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

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much of the spirit and forgot all about the reality that surrounds us. We became introverts, too much concerned
about ourselves. We forgot all about the beauties of the trees and the mountains and the sun and the moon and
the stars. Humanity in the East became ugly. It has a center but no circumference. Everything has shrunk to
the center.
The West has a circumference but no center. People have everything, but something essential is missing.
Science and religion are becoming one. They are already becoming one. I am not saying they will become one,
they are already becoming one. All the greatest scientists Eddington, Planck, Einstein people of the highest
caliber in the world of science, became aware that science alone is not enough. There is something far more
mysterious which cannot be grasped only through scientific methodology and means, something which needs a
different approach, which needs more meditative awareness.
Eddington says in his autobiography, ”When I started my career as a scientist I used to think that the world
consisted of things, but as I grow old I am becoming more and more aware that the world does not consist of
things but of thoughts.”
Reality is far closer to thoughts than to things. Reality is far more mysterious than you can weigh, measure,
than you can experiment with. Reality is not only objective but also subjective. Reality is not only content but
also consciousness. And the greatest religious people, like J. Krishnamurti, are aware that religion cannot exist
anymore as it has existed up to now. Something of a radical change is needed.
My own approach is that we have to create Zorba the Buddha.
Today, just by coincidence, is Buddha’s birthday, also his enlightenment day, and also the day of his death. He
was born on this day, he became enlightened on this day, he died on this day. Today’s full moon belongs to him.
It is a strange coincidence that this long series of Buddha lectures one hundred and twenty-six lectures in all...
when I started I had no idea that it would end today.
Just the other night Laxmi told me, ”Tomorrow is Buddha Purnima” Buddha’s full moon.
Let this day also be the birth of a new buddha. The new buddha will be a synthesis of Zorba the Greek and
Gautama the Buddha. He cannot be just Zorba, and he cannot be just Buddha.
And that’s my whole effort here, Raju, to create a bridge between Zorba and Buddha to create a bridge,
a golden bridge, or a rainbow bridge, between the earth, this shore, and the farther shore, the beyond. It is
happening here! You can’t see it happening anywhere else....
We have all kinds of scientists here. Now, Raju himself has become a sannyasin. He has great scientific
intelligence. He is young, but of tremendous intelligence. He is one of those scientists who put the first man on
the moon he belongs to that project. There are so many other scientists here. There are poets and musicians,
painters all kinds of people, and they have all joined together in one great effort: meditation. There is only one
meeting-point here and that is meditation. Only on one point do they meet; otherwise they all have their own
individualities. Out of this meeting a tremendous explosion is possible. It is already happening. Those who have
eyes can see it happening.
This may be the only place on the earth where all the countries are represented. We were missing Russians but
now I am happy to say that they are also here. All the races are meeting here, all the religions are meeting here.
This is a miniature universe, a small world, and we are all meeting here as human beings. Nobody is a Christian,
Hindu or Mohammedan. Nobody knows who is a scientist, who is a musician, who is a painter, who is a famous
actor. Nobody even tells....
Just the other day I came across the news: one of our sannyasins has won a great, world-famous prize. She
has been here, she was here for months, but she never told anyone that she is a great actress. And now she is
world-famous; she is now thought to be one of the most serious contenders for the highest award. But she never
told anybody anything.
There are musicians of great caliber, poets, authors, painters, sculptors, magicians... all kinds of people are
here. And they have all met in a deep merging. Their only meeting-point is meditation and their love for their
master.
A totally new science is bound to arrive. It will be both science and religion, only then can it be total. It will
be science both of the inner and the outer. In fact, the days of religion are over, just science will do, one word
will do. ’Science’ is a beautiful word; it means knowing, wisdom.
Science should be divided in two categories: objective science chemistry, physics, mathematics, etcetera and
subjective science. Then there is no need to divide religion and science. And the meeting of religion and science
in one whole will create for the first time a whole man on the earth. Otherwise, up to now humanity has been
schizophrenic, split, insane, divided.
I am all for the whole man, because to me the whole man is the holy man.