FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
Without Zorba there is no Buddha
FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
Without Zorba there is no Buddha
BELOVED MASTER,
IS THE MEETING OF ZORBA AND THE BUDDHA REALLY POSSIBLE? IF IT IS SO, THEN
WHY HAVE OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERS NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT?
The first thing to be understood: I am not a religious leader. A religious
leader cannot think, cannot see the way I can -- for the simple reason that
he has immense investment in religion; I have none.
Religions are necessarily splitting man, creating a duality in the human
mind; that is their way of exploiting you. If you are whole, you are beyond
their control. If you are cut in fragments, all your strength is destroyed,
all your power, your dignity abolished. Then you can be a Christian, a Hindu,
a Mohammedan.
If you are left just the way you are born -- natural, without any
interference from the so-called religious leaders, you will be a man of
freedom, independence, integrity. You cannot be enslaved. And all your old
religions are doing nothing but enslaving you. To enslave you, they have to
create a conflict within you so you start fighting with yourself. And when
you are fighting with yourself, two things are bound to happen. First, you
will be miserable, because no part of you can ever be victorious, you will
be always defeated. Second, a guilt is produced in you that you are not
worthy enough to be called a real, authentic human individual.
This is what the religious leaders want. A deep feeling of unworthiness
within you makes them leaders of men. You cannot depend on yourself because
you know you cannot do anything. You cannot do what your nature wants,
because your religions prevent it. You cannot do what your religions want,
because your nature is against it. You find yourself in a situation where
you cannot do anything; somebody else is needed to take your responsibility.
Your physical age goes on growing -- your mental age remains retarded, just
nearabout thirteen. These retarded people are in great need of somebody to
guide them, somebody to lead them to the goal of life, to the meaning of
life. They themselves are incapable.
Religious leaders could not have thought of the meeting of Zorba and Buddha,
because that would have been the end of their leadership and the end of
their so-called religions. Zorba the Buddha is the end of all religions. It
is the beginning of a new kind of religiousness which needs no labels --
Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism. One is simply enjoying oneself, enjoying
this immense universe, dancing with the trees, playing on the sea beach with
the waves, collecting seashells for no other purpose -- just for the sheer
joy of it. The salty air, the cool sand, the sun rising, a good jog -- what
more do you want?
To me, this is religion -- enjoying the air, enjoying the sea, enjoying the
sand, enjoying the sun -- because there is no other God than existence
itself.
Zorba the Buddha, on the one hand, is the end of the old man -- his
religions, his politics, his nations, his racial discriminations, and all
kinds of stupidities. On the other hand, Zorba the Buddha is the beginning
of a new man -- a man totally free to be himself, allowing his nature to
blossom. There is no conflict between Zorba and Buddha. The conflict has
been created by the so-called religions.
Is there any conflict between your body and your soul? Is there any
conflict between your life and your consciousness? Is there any conflict
between your right hand and your left hand? They are all one in an organic
unity.
Your body is not something to be condemned but something to be grateful for,
because it is the greatest thing in existence, the most miraculous; its
workings are just unbelievable. All the parts of your body are functioning
like an orchestra. Your eyes, your hands, your legs are in some inner
communion. It is not that your eyes want to go towards the East and your
legs are going towards the West, that you are hungry but your mouth refuses
to eat: hunger is in your stomach, what has it to do with the mouth? -- the
mouth is on strike. No, your body has no conflict. It moves in some inner
synchronicity, always together.
And your soul is not something opposed to your body. If your body is the
house, the soul is your guest. And there is no need for the guest and the
host to continuously fight. But religions could not exist without you
fighting with yourself.
My insistence on your organic unity, so that your materialism is no longer
opposed to spiritualism, is basically to demolish all religions from the
earth. Once your body and soul start moving hand in hand, dancing together,
you have become Zorba the Buddha. Then you can enjoy everything of this life,
everything that is outside you, and you can also enjoy everything that is
within you.
In fact, within and without are totally different dimensions; they never
come in conflict. But thousands of years of conditioning, that if you want
the inner you have to renounce the outer, has taken deep roots in you.
Otherwise, it is such an absurd idea.... You are to enjoy the inner -- what
is the problem in enjoying the outer? The enjoyment is the same; that is the
joining link between the inner and the outer.
Listening to beautiful music, or looking at a great painting, or seeing a
dancer like Nijinsky -- it is outside you, but it is in no way a hindrance
for your inner rejoicing. On the contrary, it is a great help. The dance of
Nijinsky may bring out the dormant quality of your soul so that it can also
dance. The music of a Ravi Shankar may start playing on the strings of your
heart. The outer and inner are not divided. It is one energy, two ends of
one existence.
