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is just an understanding -- not something to be done... just pure understanding -- that motivation is the cause of all suffering. Understanding this, motivations disappear... not that you drop them! Understanding this -- that motivation is the cause of all suffering -- motivation disappears. It is no more in your being, because your understanding becomes a light and the darkness disappears.
It is not that one day you become enlightened, one day you suddenly find that you were always enlightened, but because of this continuous motivation -- to do this, to do that, to be this, to be that -- you were not able to see what you are, what you have always been! You have been missing your reality because of your desires.
Those desires are creating so much smoke that the flame of your being is lost. When the smoke is not there the flame burns bright, clear and bright, sharp, and then you know who you are. Then there is nothing to do, achieve, nothing to be desired. All is herenow, in your own being....
The problem is very basic, because whenever such things are said your mind immediately translates them into the language of desire, and again you miss! So again and again you will bring the same problem and again and again I will explain to you, hoping that one day your mind will be tired of translating it and you will be able to listen directly.
I was reading the diary of an old indian man. He is ninety years old and still alive. He was a small raja -- Raja Mohendra Pratap Singh -- and a very great revolutionary.
He is very old, so he has been in contact with all sorts of people -- lenin, stalin, mao and ho chi minh -- all the revolutionaries of the world. He has been travelling continuously... a very eccentric man.
I was reading in his diary that when he went to see lenin, the translator -- the person who was translating -- later on told him, 'Whenever you said "religion" I translated it as "communism". ' He said, 'What nonsense! But that makes the whole thing absolutely wrong!'
But the man said, 'That's what translators are ordered to do in russia. If somebody says "religion" we have to translate that as "communism"!' (laughter)
So
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