Since he doesnt fight, losing his strength is out of the question.

It is not difficult, because after all, a man has at least half of life to draw upon -- he is living half his life; thats not a small matter.

I am looking for peace, which I find nowhere.

" That man would like to create his world with the bricks of God.

Hot and cold are degrees of the same thing -- they are not two different things.

So he said, "I dont know whether there is God or not.

Let the past be past.

"

There are people who believe black is a sign of evil, and there are people who believe white is a sign of purity.

The lowest point of sex is brahmacharya.

Meditation is not a technique to bring peace to your mind; rather, it is a technique to move away from the mind.

God knows from what kind of foolishness and during what unfortunate times the idea became fixed in the human mind that birth and death are dichotomous, that life and death are two separate things.

" He doesnt realize he is creating a situation for universal suicide this way -- a situation even he cant escape from: he will die as well.

We nourish thoughts.

And besides, I also wanted to unsettle him, because somehow he had become convinced there is no God.

If you invite your enemy to be your guest, what other course is there for him but to become your friend?

The first monk also joined in the laughter.

Attempting to do that, he gets tired -- and as he gets tired he drowns.

Actually, that which has died in the past should be dropped.

Buddha moved on.

"The man who came in the afternoon was a theist.

Ask how you can let go of this mind.

One who agrees to die becomes worthy of living the supreme life.

But thats how our minds are.

The meaning of life comes with living.

His speed disappears.

Dont simply answer questions" -- as if someone else were giving the answers!

He is thinking of using bricks that are all alike.

The same sort of difference exists between birth and death; otherwise one who is born will never be able to die.

We can call him "an old man of five" -- whats wrong with that? It is simply linguistic usage that we say "a child five years of age.

But all the age-old precepts of mankind teach us, "Get rid of anger and adopt forgiveness" -- as if anger and forgiveness are such opposite things that you can drop anger and retain forgiveness.

Now take both hands out and place them in the water at room temperature.

But we are keeping it alive.

One who embraces death will instantly triumph over it; defeat will no longer exist in his life.

Bricks laid in the same order carry no strength; there is no resistance in them.

Let your thoughts die.

A man says, "I wont accept restlessness, I cant accept suffering, I cant accept death, I cant accept darkness.

He said, "You are both crazy.

So a stream of life, a stream of divine consciousness is flowing within us, but we are grabbing on to the shore, on to the shore of the body.

These may seem like opposite things because we have taken life and death to be opposing each other, contradictory, but they are not.

Come, follow me if you wish, but remember, only a man can throw a new net who has the courage to give up his old net.

You are right, the universe is made of atman.

Now death cant do anything to him.

Now there is another man.

The teacher writes on a blackboard with white chalk.

What we see around us in life is nothing but the movement of the left and the right step, of the left and the right foot.

He feels hell have the satisfaction that something happened in his life, that it was not a total waste.

Today, with one voice, all Western philosophers are saying that life is meaningless.

He said, "I had heard you are enlightened, so I thought you must have known.

Mind is confusion.

A friend has written a letter in which he says:

He is still thinking about the same things.

Our experience of cold and hot is not absolute, it is very relative.

Anyone can point out, "Look, the universe is created of my bricks," while someone else can argue against this, saying, "No, the universe is made of my bricks.

"

And when the storm dies down, do you now say the storm has become peaceful? You simply say the storm no longer exists.

This man is making an effort to swim.

Meaning is bound to disappear absolutely.

Every day, the owner of the circus used to give four bananas to the monkeys in the morning and three in the evening.

When a drop is lost in the vast ocean, the absolute meaning of life, the supreme bliss of life, the paramount beauty of life is attained.

You are right, Brahman is the source of the universe.

Is there any mind in which it doesnt? Of course, the fish may be different, the net may be different, the lake may be different, but nevertheless, the question arises, "Am I supposed to spend the whole of my life catching fish?"

One side of him had become very heavy, so I had to put some rocks on the other scale.

"Simply get lost," I said.

In understanding the mind, remember too, mind is just another name for confusion.

All strength comes with opposition; all energy is produced from friction.

It depends on how we look at it.

Birth turns into death.

There are people who say, "We will only accept the brick of life, we wont accept the brick of death.

Can you imagine what the consequences would be if, by mistake, worldly people were to go crazy and become monks? From that very day things wouldnt move an inch; from that day the whole world would be in ruins.

He is not swimming at all, he is just floating.

But when we look at them separately they seem like two contradictory things.

Let me take care of you first, then Ill settle down and live comfortably.

Have you ever observed that a living man can drown in a river whereas a dead man floats on the surface? Have you ever wondered what this is about? A living man drowns, but never a dead man.

And it would be good if we both remained silent.

We dont live naturally at any level, because we have learned the ways of living life unnaturally.

On the surface this dependence appears as a contradiction, but deep down it is not.

The dead body does nothing; it cannot even if it wished to.

The man who is afraid of death will not be able to live his life; he will remain terrified of death.

I have given you all seven bananas.

Night is approaching and we must reach the other side.

One of the most profound truths of life is that the man who accepts poison lovingly, the poison no longer remains poison for him -- it turns into nectar.

"

The monks said, "No, we cant wait until morning.

It has nothing to do with me; because of you I am calling it the art of dying.

I want peace.

He has not yet attained a balance in his life.

When the confused mind ceases to exist, then what remains is atman, soul.

The river can do it no harm because the leaf is not fighting against the river.

All the bricks are the same.

Then we wont believe in samsara, in the mundane world.

Your town is just the opposite: you are residents of a town where no one wants to die, where everyone wants to live, where people want to cling to life so hard they can keep death away forever.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TO BE IN MEDITATION, AND TO DO MEDITATION?

Rejuvenation can only push death a little further away; death can be avoided a little longer.

" He made up his mind to ask Buddha in the evening, when he would be alone.

Leave the old net behind.

The man is too old to move about, he is bedridden, but his youth is not yet dead.

Take a pot containing hot water, a pot containing cold water, and a pot containing water at room temperature.

If you make an effort to meditate, meditation will never happen.

He says he wants to reach the other side.

I have been saying the same thing all along.

The biggest secret of life is to learn how to die, how to accept death.

Meditation means to step out of the mind.

Let the dead remain dead; dont try to keep it alive.

Looking at all this, I feel I have also done something, I am not an ordinary man.

By the time it was evening another person came to Buddha and said, "I dont understand whether there is God or not.

The only kind of umbrella there can be in the mind is of thoughts -- but they make no difference.