Zorba can become Buddha more easily than can Pope the Polack. There is no
possibility for Pope the Polack, no possibility for your so-called saints to
become really spiritual. They don't know even the joys of the body. How can
you think they will be able to know the very subtle joys of the spirit?
The body is the school where you learn, in shallow water, to swim. And once
you have learned swimming, then it does not matter how deep the water is.
Then you can go to the deepest part of the lake; it is all the same to you.
And when I say this, I am not simply propagating a philosophy. I am making a
statement of my own experience; hence, you can feel the authority in my
words.
I am not an authoritarian person -- you should remember the difference. The
authoritarian person imposes his authority on you, he is a power seeker. But
when words come out of experience, they have an authority of their own. They
are not trying to impose anything on anybody; they are, on the contrary,
simply exposing one's own heart to those who are ready to see the great
possibility that materialism and spiritualism are not opposite goals, that
Zorba and Buddha are not moving in different directions, that only a Zorba
has the guts to become a Buddha. It is possible he may not become, he may
get stuck in being a Zorba....
But you must be reminded about Buddha's life. Up to his twenty-ninth year,
he was a pure Zorba. He had the best young girls available in his kingdom,
by the dozen. His whole palace was full of music and dance. He had the best
food, best clothes, beautiful palaces to live in, great gardens. He lived
more deeply than poor Zorba the Greek.
Zorba had only one Bubulina -- an old, faded woman, a prostitute who had
lost all her customers. She had false teeth, false hair -- and Zorba was her
customer only because he could not afford to pay. You call him Zorba? -- and
you forget completely the twenty-nine years of Buddha's life which were far
richer. Day in, day out, he was simply living in luxury, surrounded by
everything that he could imagine. He was living in a dreamland. It was this
experience that turned him into a buddha. It has not been analyzed this way.
Nobody bothers about the first part of his life -- which is the very base.
He became fed up. He tasted every joy of the outside; now he wanted
something more, something deeper, which was not available in the outside
world. For the deeper you have to jump in. At the age of twenty-nine he left
the palace in the night in search of the inner. It is Zorba going in search
of the buddha.
Zorba the Greek never became a buddha for the simple reason that his
zorbahood is incomplete. He is a beautiful man, full of zest, but a poor man.
He wants to live life in its intensity, but he has no opportunity to live it.
He dances, he sings, but he does not know the higher nuances of music. He
does not know the dance where the dancer disappears.
The Zorba in Buddha knew the highest and the deepest parts of the outside
world. Knowing it all, now he was ready to go on an inner search. The world
is good, but not good enough; something more is needed. It gives momentary
glimpses; the Buddha wants something eternal. And all these joys will be
finished by death. He wants to know something which cannot be finished by
death.
If I have to write Gautam Buddha's life, I will start it from Zorba. And
when he is completely acquainted with the outer and whatever the outside can
give, and still finds the meaning missing, he goes in search -- because that
is the only direction that he has not looked in. He never looks back --
there is no reason to look back, he has lived it all! And he is not just a
religious seeker who has not known the outer at all. He is a Zorba -- he
goes towards the inner with the same zest, with the same strength, the same
power. And, obviously, he finds in his innermost being the contentment, the
fulfillment, the meaning, the benediction that he has been seeking.
It is possible you can be a Zorba and stop there. It is possible you may
not be a Zorba and start looking for the buddha -- you will not find him.
Only Zorba can find the buddha; otherwise, you don't have the strength: you
have not lived in the outside world, you have avoided it. You are an
escapist.
To me, to be a Zorba is the beginning of the journey, and to become a
buddha is reaching the goal. And it can happen in the same individual -- it
can only happen in the same individual. That's why I am insisting
continuously: don't create any split in your life, don't condemn anything of
the body. Live it -- not unwillingly -- live it totally, intensely. That
very living will make you capable of another search.
That's why I don't say my sannyasins have to be ascetics, that my
sannyasins have to leave their wives, their husbands, their children. All
that nonsense has been taught for centuries, and how many people -- out of
millions of monks and nuns -- how many people have blossomed? Not even a
single one. I want you to live life undivided. And first comes the body,
first comes your outer world.
The moment the child is born he opens his eyes, and the first thing he sees
is the whole panorama of existence around him. He sees everything except
himself -- that is for more experienced people. That is for those who have
seen everything of the outside, lived it, and are freed from it.
Freedom from the outside does not come by escaping. Freedom from the
outside comes by living it totally, and then there is nowhere to go. Only
one dimension remains, and it is natural that you would like to search in
that remaining dimension. And there is your buddha, your enlightenment.
You are saying, "Is it possible that Zorba and Buddha can meet?" That is
the only possibility. Without Zorba there is no Buddha. Zorba, of course, is
not a full stop. He is the preparation for the Buddha. He is the roots;
Buddha is the flowering.
