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BEINGS ARE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING BUDDHAS.
IT IS LIKE WATER AND ICE:
APART FROM WATER, NO ICE,
OUTSIDE LIVING BEINGS, NO BUDDHAS.
NOT KNOWING IT IS NEAR, THEY SEEK IT AFAR. WHAT A PITY!
And if you go on seeking afar for that which is near, you will go on missing. Nobody is at fault. Before you go into the four comers of the world to search for it, first go into yourself. If you don't find it there, then you can go anywhere you like. But people don't go within, they start by without. And the without is vast -- you can go on and on, you can search all over the earth. And people are searching. People come to me and they say, 'We have been searching for our whole lives. And we have been to here and there, and we have been to Japan and to Ceylon and to Burma and to Thailand, and we have trove!led all over the East. And we have not found it yet.'
The East is within you! It is not in Thailand, it is not in India. And you will not find it anywhere. At the most, if you accidentally come across an enlightened man, he will throw you to yourself. Not that he will give it to you. Nobody can give it to you. It is already there; there is no need to give it.
And because in the modern world communication has become easy, traveling has become easy, people are becoming even more mad. They go jumping from one city to another, from one airport to another airport. They are driving themselves crazy. And to reach home you need not enter into any aeroplane, into any train, into any car. You only need to enter into yourself. And ticket less -- no ticket is needed. And nobody is there to debar you; it is your territory.
I have heard:
A party of Americans happened to arrive at Mount Vesuvius during one of its more spectacular eruptions. 'Say!' exclaimed one of the Yanks in an awed tone, 'doesn't that beat all Hell!'
'Sapristi!' said the Italian guide. 'How you Americans-a travel!'
Now even Hell is in danger, afraid of the tourists.
People go on searching and seeking for something which needs no search, which can be found only when search stops. And I am not saying that you strive to stop it -- then again you
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