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says, "what are you doing here? Did you sleep with this prostitute too?"
"Yes I did," answers the man impatiently, "but I have no time for answering questions right now. I have lost my horse! Have you seen my white horse anywhere?
Dreams change, but you go on falling into this dream or that dream, and you go on losing yourself in darkness. The question is of awakening, not of changing your dreams, not of substituting another dream for the old one, not of creating a new dream instead of the old.
A man was sitting in the middle of the road waving his arms as if he was rowing a boat, holding up the city traffic.
An impatient car driver gets out of his car and strides up to the man. "Hey, are you crazy or something? What are you doing?"
"I am rowing a boat," replies the man. "Do you want a ride?"
"But where is your boat?"
"What? No boat?" the boatman cries in alarm. "Then we had better start swimming!"
If somebody tells you that this is a dream, that this is all illusion, you immediately start another dream, another illusion.
The play was a flop and as the second act got going, so did the audience. Finally, after the hero had saved his sweetheart from a band of robbers, he turned to her and said with a majestic sweep of his hands, "There, darling, I have driven them all away!"
The heroine's words of gratitude were cut short by a terse voice from the last row, "Not yet, young man! There's still ten of us who are sleeping here!"
Everybody is asleep in different ways, in different postures, dreaming different dreams. Christians are dreaming different dreams; that's why their paradise is different. Hindus are dreaming different dreams,Jains are dreaming different dreams, Mohammedans are dreaming different dreams, communists are dreaming different dreams. Their paradise is not beyond the grave; they are hoping to have here some day -- but some day, not now, not for you. In future there will come a time when society will become classless, when there will be no exploitation, when there will be no oppression, when there will be no poor, no rich, when there will be no state. Even the state will wither
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