Don't destroy the roots; otherwise there is not going to be any flowering.
Those roots continuously supply the juice to the flowers. All the color in
the flowers comes from the roots, and all the fragrance in the flower comes
from the roots. All the dance of the flowers in the wind comes from the
roots.
Do not divide. Roots and flowers are two ends of one phenomenon.
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Question 2
BELOVED MASTER,
I HAVE BEEN HERE FOR THREE YEARS NOW, AND STILL CANNOT SIT CLOSER TO YOU
THAN THE FIFTH ROW. I FEEL SO HURT THAT I AM NOT WORTHY ENOUGH TO BE CLOSER.
IS IT BECAUSE I AM A FARMER NOW AND STINK TOO MUCH?
You are not unworthy, you are just unaware of a simple thing: that I only
see the fifth row! The people who are sitting in the four rows ahead, I
don't see them. So be a farmer, and stink as much as you want!
But the fifth row is not unfortunate. From this place my eyes are focused
on the fifth row.
Question 3
BELOVED MASTER,
IS LIFE REALLY MEANINGLESS?
Meaning can be understood in two ways. There is meaning that is somewhere
far away, you have to reach to it. It is extrinsic.
Life is not meaningful in this first sense. And it is good that life is not
meaningful in that sense, because then life becomes only a means to reach to
the faraway goal, the faraway star. Then life loses its autonomous beauty.
It is just a way; the real thing is tomorrow.
Meaning has another category too: intrinsic. Life is tremendously
meaningful in the second sense. Then meaning is not separate, somewhere else;
then meaning is in the very living itself.
You don't ask, has love any meaning? You know love is itself meaningful, it
is not a means to some end. You do not ask if the beauty of a rose is
meaningful. The beauty itself is enough; it does not lead anywhere, it
contains its meaning within itself.
In existence everything that is really valuable is always intrinsically
meaningful. And life is equivalent to existence. Life has meaning. If you
just change the word "life" into "living," you will be able to understand
more easily. Living has meaning -- each moment -- because living is not
something dead like "life." The word "life" is dead -- all nouns are dead.
But the language is created by dead people.
Some day the new man is going to create a language which consists only of
verbs, because that will be authentic to existence. In existence there is no
noun. Have you seen "life"? Have you met "life" anywhere? All that you meet,
experience, is living.
Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work -- all
these small activities make up your living. And each part, each moment of
living, is meaningful. You just have to be there; otherwise, who is going to
experience the meaning?
People go on drinking tea, but they never are there; their minds are
wandering all over the world. People are making love, but they are not
there. It is a very strange world that we have created. In one bedroom there
are at least four people. Already the bedrooms are so small, too difficult
for two people; and in the bed there are four people, or even more. These
two people who are making love are not there: the man is thinking of some
Hollywood actress, the woman is thinking of Muhammad Ali. So there are four
people. Who is making love to whom? These two people are simply going
through the gestures of love -- they are not present -- mechanical gestures
of love. And then they ask, "Is there any meaning in life?" You go on losing
every moment by your absence.
When I was a student, my principal in the high school was continuously
troubled by my absence from the school. My family was troubled. I would
start going to school, but never reach there. Life was so much, and so many
things were happening on the way... and the school was almost one mile away
from the house.
The principal called me one day and said, "You are almost always absent."
I said, "That's where you are wrong."
He said, "What do you mean?"
I said, "I am always present wherever I am. To be absent is not my style of
life. And what can I do? -- this one mile between the school and my
house.... A magician was doing his tricks on the street, and I became
present there. It was far more interesting than your teachers, and I learned
more than I could have learned here -- because whatever your teacher is
saying I can read in the book, but I will never meet that magician again.
And he did such beautiful tricks that when he was finished I followed him to
his tent outside the city.
"He asked me, 'Son, why are you following me?' I said, 'You are getting
old. Don't you want your tricks to live on even when you are gone?' He said,
'That seems to be meaningful! -- you can come in. Many people have asked me
to teach them the tricks, but not in this way.' So I have been with the
magician.
"Life is a bigger school than your school. And I am, each moment, present
wherever I am. To be absent is not my style of life, so you please take your
words back."
He said, "In that case I will have to see your father."
I said, "You can see anybody you like, but remember that my father knows me
perfectly well. Just let me be informed when you are coming so I can also be
present there. You both will be absent -- because my father is continuously
busy with his business, and you are busy with who is absent, who is present.
At least let somebody into that meeting who is present!" I told him, "Be
honest and sincere and tell me: Are you present right now?"
He said, "My God, perhaps you are right. I was thinking of my buffalo --
she has not returned for two days."
