Tao The Three Treasures Volume-1 Chapter - 04

Emptiness

The first question:

Question 1:

DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?

NO Sir, NOT AT ALL. Because you are not. You are an emptiness - anatta. No sir. On the surface you may be somebody, but I am not concerned with your surface. In the deepest core you are simply a nobodiness, not even a nobody - nobodiness. How can I know you?

And that's the beauty, because if I can know you I have defined you, I have made you limited by my knowledge. If you can be known, immediately you become an object, you are no more a consciousness. If you can be known you cannot be infinite, and you are - infinite in your emptiness.

How can I know you? Even you yourself cannot know. There exists nothing like self-knowledge.

When you come to realize it, it is a NO-SELF-knowledge. When you come to settle with it, suddenly you become aware that the knower and the known have disappeared - there is only emptiness, a vast space, with no beginning, no end - an infinity. That's what you are - how can it be known?

There is no possibility of knowledge. And it is good that you cannot be known, otherwise science will know you, and once known you are an object, a thing. Then the mystery is lost. That's why I say again and again that science will never be able to know the innermost core of being, because the innermost core is a non-being. You are just like an onion - go on peeling the layers. Go on peeling the layers; a new layer comes, another new layer, another new layer, and then suddenly the whole onion is gone: emptiness in the hands. That is you.

Tao The Three Treasures Volume-1 Chapter - 03

On The Character of Tao

ON THE CHARACTER OF TAO:

TAO IS A HOLLOW VESSEL,

AND ITS USE IS INEXHAUSTIBLE,

FATHOMLESS.

ON THE SPIRIT OF THE VALLEY:

THE SPIRIT OF THE VALLEY NEVER DIES.

IT IS CALLED THE MYSTIC FEMALE.

THE DOOR OF THE MYSTIC FEMALE

IS THE ROOT OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.

CONTINUOUSLY, CONTINUOUSLY,

IT SEEMS TO REMAIN.

DRAW UPON IT

AND IT SERVES YOU WITH EASE.

ON THE CHARACTER OF TAO

THE WORLD OF LAO TZU is totally different from the worlds of philosophy, religion, ethics. It is not even a way of life. Lao Tzu is not teaching something - he is that something. He is not a preacher, he is a presence. He has no doctrine for you - he has only himself to offer and share.

Tao The Three Treasures Volume-1 Chapter - 02

Ordinariness

The first question:

Question 1:

HAVE I COME TO THE WRONG PLACE? I JUST WANT TO BE ORDINARY AND HAPPY. I WANT A WOMAN TO LOVE, AND TO LOVE ME; FRIENDS TO SPEND TIME WITH AND ENJOY. I DON'T WANT ENLIGHTENMENT. HAVE I COME TO THE WRONG PLACE?

CENTURIES OF WRONG upbringing have completely confused your mind about enlightenment.

The very word seems to be unearthly, other-worldly; the very word seems to be something which is after death or for those who are already dead. This is absolutely wrong. If you want to be happy there is no other way than enlightenment. If you want to be ordinary nobody has ever been ordinary without enlightenment. If you want to love and be loved it is impossible without enlightenment. So you will have to understand my concept of enlightenment. It is just to be ordinary, healthy, aware, whole, total.

Every mind is seeking some extraordinariness. That is what the ego is: always trying to be somebody in particular, always afraid of being nobody, always afraid of emptiness, always trying to fill the inner void by anything and everything. Every human being is seeking extraordinariness - and that creates misery. It is not possible. Nobodiness is your very nature, nonbeing is the very stuff you are made of. Howsoever you try you will never succeed; even Alexanders fail. You cannot be somebody because that is not possible in the nature of things. You can only be nobody. But there is nothing wrong in being nobody; in fact, the moment you accept your nobodiness, immediately bliss starts flowing from you in all directions - because misery disappears. Misery is the shadow of the ego, the shadow of the ambitious mind. Misery means you are doing something impossible and because you are failing in it you are miserable. You are doing something unnatural, trying to do it and failing, so you feel frustrated, miserable. Hell is nothing but the end result of an impossible, unnatural effort. Heaven is nothing but to be natural.

Tao The Three Treasures Volume-1 Chapter - 01

On The Absolute Tao

ON THE ABSOLUTE TAO

THE TAO THAT CAN BE TOLD OF

IS NOT THE ABSOLUTE TAO

ON THE RISE OF RELATIVE OPPOSITES

WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH ALL KNOW BEAUTY AS BEAUTY,

THERE ARISES (THE RECOGNITION OF) UGLINESS.

WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH ALL KNOW GOOD AS GOOD,

THERE ARISES (THE RECOGNITION OF) EVIL.

THEREFORE:

BEING AND NON-BEING INTERDEPEND IN GROWTH;

DIFFICULT AND EASY INTERDEPEND IN COMPLETION;

LONG AND SHORT INTERDEPEND IN CONTRAST;

HIGH AND LOW INTERDEPEND IN POSITION;

TONES AND VOICE INTERDEPEND IN HARMONY;

FRONT AND BEHIND INTERDEPEND IN COMPANY.

THEREFORE THE SAGE:

MANAGES AFFAIRS WITHOUT ACTION;

PREACHES THE DOCTRINE WITHOUT WORDS;

ALL THINGS TAKE THEIR RISE,

BUT HE DOES NOT TURN AWAY FROM THEM;

HE GIVES THEM LIFE, BUT DOES NOT TAKE POSSESSION OF THEM;

HE ACTS, BUT DOES NOT APPROPRIATE;

ACCOMPLISHES, BUT CLAIMS NO CREDIT.

Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries - Chapter-10

Pope the polack is the antichrist

Question 1:

FOR THE LAST MONTH, THE VATICAN HAS BEEN SUGGESTING TO THE ITALIAN CATHOLIC MEDIA TO KEEP SILENT ABOUT YOUR EXISTENCE. SUCH A THING HAS NOT EVEN HAPPENED REGARDING THE TERRORISTS. THIS SEEMS TO SHOW THAT THE POPE IS AFRAID OF YOU.

PLEASE COMMENT.

The pope and other religious leaders of the world are not afraid of terrorists, but they are afraid of me. The reason is that the terrorists cannot destroy their very roots, cannot destroy their very existence. They may kill a few people here and there, but they cannot take away the vested interests totally.

I can do that.

I am a bigger terror to them, although I am not a terrorist. I am absolutely nonviolent.

Their fear is basically because they are standing on fictitious ground. They have no argument for existing anymore; they cannot provide any reason why they are needed. And I can provide every reason why their very existence is a hindrance for human progress, for the coming of a superman.

They are keeping people in every way retarded just so that they can exploit them.

And they have been exploiting for centuries. They have repeated their lies so often that they almost appear as truths.

Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries - Chapter-09

Truth is a search, not a faith

Question 1:

WHY ARE YOU GOING TO ITALY?

I do not believe in nations. The whole of humanity is one. I am going to Italy because Italy is there.

Question 2:

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ITALY AND THE ITALIAN PEOPLE?

I know everything about the Italian people. My first Western sannyasins were Italians; they introduced me to the West.

I have thousands of sannyasins in Italy. They have a special quality to them; they are the most lively people on the earth, most earthly, most loving, most nonserious. To me, seriousness is sickness, and nonseriousness is a religious quality.

I don't know anything about Italy because I have never been there. But to know the people is to know their land, is to know the earth where they have been born, is to know the trees, is to know the rivers and the mountains - because they carry the taste of their atmosphere with them. Italy must be a very living, very alive, very young, youthful country.

One thing I know was that in the past Italy had one of the biggest empires in the world - the Roman empire. The Romans were the only people on the whole earth who were pagans - and I love pagans.

Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries - Chapter-08

The center of the cyclone

QUESTIONS FROM NEWSWEEK, USA.

SONNTAGS BLICK, SWITZERLAND TEMPO, GERMANY

Question 1:

DO YOU SOMETIMES FANTASIZE, AND IF SO, COULD YOU GIVE US SOME EXAMPLES?

It is impossible for me to fantasize. I have lost my mind and its stupid activities thirty-five years back.

Right now I am just utterly empty of words, dreams, fantasies. In their place I am full of love, silence, blissfulness.

Question 2:

YOU SAID LAST NIGHT YOU CANNOT LIVE TO BE A TRUE BUDDHA UNLESS YOU ARE AN AUTHENTIC ZORBA. WHAT BETTER PLACE TO ACHIEVE THIS THAN CRETE, THE LAND OF ZORBA.

DO YOU WANT TO STAY HERE FOR A LONG TIME, AMONG YOUR FRIENDS?

I never plan for the future.

Today is enough unto itself.

I love the people here. I see something of Zorba in everybody, but because I never make any plans for the future, I cannot say how long I am going to stay here.