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

80 THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12
And the same is the case with your paradise, just like the car. The same is the case with your nirvana, your
enlightenment the same as with the car.
It is only the mediocre mind that becomes psychologically obsessed with the future. But the society destroys
everybody’s intelligence and makes everybody mediocre. The society does not want you to be really intelligent; it
is afraid of intelligence. Intelligent people are dangerous people. They are radicals, they are revolutionaries; they
are always sabotaging the status quo. The society wants you to remain mediocre, stupid. It wants you certainly
to be efficient, mechanically. It wants you to accumulate as much information as possible, but it does not want
you to be really intelligent because if you are intelligent you will not care for the future. You will live in the
present and for the present, because there is no other life.
Listen to the birds chirping, chattering... the trees flowering... the stars, the sun, the moon. The whole existence
lives in the present except you, except human mind. And it is only human mind that suffers.
Come out of the future! It is your dream. You are not supposed to go anywhere. Be happy wherever you
are. Be contented with your being and drop the idea of becoming. Then each moment is so precious, then each
moment has such beauty, such grandeur, such splendor. Then each moment is exquisite. Then you can feel God
everywhere each moment.
God is not a goal; God is the presence right now. If you are present, God is available. If you live in the moment,
you are enlightened; there is no other enlightenment. And then ordinary life is so extraordinary. Then to be just
a nobody is so fulfilling.
I call this whole approach sannyas: dropping the goals, the purposes, the future becoming part of existence
this very moment, not postponing it. Then in this very moment, a great explosion is possible in you: the ego
disappears, you are no more, but God is. And that is bliss and that is truth.
The second question:
Question 2
BELOVED MASTER, WHY ARE SO MANY JEWS HERE?
Alexandra, Jews are intelligent people, the most intelligent in the world. That’s why they are hated so much.
They have committed only one mistake in their whole history: they crucified Jesus and missed the greatest business
that was available to them! It is such a rare phenomenon, that it went into the hands of the Italians the whole
business! It is inconceivable Jews losing it to the Italians! If the Italians are selling spaghetti, that is okay, but
they are selling Jesus! Otherwise, the Jews have never committed any mistake.
But that one mistake has cost them very much: they became uprooted. But sometimes blessings come in the
form of curses. When they became uprooted, when they lost their land, they became naturally more intelligent
than anybody else because they had to exist in adverse conditions. No other race has existed in such adverse
conditions as the Jews. And when you live in adverse conditions the challenge is such, you can survive only if you
bring your intelligence to its highest peak. If you behave stupidly you will be destroyed. They were living always
amongst strangers antagonistic to them; they became more and more intelligent.
More Nobel Prizes go to Jews than to anybody else. And wherever they are they succeed, whatsoever they are
doing they bring a certain magic to it. So whenever they feel a certain vibe, a certain phenomenon happening
anywhere, they are the first to reach, they are the first to reap the crop.
Yes, the question arises to many people. Almost fifty percent of my sannyasins are Jews so many Jews that
sometimes I become suspicious whether perhaps I am a Jew!
Alexandra, you are right, your curiosity is right. But they can understand what I am saying. In fact, they have
to drop a certain guilt that they have carried for two thousand years. If they can feel in tune with me, their guilt
for killing Jesus will disappear. Deep down the guilt is there; they need somebody who can take away that guilt.
It is like a thorn in their very soul it hurts. They may not say it, but it hurts. They destroyed their greatest
flowering.
Jesus was their highest potential actualized; he was the highest peak of Jewish intelligence and they destroyed
it. They are carrying the wound; they are wounded people. They want somebody who can heal the wound.
But the problem is: if you go to the priests they wound you more. Go anywhere, you will be wounded more,
because your so-called religions all exist on your guilt. The greater the guilt, the more is their power over you.
They make you feel guilty, they make you feel sinners.
I am a totally different kind of man: I help you to get rid of your guilt. I want to tell you that you are not
sinners, and to commit mistakes is just human to err is human. There is no need to make much fuss about it.
And your errors are small; just a little awareness and they will disappear. You do not need to be thrown into hell.