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inside your mind will continue.
I have heard about a politician. They had to take his brain out to clean it; there was so much dust, so much garbage. So they took the brain to another room and left the politician.
A man suddenly came running in and woke up the politician. "What are you doing here? You have been declared president of the country!"
Things looked a little different. When a person becomes a president, naturally it looks a little different. And he was going out with his friend when the doctors called him, "Where are you going? Your brain is still in the lab."
He said, "At least for five years I will not need it."
It is possible, and is going to become an actuality -- we have wasted so much brain energy -- Einstein's mind or Bertrand Russell's mind could have been kept. If they want to go, let them go. Their brains need a certain nourishment that could be given artificially; the minds could be kept alive as long as you want, and could continue to work. We have wasted so many minds. The day is not far away when great minds will be saved for the progress of science, for the progress of consciousness.
When the dying master said, "IF YOU USE UP THE MIND OF THE THREE WORLDS, THAT IS NIRVANA... If you can create a synchronicity between your mind, your being and the body, you have come to your fulfillment. Now there is no more. I am leaving this body in the middle of the night; otherwise in the morning as the news spreads so many people will come to prevent me, out of their love, out of their respect. So I am leaving this body like a thief. Remember my words as the last words of one who knows."
Now the sutra:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
WHEN HE WAS WITH KYOZAN, RYUSEN WAS THE MONK IN CHARGE OF FOOD. ONE DAY A STRANGE MONK CAME AND ASKED FOR A MEAL, AT WHICH RYUSEN GAVE HIM PART OF HIS OWN.
KYOZAN KNEW OF THIS BUT CALLED RYUSEN TO HIM AND ASKED, "THAT ENLIGHTENED MONK WHO CAME JUST NOW -- DID HE GIVE YOU ANY FOOD?"
RYUSEN SAID, "HE DENIED HIMSELF AND PASSED ON ALL HIS ALMS."
KYOZAN COMMENTED: "YOU MADE A GREAT PROFIT."
There are things which you can see, and there are things far
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