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you are miserable you look very analytical, knowledgeable. Challenge is there and you are doing this and that. When you are happy you are simply foolish. So only fools are happy; wise people are unhappy. So eat well! Mm? Create some trouble!
The Open Door
Chapter #6
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6 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7712065
ShortTitle: OPENDR06
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Deva means divine and soma is one of the most ancient drugs. In the days of the Vedas they used to have that drug; it is a kind of lsd. Aldous Huxley has imagined that in the future when the ultimate lsd has been discovered it will be called soma. The word comes from moon. Som means moon and soma means the juice that comes from the moon and which is caught by certain herbs. Those herbs have been lost. Much research has been done but nobody has been able to find them.
My own understanding is this, that it was not a herb to be found outside in the Himalayas; it was just symbolic of the inner possibility. It was not an lsd outside; it was to be created in the lab of the body itself, that's why it has not been found anywhere. And why the word has been derived from'moon' is not accidental.
Man's intuitive energies are very deeply connected with the moon. Man's reason is connected with the sun; man's intuition is connected with the moon. And it is not only the ocean that is affected by the moon; all beings on the earth, trees and animals and birds and man are affected. The moon creates a kind of pulsation.
Many more people go mad on the full-moon night than on any other night. Many more people commit suicide on the full moon than any other night. Many more people have become enlightened on the full-moon night than on any other night. The English word 'lunatic' is good; it comes from the moon, the lunar. In all the languages of the world there are words for the mad which are derived from the moon.
If the moon can drive you mad then it can also drive you enlightened. The mad person is one who didn't know what to do with that juice. The enlightened is one who knew the art to transform
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