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ways to gamble.
(to the wife) Don't be worried -- he will stop!
[A sannyasin, returned from the west, says: Something of the fight in me has gone, but also I feel dead a lot .. . a lack of enthusiasm. This doesn't seem right and that doesn't seem right. I don't seem to have any heart any more.]
Nothing to be worried about, this space will pass. It always comes, it is a transitory period. When all that you have known becomes meaningless and that which is meaningful has yet to be known, between these two this space comes. It is nothing to be worried about.
[The sannyasin lists several groups he has done.]
Have you done anything like Vipassana or Zazen?... That will be the right thing for this space. Do Vipassana and then we will see what else is needed. And just be here; it will pass. Good!
[A sannyasin says she has been having rather terrible dreams lately. She is booked for several groups.]
Do these and after Hypnotherapy remind me. Those dreams will go. They are nothing to be worried about. In fact they must have always been there; it is just that now you have been able to remember them, that's all. Millions of people go on dreaming but they don't remember. When your awareness becomes a little intense you start remembering.
If you ask people you will find many who will say that they don't dream at all, and that is not true. Scientific researchers say that everybody dreams, unless one becomes a Buddha. And not one or two dreams; out of eight hours' sleep, six hours are spent in dreaming. Only for two hours is there a dreamless state, and not two hours together -- a few minutes here, a few minutes there. The six hours of sleep are full of dreams.
Your dreams reflect your life. Your life is a nightmare; everybody's life is a nightmare of great tensions and anguish, anxiety, worries. They all come in the dream and they all come with a very much magnified intensity, everything small becomes big. The dreaming mind is a childish mind. If the child looks at a cat, he declares to the mother 'I have seen a lion!' That's what dreaming is!
Zorba The Buddha
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