Now all the shores are left behind.

So the problem remained.

"

"

One believed it is good to have some money on you, that it can be useful in emergencies.

Keep this key in mind too: if you want to learn the art of dying then let the dead be dead.

How can they? You have nourished them with your own blood.

The pictures are still moving before his eyes; nothing has died.

I certainly teach death, but that does not mean I am against life.

" I would tell them, "Come, learn how to live, because unless you have learned how to live, you wont know how to die.

Follow me.

Go ahead.

The one thing he is not doing, however, is welcoming death.

The owner said, "Have you gone crazy? Youll have seven bananas altogether anyway.

One who swims will, at the most, leave this shore and reach the other.

Life seems so dull and useless to him that he wants to bring some excitement, some juice into it -- at least by crashing against something, if nothing else.

You may ask, "Why dont you call it the art of living?" There are reasons for it.

" The fisherman let go of his net and asked, "Tell me where I have to go.

Rather, the very state of confusion itself is mind.

The difference between hell and heaven is not of quality, the difference is only of quantity.

The guru laughed a belly laugh.

Let me first be finished with you so the matter is over once and for all.

Many criminals in Europe and America have given statements in court, saying they had nothing against the person they killed -- they just wanted to see their names in print, and that was the only way.

The man said, "Please show me the way to find peace.

It is the same difference I am already explaining to you.

Sex which has become still becomes the foothold for the arising of brahmacharya.

Invite death as well.

In a symbolic sense, it is alright to have such distinctions, but if someone were to say, "Lets get rid of black, lets remove black from the face of the earth," then remember, with the removal of black, very little white will be left behind -- because the whiteness of white stands out in all its sharpness only against a black background.

Buddha said, "You must have heard wrong.

Remember, if you want to drop thoughts, stop saying, "My thoughts.

There is absolutely no God.

One hand will feel the water is cold and the other will feel the same water is hot.

What is this you have been saying and doing the whole day? Are you in your right mind? Are you sure you know what you said today? In the morning you said one thing, in the afternoon another, and in the evening you gave an entirely different answer to the same question.

I call it the art of dying so yoｒｅaｄ.９9ｃsw.ｃoｍu can regain your balance.

For example, there is a storm at sea, the sea is restless.

Everything will eventually turn into dust -- Dust unto dust.

" All our lives we are running.

Brahmacharya is nothing but sex reduced to its lowest degree.

The more fierce the anger, that much greater will be the magnanimity of forgiveness.

Their statements are coming from a dichotomized view of life.

Jesus words in reply to the fisherman are tremendously wonderful.

Let go of it.

He asks, "What is a confused mind?" But here we make a mistake.

I have come straight from there.

We cant stay overnight.

So what does that mean? That means "I will continue to be as I am.

God, the divine architect of life, is very intelligent.

Keep the arithmetic of seven bananas in mind.

For the last ten thousand years man has been badly afflicted with and troubled by this mistake.

Its a very smart idea, a very clever idea, otherwise there would be a crowd inside and it would be difficult to live -- so the temple of life has the signboard "Die" hanging outside.

Then Ill come back.

The monkeys went on strike.

We nourish thoughts of the past, we keep tying them to ourselves.

"In the morning he said he was the greatest theist, while in the afternoon he said he was the greatest atheist.

He wants to go on putting more power into his vehicles so he can run faster.

He said, "You fool, let the dead bury the dead! What need is there for you to go? Come.

"

It was close to nightfall.

When the storm disappears, the sea remains.

Then we can live a natural life.

This is also a part of the art of dying.

He is still dreaming of the female movie stars of his youth, although none of them are the same now.

Do not swim.

In this mysterious order opposites have been created so that things can exist.

If birth and death were separate entities, birth would move along its own course and death on its own -- nowhere would they meet.

Buddha said, "God? Neither is there one, nor can there ever be one.

In fact, the problem is

Yes, I teach the very art of dying.

You are committing the same kind of foolishness mankind has done for ages.

Life has become solidified; the balance is gone.

Meditation is a kind of floating.

Both things are interconnected.

"

We can only walk with the combined movement of both legs.

One who allows himself to float in that stream reaches the ocean.

The shore of Dwarka is as outside the river as the shore of Delhi is -- it makes no difference.

Would you call it a "restless storm"? Would anyone call it a "restless storm"? You would simply call it a storm, because a storm is just another name for restlessness.

The reason for my discussing these issues with you for three days was because I saw you came here with the desire to conquer death.

Its very being is a disease.

"

" There cannot be any significance, any meaning, because you have put together only bricks of matter, and of matter alone.

If you get mixed up counting, you might miss the point.

Its very being is unhealthy.

There are two types of murderers: those who commit a single murder for personal reasons, and those who commit collective murder -- the politicians.

We always find things which are hot and things which are cold.

For one who accepts his state of agitation and agrees to live with it, the doors of peace and tranquility are thrown open.

He has summoned us.

Being an atheist only he was incomplete, because life is made of opposites.

The leaf is very smart.

The second monk continued, "I always said a monk must have the courage to let go of money.

The energy is the same, but transformed.

The problems of seventy years will spread over seven hundred years -- they will be stretched that much, multiplied.

Meditation means to move away from the mind.

So the leaf is in complete accord.

All these days you fed the dog, petted him, loved him, played with him, tied a collar around his neck, kept him in your home.

The ultimate thing is: the art of dying is the art of floating.

The fisherman turned around to see who the man was who was raising the same question he had in his mind.

It seems like childhood and old age are contrary to each other, but if they are, then no child can ever become old.

If you cut anything out, you will find yourself in difficulty.

Now you try to calm yourself down -- that means you will be adding one more headache.

So keep the floating leaf in mind.

" Thats fine.

Ask how this mind can die.

And when there is no confusion does not mean that the mind has become peaceful; then there is no more mind at all.

His life contains both aspects, but he brings harmony between the two opposites.

All we care about is that we have been getting four bananas every morning.

Mans mind is split into parts, into fragments, and there is a reason for this.

What it means is: death is the gateway to know life, to recognize life as well.

A living man can drown because a living man makes an effort to stay alive.

The great mystery of this universe is that you can present an equal number of arguments in support of any of the opposing bricks used in its creation, and the dispute can never end because both bricks are used equally.

Some friends, however, believed I was merely answering questions.

The fisherman must have really been a courageous man.

What I had to say, I have said it all.

The boatman said, "Okay, Ill take you over for five rupees.

