Reason is an effort to know the unknown and intuition is the happening of the unknowable. To penetrate the unknowable is possible, but to explain it is not. The feeling is possible, the explination is not.
Western medical science has viewed man as a separate unit-apart from nature. That is one of the gravest errors that has been committed. Man is part of nature; his health is nothing but being at ease with nature.
Western medicine takes a mechanical view of man, so whenever mechanics can be successful, it is successful. But man is not a machine; man is an organic unity, and man needs not just treatment of the part that is sick. The sick part is only a symptom that the whole organism is going through difficulties. The sick part is only visible because it is the weakest.
You treat the sick part, and you seem successful...but then somewhere else the disease appears. You have only prevented the disease from expressing itself through the sick part; you have make it stronger. But you do not understand that man is a whole: either he is sick or he is healthy, there is no in-between. Man should be viewed as a whole organism.
Just be watchful this minute. In this silence you are tasting something which is beyond time. We are tasting the taste of this minute of eternity….
The silence, this minute, gives you not an explanation—but it gives you an experience.
Dancing and singing, allow yourself to be so completely overwhelmed that nothing is left behind. And you have entered into the temple of God, where you are the mirror, and you are the face mirrored in it; where you are the seeker and you are the sought; where you are the devotee and you are the God at whose feet you are offering yourself.
In the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageuos person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unkown in spite of all the fears.
Disobedience is a great revolution. It does not mean saying an absolute no in every situation. It simply means deciding whether to do it or not, whether it is beneficial to do something or not. It is taking the responsibility on yourself.
It is not a question of hating the person, or hating to be told what to do, because in that hating you cannot act obediently or disobediently; instead, you act unconsciously. You cannot act intelligently.
When you are told to do something, you are given an opportunity to respond. Perhaps what is being asked of you is right; then do it and be grateful to the person who told you at the right moment to do it. Perhaps it is not right-then make it clear. Bring your reason, explain why it is not right; then help the person to understand that what he is thinking is going in the wrong direction. But hate has no place.
If it is right, do it lovingly. If it is not right, then even more love is needed because you will have to tell the person, explain to the person that it is not right.
The way of disobedience is not stagnant, just going against every order and feeling anger and hate and revenge toward the other person. The way of disobedience is a way of great intelligence.
Belief has nothing to do with truth. You can believe that is is night but just by your believing, it is not going to become night. You are living in a kind of hallucination.
There is this danger in belief: It makes you feel that you know the truth. And because it makes you feel that you know the truth, this becomes the greatest barrier in the search. Believe or disbelieve and you are blocked-because disbelief is also nothing but believe in a negative form.
The Catholic believes in God, the communist believes in no-God: Both are believers. Go to Kaaba or go to the Comintern, go to Kailash or to the Kremlin, it is all the same. The believer believes it is so, the non believer believes it is not so. And because both have already settled, without taking the trouble to go and discover it, the stronger is their belief the greater is the barrier. They will never go on a pilgrimage, there is no point. They will live surrounded by their own illusion, self-created, self-sustained. It may be consoling, but it is not liberating. Millions of people are wasting their lives in belief and disbelief.
The believer is not a seeker. The believer does not want to seek, that's why he believes. The believer wants to be delivered, saved. He needs a savior, he is always in search of a messiah-somebody who can eat for him, chew for him, digest for him. But if I eat, your hunger is not going to be satisified. Nobody can save you except yourself.
The golden rule for life is that there are no golden rules.
There cannot be. Life is so vast, so immense, so strange, mysterious, it cannot be reduced into a rule or a maxim. All maxims fall short, are too small; they cannot contain life and its living energies. hence the golden rule is significant, that there are no golden rules.
An authentic human being does not live by rules, maxims, commandments. The authentic human being simply lives.
The difference between ambition and longing is that ambition is goal orientated, longing is source-orientated. Ambition means there is something to achieve "out there." It depends on a goal, there is a motive; hence you can be rational about it. You can figure out weather it is worth achieving or not. It is not a question of feeling, it has to be calculated. You have to move in a certain direction cautiously, because the world is very cunning and everybody is trying to achieve the same goal and there is competition. You have to be cleaver and cunning, very cautious.
Longing has no goal but it has a source. The heart is the source.
Vincent van Gogh would always paint he trees so big that they would go beyond the stars. The stars would be small, the sun and moon would be small, and the trees would be so huge....Somebody asked him, "Are you mad or something? Why do you go on painting such big trees? The farthest star is millions and millions of light years away and your trees go on reaching beyond the stars! What nonsense is this?"
And van Gogh would laugh and he would say, "I know! But I know something more, too, of which you are not aware: I am painting the longing, not the trees. I am more concerned with the source, not with the goal. It is irrelevant whether they reach the stars or not. I belong to the earth, I am part of it, and I understand the longing of the earth. This is the longing of the earth expressed through the trees-to go on reaching for the stars."
And for a longing, everything is possible. Nothing is impossible, because there is no question of reaching anywhere-it is just enjoying the source of longing itself.
Look deep into your heart. Listen to the still, small voice within. And remember one thing: Life is fulfilled only through longings, never through ambitions.
