< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 28 28 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, kavina means poet. Poetry is the way to god – not logic, not mathematics, but poetry. The vagueness of poetry, the mystery of poetry, opens the door. To have poetic eyes is to have a religious vision. All those who have attained were poets. Whether they wrote poetry ever or not is immaterial, but the way they looked at life was the way of poetry – aesthetics, sensitivity, love....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says she’s pregnant. She’d decided to have an abortion and thought she was happy with the decision, but since then, whenever she thinks about it she feels a tremendous amount of sadness.] Mm mm. This will be a momentary sadness. If you want to become a mother then you want to get into deeper troubles, because it is not a question that can be easily solved once the child is there....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and citta means mind – bliss mind. In English you don’t have many words for the mind but in Sanskrit we have many words for the mind to denote different qualities. The only way to translate citta is. mind with a capital ‘M’. It is not ordinary mind, it is the cosmic Mind....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, somen means the moon god, the god of the moon. The god of love and the moon is to be the meaning of the whole name. The moon and love are deeply related, the sun and reason are deeply related. In man there are two currents of energies. In the East, we call one current the sun energy and the other current the moon energy The sun energy is reason, logic, arithmetic....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, mahakavi means a great poet – a great poet of bliss. Bliss is available only to those who can create great poetry in their being. Bliss is an experience of inner poetics, it is poetry. The logical mind never knows it; the logical mind is debarred, by its very premises it is closed to bliss....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Bodhi means awareness, intelligence, meditativeness, enlightenment. It is one of the most potential words, it has many aspects to it. The word ‘buddha’ comes from bodhi; because he attained bodhi he is called Buddha. And that has to be your life’s work. Nothing less than that can ever satisfy a man. Only in Buddhahood is there contentment; all other forms of contentment are just consolations, just comforts at the most, illusions created by the mind....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says he has trouble knowing what country to identify with for his parents are Pakistani, his upbringing English.] It should not be a problem – you should be happy that you are neither. There is no need for anyone to identify with India or with England; those identifications are all pathological. An Englishman is naturally less than a man and an Indian is less than human....