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and anyone who is meditating
will have to put everything right side up!
One should not try to know life but to know death,
and then the mysteries of life are revealed to him.
One should not ask for any security
and then there is no insecurity at all.
Bunan says in a poem:
While living be a dead man,
be thoroughly dead,
and then behave as you like
because then all is well.
355. Love.
Materialistic societies produce hollow men,
men with dead emptiness within,
and because of this dead emptiness
one dies before one is really born.
Remember that man cannot live by shops alone,
and today the holy of holies is the shop.
The outer is meaningless without the inner richness,
and the outer richness
only makes the inner poverty prominent.
Man is hollow because there is no inner growth
and the inner grows only when one lives in the inner.
Inward is the way of growth, grace and God.
356. Love.
Never suppress any thought,
or fight with it,
otherwise you will never be without it.
Fight it, and you invite it more.
Suppress it, and it will be back with double the force.
I have heard
that someone advertised something for women
but with the heading, Only For Men.
It is reported that
out of ninety thousand women who came across it
eighty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-four
read the advertisement.
The other six were blind.
357. Love.
It is impossible to conceive of the divine intellectually,
and that is why the intellect denies it
or creates fictitious systems about it,
which is even more dangerous than plain denial.
The mind works only in the circle of the known;
it cannot transcend the world of the known.
For the mind the unknown is not.
Says Attar: You know nothing of your real self
here and in this state.
You are like the wax in the honeycomb –
what does it know of fire or guttering?
But when it gets to the stage of the waxen candle
and when light is emitted
then it knows.
358. Love.
Life is not a detective story,
and you do not have to deduce a thing.
Life is before your eyes as clear as the sun
and as open as the sky.
Just be out of your thinking disease
and open your eyes,
and nothing is hidden at all.
Even the hidden one is not hidden then.
I have heard a dialogue between
Sherlock Holmes and Watson:
Holmes: Ah, Watson, I see you have put on
your winter underwear.
Watson: Marvelous, Holmes, marvelous!
How did you ever deduce that?
Holmes: Well, you have forgotten
to put on your trousers.
359. Love.
Life goes on flowing.
It does not wait.
But mind thinks and therefore takes time.
To exist, no time is needed,
but to think – time is necessary
Really there is no time in existence.
There appears to be only
because of the mind and its thinking.
Existence exists not in time but in eternity.
It exists in the eternal now.
There is neither past nor future
but only the present –
or not even that –
because without the past and future
it is meaningless to call it present.
Do not live out of the mind,
otherwise you will always lag behind,
because life never waits for you and your so-called mind.
That is why the mind always feels
as if something is missing –
because it is missing life itself – and always!
Once a master said to his disciples:
If you utter a word – thirty blows of my stick for you.
But if you utter no words
just the same, thirty blows of my stick.
Now – speak, speak!
One disciple came forward
and when he was about to bow
before the master he was struck.
The disciple protested: I have not uttered a single word
nor did you allow me not to utter.
Why the striking?
The master laughed and said
If I wait for you and your speech or your silence,
it is too late, and life cannot wait!
360. Love.
Goethe is said to have cried when dying:
Light, light, more light!
And Miguel Unamuno has responded with his:
No – warmth, warmth, more warmth! For we die of cold
and not of darkness!
But I say to you that we die neither because of cold
nor because of darkness
but because of our lust for living
or because of our fear of death –
which is to say the same thing in different ways.
Do not look at death as opposite to life, because it is not.
And live death moment to moment.