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out for Vinod! And from today he is going to start work in Lao Tzu garden -- a man who has been earning lakhs of rupees per month, living the most luxurious life possible in India. Now he will be under Mukta's charge -- and Mukta is a hard master! Vimalkirti was also under her charge once.
You say that there people are not working with love and are not enjoying their work. How they can? They are trying to fulfill certain expectations, they are trying to live up to certain standards. That creates seriousness, that creates sadness.
If everybody is allowed to be just as he is, accepted, respected, loved unconditionally, then whatsoever he wants to do... And all kinds of works are needed: the gardeners are needed, the cleaners are needed, the managers are needed, the trustees are needed, the guards are needed -- all kinds of people are needed.
In a commune there is no hierarchy. Everybody is fulfilling his work with joy; it is because of joy that he has chosen to be in that particular work. Nobody is forcing, nobody is expecting. If he does not feel good he can change his work; there is no problem about it, he will not be condemned for it. But this is possible only when individuality is given the highest value.
In this so-called Free University of Amsterdam in Holland it cannot be possible; the very foundation is wrong -- a religious position. In fact, any position to start with is going to be wrong.
Here we are not starting with any position -- there is no religious position here. It is just a caravan of drunkards, gamblers -- far more closer to a pub than to a temple! Just when I was answering Poonam's question I had remembered that "This is not right, what I am saying. Four pillars of my temple? This is not right! Four pillars of my pub!" But that would have been too much for the Buddhafield in Britain, so I thought, "Let it be four pillars of the temple!" Because British Buddhas are going to be British Buddhas! I don't have any expectations from them -- they are going to be British Buddhas. It is going to be a totally different kind of Buddhahood!
Only one British Buddha we have got here:
Proper Sagar. The day he
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