How can that be? The poor dog has no idea what has happened to you so suddenly, so he wanders around for a while and then comes back to you.

The strength of forgiveness lies in anger; only one who can be angry has the power to be forgiving.

You must have seen a heap of bricks piled up in front of a house under construction.

31 October 1969 pm in Mediation Camp at Dwarka, Gujarat, India

The body comes to the surface and floats.

To swim is an effort for him.

Have you ever watched? When you are angry and you are cycling, you pedal faster.

Let the past die every day.

One who is prepared to die never swims.

Peace cannot be there.

He comes to the surface right away.

A desire must have occurred in his mind to at least pull out the net that was already filled, but Jesus said, "Only they can throw the new net into the new ocean who have the courage to leave the old net behind.

He is right, I am indeed teaching people how to die.

Once we decide we dont want to die, it becomes a certainty, that very moment, that our lives will be filled with problems and difficulties.

In Pondicherry someone mentioned your name.

Two monks were involved in an ongoing dispute.

You have not to do anything, just be relaxed.

Watch a man swimming and a leaf floating in the river.

The reason I say to you, you should learn the art of dying is because your life has become lopsided.

No one can experience the whole truth of life without understanding this contradiction correctly.

Birth and death are intertwined, they are two ends of a continuum.

One who accepts restlessness in its totality, one who says, "Come, stay with me.

"

Let us die every day.

The man stood there utterly confused.

It would be good to understand that as well.

There is no such thing as a peaceful mind.

" Indeed I will speak, but the question is, what will I speak? The questions merely serve as pegs; whatever I have to say, I hang on them.

Listening to Buddhas answer, this man was confounded as well.

So Buddha said, "I had to bring a balance to his life.

In one respect a rocket is better than a bullock cart -- because a rocket can take us places faster -- but why so much insistence on speed? You may not have realized this, but all mans attempts at speed are attempts to escape where he is.

The same question had crossed the fishermans mind many times before.

In fact, our yesterday never dies.

Buddha replied, "If you dont know, then I dont know either.

They wont leave you in one day.

So you would come across people who would agree that to walk on the left foot is righteous, and to walk on the right foot is unrighteous.

When I say relax your body, I mean you should let the body float.

"What has happened to Buddha?" Ananda wondered to himself.

They said, "This is impossible, we want four bananas in the morning.

Just as there being only monks would take meaning away from the world, there being worldly people alone would also take meaning away.

If you look at it this way -- and this is the fact -- then what I am saying is that sex and brahmacharya are related to each other, just as the lowest and the highest rungs are.

What I am saying is that what we call opposites are not opposites -- life consists of a very mysterious order.

What they are saying is, "Just show us the clothes.

You are sitting uptight, ready, disregarding everything.

What Shakespeare once said has become relevant all of a sudden, and Western thinkers are now reiterating it in the context of life itself: "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The newspapers are filled with the story.

A friend has asked:

" I dont believe any one of you would agree to take a potion that would extend life for seven hundred years.

How can he? How can two contrary things be the same? Have you ever been able to note the day a child turned into an old man? or which night? Can you note on a calendar that on such-and-such a day this man was a child and then on such-and -- such a day he became old?

Jesus said, "You seem to be a man of courage.

And remember, I am giving you the very key to be victorious over death.

But what about the one who is floating? No shore can prevent a floater, because he has let himself go in the stream.

As man moves up the ladder of sex, he enters into brahmacharya.

There are also people who say the opposite.

And when the mind is no more, then what remains is called the atman.

" If we want to we can call him -- as is done in English -- "five years old," which can also mean "an old man of five.

He is making no effort to cool down the sun, he is merely moving away from the sun.

The river cant drown the dead man because he doesnt put up any fight.

He will become heavy and wont be able to live at all -- not even for a moment.

The news is, he will be dead by morning.

What else do you think will happen?

Have you noticed that speed is continuously on the increase in the world? Everything is speedy.

Have you ever thought about the distinction between childhood and old age? Ordinarily we think they are opposite to each other -- childhood on the one hand, old age on the other.

Then there is no contradiction in life, no tension.

Ananda said, "Now this tops it all! How in the world could I not hear? I was present, right there; my ears were not blocked! And could it ever be possible I wouldnt want to hear you speak? I love to hear you speak, no matter who you talk to.

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The fisherman hesitated for a moment.

Yesterday was finished yesterday; now it is no more -- and yet it keeps its hold over us.

Question 2

Growth is in the seed.

There is another small question.

You can see the lower steps and you can see the steps on the top as well, but you may not be able to see the steps in the middle section.

What happened today illustrates our differences succinctly.

Where he is, he is so scared, he is so afraid, he wants to get away.

Death seeks those who run away from it.

A fisherman had thrown his net in the lake to catch fish.

Life is a balance.

If I were to step aside, how would the fight continue? It would stop, because it can only continue if I make myself a part of it.

Just as two parallel lines dont meet anywhere, no meeting would ever take place between birth and death.

We want to live; we dont want to die -- but we dont know that death is already part of life.

If we move away, it ceases to be.

This very I will now have to live for seven hundred years.

Is he out of his mind? Why doesnt he write on the white wall? Of course one can write on a white wall, but the letters wont stand out.

Man is the same, but we have created divisions inside him and have also determined that these divisions are contrary to each other.

Ask how you can do away with this mind.

When I say this, what I am actually saying is that if man is to be saved from going insane in the near future, we will have to accept life in its totality.

How is your thought supposed to know you are meditating? Now you say to your thought, "Get out! Scram!" The thought is not going to go away like this.

" The man stood there under the tree with an uneasy feeling.

The bricks are all alike, but they are placed in opposite order.

If a person is doing meditation, he is trying to make a confused mind peaceful.

But by evening Ananda was in for yet another surprise.

But if you dont accept death you will die that very moment, because then all the bricks that are left will be alike.

Whether I speak or whether I answer questions, what difference does it make? Who is it that will be answering? Who is it that will be speaking? But they feel I must speak my own stuff because they have been getting four bananas every morning.

Life will have to be investigated, known in its totality.

So dont ask how you can save the mind from becoming confused, ask how you can get rid of this mind.

Buddha explained, "I had to bring the three of them to a point of balance.

" And as I tell you, "Meditation is the gateway to death," I would tell the people of that town, "Meditation is the gateway to life.

I am ready!"

Dont walk on your right foot because the right foot represents unrighteousness

One morning it happened there werent enough bananas in the market, so he gave them three bananas.

It only means your problems will be extended over a longer period -- instead of dying in seventy years, you might be able to die in seven hundred years.

