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manipulative, dominating. Once they are made aware, then they become aware. The name is a device to make you aware. Your name means non-attachment. Now each time vou are moving into some attachment your name will remind you 'What are you doing? You are becoming attached again.' Just that awareness is of tremendous import. If that awareness goes on deepening in you, soon you will find that attachment becomes impossible, because attachment brings only misery and nothing else; it brings bondage and nothing else.
It is very very stupid to be attached. The intelligent person will enjoy life without any attachment. While anything is there, enjoy it. While the sun is shining, enjoy, but when the clouds have gathered then don't start crying for the sun that is there no more. Instead of wasting your energy in crying, now enjoy the clouds. And when the clouds are gone -- and they will be gone because in life nothing remains permanent -- then don't start crying for the clouds that have gone. Then whatsoever is available, dance with it, sing it!
This is the intelligent way to live life: whatsoever is, is, and whatsoever is not, is not. And don't cry over spilled milk; that is the whole meaning of non-attachment.
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Chapter #4
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4 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7903045
ShortTitle: NOTHIN04
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Deva means divine, jurgen means a farmer.
Life is an opportunity, just a seed. One can miss it, one can remain a seed; that will be the missing of the opportunity. One has to seek the right soil. One has to be a farmer; One has to learn how to grow.
All that is needed in farming is needed in inner growth too: the right soil, the right season, protection for the new sprouts, the right quantity of water and sun and air, and not too much protection; that is the most important thing, because too much protection will not be helpful, it will be harmful. If one is protected too much, one becomes spineless; one never becomes strong enough, one is never on one's own feet.
So just as the plants need protection
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