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they exist.
I promise you real joys, real love, authenticity. And whenever a man is authentic he is not just wise. The just wise are not wise enough. The really wise man -- I call him the 'other-wise' -- the really wise man has always enough courage to be fool around a little bit, to fool around. The real wisdom has something of foolishness in it always. And so has the real fool something of wisdom in him. Because the real man is always a meeting of the opposites. The meeting of the earth and the sky, the meeting of summer and winter, the meeting of day and night, the meeting of wisdom and foolishness.
Foolishness is also not all wrong. It has something beautiful in it -- it has playfulness in it, it has non seriousness in it. It is non-ambitious, it is innocent. So the real wise man has something of foolishness in him -- it is always there, it makes his life spicy. The really silent man has a song to sing. Hence this Hakuin's Song of Meditation.
You don't join meditation and song together in your mind. SONG of meditation? Song of love is okay, but song of meditation? Solomon's song is okay, but song of meditation? Meditation seems to be non-singing, meditation seems to be serious, meditation seems to be silent. And song? Song is not silent, song is expressive, jubilant, dancing. But the real meditation always has a song to sing, a dance to dance. It is spicy.
That's why so many people are puzzled here. Particularly religious people, because they are the least religious -- they are very much puzzled here. Meditation and dance, sannyas and love, all go together. I am trying to create a meeting of the opposites. And whenever two opposites meet, there is great bliss. When two opposites meet, only then there is bliss. A man meets a woman and there is orgasm and there is joy. And life meets death and there is great ecstasy, if you know how to allow it. The dying moment is the greatest ecstatic moment -- if you know how to allow it, if you know how to relax into it, how to surrender to it.
Here, love will meet with renunciation. Here, meditation will meet with prayer. Here, silence and sound will be together.
Silence alone is
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