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that drugs are the door to samadhi. Hence he was jailed. Now after six years in jail he has come out. Now he is selling another idea, even more foolish. The idea is that he is preparing a trip to the moon. He has started selling tickets. And the same foolish people who were going into drugs to attain God will now go to the moon -- maybe God is there.
If you go to the moon, you go nowhere. You will remain the same. If you take a drug, you don't change. You will remain the same, you may become even worse. Illusions can't help. But man is always in search of some illusion, a faraway goal, so he can manage a mental trip, a projection. So he can start thinking of the future and forget the present.
Hence the insistence of all the Buddhas: THIS very moment all is possible -- you need not wait for a single moment, there is no need to postpone! Take life easy, take life simply -- life is God. Be absorbed in life. Life is the very shrine. Through life you will know that which is hidden in it.
Never be against life, never fight with life. Go with life, flow with life. Go with the river of life... and the river is going already to the ocean.
One who attains to this let-go with life is a SROTAAPANNA -- Buddha has called him. He has entered the stream, now there is no worry. I call the man 'sannyasin' who has entered the stream. Now there is no worry, now nothing has to be attained -- he has relaxed. And whenever God chooses, it will happen. He is not even hankering for it. He is calm and quiet; he has equilibrium, tranquillity; he has no desire and no tension and no anxiety. He is not asking to be somebody else -- he is happy as he is.
That tremendous contentment is what sannyas is. And you can celebrate Guru Poornima only if you are a sannyasin.
Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 3
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Only One Exists
2 July 1977 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7707020
ShortTitle: PARAD302
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 101 mins
The first question:
Question 1
IS RELIGION REALLY THAT SIMPLE THAT EVEN I CAN UNDERSTAND?
YES, SHEELA -- EVEN
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