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

200 THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12
Buddha would not have accepted you all, remember, neither would Jesus or Mahavira; they would have chosen.
A few people would have been chosen by Buddha and a few would have been chosen by Jesus and a few would
have been chosen by somebody else. But I don’t choose at all, I am absolutely choiceless. Whosoever comes to
me is accepted, absolutely accepted, totally accepted, because I don’t have a basic pattern. I have only hints and
hints for all, for all kinds of people.
It is not a teaching; teaching becomes rigid, becomes defined. It is only a presence. I am only a window;
through me you can look into God. And once you have looked into God, then you can look into God on your own
I am not needed anymore.
The fifth question:
Question 5
BELOVED MASTER, WHY ARE ALL THE AWAKENED ONES AGAINST DESIRING? WHAT IS WRONG
WITH DESIRE?
Sujata, meditate over Murphy’s maxim: Be careful about what you want, because you are liable to get it.
The sixth question:
Question 6
BELOVED MASTER, WHY DO I ALWAYS FIND IT DIFFICULT TO RELATE TO MY WIFE?
Richard, because you are British, and you know British wives!
Sent to Australia for an extended business trip, the Englishman was asked if he missed his wife, who was still
back in London.
”Ah, I don’t miss her all that much,” he explained. ”One day a week I hire a local woman to come in and nag.”
After they had been discussing their problems for more than an hour, the prissy English lady said to the
marriage counselor, ”I think it is unfair to suggest that I don’t enjoy sex. But what can you say about a man who
wants it five or six times a year?”
And the last:
”I am taking Kung Fu lessons just in case some sex fiend tries to rape me on some dark night,” the prune-faced
Englishwoman told her long-suffering husband.
”Why bother?” remarked the husband. ”It will never get that dark.”
The seventh question:
Question 7
BELOVED MASTER, ALL THE BUDDHAS SAY THAT ONE SHOULD LEARN TO BE SILENT, BUT IN
DAY-TO-DAY LIFE ONE HAS TO SPEAK. THEN WHAT SHOULD ONE DO?
Shakti, first meditate over Murphy’s maxim: Think twice before you speak and then don’t say anything.
But if you have to say something, then meditate over this:
Walker, a newspaperman, was on vacation up in Maine. He came across a lonely hut and began interviewing
the owner with the idea of doing a story on the locale.
”Whose house is this?” asked the reporter.
”Moggs’,” replied the Mainer.
”What in the world is it built of?”
”Logs.”
”Any animals natural to the locality?”
”Frogs.”
”What sort of soil have you?”
”Bogs.”
”How about the climate?”
”Fogs.”
”What do you live on chiefly?”
”Hogs.”
”Have you any friends?”
”Dogs.”
Be telegraphic!
The eighth question:
Question 8
BELOVED MASTER, AHA! I THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING FAMILIAR ABOUT HIM MURPHY
IS A JEW! USED TO BE CALLED MOSHE KAPOYER?