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beyond the desire of enlightenment. People are rushing into the world, then one day they get fed up. Success proves to be a tremendous failure. Money simply proves, to be a rubbish heap, and all affairs of the world lose meaning one day. If a person is a little bit intelligent, he comes one day or other to know that it is all meaningless then he starts moving inwards. But now he projects a new desire. The desire now hovers around a new object. Again the desire has deceived him.
The moment one is fed up with the world, one should not be fed up with the world -- one should be fed up with desiring. Because desiring is the real world -- nothing else is there. When one is fed up, one should not be fed up with money but fed up with desiring. Not fed up with wife and children and the house -- poor things, they have not done anything wrong to you. Not fed up with the society -- that has not done anything to you... just fed up with desiring.
Looking into the nature of desiring one comes to understand that it simply brings misery. It promises bliss -- brings misery. It allures and promises but never delivers bliss. Misery and anguish always come in from the back door. It is the greatest deception there is.
Knowing this, realising this, one stops desiring. Then what will you do? When you stop desiring, naturally the question arises,'What are you going to do now?' The energy is released. The whole energy was put into desiring -- a thousand and one desires were there, and you were engaged. Now suddenly if desiring is futile, what will you do with your energy?
You delight! Now you enjoy pure energy as such. You dance, you sing, you eat, you sleep, you sit, you walk, you sing, you love... you delight! A person who moves into desires never delights. And a person who stops moving into desire is so immensely delighted. Each moment is such a benediction... and that's what nirvana is.
The Buddha Disease
Chapter #4
Chapter title: In life, surrender is the key
4 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7701045
ShortTitle: DISEAS04
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Deva means divine,
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