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hatred, is bound to be wrong.
In my vision, bliss is virtue. To be blissful is to be a saint, and to be miserable is to be a sinner.
[The new sannyasin asked about a noise in his ears which is especially loud when there is silence. The noise changes.]
It changes... Do one thing: start listening to it very attentively. When it happens, don't be worried about it. Rather, focus on it: let it be the object of meditation. Listen to it minutely, in detail, so nothing is missed, as if it is tremendously important and not a single note should be missed. Be very meditative about it, and you will be surprised: the noise will lose all its disturbance; it will become a melody, it will be come very musical. And it is something beautiful, nothing to be worried about. It has not to be stopped, it has to be transformed. This is the way to transform it.
And I have given you one group, Vipassana, first to tenth September -- that will help you to concentrate on it. In those ten days the thing will happen. So after that you remind me again. But nothing to be worried about; it is not a disease... and it can be a blessing. Just wait!
But you start. Whenever you feel it, whenever you find silence around you and it is there, sit silently, close your eyes and focus on it -- as if the whole world had disappeared and only that noise is your world, as if that noise is the voice of God -- and you will be able to transform it!
Anand Gerrit. Anand means bliss; gerrit means brave, courageous.
The coward is bound to live in misery because the coward cannot go beyond his past; he clings to the past because the past feels familiar, safer, secure. But to live in the past is not to live at all, to live in the past is a kind of death. And out of that slow death arises misery. One's whole life starts stinking of death. Life is always in the present, but for that one needs great courage: courage to detach oneself from the past, courage not to look back, courage to leave the familiar, courage to live in insecurity. In fact that is the definition of sannyas: the courage to live in insecurity, to live moment to moment, not knowing what is going to happen next...
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