If I want to walk I use my legs, if I don't want to walk I don't use my legs. Exactly in the same way you can use the mind logically if you are trying to know about matter. It is perfectly right, it fits there. And when you are moving inwards, put it aside. Now legs are not needed; thinking is not needed. Now you need a deep silent state of no-thought. |
If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification. |
If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally. |
If what I am saying has anything of truth in it, it will be understood by your heart. But the mind has to give way. |
It is true that nothing exists without a thought first, but the idea that thought comes from form is backwards. |
Just think of a man who wants to sit but cannot sit because he says, I have legs -- how can I sit? Or, think of a man who wants to keep quiet and silent and cannot keep quiet and silent because he says, I have a mind. It is the same. |
Laughter brings you to reality as it is. |
Laughter brings you to reality as it is. The world is a play of God, a cosmic joke. And unless you understand it as a cosmic joke you will never be able to understand the ultimate mystery. |
Laughter brings you to the earth, brings you down from your stupid ideas of being holier-than-thou. |
Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic. |
Mind is really a tape recorder. But it is not continuously on, not twenty-four hours on. When needed, the witness, the man of meditation, the man of awareness, is capable of putting the mind on or off. He puts it on when there is some need.... |
Move into the vast, into the infinite, and by and by, learn to trust it. Leave yourself in the hands of life. |
My vision of a real humanity is of a world consisting not of families, not of nations, not of races, but only of individuals. |
My whole effort is to help you release the energy called love-intelligence. If love-intelligence is released, you are healed. |
One should become so capable that even the closest instrument of mind can be put aside and can be put off. It can be done, it has been done, but it has not been done on a great scale. But more and more it will be done. This is what I am trying to do here with you. |