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intensifying life, in making it more intense, total.
That's why Buddha says: BETTER THAN A HUNDRED YEARS OF MISCHIEF IS ONE DAY SPENT IN dhyana. BETTER THAN A HUNDRED YEARS OF IGNORANCE IS ONE DAY SPENT IN mirrorlike REFLECTION. BETTER TO LIVE ONE DAY WONDERING HOW ALL THINGS ARISE AND PASS AWAY. BETTER TO LIVE ONE HOUR SEEING THE ONE LIFE BEYOND THE WAY.
If you can allow wonder to happen, then sooner or later out of your wonder will grow eyes, new eyes -- not these eyes which can see only objects but eyes which can see the invisible, that life which is beyond. Call it divine life, eternal life, or whatsoever name you prefer.
BETTER TO LIVE ONE MOMENT....
See, Buddha is going continuously to make it shorter and shorter: from a hundred years to one moment.
BETTER TO LIVE ONE MOMENT IN THE MOMENT
OF THE WAY BEYOND THE WAY.
It is enough to live in a single moment, but totally herenow -- no past, no future -- your whole energy diving deep in the herenow is enough to have the taste of God, to have the taste of truth: truth which is of the way and yet beyond the way.
AES DHAMMO SANANTANO -- this is the eternal law. If one can live in wonder, seeing, totally in the moment, one has come home. Bliss happens, descends, you are overflooded with bliss and benediction. It is not your creation, it comes as a gift from the beyond.
Enough for today.
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 4
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Via transcendence
23 August 1979 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7908230
ShortTitle: DHAM402
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 101 mins
Q2 on video
The first question:
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
CAN INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY BE CREATIVE?
Anand Savita, intellect is something pseudo, something false. It is a substitute for intelligence. Intelligence is a totally different phenomenon -- the real thing.
Intelligence needs tremendous courage, intelligence needs an adventurous life. Intelligence needs that you are always going into the unknown, into the uncharted sea. Then intelligence grows,
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