I don't know where I'm going and I don't know what there is to do.
do I have what i need for this adventure?
there is no need to know where you are going.
There is no need to know why you are going.
All that is needed to be known is that you are going joyously
because if you are going joyously you cannot go wrong.
If you are going dancing singing
celebrating
the direction does not matter the road does not matter the goal does not matter every moment
becomes paradise
and let me repeat it again to you
that there is no goal in existence
there are only moments
and the art is
to squeeze the moment
its whole juice
here now
and as moments go on coming in your hands go on squeezing
all the juices that existence contains for you
in fact you are where you are supposed to be
so if you are going somewhere it is just
a morning walk don't be worried there is no good you can return back from any point
you are not going anywhere
my whole teaching is just to be here
and let all blissfulnesses of the existence. Why you should go anywhere?
And anyway where you will go?
Trains are there buses are there planes are there and you can go
wherever you want to the moon you can go just in few years you may be able to go to mars
in few more years you may be able to go to some star
but that is all a stupidness
what you are going to do is standing on the moon have you ever thought about it
you will look
to yourself utterly weird what are you doing here life is the way
life has no goal
that's why i love the word tao. Tao means the way with no goals simply the way.
It was courageous
of Lao Tzu, 25 centuries before to tell people that there is no goal. We are not going anywhere.
we are just
going to be here make the most of the time as beautiful as loving as joyous as possible
he called his philosophy tau and tau means simply the way and many asked him
that why you have chosen the name tao
because you don't have any goal in your philosophy
He said, "Specifically for that reason I have chosen it 'the way',
so nobody forgets that there is no goal but only the way."
and the way is beautiful
and the way is full of flowers
and the way goes on becoming more and more beautiful as your consciousness goes on becoming
higher
the moment
you have reached to the peak
everything becomes so sweet
so ecstatic that you suddenly realize that this is the place this is the home
you were unnecessarily running here and
there
never think in terms of going
somewhere think in terms of transforming yourself here.
"There" is
a cunning strategy of the mind to deceive you
the mind always makes you interested in things far away there
so that you can be led away from here or at least your attention is no more here it is there
and you will never be there
going from one here to there
is slowly slowly you acquire the habit of always looking there so wherever you reach that place
is no more in your focus
your goal has shifted somewhere else
in india there is an ancient proverb
darkness under the lamp the lamp gives light all around
just exactly underneath it there is darkness
and this is the situation of men
you are capable of seeing everywhere all around just you are incapable of seeing
where you are
who you are
so cancel all tickets that you have booked there is nowhere to go
just being here
is so blissful
close your eyes so that you can see the reality of the here
because there and then
they are only fictions
here and now are the only realities.