THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF SEEKERS who become interested in truth.       ONE STARTS LOOKING FOR SCRIPTURES: he may become a great intellectual, he may become a giant -- but inside there will be darkness. All his light is borrowed -- and a borrowed light is not going to help in the real crises of life.       I AM REMINDED OF A CHRISTIAN PRIEST who used to repeat in his every sermon, Christ's saying that, "If somebody slaps you on one cheek, give him the other, too." And everybody liked his sermons, he was quoting such great statements. But in one place,  A MAN REALLY STOOD UP AND SLAPPED THE […]

Everybody is brought up as a child. That is your first way into the world. THAT'S HOW YOU HAVE BEEN TRAINED FOR YEARS -- TO REMAIN A CHILD. Everything was ordered, and you were expected to obey. You have become very dependent -- you always go on looking for father-figures, you always go on looking for authorities to say to you what should be done, what should not be done.      MATURITY MEANS: the understanding TO DECIDE FOR ONESELF, the understanding to be decisive on your own. To stand on your own feet -- that's what maturity is. But it rarely happens, because parents spoil almost every […]

NOW THIS WHOLE SOCIETY DEPENDS ON ONE THING -- and that is SEX REPRESSION. Otherwise the economy will be destroyed, sabotaged; the war will disappear and with it the whole war machinery; and the politics will become meaningless and the politician will be no more important.       MONEY WILL NOT HAVE VALUE IF PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO LOVE. Because they are not allowed to love, money becomes the substitute -- money becomes their love. So there is a subtle strategy. Sex has to be repressed, otherwise this whole structure of the society will fall immediately.       ONLY LOVE RELEASED INTO THE […]