|
Main Index
|
| |
| |
|
| |
to see your nothingness. You need not do good things to weigh against the bad things that you have done. You are not to go and do good deeds -- because whether you do bad or good, you remain in the illusion of a doer. See the difference!
Ordinary religions teach you to be moral, do good, avoid sins. Remember those Ten Commandments -- they consist of the ordinary religion: Don't do this, do that. The extraordinary religion says: Disappear as a doer -- don't be bothered about doing good or bad. And who knows what is good and what is bad?
In fact, nothing is good and nothing is bad, because existence is one -- how can there be two? It is ALL one. Good turns into bad, bad turns into good; one never knows what is what. Things are changing continuously into each other. You can watch it....
You were doing something good, and something bad turns out. A mother tries to protect her child from all the bad things of the world, and just because she is protecting she is forcing her to go into them -- because she is creating the temptation.
Remember the old story: God said to Adam not to eat from THIS tree -- he created the temptation. He must have been a good father, he destroyed the child. Just by saying, "Don't eat from the Tree of Knowledge," he created the temptation and the desire, the irresistible desire, to eat from that tree.
Now, he wanted to do good, but what happened? The original sin happened.
All people who go on doing good prove to be very mischievous; the do-gooders are the most mischievous people in the world. The world has suffered a lot from them. Their intention is good, but their understanding is nil. And just a good intention is not going to do anything.
Those who understand, they say it is not a question of good and bad: it is a question of the disappearance of the doer. Or We can say it in this way: To remain as a doer is bad; to disappear as a doer is good. Not to be is virtue; to be is sin.
This is Buddha's understanding. All our doings are just dreams. When one becomes awakened, one simply starts laughing: all the bad, all the good, have been just dreaming.
Listen to this story:
Once
|
|
|
|
| |