So nothing will be solved by arguing.

"

Put yourself in his shoes.

There is no need even to preserve it in your memory.

Let go of thoughts as well.

And there are those who seek death, but it keeps eluding them.

Instead, see what happens by accepting, by agreeing to something no one else wants to agree to.

I am the greatest theist ever.

The stream within is like a river, and one who starts floating in it reaches the ocean.

And a belief in either of the two parts can provide a convincing argument in its support.

Whats the difference? The dead body enters into a state of no-effort.

This shore takes you out of the river, the same as that shore does.

He does not throw his arms and legs about; he is simply lying in the river.

There are ways to do away with sex, but a man cannot become a brahmacharya by doing away with sex, he can only become impotent.

Therefore, I am compelled to talk to you about death.

"

I said, "Simply get out.

" If the man were to believe this -- and there are lots of people who would believe this; people to believe in such stupid ideas have always been found.

What do you say? What do you think?"

Right there, he dropped the net filled with fish.

As Jesus was passing by a lake, a wonderful incident took place.

What is the mistake? The mistake is we are using two words -- confused and mind -- and the truth of the matter is that there is no such thing as a confused mind.

But remember, the brilliance you see in the eyes of a brahmachari, a celibate, is the brilliance of sex energy itself.

No one knows, and no one can ever know.

We sow a seed, it grows into a plant, and then it becomes a flower.

Both feet are part of the same being: one keeps it rooted; the other causes it to move.

This is not the way.

He is getting tired, worn out, broken, but he keeps on swimming.

One foot is rooted there; thats why the monks foot is free to move.

This may not have occurred to you, but if you really should come across someone who could give you a potion and say, "Take this and you will live for seven hundred years," you would tell him, "Wait a minute, let me think it over.

"Remove the polarity," he says.

Even though it may be a nonacceptance of restlessness, the very restlessness itself is the product of our attitude of nonacceptance.

Only their names are printed in the newspapers, the rest are ignored.

He will be in great trouble.

With the change in our state of mind the restlessness departs.

And yet he goes about cursing the worldly man; he goes on telling him, "Renounce the world and become a monk.

There is only one way to attain peace: be at peace with restlessness.

His friend, the other monk, used to argue, "Why do we need money? We are renunciates, what do we need money for? Only worldly people keep money.

" The fisherman paused for a moment and then followed Jesus.

Remember, the white of the man who invites enmity with black will inevitably grow dull, insipid.

And whats its smartness? The smartness of the leaf is that it has made the river its boat and is now riding on it.

The river is flowing and, along with the river, so is he.

We can say that anger, reduced to the lowest, is forgiveness -- there is no dichotomy between them.

By transforming sex, by accepting it, by moving its energy towards a higher level, one can certainly attain brahmacharya.

Put one hand in the hot water and another hand in cold water.

" These people can also show only the bricks that fall within their particular view.

Where will you go now? Now you will begin to float in that stream which flows within.

Instead of swimming he just keeps floating.

He says, "If we believe in God, then thats all well believe in.

Ask where he is going, where he wants to reach, and his answer will be, "I cant tell you right now; I dont have time.

With the disappearance of unhealthiness, a healthy body remains.

He says, "Take me where you will.

It no longer exists, let it go.

"I heard a religious man had come to this village, so I came to ask whether God is.

One can take the step of brahmacharya only when sex has ceased to move.

Only those who have known how to erase themselves also come to know how to be.

Those who become frightened looking at it, run away.

The meditation I am talking about is like floating, its not like swimming.

You crossed because you let go of money.

If you wish to die, then let me teach you how to live -- because once you have learned how to live you will have learned how to die as well.

"

A poor man, after a great deal of swimming, may become a rich man at most -- what more? After swimming a great deal, a man occupying a small chair may sit on a high chair in Delhi -- what more will happen?

You are sitting very solidly on the scale of life, and so everything has turned to rock.

We never gather the courage to die; we never let anything die, and consequently everything piles up.

The journey must go on; the search must continue.

Such a person can never attain brahmacharya.

" This is where the mistake is.

His conviction needed to be shaken up, because one who becomes certain, dies.

Meditation means to stay away from where the confusion is.

Someone may say the color black signifies evil.

We tell a person, "Dont be angry, be forgiving," without realizing that the difference between anger and forgiveness is again only of degrees -- as it is between cold and hot, between childhood and old age.

Invite death and say, "Come on, Ill worry about living later -- first you come.

The boatman said, "Sorry, I am finished for the day and now I have to go back to my village.

How can restlessness last if the mind is attuned to peace?

Question 3

One who accepts even the restlessness itself, his mind quiets down.

Birth grows into death -- this means birth and death are two ends of the same thing.

And this attachment has become very unbalanced.

What I am talking about is how to live a most natural life, in all its aspects.

The word "Die" is inscribed on the temple of God, whereas inside the stream of life is overflowing.

In fact, the man who is a monk has no idea that he is surviving, that his left foot moves forward, because someone, a worldly man, is running a store in the marketplace out there.

I am teaching the art of dying, because one who learns the art of dying becomes an expert in the art of living as well.

Now one who is dead is already dead, why even bother to bury him? These are all tricks to keep him alive.

If you learn how to die, then life and death will stand before you equally; they will become your left and right foot.

Thats why, at the end, I have said there are seven bananas.

Then they would begin cutting their right foot off and trying to walk on the left foot.

I just looked at his back and plunged a knife into it.

You will have to stop feeding them; you will have to stop rearing them.

"

There is no such thing as a "healthy mind," an "unhealthy mind.

And whats this you are saying?"

Of course, if there is a town where people are suicidal, where no one wants to live, I wont go there and talk about the art of dying.

The day one attains brahmacharya, the sex in repose is instrumental in that attainment -- in the same way as the stationary right leg is instrumental in the left legs moving forward.

Buddha said, "A religious man? A believer in God? I am the greatest atheist ever.

In each meditation camp there used to be four discourses and four question-and-answer sessions.

A FRIEND HAS ASKED: ARE YOU TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO DIE? ARE YOU TEACHING DEATH? YOU SHOULD TEACH LIFE INSTEAD.

And there is a fundamental difference between these two things.

One thing is certain, however: they want to get away from where they are -- away from the house, away from the wife, away from their work.

" The man must have been an agnostic, one who says he doesnt know whether God is or not.

" Meditation is th九*九*藏*書e means to accept death with this attitude.

