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Say no and you yourself have closed the doors –
or closed yourself to the divine.
No is suicidal, no is poisonous –
know this and be a yea-sayer.
Let your heart say yes with every beat.
Breathe yes in and out
and you will feel the divine all around you
within and without.
He is always present but he cannot enter through a no sign.
He cannot trespass on you.
With a no you are an ego
but with a yes you are just egolessness.
Ego is a Leibnizian monad without any doors or windows,
and egolessness is the gate.
Be a gate – the divine is waiting to enter you from eternity.
207. Love.
Begin to live positively – that is,
with positive emotions.
To be negative is to be self-destructive
and ultimately suicidal.
But ordinarily the mind works that way
because it is only an instrument for safety and security;
it detects only death and not life.
So to be completely positive is to transcend mind.
Some fakir was asked to talk to a group
about the negative nature of the mind.
He tacked up on the wall a large sheet of
perfectly white paper.
He made a black spot in the paper with a pencil.
Then he asked each man to say what he saw.
Each man replied: A black spot.
The fakir then said: Yes, there is a little black spot.
But not one of you saw the big expanse of white paper –
and that is the point of my speech.
208. Love.
The forms of existence are finite – all forms.
Really, to have a form means to be finite.
But existence is infinite
because only the formless can be infinite,
and existence is formlessness,
that is why it can take all forms.
But to take form in any way is to allow death in
because form is a death sentence,
whilst existence itself is eternal life.
Do not be identified with the form:
this identification creates the fear of death
– in fact, all fear.
Remember the formless
and you will know immortality
because you will be that – then.
209. Love.
One’s attitude is everything.
Negative attitudes negate life –
they are good for dying but not good for living.
Life needs positive attitudes;
life feeds on them
because they make you
not only happy but creative also.
Once there lived an old woman,
but the older she became the younger she felt –
because youthfulness has nothing to do with age,
it is an attitude,
and with age and its richness
one can really be younger than the young.
The old woman was so cheerful and creative
that everyone wondered at her.
But you must have some clouds in your life,
said a visitor.
Clouds? she replied. Why, of course:
if there were no clouds
where would the blessed showers come from?
In the presence of trouble –
and there are troubles in life –
the positive mind grows wings
but others buy crutches.
Grow wings, and do not buy crutches.
210. Love.
There is no security in life
because life cannot exist except as insecurity –
that is why the more secure one is
the less alive one becomes.
Death is complete security.
So never be in search of security
because you are searching for death.
To live totally and in ecstasy never demands security.
Accept insecurity blissfully
and when you accept it
then you will know that it has a beauty of its own.
Mulla Nasruddin’s tomb
was fronted by an immense wooden door,
barred and padlocked.
Nobody could get into it – at least through the door.
As his last joke
the Mulla decreed that the tomb
should have no walls around it…
What the Mulla did with his tomb
everybody is doing with his life –
and unknowingly!
If you also want to do it –
at least do it knowingly,
because I know that you cannot do it knowingly!
Not only you cannot, but no one can do it,
because no one can knowingly be stupid.
211. Love.
The universe cares for little but play.
But man in his life does hardly anything but work,
and because of this everything has become upside down.
Hence the agony.
The law, the tao of the universe, is play – leela –
and the law of human reason is work
because reason cannot think beyond utility.
But existence exists beyond utility.
Meditate on this gap and you will find the bridge –
and the bridge is necessary
because you cannot exist without work,
and to exist only for work is unbearable and unlivable.
The meditative man works
so that he can play more intensely –
the reason for his work is play.
And the unmeditative man plays so that he can work more efficiently –