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To Live Joyfully is Natural
It seems that you've
angered people through some of your statements
and I know you have a tendency to make the outrageous statement.
Would it be more politic to, perhaps, not mention Mother Teresa in the same breath as Hitler...?
I am not a political person.
I am not a politician.
I simply call a spade
just a fucking spade.
What's the purpose of all this?
What is the purpose of your life?
Is there any purpose of your life?
To take my interview is your purpose of life?
There are things which have no purpose.
Life has no purpose.
Love has no purpose.
Beauty has no purpose.
Blissfulness has no purpose.
Things which are
in the category
of purpose
are mundane.
Machines have purpose
Man has no purpose.
What is the purpose of dancing and rejoicing and singing and painting and writing poetry?
What is the purpose of Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci or Picasso?
Once somebody asked Picasso
while he was painting
that, "I have been watching for two years...two hours
but I can't see what is the purpose of your painting."
Picasso said,
"I was going to ask you, because you have been watching for two hours.
Perhaps you may have figured it out by now."
And he said something really significant:
"Nobody goes to a roseflower and asks, 'What is the purpose?
Why you are?'
And if the roseflower can dance in the wind, in the rain, in the sun,
and nobody bothers him about purpose,then why people bother me?
I am enjoying painting, that's enough.
More than that is not needed."
A purposive life is the life of a slave.
A life without any purpose is playful.
It has immense joy,
moment to moment
but it has no tomorrow,
no end.
It is not going anywhere.
It is simply being now and here.
I am enjoying myself.
My people are enjoying with me.
What more is needed?
The people who ask these questions,
the outsiders,
are not aware why they are asking it.
Their life has no joy,
no song,
no flowering,
no fragrance.
They are just dragging their life,
so naturally the question arises in their mind: "What is the purpose?"
A healthy person never asks,
"What is the purpose of health?"
A healthy person never goes to the doctor to inquire, just find out, "Why I am healthy?"
Only the sick goes
to inquire the cause of sickness.
Health is natural.
Sickness is unnatural.
To live joyfully
is natural.
There is no purpose and no end.
It is intrinsically valuable.
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