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may not care about Nivedano's drum. He may listen, but may not care.
But I have other ways also.
(SARDAR LAUGHS HEARTILY.)
Do you want to see my other ways?
(THE MASTER BEGINS TO MAKE TICKLING GESTURES TOWARDS AVIRBHAVA, AS HE DID THE PREVIOUS EVENING, AND WAVES OF LAUGHTER RISE AND FALL AS HE "TICKLES" AGAIN AND AGAIN.)
This way is purely imported -- Hollywood, California. A real buddha! And I have my substitutes....
(HE TURNS TO ANANDO AND PROVOKES MORE LAUGHTER.)
Nobody can die here. Even if you have died, you will have to laugh at least. That's why I am at ease in ordering you to die. Otherwise who orders anybody to die -- and die completely and totally? Because I know that I have ways to wake you up even if you are dead. Every night I have to do it. A few people really die.
And another Zen master:
HE SEES ONLY THE WINDING
OF THE STREAM
AND THE TWISTING OF THE PATH.
HE DOES NOT KNOW THAT ALREADY
HE IS IN THE LAND OF THE IMMORTALS.
A tremendously significant statement. You see only misery and suffering -- all non-essentials. You don't see that on this very earth, immortal buddhas have moved, lived, loved. You don't see the heights that human consciousness has reached many, many times. You remain confined to very small things.
At least every evening with me, you have to reach the heights. And don't get lost; come back down to the marketplace. My whole message is: Touch the heights of consciousness and bring those heights to the marketplace.
Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
YOU SEEM TO EMBODY THE MIRACLE OF ZEN -- HOW FULL EMPTINESS CAN BE!
Maneesha, there is no end to the fullness of emptiness. Because if there were a limit, then the emptiness would not be really empty; it would have boundaries. Total emptiness means the whole cosmos, unlimited, in your hands. And if, out of meditation, you cannot bring a new juice, a fresh fragrance, a new life and a new laughter, your meditation has not been authentic. You played the game but not totally.
Otherwise... every night, ten thousand people are becoming buddhas. When the
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