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brought our own ideas, concepts, doctrines; we must have created our own stupid private notions of how things should be. Things simply ARE.There is no SHOULD in existence. The idea of should is brought by man -- and once you bring the idea of should, existence is divided into two: good and bad. Once you say `Things should be like this', you have moved away from reality, you have moved away from that which is. And only that which is, IS; nothing else. Reality is here as it is; don't bring the should, otherwise the condemnation comes.
In the West, Albert Schweitzer has created a very false notion about the East. He was a great thinker, but unfortunately not acquainted with the Eastern mind at all. And he was too Western. He has created a notion that East and Eastern religions are life-denying, life-negative. It is utter nonsense. And you will see, when we enter into Kabir you will see: more life-affirmation is not possible, more love for live is not possible. Even Jesus is not so life-affirmative as Kabir. Where else can you find a temple like Khajuraho, more life-affirmative? Where can you find an occult science like Tantra, more life-affirming? Where can you find such absolute YES? Life is God -- and there is no other god; and worship of life is worship -- and there is no other worship.
But Schweitzer got his ideas because the Christian missionaries have been interpreting the Eastern religion in such a way that it looks life-negative. Of course there have been a few thinkers in the East who ARE life-negative, but they are very few, and the main current of Eastern religiousness does not consist only of them. In fact they are by the side of the road; they are not the main flow of Eastern consciousness. But Christian missionaries emphasized those life-negative thinkers, and, emphasized their life-negativities more and more, to create an atmosphere in the West as if Christianity is life-affirmative. The truth is just the reverse: Christianity is not life-affirmative. It has not loved man, it has not loved this world, it has not danced, it has not laughed.
Go to a Christian church and you feel as if you have entered a cemetery -- dead, very serious,
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