The Buddha Disease
Talks given from 1/1/77 to 31/1/77 Darshan Diary
1 If you meet the Buddha on the Way...2 I declare you a god, a goddess3 This feeling of belonging -- that you are together with these trees and the stars and the moon and the sun -- is what I call trust4 In life, surrender is the key5 Take life in the spirit of a picnic6 Everything is within the reach of an empty hand7 Meditation is the art of creating inner beauty8 Meditation is learning to wait9 Only dare-devils reach that which is called god10 Man is made of the stuff called love11 Love is the essential religion12 My whole work is to help you to die13 Meditation is the door to timelessness14 Go to God through laughter, through dancing15 Our home is beyond the stars16 Dance is the basic language of religion17 Become an offering, an opening, a prayer18 In the hands of love even a rock starts throbbing19 The master is to shock you out of your sleep20 Just get more and more drunk with me21 Celebrate as if you are already a buddha22 When the dance is total, the ego is nullified23 You are just part of a big orange ocean24 To become aware is to become desireless25 Life is a risk, that's why it is so beautiful26 OUr destiny is to have wings, to fly27 To be blissful is the greatest courage28 My whole work is to push you into emptiness29 Thorns are as significant as roses30 If you know one secret -- to be happy right now -- you have learned it all31 Theology becomes alive only when a person is alive who knows God by existential experience