing God? If the experience of God brings such sadness, then it is not worth experiencing. If […]