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fearlessness. But if you have the idea of good and bad, you can never be fearless. Your ideas of good and bad make people guilty, make people cripples, make people paralyzed. How can you help them to be free from all fear? -- impossible. You create MORE fear.
Ordinarily, a man who is not religious is less afraid, has less quantity of fear in his being, than the so-called religious. The so-called religious is continuously trembling inside, continuously anxious whether he is going to make it or he is going to lose it. Is he going to be thrown into hell? Or will he be able to make the impossible and enter into paradise?
Even when Jesus is taking his last leave from his friends and disciples, the disciples are more worried about what their places will be in heaven. They will be meeting next in heaven -- what will be their places? Who will be who? Of course, they concede Jesus will be just on the right hand of God -- then who is going to be next to him? Their worry comes out of their greed and comes out of their fear. They are not much concerned that Jesus is going to be crucified tomorrow, they are much concerned with their own interests.
All other religions are based in very ordinary greed and fear. The same greed that you have for money one day becomes transformed into the greed for God. Then, God is your money; now, money is your God -- that's the only difference. Then God becomes your money. Now you are afraid of the state, of the police, of this and that -- and then you start being afraid of hell, and the supreme court, the suprememost court of God... the last day of judgement.
The so-called Christian saints, even in their last moments of life, are constantly trembling, afraid -- whether they are going to make it or not.
Zen is unconditionally value-free. Let it sink in you very deeply, because that is my standpoint too. I want you to understand, that's all. Understanding is enough. Let understanding be the only law; there is no other. Don't move by fear, otherwise you will move in darkness. And don't move by greed -- because greed is nothing but fear upside-down. They are two aspects of the same thing: on one side it is greed,
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