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Sutra only. He is talking about all words. Words are incapable of containing the truth; some other way has to be found. That some other way becomes meditation.
Mind has to be put aside, so it does not start interpreting. And you have to go deep to where your life is arising, as if a rose is going deeper into the roots from where the juice of life is arising, manifesting in great foliage, in flowers. Once you know your original source you know also your ultimate destiny.
THE MASTER COMMENTED: "FROM NOW ON, NOBODY WILL BE ABLE TO DO WHAT HE LIKES WITH YOU."
Obviously, if all words are useless and all words are from the devil, then there is no more possibility of any communication, any dialogue.
One of the most famous Jewish philosophers, Martin Buber, worked for his whole life on a single theme: dialogue. I wrote him a letter -- I was very young -- saying, "In your dialogue the two remain, and a dialogue is not worthwhile that does not culminate in one. Two bodies may be there, but one consciousness." I was informed that he was dead. I said, "It is fortunate for him. If he was alive I would have tortured him. Now he can rest, toss and turn in his grave."
But the man remained for his whole life concerned with only one thing: that there should arise a dialogue between religions, between politics, between ideologies, between man and man. His effort was right, his direction was right, but he did not come to the point where it becomes nirvana. Two must ultimately become one, because ultimately we are one.
Meditation is not a dialogue. Meditation is to get out of the mind and slowly enter into the oceanic reality.
THEN KYOZAN ASKED: "FROM NOW ON, WHAT SHOULD BE MY MODE OF LIFE?"
"What should I do now? If you say even the words of Gautam Buddha are those of the devil, what about me? I was teaching people." Of course, you cannot teach without words.
HIS MASTER RESPONDED: "I ADMIRE YOUR JUST EYE; I AM NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF THE MATTER."
No man of strength, integrity, individuality, is ever concerned about the practical side of the thing. If your consciousness is right, it will manage somehow
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