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The old spiritual person thought that he was doing something very great. My sannyasin has to be completely finished with that holier-than-thou attitude. We are not doing anything special. We have to transform the ordinary into the sacred -- that is the new spirituality, that is the new message of God.
Scriptures in Silence and Sermons in Stones
Chapter #5
Chapter title: None
5 November 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7911055
ShortTitle: SCRIPT05
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy typed. It is for reference purposes only.]
(To the parents of fourteenth-month old Sapra)
Helping the child to go beyond sleep, beyond dreaming, beyond desiring. This should be the basic function of the mother, the father, the parents. Normally we do just the contrary: we help the child to become more ambitious, more egoistic. Our whole effort is to project our desires through the child. Our dreams are unfulfilled -- dreams are never going to be fulfilled -- so we project them through the children, we hope that what has not happened to us will happen to them. The same has been the case with your parents and the same will be the case with your children when they become parents. For centuries, from one generation to another generation, wh have gone on giving hopes, ambitions, desires which are basically unfulfillable.
To be really helpful to the child we have to understand this. Have no more projections; don't load the child with your dreams. Help him to see the futility of all dreams. Then each child can become a buddha -- each child is meant to become a buddha. It is because of wrong conditioning, wrong society, wrong education, that we hinder the growth.
In Japan they have a certain art ... it should not be called art -- it is butchery -- but they call it art. They grow trees in small pots. Big trees which if grown in the soil would reach to the clouds are grown in small pots which have no bottoms, and they go on cutting their roots. so there are trees in Japan, four-hundred-year-old
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