Then what is there for me to teach you?" The way you have created your agitation, take an opposite route and you will find peace.

No matter how much you go through a process of rejuvenation, you will still have to die.

Where are you going?"

"

Should scientists someday discover how man can live infinitely -- and such a discovery is possible; it is not difficult -- remember, people will start looking for a guru to teach them how to die quickly.

The stream will carry him.

Thats why I said one has to learn how to die.

I have heard

Thats why no one is allowed to wear black at marriages; black is allowed at somebodys death.

If you were to tell a person, "Walk only with your left foot, because the left foot stands for religion, righteousness.

This seems contradictory.

"What are you talking about?" he exclaimed.

You have tied them to yourself; you have put a collar around their necks with your name on it.

So he floats in the river.

Why are you bothering to hang them on pegs?" But what am I hanging on the pegs anyway? Whatever I have to say, I will be hanging it on the pegs of your questions.

"

What will he do? He will attempt to make his mind quiet.

When a person comes forward and embraces death, death loses, death is conquered, because the man who embraces death becomes immortal.

They asked him, "What shall we do? This has become quite a problem.

It is better I save myself before I am called a hypocrite as well.

Then there is no restlessness in life.

After that Ill live at leisure.

" The monk who had argued in favor of carrying money laughed and, looking at the other monk, said, "What do you think, my friend? Is carrying money worthless or meaningful?" The other monk simply kept laughing.

Uprooting the foothold of sex, breaking it, will certainly result in cutting off sex, but that wont help in achieving brahmacharya.

They say, "You are right, the universe is a creation of sannyas.

His teeth are clenched in anger and he is pressing the accelerator harder, and somehow or other he is wishing to have an accident.

We have to land on the moon; we have to land on Mars.

You have come to fight with me and the fight is on.

If you had kept holding on to it, if you had not let it go, how could we have crossed the river?"

But dont forget that the one at a standstill, the one in repose, is as important as the one in motion.

And one who greets pain with open arms, finds there is no pain at all -- only happiness remains for him.

Nothing can be more erroneous than this.

For example, there is a child aged five.

I ask you to meditate because meditation is relaxation.

He thinks hell get some thrill out of it, will feel good about it.

He said, "I have been to the Ramana ashram, to Pondicherry, and to the Ramakrishna ashram -- they are all full of hypocrisy.

The first thing is, we have become extremely attached to life.

The second monk laughed uproariously.

The leaf doesnt want to create any resistance, its just floating.

"What is that foolishness?" the monks asked.

A man who is evading death, who is scared of death, has become so frustrated, so sad and bored that he is ready to indulge in anything.

It is more than enough to argue for.

They too have landed in trouble.

And one who is only a believer in God lacks religious maturity.

Come with me!" As they reached the outskirts of the village, a man came running.

"

On and on friends write to me, "Please say something of your own.

I have come to ask you, what do you think about Gods existence?"

The man couldnt believe his ears.

So both things are right.

There are very few courageous people like him.

The question is, have you ever left them? You always keep holding on to them, how can they be at fault? If a man keeps a dog, feeds him, ties him in his house and then suddenly one day sets him loose, turns him out; if the poor dog comes back to the man again and again, would the dog be at fault?

The meditation I am talking about is like floating, not like swimming.

Buddha said, "God alone is.

We have created a false contradiction between the two, and that has produced fatal results.

They will bury the dead.

They say, "Theres no God, theres just this world and nothing else.

An individual can live so totally in one moment -- more totally than another man could even in an infinite number of lives.

There are two types of people -- one whom death seeks and the other who seeks death.

Thats why people like Sartre, Camus, Kafka and others talk so much about meaninglessness in the West.

It is so strange that one who says, "Sex is contrary to brahmacharya, so lets get rid of sex," will himself be ultimately destroyed in his attempts to get rid of sex.

We dont want to get away from there, and yet we want to bring peace there.

Wherever resistance occurs a strength is created.

Watching him, Jesus said, "Perhaps I wrongly understood you could leave your old net behind.

If a persons sex is destroyed -- and there are means to destroy sex -- then remember, that will not make him a brahmacharya, a celibate, he will simply turn into an impotent person.

He is under the illusion that he is living on his own, but the fact is, all his nourishment comes from the mundane world.

He caught hold of the fisherman and said, "You madman, where are you going? Your father, who was ill, has died.

Is that water hot or cold? One hand will say it is hot, the other will say it is cold.

Had you not had any money you wouldnt have been able to cross.

The very step at the bottom is connected with the step on the top.

We cant afford any longer to create divisions and to pit one part against the other.

Mind is another name for confusion.

Once a man came to me.

The leaf is ready and willing to go wherever the river takes it.

"

You come and tell me thoughts wont leave you.

When it is sunny outside, he merely gets up, walks inside the house and relaxes.

Why is that so? It is because now, it is not trying to fall in accord with the river, it is simply floating; thats all.

There is nothing like a confused mind.

And then it becomes impossible to live under its weight.

And there are many dead people in the village.

I have been wandering in search of it for the last two years.

He said, "There is no other way.

Do you know that the man who takes poison lovingly, joyfully, as if he were taking nectar -- the poison becomes nectar for him? If you dont, then you must find out.

When the blood gushed out of the victim I felt satisfied that finally I had done something people would talk about, that my life had not passed in vain.

Lets assume there is a place where mad people live.

There was a circus.

To extend such an invitation to death, meditation is the means, meditation is the answer.

"But I have come to find peace," the man said.

The delight and the joy of the floating leaf is simply out of this world.

We dont allow them to die.

Psychologists say car accidents happen, not because of bad roads but because of the man on the accelerator -- there is something wrong with the man.

Meditation is a means to slip away, to turn away from the waves of confusion.

We want four bananas right now!"

The motivation for rushing off so fast is because others are running off, are in a hurry too -- they might reach first.

The more stiff you become, the further you get into difficulty, the more you go on becoming tense.

What do you want from me? Dont tell anyone you came to see me too, even by mistake.

Make sure you understand.

The suffering you could have otherwise finished with in seventy years will be prolonged for seven hundred years -- what else? The troubles of seventy years will extend to seven hundred.

"

Then the architect, the engineer, in order to make an arch for a doorway in the house, lays the bricks in opposing order.

In the absence of anger, the forgiveness will appear totally lackluster, absolutely lifeless, dead.

We only believe in matter.

What can death do when the man himself is ready to disappear?

If you try to make a conscious effort, if you sit down, strain your muscles, force yourself, become determined to calm your mind no matter what, it wont work -- because, after all, who will be doing all this? Who will be showing determination? Who else but you?

