Talks on the Sayings of Jesus
Talks given from 21/10/77 am to 1/11/77 am English Discourse series
1 The Flute on God's Lips2 Come out of your Mind3 First be Reconciled4 Unless you Create Your Face5 Pray to Thy Father in Secret6 They Gave Him Crucifixion7 Surrender in Darkness8 Live in Eternity
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 The Flute on God’s Lips 21 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall MATTHEW 5 1. AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN: AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM: 2. AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING, 3. BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT: FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 4. BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN: FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 2 Come out of your Mind 22 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 WHAT AM I TO DO WITH THE JESUS I THOUGHT I KNEW AND LOVED FOR SO LONG? The question is from Ma Deva Chintana. She has been a nun. She has suffered enough by being a nun, and suffered for sins she has never committed. To be a nun is a kind of masochism, a kind of self-torture inflicted upon oneself in the name of Jesus, in the name of Buddha – only the names differ, the torture is the same....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 3 First be Reconciled 23 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall MATTHEW 5 23. THEREFORE IF THOU BRING THEY GIFT TO THE ALTAR, AND THERE REMEMBEREST THAT THY BROTHER HATH AUGHT AGAINST THEE; 24. LEAVE THERE THY GIFT BEFORE THE ALTAR, AND GO THY WAY; FIRST BE RECONCILED TO THY BROTHER, AND THEN COME AND OFFER THY GIFT. 27. YE HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID BY THEM OF OLD TIME, THOUS SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY:...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 4 Unless you Create Your Face 24 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 LIFE SEEMS TO HE MEANINGLESS. WHY? Life is... unless you give meaning to it. There is no in-built meaning in it; it has to be created. It has to be introduced, it has to be provoked. If you are waiting for some ready-made meaning, you will not get it....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 5 Pray to Thy Father in Secret 27 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall MATTHEW 6 JESUS SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES: 5. AND WHEN THOU PRAYEST, THOU SHALT NOT BE AS THE HYPOCRITES ARE: FOR THEY LOVE TO PRAY STANDING IN THE SYNAGOGUES AND IN THE CORNERS OF THE STREETS, THAT THEY MAY BE SEEN OF MEN. VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THEY HAVE THEIR REWARD....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 6 They Gave Him Crucifixion 28 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 I COULD NOT FOLLOW THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FIVE MINDS YOU TALKED ABOUT AND THE SAYINGS OF JESUS. WILL YOU PLEASE ENLIGHTEN. My God, sol have to go into it again? I was thinking I WaS finished with those five minds. But it is not a surprise, I was expecting something like that, because I had not made it clear....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 7 Surrender in Darkness 29 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall MATTHEW 7 JESUS SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES: 21. NOT EVERY ONE THAT SAITH UNTO ME, LORD, LORD, SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; BUT HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. 22. MANY WILL SAY TO ME IN THAT DAY, LORD, LORD, HAVE WE NOT PROPHESIED IN THY NAME?...
< Previous | Contents CHAPTER 8 Live in Eternity 30 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 SINCE I HAVE BEEN WITH YOU I HAVE COME TO KNOW JESUS IN A NEW LIGHT. AS A JEW I COULD NEVER ACCEPT HIS TEACHINGS. NEVER BEFORE DID I THINK OF HIM AS AN ENLIGHTENED BEING, AS I THINK ABOUT THE BUDDHA. WHEN I FIRST CAME IN CONTACT WITH BUDDHIST TEACHING IN NEPAL....