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not need the woman. For the first time they become independent.
Meditation was discovered through love.
But the people who have been told to repress their joy, to repress their ecstasy, are never going to find the taste of meditation. A very unrepressed, uninhibited energy is needed for meditation.
But once you become enlightened ... Koke says rightly,
"HERE IS SOMEBODY WHO EXPOUNDED THE DHARMA, AND CAN'T WALK AS A RESULT OF IT."
But still I will say to you, even if you can't walk, even if you can't live any more amongst the insane world, still enlightenment is not to be missed. At whatever cost, it is cheap.
ON ANOTHER OCCASION, A MONK ASKED KOKE, "WHAT SHOULD WE SPEAK ABOUT BEFORE THE MANY-CHILDREN STUPA?"
KOKE SAID, "IF ONE TELLS A LIE, TEN THOUSAND REPORT IT AS TRUTH."
On the mountain where Koke used to preach there was a memorial which was called Many-children Stupa.
Now, children are not given memorials, and children have not yet been able to become enlightened. A stupa, according to the Zen tradition, is made only in the memory of a buddha, of an awakened one.
It is a huge, round, very vast and big memorial with beautiful carvings all around it and a beautiful gate -- either golden or marble, or of some special stone.
If you want to see beautiful stupas, Sanchi, near Bhopal, is the place. It has the best stupa in the world. Just to see the gate ... one can imagine it must have taken hundreds of years to make such a beautiful gate. Each inch is carved in stone, and there is such symmetry. The stupa is a beauty to see.
But a stupa is given only as a memorial to the enlightened one. So of course this "Many-children Stupa" must have been a lie. Hence Koke says,
"IF ONE TELLS A LIE, TEN THOUSAND REPORT IT AS TRUTH."
Lies are very impressive. You just start a lie and by the evening the whole city will be believing it. Perhaps on the way home it may come to you also, and you may suspect whether it is a lie or a truth. If the whole city -- such a self-styled cultured city -- believes it, it must be true.
If you say the truth to anybody, nobody is going to believe
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