THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12 The ...

170 THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12
There are a few people who are here and miserable, because they have not found me. And there are people
who are not here but are immensely joyous because they have found me, wherever they are.
You will belong to me from now onwards.
A single moment of deep harmony is enough, a single moment of love is eternity.
Then time does not matter, space does not matter.
Your heart knows it, but your mind is questioning because it seems illogical. Your mind says, ”If you are really
so much in love, then why are you leaving? If you are really enjoying, then why should you go at all? For twenty
years you have been searching! You wasted twenty years and now you have found and you are going! And still
you are happy! What is happening to you?” This is your mind which is creating a question mark, but your heart
knows you have found me. Now wherever you are, this communion will continue.
Whatsoever has transpired between me and you is something beyond time, beyond space. So you can go happily,
you can go joyously. And whenever you will close your eyes and remember me, you will be now and here.
My buddhafield has not to become confined to the commune; it has to spread all over the earth. So wherever
a person exists who loves me deeply, he creates a small buddhafield around himself.
Hans-Peter, not only will you remain related to me, but you will become a bridge to many people towards me.
You will become a messenger not a missionary but a messenger. A missionary is bogus. A missionary is one who
himself has not understood at all, who has not experienced anything at all. A missionary is a professional: he has
chosen religion as a profession, he earns his livelihood out of it. You will be a messenger. You will be spreading
the word to many more people to your friends, to people you know, you love.
Yes, it is perfectly good go and share me with others. And whenever it is needed you will be called forth, you
will be back here again. And if it is needed to be here forever you will be here forever. Whatsoever is needful will
happen.
Trust!
The sixth question:
Question 6
BELOVED MASTER, WHY DOES NOBODY TAKE ANY NOTICE OF ME?
Narendra, meditate over Murphy’s maxim: Nobody notices when things go right.
You must be going right. People notice only when something goes wrong. If everything goes absolutely right,
people are not going to notice you at all.
It is said of Mahavira that he wanted to renounce his kingdom. He asked the permission of his mother. The
mother said, ”Stop this nonsense never ask me again! Till I die I won’t allow you. If you leave the house
without permission you will be doing something very violent to me and you go on talking about nonviolence. So
remember!”
Mahavira never asked her again. After two years she died. When they were coming back from the funeral he
asked his elder brother on the way home, ”Can I leave now? I was just living here because our mother said,
’Never ask again.’ Now, fortunately, she is dead so can I go?”
The brother said, ”Stop all this nonsense! Such a calamity has fallen over us our mother has died and you
want to leave me? Till I die you are not allowed.”
And Mahavira was so obedient he said okay. He started living in the palace as if he had renounced. He would
meditate, he would be silent, he would move so quietly and so gracefully that, slowly, slowly he became almost
absent. It is a beautiful story, that the family stopped taking any notice of him.
Then one day suddenly the brother realized, ”For months we have not taken any notice of him.” He remembered,
”Where is he?” He went in search of him. He called the whole family and asked them, ”What to do now? He has
almost left! He has become so silent, so peaceful. He makes no noise, he never interferes, he never says anything
to anybody. He is as if he is not in the house at all! So what is the point of preventing him anymore?”
They all gathered together and requested Mahavira, ”Now you can go. In fact, you have already gone because
we have stopped taking any notice of you.”
Mahavira said, ”It makes no difference now. But if you say go, I will go.”
Narendra, don’t be worried. People take notice only when you are doing something wrong. When a dog bites
a man it is not news, but when a man bites a dog it is news! So if you want to become news, bite a dog! Do
something stupid, become some kind of nuisance. Only people who are a nuisance are taken notice of.
That’s why you see in the newspapers all the politicians are covered every day, for the simple reason that they
have nuisance value. You can ask any prime minister or any president of the world on what grounds he chooses
his cabinet. It is nuisance value! Whoever is going to create nuisance, if he is not chosen has to be chosen. The