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A madman was throwing handfuls
of crumbs around his house.
What are you doing? someone asked him.
Keeping the elephants away, he answered.
But there are no elephants in these parts,
said the inquirer.
That’s right – my method is effective, isn’t it?
declared the madman.
249. Love.
Total acceptance of existence is impossible for the mind
because the mind exists as denial.
It exists with the no,
and with a total yes it dies.
So it continues to find reasons to say no
even if there are no reasons.
Walking with a disciple one day
Mulla Nasruddin saw for the first time in his life
a beautiful lakeland scene.
What a delight! he exclaimed. But if only,
if only…
If only what, master? asked the disciple.
If only they had not put water in it! said the Mulla.
250. Love.
Meditation is like the sea:
receiving the dirty river and yet remaining pure.
You need not be purified before it,
but you will come out of it purified.
Meditation is unconditional,
purity is not a prerequisite but a consequence.
251. Love.
Be as if dead,
and then dualisms will not contaminate you
and you will reach the state
of the non-arising of thought.
The brightness of self-nature will appear in full –
and when this happens you are no more.
This disappearance is the appearance of the divine,
so please – disappear!
252. Love.
Existence exists in order to exist –
and likewise life.
There is no meaning to it beyond itself
so never posit any meaning,
otherwise you will feel its meaninglessness.
It is not meaningless and it cannot be so
because there is no meaning in it all!
The very search for meaning is mean and ugly
because it comes from the utilitarian mind of man.
Existence simply is
and likewise life:
there is no purpose in it
and there is no end to it.
Feel it here and now!
Please do not practice it
because that is the way of the utilitarian mind.
Be playful
and only then will you know the playfulness
of the universe.
And to know that is to be religious.
253. Love.
Do not continue moving in the old rut –
and the way out is just by your hand.
The mind is the past, the dead past;
one has to break it somewhere and jump out of it
The mind is the prison, the slavery.
Be free of it.
And the moment is ripe.
Of course I know that you are still not clearly aware of it
but you are not unaware either.
Gather courage and jump into the unknown.
Just one step is enough
because the next follows it automatically.
But do not go on thinking and thinking and thinking.
Thinking promises to lead you somewhere
but the promise remains always a promise,
because thinking is just impotent
as far as life is concerned.
So please, be existential.
Do not hesitate.
And you have nothing to lose – because you
have nothing!
Realize this and be nothing – no-one.
254. Love.
Life is movement,
process,
fluidity;
but ideas become fixed,
so they become also anti-life.
They become dead blocks.
Do not remain with them.
Move.
And do not fear inconsistency
because life is not a syllogism,
life is not a theory
but a mystery.
Someone asked Mulla Nasruddin: How old are you, Mulla?
Forty.
But you said the same last time I asked you, five years ago!
Yes, I am always consistent and always stand by
what I have said.
255. Love.
Mind means consciousness somewhere –
centered,
focused and tense.
Meditation means consciousness nowhere,
and when it is nowhere it is everywhere –
decentralized.
Unfocused and non-tense.
Mind is agony by its very nature,
meditation – ecstasy.
Do not treat consciousness like a cat tied to a string.
This very treatment –
or mistreatment –
creates the mind.
The consciousness must be left
to itself, utterly free
to move and be
according to its nature.
Do not localize it.
Do not be partial.
This is the essence of my discipline of no-discipline.
Preserve the absolute fluidity of your consciousness
and then you will not be,
and when you are not and only consciousness is
then for the first time the doors of the divine
are open to you.
256. Love.
Yes, man learns by experience!
Two old drunkards
were in the habit of coming together twice a week
to the wine-seller to get drunk.