presents
Jump Into Life’s Deepest Waters
Consciousness is always new.
But because you are identified with the body,
you think that some time you are young, and then you are old
and then one day you die.
It is your identification with the body
that is creating the trouble.
Veet Vishada,
you will have to learn from ABC
about life, love, laughter.
You have got such a small timespan;
don't waste it in fear.
Jump
into life's
deepest water.
Only life can redeem you from death.
What ordinarily seems to be the
end of life
is not the end of life for those who are awakened.
It is the beginning of a totally new life,
far greater, far bigger, far more luminous.
You start
falling in love;
at least you may become
ten percent alive.
Start enjoying food;
you will become a little more alive.
Start enjoying the beauty that surrounds the world,
and you become more alive.
Keep yourself free from all bondages
such as marriage,
because I don't know anything else
which comes so very close to death that is marriage.
Two persons, both are alive,
Both are sitting each by side,
dead – completely dead.
I can say from far away, seeing a couple walking,
whether they are husband and wife.
If you see their faces, long,
saintly,
they are husbands and wifes.
If you see them laughing, enjoying, joking,
then the wife belongs to someone else
– or it may be vice versa:
the husband belongs to somebody else.
If you really want
to be more and more alive,
then come closer in
every area of life
with intensity and totality.
Life is a blessing,
it is not a sin.
Life is a gift, it is not guilt.
Life is
the greatest thing that
existence has given to you, for nothing.
Just because you have not paid for it,
you don't recognize its value.
Don't lose a single moment;
when there is a chance to dance,
don't sit in the corner and be just
an onlooker.
Participate.
When people are laughing,
don't participate
just not
to look stupid;
laugh
with your whole heart.
Don't be worried whether anybody else is laughing or not.
You should always look
at my sannyasin, Sardar.
He does not care whether anybody else is laughing or not;
when he feels like laughing, he laughs.
He is always
in the begning
then others follow,
slowly, slowly,
thinking that everybody is laughing
it is okay,
there is nothing wrong here.
Meditation will help you to come closer to life.
Love will help you to bring closer to life.
Creativity will bring you closer to life.
Enjoying small things
which have been condemned by your stupid so-called saints
will bring you closer to life.
Just try to understand
that my whole
approach is life-affirmative.
anything that denies life
to me is irreligious;
and up to now all the religions have been irreligious in that sense.
They were denying
life
any affirmation,
and naturally, the more you become shrunk
away from life,
the more you feel
already dead.
You drag yourself from the cradle to the grave.
The only
thing that you can enjoy is the ego fulfillment
because people think you are a saint.
Farmer Giles
decided to write his will.
He called his three sons
and gave each one a duck,
with the instructions that whoever sold their duck
for the most would inherit the farm.
The first son went to market
and sold his duck for ten dollars.
The second son sold his duck
to the neighboring farmer
for fifteen dollars.
The third son, who was a bit of a dreamer,
was carrying his duck to town when a village girl approached him
and offered to make love with him if he gave her the duck.
It turned out that they had such a good time together,
she wanted to give him back the duck
if he would make love with her again.
Weak at the knees
from his experience,
and wandering along the country lane
with his duck,
the young man was knocked over
by a car and the duck was killed.
The motorist jumped from his car
and pushed a twenty dollar note
into the young man's hand,
apologizing
all the while for his careless driving.
The young man dusted himself off and arrived home, tired and tattered.
Farmer Giles asked him
how he had got on.
"Well," said the boy,
"I got fucked for a duck,
I got a duck for a fuck,
and twenty dollars for a fucked up duck."
Just
look at the
lighter side of life
and enjoy it to its fullest,
and all fear will disappear.
Only experience of life and love and laughter
will dispel the darkness of fear.
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