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Now stand up
and fight with the empty space of the room
so that you can know and taste
the whole stupidity of the human mind.
And then sit down and laugh at yourself,
and as the laughter dies down
be silent and search within,
and then you will come to know a deep mystery:
the mystery that the void is not only without
but within also!
327. Love.
Death is everywhere
but everyone deceives himself that it is not for him.
This is the greatest
and the deepest deception the human mind is capable of,
and unless one is constantly aware of this fact
one is bound to be a victim of this deception –
because the mind goes on giving
very beautiful and logical rationalizations
up to the very end.
I have heard about a ninety-year-old man
who got into a bitter argument with his shoemaker
as to how a pair of shoes should be made.
See here, said the shoemaker,
What’s the idea of doing so much yapping?
You are past ninety
and there is little chance of your living long enough
to wear these shoes out.
The old fellow looked sternly at the shoemaker
and said: Apparently you are not aware
that statistics prove that very few people
die after ninety years of age!
328. Love.
Information is not knowledge
because information is not transformation
and can never be –
and knowledge comes only through transformation.
Information is adding something to the same old mind.
It is quantitative;
there is no qualitative change
because the mind behind it remains the same.
That is why all that is called education
just proves to be superficial.
Mind must go through a qualitative change,
otherwise there is no wisdom;
and to go on adding information to ignorance is fatal.
I call meditation
the method for mind’s total mutation.
First let there be a transformation
of the very quality of the mind
and only then education can be educative.
In ancient times
the king of a certain country was concerned
because his son was something of a fool.
The king’s counselors urged that the son be sent away
to a great university in another land
in the hope that the boy
would acquire learning and wisdom.
The king agreed.
The son studied hard for several years
then wrote to his father that he had learned
just about everything possible
and pleaded to be allowed to return home.
The king assented.
When the son arrived at the palace
the king was overjoyed.
A great feast was prepared
and all the great men of the kingdom were invited.
At the end of the festivities
one of the sages present asked the son
what he had learned.
The young man ticked off the university’s curriculum
that he had gone through. While the lad was talking
the sage slipped a ring off his finger,
closed his hand over it,
held up his hand and asked: What do I hold in my hand?
The son thought for a moment and said:
It is a round object with a hole in the center.
The sage was astonished at such wisdom.
Maybe the lad had become a great mind.
Will you now name the object? asked the sage.
The king’s son pondered for a few moments, then said:
The sciences that I studied do not help me
in answering your question,
but my own commonsense tells me that it is a cartwheel.
The sage concluded to himself
that you can educate a fool
but you cannot make him think.
329. Love.
Yes, there is a way,
but in many the will is lacking to find it.
And it is not far away,
it is just by the corner, so to speak.
Knowingly or unknowingly all men long for it.
Really, the whole of life is a longing for it
because without it
there is no reaching, no flowering, no fulfillment.
But few men seek it
and still fewer seek it rightly
and still fewer find it –
and all of those who find it do not enter.
Only a few enter
and still fewer progressively follow it.
But those who follow it with their total being
realize that the way is the goal itself!
330. Love.
Mind and meditation are two names
of the same substance,
or the same energy.
Mind is energy flowing in dualisms,
in conflict and dis-ease;
and meditation is non-dual energy,
one with itself and at ease.
Thinking is impossible without dualisms,
that is why meditation asks you to go beyond thinking.
The moment there is no thinking –
or a single ripple of thought –
the energy becomes integrated
and there is a qualitative change.
The no-thinking energy