pointed out
that going to church was against his own principles
he laughed – and replied: I have no faith whatever
in what John Brown says,
but John Brown has total faith in what John Brown says.
So once a week I make a point of hearing a man
who has total faith in himself!
118. Love.
Love is also fire,
but a cool fire.
Yet we have to burn in it
because it also purifies;
it burns only to purify.
The dross burns
leaving pure gold.
In the same way my love will bring suffering
because I wish to destroy you in order to recreate you.
The seed must be broken –
how else can the tree be born?
The river must end –
how else is it to merge with the ocean?
So let go of yourself and die –
how else will you find the self?
119. Love.
Truth is discovered not through swimming
but through drowning.
Swimming is a surface happening,
drowning takes you to the infinite depths.
120. Love.
The search for meaning is disastrous;
it has brought nothing but meaninglessness.
To see that there is no meaning –
is to have the real meaning
where meaninglessness cannot be,
where meaning doesn’t matter
and so its disasters are avoided.
What remains just is, and what is,
is and what is not, is not and that’s all.
You ask for a clear statement about motivelessness.
Your attempt to understand cannot succeed
because it is motivated!
Why bother about understanding?
Look, isn’t the thing clear before you there?
All things are open!
All things are clear!
But man is so busy understanding no one is left to see what is clear,
what is obvious, what is there!
Confusion is the effort to understand.
Ignorance is the effort to know.
If you don’t try to understand or know,
nothing can hide itself from you!
Truth is always in front of you, naked, clear.
121. Love.
You say you feel broken.
It would be better if you broke down completely and disappeared.
That which is will always be the case
and that which has become is bound to vanish.
Becoming always leads to dissolution so do not try to save yourself.
One who loses himself goes beyond life and death,
and he who saves himself is lost.
You are busy saving yourself
and that is why you are afraid of breaking down.
But what is there to save?
And that which is worth saving is already saved.
122. Love.
You long for the sun
and you will get it for sure,
but you have to have the courage to burn!
You can’t reach the light without dying,
for ego is darkness,
and besides, the sun isn’t anywhere outside
but is born within when everything else there burns.
When the self is alight – that is the light.
The fear of dying is darkness,
the jump into death is the light.
Die, and know this!
Disappear, and you will find it.
That is why I say love is prayer –
it is the first lesson in death.
Regards to all.
123. Love.
Do not look for a purpose in life but live, and live totally.
Do not be serious and grave but turn life into a dance.
Dance – like the waves on the sea!
Blossom – like the flowers in spring!
Sing – as the birds do continuously!
All without purpose, for no reason; then purpose is there,
and all mystery is solved.
The famous physician Rocky Tonsky once asked a student:
What is the purpose of life? What is its meaning?
The student hesitated and stammered, as if trying to remember,
then said: Yesterday I knew, but right now I seem to have forgotten.
Rocky Tonsky looked up at the sky and cried:
God in heaven!
The only man who ever knew and now he has forgotten!
Love to all the family.
124. Love.
You ask for my ten commandments. This is very difficult
because I am against any sort of commandment. Yet just for the fun
of it I set down what follows:
1. Obey no orders except those from within.
2. The only God is life itself.
3. Truth is within, do not look for it elsewhere.
4. Love is prayer.
5. Emptiness is the door to truth; it is the means, the end and the achievement.
6. Life is here and now.
7. Live fully awake.
8. Do not swim, float.
9. Die each moment
so that you are renewed each moment.
10. Stop seeking. That which is, is: stop and see.
125. Love.
The news of the commune delights me.
The tree’s seed is sprouting,
soon innumerable souls will shelter under its branches.
Soon the people for whom I have come will gather –
and you are going to be their hostess!
So prepare yourself;
that is,
empty yourself completely
because only emptiness can be the host.
You are already on your way,
singing, dancing, blissful
like a river flowing to the sea.
I am delighted,
and