“IS IT POSSIBLE TO PAINT A TOTALLY SATISFYING PAINTING?” WHILE PAINTING, EACH MOMENT can be totally satisfying. But once the painting is complete it can never be totally satisfying, because if it is totally satisfying the painter will have to commit suicide. There will be no need to live any more. That’s why I say […]
IS LIFE NOT SOMETIMES FAR MORE SURPRISING THAN FICTIONS THEMSELVES? NOT ONLY SOMETIMES BUT ALWAYS. Fictions are only reflections of life – how can they be more surprising? No fiction is so fictitious as life itself; life is made of the stuff called dreams. Hence the mystic says life is illusion, MAYA, a mirage. It
Everything that is of value is fragile. Beauty is fragile, silence is fragile, love is fragile. Look at a rose flower dancing in the wind, and in the rain, and in the sun. It seems it is strong enough for the wild wind, strong enough for the sun, strong enough for the rain. It is
HOW CAN ONE DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN A PROJECTED EXPERIENCE AND AN AUTHENTIC FEELING? It is difficult. Because we have to speculate, that’s why it is difficult. For example, how can you feel that you are touching a real fire or just an imagined one? If you have not touched a real fire, it is very difficult
CAN YOU TALK TO US MORE ABOUT CELEBRATION? IS IT POSSIBLE TO CELEBRATE MISERY? It is possible because celebration is AN ATTITUDE. Even about misery you can take an attitude of celebration. For example: you are sad — don’t get identified with sadness. Become a witness and enjoy the moment of sadness, because sadness has
WHEN DO WE COME TO KNOW LOVE? It is really a very very difficult thing to understand, because it has nothing to do with understanding. George Gurdjieff never talked about love in his whole life. He never wrote a single line about love. Once, his disciples pressed him very much and they said: ’Say at
One day it happened that a great philosopher came to Buddha. Buddha was sitting under a tree. This man, Buddha, must have loved trees tremendously. He was always sitting under a tree. He became enlightened under a tree – although it is not such a big thing to become enlightened under a tree; many people
HAPPINESS IS UNBELIEVABLE. It seems that man cannot be happy. If you talk about your depression, sadness, misery, everybody believes it. It seems natural. If you talk about your happiness nobody believes you — it seems unnatural. Sigmund Freud, after forty years of research into the human mind, working with thousands of people, observing thousands
I was listening to a talk by the noted Gujarati thinker and orator Dr. Nimit Oza, who shared a story that stayed with me. I felt compelled to pass it on. Many of you would have heard of Thích Nhất Hạnh – a Vietnamese monk, peace activist, and one of the most influential teachers of
Zen masters used to tell his disciples the story of a master thief who became enlightened…Zen Masters have loved it tremendously. When you come across it for the first time you will feel puzzled about the story — it is about a master thief. So don’t be worried about being a judge or a doctor
