Life is a journey, a pilgrimage. It is not static, it is dynamic. It is always moving toward the unknown. But because of our fear, we cling to the known and do not allow life to move; we do not give it enough freedom to go rushing toward the unknown, to go dancing toward the […]
To be spontaneously loving, naturally loving, is to be religious. Religion has nothing to do with worshipping Jesus or Buddha or Krishna. It has nothing to do with chanting mantras, it has nothing to do with all kinds of rituals being done in the churches and the temples. It has nothing to do with all […]
My effort here is to bring about a totally new kind of person . That’s my vision of the new man,that he should be able to love . He should not go to a monastery . He should live in the marketplace and yet he should be able to drop all possessiveness , all attachment […]
The body lives through breathing; once the breathing stops, the body dies. The soul exists through loving, but many people don’t have a soul because they never start loving. They just assume that they have a soul, but they don’t. Potentially of course they do, and if they start loving, it will become a reality. […]
Everybody has the seed to become a beautiful flower of love, a lotus. But very few people have been able to become it, for the simple reason that very few people are alert; they can’t discriminate what is what. Watch how many things are pretending to be love. If they are love, they cannot create […]
Laughter is one of the most divine experiences, but very few people really laugh. Their laughter is shallow. Either it is just intellectual, or just a facade, or just a formality, or just a mannerism, but it is total. If a man can laugh totally, wholeheartedly, not holding anything back at all, in that very […]
History is full of great kings and rulers , but it is not as full of great buddhas , the awakened ones . The awakened ones can be counted on your fingers , for the simple reason that they moved in a direction where radical transformation is needed, from unconsciousness to consciousness . Your unconsciousness […]
This is the only world , and we have to live now and here . We are not to sacrifice now and here for some fantasy of a heaven or a paradise a moksha . We are not to sacrifice the present for the future – that is stupid because the future is born out […]
My effort here is to bring about a totally new kind of person . That’s my vision of the new man,that he should be able to love . He should not go to a monastery . He should live in the marketplace and yet he should be able to drop all possessiveness , all attachment […]
Gold has always been symbolic, both in the East and in the West. For centuries alchemists have talked about it, and they have been very misunderstood because people thought that they were talking about real gold. They were talking about gold only as a metaphor. Man can become gold, he has all the chemicals needed […]