What it means is: I dont see life and death as contrary to each other.

Why run away from death? Accept it, welcome it.

Dont think hell and heaven are contrary, diametrically opposite to each other.

A person who, in his opposition, insists on cutting out the half of it has not yet attained enough intelligence.

You just have to float.

I couldnt find anything else there.

But this makes no difference.

The problem is that pegs become more important than the clothes hanging on them.

Man is unable to live; thats why there is so much running about.

The river can do no harm to him.

He wouldnt be able to make the arch if he placed them in the same order -- the doorway would fall immediately.

The left leg would not be able to move without the help of the right one.

"

His fighting drowns him, not the river.

ARE YOU GOING TO SHOW US HOW TO REJUVENATE OUR BODIES? ARE YOU GOING TO SHOW SOME ALCHEMICAL METHOD TO BECOME YOUNG AGAIN? IF THATS THE CASE THEN ITS WORTH SPENDING OUR MONEY TO COME THERE.

The sea exists even when there is no storm.

Remember, in this world there is nothing at all like contradiction.

Can you float like this in the river? There should not be even a thought of swimming, not even the feeling of it; there should be no mind at all.

There is nothing but God everywhere.

We have done this in all spheres.

There is an unhealthy body, of course, and there is a healthy body as well.

What else will he do? What more can a swimmer do? He will go from one shore to the other.

" Mind by itself is unhealthy.

WHAT IS A MIND FILLED WITH ILLUSIONS? WHAT IS A VERY CONFUSED MIND? WHAT IS CLARITY OF MIND?

What is the truth? Why did you give three different answers?"

A seventy-year-old man keeps the happy memories of his childhood alive.

It was early morning and the sun was just about to appear on the horizon.

Sex, dropping downward, decreasing, is brahmacharya.

"

Wherever the river wants to take it, so be it.

Great difficulty and trouble would arise if these people were to believe that cold and hot were not only separate but contradictory things -- for the simple reason that cold and hot are not contradictory, they are different degrees of qualifying the same thing.

In a state of peace, the body remains, the atman remains, but the mind is no more.

Say goodbye to it, let it depart.

Meditation is a way to be finished with the mind, to part with the mind.

His mind will be in great tension and trouble forever -- right there, thats his death.

They will try to cheat the government so they can ease themselves out of life.

He feels he would be better off anywhereread.99csw.com except where he is.

So there was a great dispute between these monks.

The monks very life-breath comes from the worldly man.

Remember, however, that one who says he wants to attain peace can never become peaceful, because to say "I want to attain peace," is, in fact, looking for disturbance.

Say, "Come and be my guest too.

Question 4

" Other people say, "The universe is made of matter, it is made of nothing but dust.

Striving to cut off sex from his life, his mind will remain fixed on sex alone -- there is no way he can ever attain brahmacharya.

He has asked a very significant question.

What I have talked about these four days has pertained to this.

You come with me.

This man is trying to cool down the sun.

And then, one day, you want them to leave you all of a sudden.

One who is against showing anger, his forgiveness will be impotent.

When peace descends it does not mean the mind becomes peaceful; rather, the mind does not exist at all.

No one goes inside.

I am teaching you how to die so you may attain life.

I am an enemy of atheists.

The rest merely see the bricks that fall within the range of their view.

This error in expression is because of the language we have created.

One reaches to a point where it almost feels as if everything has become empty -- it is reaching to the ultimate end.

" The day life agrees to live with death, it is transformed into life supreme.

The whole of mankind has become schizophrenic.

Do you know a secret? The man who learns how to live in darkness -- the moment he accepts the totality of darkness, the darkness turns into light for him.

" This is okay.

"

How can one enter the river if he holds on to the shore? He can only be back on the shore.

Religion is in that very harmony.

I can call it the art of living too, but I wont, because you are too attached to life.

Rejuvenation is not the key for attaining victory over death.

The current of the river is swift, and he flaps his arms and legs trying to swim across.

His life will become too onerous.

And dont ever look back in this direction again.

Then Jesus said, "I am a fisherman too, but I throw my net in some other ocean.

In this whole affair neither the theist nor the atheist wins the argument; neither the materialist nor the spiritualist wins.

"

You sit in meditation but then you always come and tell me it never happens, that thoughts keep coming.

Buddha said, "I did not give these answers to you.

And the man who has accepted darkness itself, wholeheartedly, finds to his astonishment that darkness has become light.

A swimmer can only reach the shore.

Then leave that too, then float with it also.

He insists on placing bricks that are all alike; he doesnt want opposing bricks.

The guru said, "Each one of you is looking at one side of the truth.

There is a whole network of them we are holding on to.

It was all right in the morning, but by afternoon it became a problem.

All our memories of the past are thoughts.

Why did you listen to them? Do you think it is right to hear what I say to others?"

A leg never walks alone, by itself, although only one leg moves forward at a time.

This needs to be understood, because it will be useful for meditation as well as in learning the art of dying.

"And let me ask you this: who did you go to and ask how to be in agony? Which guru has initiated you into agitation? Which ashram did you go to, to learn how to be restless?"

It is true you could hire the boat and cross the river only because you let go of money -- but the other side is equally true: you could part with your money because you had money to part with.

A man came to him and said, "I am an atheist, I dont believe in God.

In life, the principle of polarity is behind the creation of energy, power.

One of us believes we crossed the river because we had money on us, while the other says we were able to cross because we let money go.

He said, "What do you mean?"

Then where will one go? If you let go of the body you will move within; if you hold on to the body you will come out.

He knows that life will become cold immediately, will dissolve right away if the bricks are not laid in opposition to each other.

The bricks are the same, but making the doorway he places them opposite each other so they can hold each other.

But one who can see the whole staircase will deny such a distinction.

Say, for instance, two people are having a fight.

It may look as if the lower steps and the steps on top are separate, far away from each other.

Dont answer questions.

And to be in meditation means not making any effort to change the mind but instead moving within without a sound.

The apparent diversity is like the notes of a great symphony.

We want four bananas now!"

We say, "disturbed mind," "confused mind.

We dont let the yesterdays past die.

Although you may be a good citizen, your name will not be in the papers -- but stab a person and it will create headlines.

But what is the distinction between childhood and old age really? The difference is only of years, the difference is only of days; the difference is not qualitative, it is only quantitative.

But the other part is equally true.

One evening, in a great hurry, they arrived at a river.

Keep it in mind finally.

