The Hidden Harmony

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ Remember this: life moves in a cycle, everything moves in a cycle. The child is born, then comes the age of youth, then old age, then death. It moves just as seasons move: summer comes, then rains follow, then comes winter, and it goes on in a circle. The same happens in the dimension of consciousness: every twenty-five centuries the circle is complete and before the new circle starts there is a gap you can escape through; the door is open for a few years....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ life, and life is paradoxical. Buddha is paradoxical, Lao Tzu is paradoxical; all those who have known are bound to be paradoxical. What can they do? If life itself is paradoxical, they have to be true to life. And life is not logical. It is a logos, but it is not logic. It is a cosmos, it is not a chaos -- but it is not logic....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ Why is it a facade? -- because you are avoiding the other. You say, "You are my friend and a friend cannot be an enemy. And you are my enemy, you cannot be my friend." But these are two aspects of the same coin -- the enemy is a hidden friend, and the friend is a hidden enemy....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ If there is no change life is static. If you cannot move to the opposite everything will go stale and it will become boring. That's why people who are too cultivated become boring -- because they always go on smiling, they are never angry. You insult them and they smile; you praise them and they smile; you condemn them and they smile....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ I the same? Are you the same? Both rivers have changed. You may be here again tomorrow, but you will not find me; somebody else will be here. Life is changing. "Only change is eternal," says Heraclitus -- only change never changes. Everything else changes. He believes in a permanent revolution. Everything is in revolution. It is how it is there....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ are you the same man? Much has passed; the Ganges has flowed too much -- you are no longer there. I have heard: One night Mulla Nasruddin's wife said, "You no longer love me, you no longer kiss, you no longer hug me. Remember when you were courting me? -- you used to bite me and I loved that very much!...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ practice rest! This is what rich people do: they rest the whole day, then they have insomnia and they say, "We cannot sleep." And they are practicing the whole day -- lying on their beds, lying on their easy chairs, resting and resting and resting. And then in the night, suddenly they find that they cannot sleep. They have followed Aristotle, they are logical....