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he was doing was prayer, and prayer means you have already accepted the existence of God, to whom you are praying. Your prayer is based on a belief, and all beliefs are ignorant. Knowing is something else. If you have experienced a headache, then you know it; but if the whole world goes on talking about headaches and you have not experienced it, just for etiquette's sake you may believe in it. But that belief is ungrounded.
Q: AND THEY ALSO TAKE AN ASPIRIN.
A: If you believe too much, perhaps you may take an aspirin. Then things become worse than before. Jesus' whole ideology is based on belief.
Q: WHERE I SUPPOSE YOURS, I THINK...
A:... is on experience. I don't say to my people that you have to believe in anything that I say. I explain to you my experience, you try to experience. If you find it right, there is no question of believing in it. You know it. If you find it wrong, of course, there is no question of believing it, either.
Q: APPARENTLY YOUR RELIGION DOES NOT HAVE A SET OF DOGMAS.
A: No.
Q: HOWEVER, THERE ARE SOME SENTENCES WHICH MIGHT, UH, HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THE ESSENCE OF YOUR RELIGION?
A: No.
Q: WELL, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU TEACH SELFISHNESS.
A: Yes, because it is natural. And I teach to be natural.
Q: YES. LION EATS MAN... SO DO YOU TEACH THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST?
A: It happens. It is not a question of my teaching.
Q: WHEN YOU SAY IT HAPPENS, YOU ARE NEVER CONCERNED WITH WHETHER IT'S GOOD OR BAD, THESE THINGS?
A: No question of good or bad; there has never been a question of good and bad. The fittest survives. And the fittest writes all the histories and all the judgments. And, of course, he is right. Might is right; and being Germans, you will understand it better.
Q: WELL, YOU'LL MAYBE UNDERSTAND IT AS WELL, AS YOU OCCASIONALLY HAVE STRONG PREFERENCES FOR HITLER.
A: I love the man! He was crazy.
Q: SO ARE YOU, YOU HAVE SAID.
A: I am more crazy than him.
Q: THAT'S WHY YOU ARE A BIGGER OR GREATER MAN THAN HIM?
A: No, not bigger or greater -- just crazier.
Q: LAST TIME WHEN WE TALKED TO MA SHEELA, I WANTED
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