The quarrels of seventy years will continue up to seven hundred.

Ill take you across in the morning.

An effort is not required to float; floating is merely no-effort.

After reaching the other shore, the monk said again, "What do you say, my friend? We would have been unable to cross the river if we hadnt had the money.

One who says he will not accept being restless will continue to be restless, because this very non-acceptance is itself the root of restlessness.

Then there is another man.

This shore brings you out of the river, and so does the other shore.

Let me explain a little further through one small principle.

Doing meditation is an effort too.

Perhaps nothing has caused so much harm to the human race as this contradiction.

A good mans name never appears in the papers; you only see names of murderers and criminals.

Then you will attain to the ultimate life.

They would never be able to walk.

Once Buddha entered a village.

Mind is not a thing, it is a state of disorder, a state of chaos.

Jesus said, "You are a courageous man.

Walking, you only lift one leg at a time, which may create the wrong impression that you walk on one foot.

Another man came at noon and said, "I am a theist.

I gave my answers to the people concerned.

Where were you? We went looking for you at the lake and found your net lying there.

The owner said, "Ill give you four in the evening, take three now.

If we divide things which are essentially one into separate parts -- not only separate but contradictory parts -- the ultimate result can be nothing but the creation of a schizophrenic, insane man.

One maintained it is necessary to have money, while the other disagreed.

The man who came in the morning was an atheist.

Its a matter of living, and only a man who has no fear of death can live -- otherwise how can he live? The fear of death keeps man trembling -- he never stands still; he keeps running all the time.

"You must have heard wrongly," said Buddha.

He has asked:

He saw his serene, laughing eyes, his personality.

And to your great surprise you will find what you considered your enemy became your friend.

Mind is not a faculty, it is not a substance.

What do you think? Is there God?"

We are firm in our beliefs, and we both seem to be right.

If it is sunny outside, you may see a man trying to open his umbrella -- and umbrellas can be opened outside in the sun; one may stand under its shade, or any other shade -- but such umbrellas, however, can never be opened within the mind.

The monkeys insisted, "This has never happened before.

Man is restless as he is, and yet there are some who create a new restlessness by saying, "We want to be peaceful.

As soon as a man welcomes death, accepts death, a new door opens in his life -- a door that leads him to the divine.

There I will say, "Learn the art of living.

Then what is the answer?

Such a thing can only result in splitting man into fragments and in bringing him trouble.

He is trying to "do" meditation.

The fisherman said, "Please let me take leave for a few days to perform my fathers last rites.

We could give it up; thats why we could cross the river.

" And that would prove to be very costly; it would have very grave consequences.

Meditation means cessation of the mind.

There is no need to count one by one that there are four in the morning and three in the evening, or vice versa.

If one were to believe there is no God, that there is nothing but matter, then what meaning is there in life? Then life becomes totally useless.

But we have created such dichotomies in all levels of our lives.

It is interesting that the worldly man survives with the help of the renunciate and the renunciate survives with the help of the worldly man -- in the same way the left foot is dependent on the right foot and the right foot is dependent on the left foot.

If God is, then there is no samsara; then we can never accept the mundane life.

"

The sting lay in our running away from death, in our being afraid of it.

Just as now people are looking for gurus who can rejuvenate their bodies, people then will look for someone who will show them the secret, the technique of dying, so that even scientists will not be able to save them.

And life is so vast that very few people evolve enough to see that the whole doorway is made of opposing bricks.

"

For example, there are steps leading to the terrace.

But he is bound to feel hot.

His childhood is not yet dead.

What knowledge can I have?"

In its ultimate state life contains neither birth nor death, but it is made of the two aspects we call birth and death.

They cannot.

" So the argument remained.

They search endlessly but cant find death.

Looking at the signboard -- "Die" -- people turn back.

And then all of a sudden you decide to meditate and tell the dog to get lost.

We can understand this mans confusion -- but Ananda, a disciple of Buddhas, was in a terrible suspense; he had heard both conversations.

He thinks maybe you are having some kind of fun with him, hence the more you drive him out the more playful he becomes, the more he keeps coming back to you.

People get more tired on these days than ever.

If I should say, "Come learn the art of living," you would come running because you would want to strengthen your attachment to life.

" How can you leave something you claim as yours? If you want to get rid of thoughts, then stop taking interest in them.

"

He said, "We crossed the river not because you had money, but because you could part with it! We were able to cross the river not because you had moread.99csw.comney but because you could let go of it.

Be my guest in this very home," suddenly finds the restlessness has left him.

He will say, "The difference between the steps below and the steps above only appears because of the steps in between.

There is God, and nothing but God.

He feels something new is happening, that maybe the master is in a good mood, so he takes more and more interest in the game.

Subsequently, this contradiction has had ramifications on many levels.

We also see that something which is hot is hot, and something which is cold is cold -- we cannot believe the same thing can be hot and cold at the same time.

How will they depart unless you stop taking interest in them? Otherwise, how will they know you have changed, that you are no longer interested in them?

When you are angry and driving a car, you press the accelerator harder.

The very goal is to reach the ocean -- the river becomes the ocean and the individual consciousness becomes the divine.

This mistake has been repeated many a time.

What are we running from? What is the fear? The fear is that on the one hand we are unable to live fully, and on the other hand the fear of death is imminent, present.

There is no trouble, no hindrance, no quarrel, no bother for the leaf.

He has let himself go in the river.

We have taken the totality of life as if it were made up of parts, and we have pitted each part against the other.

"

Just try to feel what Ananda must have gone through.

"

Instead, man will remain hanging in limbo -- in the same way all the age-old teachings have left humanity hanging in limbo.

Just tell someone that what he thinks is wrong -- he will jump back at you saying, "What do you mean, what I think is wrong? My thoughts can never be wrong!" So the thought with a collar with your name on it comes back to you.

What kind of a person would you like to be -- the one who runs away from death or the one who embraces it? A person eluding death will continue to be defeated; his entire life will be a lifelong story of defeat.

Can you see his difficulty? When it was night and everyone had left, he touched Buddhas feet and said, "Are you trying to kill me? What are you doing? I almost lost my life! Never have I been so upset and restless as I have been today.

We have always had four bananas in the morning.

Now one does not maintain any hold over the body; now one does not tether oneself to the shore of the body -- you let it go, you float.

The power of anger itself will lend luster to the act of forgiveness.

The difference between hell and heaven is the same as between cold and hot, between the lower rung and the higher rung, between a child and an old man.

As it is, you are already confused, restless.

