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242 THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12 Friends are possible only on the way, on the way towards God, because it is not a competition. You can have God, I can have God; there is no question that by your having God I will not be able to have God anymore. Millions of people can have God and there is no problem because God is infinite, truth is infinite. My having the truth does not mean that now you cannot have it. In fact, on the contrary, my having the truth means that you can also have it! If I can have it, why not you? Hence, on the way, there is a totally new kind of friendship. ... OF A PURE AND ACTIVE LIFE. How can Buddha be called an escapist? He says: ... OF A PURE AND ACTIVE LIFE. He means creativity, a creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation. Your so-called painters, ninety-nine percent of them, are not real painters. Your so-called poets are not poets, your so-called musicians are not musicians maybe technicians. They know how to play, they know how to compose, they know how to paint, but just knowing how to paint does not make you a creator. A creator is a totally different phenomenon. The creator brings something of God into the world, something of the creator into the world. But how can you bring something of God into the world if you have not known God yourself? A Buddha is a creator, a Jesus is a creator. Their words, their acts are the only proof that God exists. Their very presence is proof that God exists. Their presence is creative: in their very presence thousands of people are transformed. Buddha is not an escapist; he cannot be. No awakened person can be an escapist. Cowards escape, courageous people are creative. SO LIVE IN LOVE these are Buddha’s words, mind you: SO LIVE IN LOVE. DO YOUR WORK. MAKE AN END OF YOUR SORROWS. He is not against love, he is not against creativity, he is not against work either. DO YOUR WORK because unless you do the work that is close to your heart you will remain unfulfilled. And the meditator finds immediately what his work is. The meditator finds intrinsically that this is his work; he does not have to think about it. It is so clear and so loud that he knows that he has to be a musician or he has to be a poet or he has to be this or that. It comes so clear that there is no question of doubt. And then he starts working; that work is his meditation. There are many people here who are afraid of work. They don’t know that the work that is happening here is totally different from the work that you have come across in your life. That was something totally different. When I give you some work it is to help your growth. Until you become capable of finding your own work I will go on giving it to you only up to the moment when you are capable of finding it yourself. And any work that is being given here is nothing but a meditation for you. If it is not a meditation for you then you have not understood my message at all. FOR SEE HOW THE JASMINE RELEASES AND LETS FALL ITS WITHERED FLOWERS. LET FALL WILLFULNESS AND HATRED. Buddha says: As the jasmine flowers fall when they have withered away or leaves fall from the trees when they die, dead leaves. Just like that, LET FALL WILLFULNESS AND HATRED. The first thing he says that has to be dropped easily, without effort, just like a withered jasmine flower falling of its own accord is willfulness, your will, your ego. So sometimes I have to put you in a certain work where you have to drop your ego and you think it is a kind of punishment. It is not a kind of punishment; it is a challenge, it is a situation where you will have to drop the ego sooner or later because it will be creating misery again and again for you. It will make you clearly aware that your ego is causing your misery. Just the other day, Anshumali wrote saying, ”Beloved Master, working in Vrindavan under Deeksha seems to be a punishment.” It is not, Anshumali. It is a reward, not a punishment! It is a punishment if you want to cling to your ego; if you let the ego fall, it is a reward. And then you will be able to see the beauty of the work, and you will be able to see the beauty of Deeksha too. She is a beautiful Italian mama! She loves her workers, she loves her people; she is utterly devoted. Of course, she loves so much that she shouts also, she screams also. Her love is such that she trusts that you will understand her screaming too. But she is a good device; she has been of immense help to many people. There are one hundred therapy groups here, but Deeksha’s is the best! Although it is not known as a therapy group it is a secret therapy group. If you drop your willfulness, your ego, then hatred also drops because hatred is nothing but the shadow of your ego. If there is no ego there is no hatred; if there is ego, there is always hatred following it. Whosoever comes in the way... and everybody will come in the way because egos cannot adjust to each other. Egos are always in conflict, egos are always quarreling, they are quarrelsome, hence the hatred.
THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12 243 Drop the ego and see the beauty of egolessness. Then there is no hatred, no anger. You become so silent, your energy becomes so calm and quiet, that suddenly you start seeing the world in a different light, in a different perspective. Then this ordinary world is no longer ordinary it becomes sacred. ARE YOU QUIET? QUIETEN YOUR BODY. QUIETEN YOUR MIND. Buddha says: First start with the body and then move to the mind. Quieten your body by watching your breath, quieten your mind by watching your thoughts. YOU WANT NOTHING. YOUR WORDS ARE STILL. YOU ARE STILL. Then you will come to see that there is no desire. How can desire exist in a silent mind? Desire is a state of turmoil, desire is a state of unconsciousness, desire is mad. When you are silent, madness disappears. Three times Jessie brought Sandy to the vicarage, hoping to be made man and wife, but each time the minister refused because of the groom-to-be’s intoxication. ”Why do you persist in bringing him to me in such a state?” asked the minister. ”Please, Reverend,” explained Jessie, ”he won’t come when he’s sober!” The moment you are sober, silent, you will not do many things that you are doing and you will start doing things that you have never thought of before. Your life will no more be a wastage; it will become creativity, tremendous creativity. Your life will not grow thorns, it will grow flowers. It is the same energy! But the mind keeps you occupied in such stupid things, in such stupid details about stupid things. Just see what your mind goes on doing... and you will not need anyone to tell you that you are mad. A little man walks into ”The Perfect Stationers” an exclusive New York shop specializing in paper products. He is approached by an elegant salesman in a Brooks Brothers suit. ”Can I help you, sir?” the salesman intones in a cultured voice. ”Yes, I would like some writing paper, please.” ”Would you prefer lined or unlined paper, sir?” ”Oh, anything is fine. It doesn’t matter.” ”Then will you be writing with a fountain pen or a ballpoint?” ”I really don’t know. Whatever comes to hand....” ”Would you like to have a thick paper or onion-skin paper, sir?” ”Look, anything is fine. Just give me any old packet!” ”Perhaps you would prefer one of the perfumed varieties?” ”If you like. But I have a bus to catch just give me some paper, please!” ”It will just take a moment now, sir. Would you like a hand-made paper in a special presentation box or a simple commercial brand?” The little man’s voice rises an octave. ”Look, for the tenth time... any paper will do! Make it fast, would you?” ”Then perhaps you have a favorite color red, blue, yellow...?” Just at that moment another man bursts into the shop. His eyes have dark circles underneath and his cheeks are wet with tears. ”Look,” he sobs, ”this tile is the color of my bathroom and this is the size of my toilet. I showed you my asshole yesterday. Now, could I please have some toilet paper?” Just look at your mind... stupid things and stupid details ad infinitum! You go on and on when are you going to stop?... please! That’s what Buddha is saying. Feinberg, the funeral director, was lunching with his friend, Weinstein. ”I got a good bargain for you in a coffin,” he said. ”I don’t like to think about things like that. How much?” ”It’s made of mahogany with silver handles and a lock. For you, only two thousand dollars.” ”I’ll think about it.” On his way home from work, Weinstein stopped at the Minkis Mortuary to compare prices. ”I can give you something nice,” said the director. ”I’ve got a mahogany coffin with silver handles and I’ll even throw in a lock. The price is one thousand dollars.” Weinstein rushed over to Feinberg’s and began screaming. ”Some friend you are! I just saw the same coffin you wanted to sell me and it was a thousand dollars cheaper.” ”Was it mahogany with silver handles and a lock?” ”Yes!” replied Weinstein. ”Did it have a silk lining?” ”I didn’t look. I don’t think so.” ”You see!” said Feinberg. ”In six months you’ll need a new lining.”
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