Courage is the greatest religious quality, everything else is secondary. You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot inquire into reality if you are not courageous; hence courage comes first and everything else follows. […]
First, start learning to move from the known toward the unknown, and your life will become a great excitement, a great joy, a great surprise. Every moment something new is happening. And then one day take the ultimate risk: move from the unknown to the unknowable. The difference is that the unknown will become known, […]
I was reading some lines of walt Whitman I love those lines! He was one of the most significant poets who ever walked on the earth. He says: “I celebrate myself, I sing myself, and ‘ what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me belongs to you as well.” That message […]
Freedom is the most divine phenomenon; hence never sacrifice your freedom for anything whatsoever, not even for love, because nothing is higher than freedom. Everything can be sacrificed for freedom, even life, but freedom cannot be sacrificed for anything. Even God can be sacrificed for freedom, but freedom cannot be sacrificed for God. Buddha does […]
Meditations is a way of surrendering the ego. Meditations is surrender, the very essence of surrender. Ordinarily we cling to our egos: in every possible way we try to prove the ego. Meditation means we drop the whole trip, we drop the whole number. We are no longer interested in proving the ego because we […]
To remember that we are part of a vast continent is the only way to be transformed. We have not really to drop anything because the very idea of separation is false. It is just an idea, it is like somebody who is calculating and making the same mistake again and again: two plus two […]
If you are ready to dissolve into the whole, bliss is the outcome. If you resist dissolution, if you try to remain a separate entity… That’s what everybody is doing: trying to be an ego, trying to protect themselves, defend themselves. Everybody is fencing themselves off against the whole. Everybody is afraid of the whole […]
No tree is as foolish as man, no animal either is as foolish. Man is the only idiotic animal on the earth, but that idiocy also be transformed into a great blessing – because only man can understand what separation is and what union is. The trees, the birds, the animals, are one with existence […]
Our brains are nothing but bio computers. It has taken millions of years for nature to evolve the brain. In creating the computer, we have simply made a brain outside the body, a mechanical brain. Of course, computers will go on growing and growing, they will become bigger and bigger, and they will be capable […]
To be totally free, one needs to be totally aware because our bondage is rooted in our unconsciousness; it does not come from outside. Nobody can make you unfree. You can be destroyed, but your freedom cannot be taken away unless you give it away. In the ultimate analysis, it is always your desire to […]