We live on a mental plane; we are present right where the disorder, where the trouble is going on.

"

You can do away with the half, of course, but as soon as that happens the remaining half will die as well -- because, unquestionably, the latter half received its life energy from the first half and from nowhere else.

One who accepts death in this way comes to a halt immediately.

We say an "unhealthy body," a "healthy body.

Where else can I find a lake? Where else can I find fish and throw my net to catch them? I also ask myself, Will I go on catching fish the rest of my life?"

" One is just an old man of seventy, while there is someone who is five years old.

It is sure to carry him and bring him to the ocean.

A man is swimming in the river.

This time it has happened that you have turned all the meetings into question-and-answer sessions.

Buddha said, "But why are you upset? I didnt answer you!"

Add them together.

A little experiment will make this clear.

By moving away from the confusion, the confusion stills -- because it is our very presence that creates it.

Thoughts dont come like that.

Maybe you have come here with the same idea too.

If birth and death were contrary to each other, how could birth end in death? We can only reach to a point of our natural growth.

When an individual is being in meditation, he is not trying to quiet down his mind; instead he is slipping away from it.

If so, you will be disappointed, because I am teaching the art of dying here.

I am an absolute believer in God.

We have absolutely no idea that an extended life has no meaning.

It is as if a man were to stand in the sun with his eyes closed, thinking that an umbrella is over his head and that he is not feeling hot now.

If one leaves the shore, he will go straight into the river.

He looked at Jesus.

If one asks where they want to reach, they dont know.

"

The distinction between them is of quantity, not of quality.

Just be kind enough to step aside, thats all.

" And, believing only in matter, they also tried to create a world of their own.

Question 1

So one of the keys to the art of dying is: let the dead be dead.

I have heard

White manifests because of the black background; black is in fact causing the white to stand out.

Well stay together.

I have to get there soon.

The day one welcomes death, gives it a hug, embraces it, the matter is over! That day the sting of death departs.

If you can leave the dead behind, you can indeed attain to life.

Let go of breathing too.

Doing meditation means making an effort, an effort to change the mind.

There is no contradiction between them.

One of the monks approached the boatman, who was tying up his boat for the night, and said, "Please dont tie your boat up yet, bring us across the river.

I have nothing to do with whats happening to you!"

A state of no-mind appears.

He became very restless; he couldnt figure out what was going on.

The body is a substance, the atman is a substance -- and existing as a state of confusion that becomes a link between the two, is mind.

Its very being is confusion.

I Teach Death

He is filled with the desire to crash into something.

They came to their guru.

A criminal confesses in the court, "I had no enmity with the person, I had never seen the man before.

Drop your net right there.

Yet another friend has asked a question which is related to the previous one.

"

"

It was early morning -- the sun was about to rise; the horizon had just turned red.

You have the potential to go some place.

Have you ever believed there was any opposition between the seed and the flower? The flower grows out of the seed itself and becomes a flower.

Then what is the nature of the water really? If, simultaneously, one hand feels it is hot and the other feels the same water is cold, then we will have to realize the water is neither hot nor cold -- its feeling hot or cold is relative to our hands.

So he has placed anger opposite forgiveness, sex opposite brahmacharya, and because of the resistance present between them, an energy is created.

When I say to let go of the breath as well, then do not cling to the shore of breathing.

But this is not true in the case of the mind.

Where they have arrived, suicide will happen there as well -- because if there is only matter and no God, then everything that lends savor to life, that makes life charming, that gives movement to life, that creates the desire to rise, will be gone.

The idea is to jump into the car and dash off -- fifty miles, a hundred miles, two hundred miles -- to escape to a picnic spot, to a mountain, to a hill resort, to the beach.

The courts, the big judges and lawyers in their black gowns are discussing my case with great seriousness.

"

You must take into account the distinction between the two.

I say unto you: Die! Learn how to die.

Ananda said, "Maybe not, but I am in a quandary.

I had to tell him I was an atheist because he had become lopsided too; he had also lost his balance.

The man said, "But I was told that you are an atheist.

Then his life becomes a triumphant journey.

As soon as you step aside, the turmoil will come to an end.

"

The monkeys persisted, "We dont care about your arithmetic.

"

Only the bricks of life will be left -- and they will collapse right away.

You must have thought I would let you in on some trick so you would never die.

Whether I call it the art of dying or whether I call it the art of living -- both mean the same thing.

The leaf has broken all the strength of the river.

I am an absolutely ignorant man.

"I am a theist.

" Only then would the people of that town come to me.

And that energy is life.

The body is sure to die.

It is true, of course, that you were able to cross the river because you had money on you.

We dont let the dead be dead; instead, we amass it like a heavy load.

" Thats just fine, dont accept them -- but you will continue to be surrounded by what you will not accept.

The distance between the two is not one of enmity and contradiction.

Suit yourself.

One who swims will go astray.

Now you have heard it from my own lips.

He has put the bricks of birth and death together, facing each other, and thus of both a gateway to life is created.

I said, "Get up and walk out that door right this moment, otherwise I shall be proven to be a hypocrite as well.

So one who is now dead, is dead forever.

In fact, there can never be anything like contradiction in the world, because if there were, there would be no way to unite the opposites.

The monk paid five rupees to the boatman -- he had won.

Keep this in mind: a truly religious person is both -- an atheist on one hand, and a believer in God on the other hand.

We cant be in the marketplace, we cant attend to our businesses; because we believe in God well become monks and retire to the forests.

One who learns how to float reaches the divine.

You ask me, "Whats the answer? Whats the solution?" I say: accept death.

As he began pulling the net out, Jesus placed his hand on the fishermans shoulder and said, "My friend, would you spend all your life catching fish?"

"I went nowhere," the man replied.

One who attains this balance attains the truth.

Then I said, "You are such a clever fellow, you can even create mental disturbance for yourself.

Please answer me, right now.

All of our past belief systems say that sex and brahmacharya, celibacy, are contrary to each other.

Our guru, with whom we lived, who taught us what life is all about, is close to dying.

In life everything is integrated.

They have written over and over again, "Please say something of your own.

All over Europe and America weekends and holidays have become a great nuisance.

" Both used to put forward arguments in support of their respective views, and it seemed like their arguments were correct.

Ask what can be done so that the mind will exist no more.

What is the difference? If we want, we can call a seventy -- year-old man a seventy-year-old child -- after all, a child grows into an old man.

I told him, "You are looking for ways of becoming agitated.

Now, when you go back home do a little experiment.