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have become cunning, they have become just as other people are. When I reached them fifty years ago, they were tremendously beautiful people. Yes, uneducated -- but they had a dignity. Fifty years ago there was not a single murder. And if sometimes it used to happen, then the murderer would go to the court and report. There was no stealing; and if sometimes somebody did steal, he would come to the chief of the tribe and confess that'I have stolen because I was hungry -- but punish me.' There were no locks fifty years ago in those villages. They had always lived in a very silent peaceful way."
So I asked him, "If your education has not helped them, then think again. You started doing good to others without knowing what you were doing. You just thought education has to be good.
"D. H. Lawrence has said that if man has to be saved, then for one hundred years all universities should be closed -- completely closed! For one hundred years nobody should be given any education. For one hundred years, all schools, colleges, universities, gone -- a gap of one hundred years. And that is the only way to save man, because education has made people very cunning -- cunning to exploit more, cunning to use others more as means, cunning to be immoral.
"If you don't know what you are doing, you can think that you are doing good, but good cannot happen."
Buddha says: Compassion is good when it follows awareness, otherwise it is not good. Compassion without awareness is dangerous, and awareness without compassion is selfish. So Buddha says: A perfect Buddha will have both -- awareness and compassion. If you become aware and you forget about others and you say, "Why should I bother? Now I am happy," you close your eyes, you don't help others, you don't help others to become aware -- then you are selfish, then a deep ego still exists.
Awareness kills half the ego, and the other half is killed by compassion. Between these two, the ego is utterly destroyed. And when a man has become a no-self, he has become a Buddha.
Saraha says:
SO FROM SPONTANEITY THAT'S UNIQUE,
REPLETE WITH THE BUDDHA'S PERFECTIONS,
ARE ALL SENTIENT BEINGS
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