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become dry, like a desert... because unless love flows, flowers never come up, trees don't grow, rivers don't flow.
The ultimate blooming is always that of love.
The second question:
Question 2
ONE DAY YOU SAID THAT YOU WERE AN EGOIST. ON ANOTHER DAY, THAT AN EGOIST COULD NOT BE HAPPY, AND YOU SAY YOU ARE HAPPY. CAN YOU COMMENT PLEASE?
Never listen to what I say! Only look at me, listen to me. Don't be too much bothered by the words. Look directly: can you see any ego in this person sitting here talking to you? Don't be too much concerned with what I say. In fact, only an absolutely egoless person can say, `I am the biggest egoist in the world.'
Ordinarily, the ego tries to hide itself. You tell somebody, `You are an egoist'; he will feel offended. He may be, but he will feel offended. The more he is, the more he will feel offended. The ego wants to function from the unconscious, from the dark corner. It never comes into the light. I can say to you that I am the greatest egoist in the world, because there is no problem.
And I told you that my ego includes all. How can an ego include all? The ego has to exclude, otherwise definition is lost. The ego has to say: You are you and I am I, and I am higher than you, and greater than you. The ego has to depend on definition, demarcation. When I said that I include you all, my ego is so vast that it includes all -- it does not exclude anything, not even the devil -- then the `you' disappears. And when the `you' disappears, how can the `I' exist?
But the question is from an Englishman. That's natural. Englishmen don't have a sense of humor. He took it seriously; they are serious people. He must have started thinking, `This man is contradicting.'
I am a non-serious person. I am allowed to contradict.
It is said that whenever a joke is told to an Englishman, he laughs three times. First, when he listens to the joke -- and of course, he never understands it. He laughs just to be polite, so the other person does not feel offended -- that you have not understood, or his joke was missed. Not to make him embarrassed, he laughs loudly. Then he laughs a second time
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