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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 I am always with you.
The ocean is close –
just run, run, run!
126. Love.
Everything changes except change, only change is eternal.
But the human mind lives in the past – and that is the confusion
of all confusions.
One day the sky was filled with the clouds of war –
plane upon plane loaded with death.
Beasts, birds, worms and beetles –
all that could flee, fled.
Horses, donkeys, rats, sheep, dogs and cats, wolves –
all ran for their lives
and the paths and tracks were full of them.
As they fled, this multitude saw
two vultures sitting on a wall by the road.
Brothers! they cried to them. Flee! At once!
Man is on the warpath again.
The vultures just smiled. They knew!
One said: Since time immemorial man’s wars
have been good news for vultures.
Our ancestors have said so, and so too our scriptures.
It is also our own experience.
In fact it is for the benefit of vultures that God sends man to war!
God has made man and war just for vultures!
This said, the two vultures flew off towards the battle –
and in the next moment were blown to pieces by falling bombs.
If they had only known how things
can change over thousands of years.
But does even man himself realize this?
127. Love.
I received your letter.
Don’t be afraid of sexual desire
because fear is the beginning of defeat.
Accept it,
it is and it has to be.
Of course, you must know it and recognize it,
be aware of it,
bring it out of the unconscious into the conscious mind.
You cannot do this if you condemn it because condemnation
leads to repression and it is repression that pushes desires
and emotions into the unconscious.
Really, it is because of repression
that the mind is divided into conscious and unconscious,
and this division is at the root of all conflict.
It is this division that prevents man from being total –
and without integration there is no way to peace,
bliss and freedom. So meditate on sexual desire.
Whenever the desire arises,
watch it mindfully.
Do not resist it,
do not escape from it.
Encountering it leads you to unique experiences.
And whatever you have learned
or heard about celibacy –
throw it once and for all into the dustbin,
for there is no way other than this
of reaching to brahmacharya.
My regards to all there.
128. Love.
Be like steel – clay will no longer do.
To be a sannyasin is to be a soldier of God.
Serve your parents – even more than before.
Give them the joy of a sannyasin son.
But don’t relent,
keep your resolution firm;
it will bring glory to your family.
The son who compromises with a thing like sannyas
shames his family.
I have complete trust in you,
that’s why I have been a witness to your sannyas.
Laugh and go through everything.
Listen to everything and laugh.
This is your sadhana.
Let the storms come and go.
129. Love.
In sannyas, sansara is just a drama;