< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 28 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, lolita means moved by – moved by the divine, stirred by the divine. Just as wind comes and makes the tree a dancing girl, like that god comes and moves man’s heart. God is a breeze – invisible – but the heart can feel it and the heart can feel its movement....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 29 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, smito means smile – a divine smile. Laughter is a little rough. It has something of anger in it, something of violence too. Laughter is aggressive. A smile is feminine, non-aggressive, non-violent; a smile is passive. It does not make noise – it comes very silently and it disappears silently....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I always have so much to say to you, but I have nothing to say!] That’s right. When there is so much to say, it is always difficult to say it. Only small things can be said, only trivia can be said, only the mundane can be said. Whenever you feel something overwhelming it is impossible to say it, because words are too narrow to contain anything essential....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 30 30 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, svado means taste. God is a taste... a taste on the tongue. God is not a hypothesis to explain anything; it is something very existential. And the proof of god is not in any argument – it is exactly in tasting it. And the taste is such that even those who have tasted cannot express it....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 31 31 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, astiko means one who trusts. Trust does not mean belief. Belief is of the intellect – trust is of the heart. Belief is always in a certain kind of doctrine. A person who believes in god really believes in the belief of god. Trust is not in any philosophy – it is in something existential....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, sankirtan means holy singing, holy song. Life is sacred song; that’s what Jesus means when he says ‘Man cannot live by bread alone.’ The bread represents the business-side of life, it represents the calculative mind. And if life is only bread, then it is meaningless; the bread cannot give meaning to it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyas couple bring a new baby.] This will be her name: Ma Prem Bindi. Prem means love, bindi means symbol – the symbol of love. The Indian women use a bindi on their forehead, just exactly on the third eye spot. It is also called bindi because it is only used by married women....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, jagran means awakening – the awakening of love. And that’s what god is. Once the heart has awakened in love, one has arrived home. Nothing else is missing – just the heart is fast asleep. We have bypassed our hearts, we have entered into our heads directly without moving through the heart....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, idam means this-ness – the divinity of this-ness, the divinity of this moment. And it is the very essence of meditation: just this. To remain aware of just this is meditation – watching it, observing it, with no condemnation, with no evaluation, just remaining like a mirror. And slowly slowly the mind disappears, because the mind can live only in the past and through the past, or in the future and through the future....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, viryo means life, energy – divine life energy. The divine is the hidden part of reality... the inner part of reality. The outer is visible; the inner is invisible. The outer is available through the senses; the inner is available only through consciousness. So those who depend only on the outer senses see reality on the circumference....