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will arise.
So this moment you have to take two things very decisively: one, slip out of the past; second, never accumulate it again. And that is the meaning of sannyas -- not to live in the past, not to accumulate past... always to live herenow. My'now' contains timelessness, and my'here' has the hint of everywhere.'Here' does not mean just here -- 'here' means all that is present right now. The faraway stars -- they are part of this here. The whole existence that is, is contained in the herenow.
A sannyasin is a person who has taken a decision not to live in the past, not to live through the past, not to live through the future, not to go roundabout, but to be immediate... in the present.
And from that immediacy, all bliss. From that immediacy, all delight. From that immediacy, all beauty and benediction....
The Buddha Disease
Chapter #7
Chapter title: Meditation is the art of creating inner beauty
7 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7701075
ShortTitle: DISEAS07
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Jaya means inner victory, conquering oneself, and ananda means bliss -- bliss that comes out of conquering oneself. And that is the only bliss there is. You can conquer the whole world and you will remain miserable; of course your misery will become a thousand-fold -- the misery of an alexander is bound to be tremendous... but you never become happy. That is not the way of happiness at all.
You can have all the things and still you will be at a loss. One can pile up money, power, prestige. And the more you have, the more you become aware of the futility of it all and the more you feel an inner emptiness.
Only the rich man comes to know what inner poverty is, because he can compare; he can compare notes. He has a background and he can see his own inner poverty against it. He is rich as far as the outside is concerned, but the inside is simply starving.
Hence the paradox: the richer a man becomes, the poorer he feels. The more knowledgeable a man becomes the more ignorant he feels. The more you have, the more you become aware of how much you are
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