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to manage to do them. One is Intensive Enlightenment, the second is Zazen and third is Vipassana -- these three. If you can manage three, good, otherwise two, but manage, because they will give you an insight into real meditation. These are all Zen, all the three. You have been reading Zen, that won't help; you have to have some authentic experience of it. These groups will give you experience. These are not reading, these are doing. Zen has to be done, it is an activity.
[The sannyasin continues: I would like to know anything about my wife. She died five years ago, and for me she was everything -- heaven and earth.]
Are you still after your wife? Let her rest in peace! Are you after her?...
You know about yourself; why are you worried about your wife? The day you know about yourself, you will know about your wife too; otherwise not. And let her rest peace! Don't dig up her grave now.
[The sannyasin adds: I'm always interested in other people... I phone and ask 'How are you doing?'
First phone yourself! You have not even phoned yourself. You have not asked yet how you are. You have to work on yourself; your wife will have to work on herself. Don't be worried about your wife. It is very good that she is gone; she is freed from the world...
You have to know about yourself; I can help you to know about yourself -- about your wife I cannot. I am not interested in wives at all! (laughter) Husbands and wives, I'm not interested in. You just try to go into yourself, and then it is possible: if you go to your deepest core it is possible to have a contact with your wife. But that is secondary.
Prem means love, and digambar means naked -- naked love. And that is the door to god. Naked love is pure love. Naked love is undecorated love, uncultivated love. Naked love is innocent love, the love of a small child who knows nothing of calculation, cunningness, cleverness. So become that purity of nakedness.
And one has to go to truth naked, utterly naked. All the clothes, all the prejudices, all the doctrines have to be dropped. All that clamours around you has to be dropped; that is the meaning of digambar. The literal meaning
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