I said, "You need not be worried, I know where she is. That's the beauty of
being present everywhere! I have seen her just by the side of the tent of
the magician. Now what do you say: Was it more worthwhile my coming to the
class, or finding your lost buffalo? You can go and catch hold of her."
People are not there where they seem to be. This is why they go on missing
the meaning of life. Just remain present to any small act you are doing. It
does not matter -- you don't have to do great acts, become a world
conqueror, go to the moon, or stand on top of Everest; it does not matter
what you do. Wherever you are, and whatever you are doing -- or not doing --
be present, and the meaning of life will start unfolding. It is tremendously
blissful.
But don't seek it somewhere else -- in a church, in a temple, in a holy
book. You will not find it. Even if you come across God -- who, by the way,
does not exist -- but even if you come across God, you will not be present.
You may be thinking of your buffalo. It is good that God is not there;
otherwise, he would be so embarrassed by all these saints of all the
religions, because none of them is present to the moment. They are living a
life somewhere else in the tomorrows -- and today goes on slipping by, and
the tomorrow never comes. Finally comes death, not tomorrow.
Life is today! Tomorrow is death. So when you come across death, it is a
great shock that life has gone by and you have not been able to find any
meaning in it. And now there is no tomorrow left, and you are accustomed to
search for meaning in the tomorrows. But you have been told about, taught
about, prepared for, tomorrows.
If you understand me... I want you always to be present wherever you are.
It does not matter where you are; just be totally present, and every small
act, by your presence, will become lighted up, and you will know that your
whole life becomes just a caravan of lights. That's the meaning. Death comes
and goes, but the caravan continues.
Question 4
BELOVED MASTER,
WHY DO YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE NOT A SAVIOR?
All the saviors, all the prophets, all the messengers of God have failed
you, have deceived you. I don't think their intentions were bad; I never
suspect anybody's intention. But the point is not the intention; the point
is the result. These saviors, messiahs, prophets, may have been thinking
they are doing good to you, but they have done immense harm to humanity.
First, they made you dependent. They took away your responsibility with
their own hands.
If somebody takes away your money, nothing is taken; money you can earn
again. But if somebody takes your responsibility, you are destroyed, you are
almost instantly killed. To be responsible for yourself is the very life of
your being. And these saviors were saying, "You have just to be faithful,
and to save you is our responsibility."
I don't take anybody's responsibility, because I don't want to destroy you.
Your responsibility is your dignity, your very pride in being human beings.
Secondly, I am not a savior because I don't want to be crucified. I don't
like that idea at all. I am a very contemporary man, I prefer an electric
chair; crucifixion is too primitive and crude. And to be a savior, to be
crucified seems to be something essential; otherwise, nobody is going to
believe that you are a savior.
Do you know how many followers Jesus had before crucifixion? You could have
counted them on your fingers. And how many followers does he have after his
crucifixion? Christianity is the greatest religion in the world, has the
largest number of people. Is it not strange?
Jesus alive -- not a single learned man was impressed by him, not a single
rabbi was his follower. And Judea, his country, was full of learned
scholars; rabbis were not a rare commodity. Whom could he influence? --
twelve illiterate, uneducated people! But after his crucifixion a great
change came over the world. Crucifixion did a miracle.
This is the human mind. If you are living in a beautiful house, nobody
comes to say to you, "Your house is really beautiful, and to pass on the
street and see the house makes one feel so joyous." Nobody will come.
But if the house is on fire, then the whole neighborhood will gather
together to sympathize with you. And these are the same people who were
jealous. Perhaps these were the same people who had thought, "If something
happens to this house, if it is burned, destroyed, it will be good: it was
an eyesore." The same people are sympathizing. What has happened?
Now they are feeling themselves to be better than you. Your house is
burned, their houses are not burned: God is more favorable to them. He has
destroyed your house because it has become too much of an ego trip to you.
But this is the moment to sympathize, because in sympathy the sympathizer
has the upper hand.
When Jesus was crucified, a wave of sympathy... and many who had never
thought about the man at all became Christians. In fact, he was crucified
under the orders of the Roman emperor, by his governor-general, Pontius
Pilate, on the request of the chief rabbi of the Jews. But after his
crucifixion Rome became the capital of Christianity and it still remains so;
the Vatican is just by the side of Rome. The whole of Italy is Christian.
Strange, the way human mind functions.
I am not interested in creating a religion. I want everybody to be
responsible for himself; I don't want to be anybody's savior. Nobody has
ever been, they were all pretending. And I don't want to be counted with
those pretenders. And, of course, I don't want to be crucified, because that
crucifixion will create great sympathy for me, and that sympathy will become
a religion.
I do just the opposite. I live in absolute luxury. You can see my
collection of Rolls Royces, you can see my collection of diamond watches.
Nobody is going to sympathize with such a man.
Do you get the point?
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