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disappeared, withered away, because the people who were believing in it had not risked anything to find it. It was just a given thing. Their parents had conditioned them. In fact they felt good when they became free of all conditioning.
A true Christian cannot be a Catholic or a Protestant, In fact a true Christian cannot be a Christian in the ordinary sense at all. A true Christian can only be a Christ. For that one has to go through a certain inner crucifixion. One has to die as a mind and one has to be reborn as a consciousness. And that is the whole process of sannyas.
Knowledge is a conclusion, knowing is a process. knowledge has the false attitude that one has arrived, one already knows. Knowing is a pilgrimage, one is always learning, moving, progressing, evolving. Knowledge means now there is nothing left for you to know, you have come to a full stop. It creates a kind of stagnancy. knowing is dynamic, it is riverlike, it is always flowing.
A true seeker is not after knowledge, he is after knowing. Ho wants to learn the very process of learning. He is not interested in arriving at conclusions, he is not interested in goals in fact, he is more interested in the journey itself. The journey is also beautiful, each moment of it is so delicious -- who cares about the goal?
The very idea of a goal is created by the lazy mind so that you can rest; once it is achieved you -- are finished. So one tries to find a short-cut. The people who are interested in goals are always interested in short-cuts. naturally. Why go by a long route? The people who are interested in goals are prone to believe as soon as possible so that they can be finished with it. They became more interested in scriptures than in truth itself. They became more and more possessed by words because words give a false idea of knowledge, they make you knowledgeable .
The people who are lazy cannot be true seekers. A true seeker has no desire, no ambition to have a goal . He is interested in the moment, this moment, now and here. His whole being is involved in living. And if you go deeper into any experience you will be surprised: life does not consist of nouns, it consists
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