silence shared in words
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I Don’t Believe that Walking on Water Is a Miracle
Do you think your teaching is a radical one?
I do not have any teaching.
My life is
that of a rebel
I do not have
a doctrine, a philosophy, a theology
to teach you
I have only my own experience of rebellion to share
to infect you
with rebelliousness
And when you are a rebel you will not be a copy of me
you will be an unique phenomenon in yourself.
All Buddhists are trying to be carbon copies of Gautam Buddha
He has a teaching:
If you follow
this certain discipline,
you will become just like me.
All Christians are carbon copies
the original is Jesus Christ.
I don’t have
any teaching
any doctrine, any discipline to give to you
My whole effort is to wake you up
It is not a teaching
it is just cold water thrown into your eyes
And when you wake up
you will not find
that you are
like me
a carbon copy of me.
You will be just yourself
neither Christian, nor Hindu, nor Mohammedan…
an unique
flower
There are not two persons alike
how can there be so many Christians?
How can there be so many Buddhists?
And the whole of history is a proof of what I am saying.
For twenty-five centuries
millions of people in the East have tried
the discipline and the teaching of Gautam Buddha
but not a single one has been able to become a Gautam Buddha
Nature does not allow
two persons to be the same
Nature is not an assembly line where cars are produced…
you can see hundreds and thousands of Fords
coming off the assembly line – the same, exactly the same
Nature
is very creative, very innovative
It always creates a new man
It has created millions and millions of people,
but never
two people the same
You cannot find even two leaves on a tree
just exactly the same
or two pebbles on the seashore just exactly the same
Each has his own individuality
I don’t have a teaching
but whatever I have experienced
it is a living
phenomenon I share with you – not words
not theories, not hypotheses
I share with you
I can give you
as much closeness
as you need
just
as when you bring
an unlit candle
close to a candle which is burning
there is a point
where suddenly
the fire jumps
from the lit candle to the unlit candle
The lit candle loses nothing,
and there has not been a transfer of any teaching
but
a transfer of fire
I would like to say
that I don’t have any teaching, but I have great fire in my heart
and whoever comes close to me
becomes aflame
These people here
are not my followers
They are just
friends who are sharing
in an experience
which can burn all that is false in them
and can purify
that which is their
essential
individuality,
their authentic potential
This is
an alchemical school
a school of mystery
I am not a teacher
I don’t have any ideas,
concepts…
But I have a life to share, I have a love to share
and to those who are ready,
I am ready to give all that I have
and in no way will they be enslaved
The closer they come to me, the more they understand me,
the more they will be
themselves:
that is the miracle.
I don’t believe that walking on water is a miracle
it is sheer stupidity
The real miracle is
to wake you up,
to bring
the message of freedom to you
freedom from all fetters
And I do not replace your
imprisonment with new fetters
and new chains
I simply leave you
in the open sky
I fly with you a little while
so that you can gather courage: there is no need to be afraid
you also have wings, just like I have wings
You have not used them
you have never been told that you have wings.
So this is a place
where
I make every effort
that you become aware of your wings
encourage you,
push you
into the infinite sky which belongs to you.
This is a totally different place
it is not a church, it is not a temple, not a synagogue.
I am not your savior,
and I am not
the messenger of any God.
A messenger
is just a postman and nothing else.
I don’t have a message to give to you,
but I have a fire
to impart to you
And if
this fire is not radical,
then nothing else can be radical in the whole world.
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