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You Have Everything but You Don't Have Yourself

Do you think its true that the more light you have

the better you can see what is trivial

and outmoded in your conditioning?

Right.

The more comfortable you are

the more luxurious you live

the more

richness

in all the dimensions of life

more is the possibility

for you to become aware of one thing:

that you have everything

but you don't have yourself —

that you are surrounded by all the luxuries

there is nothing more to be added to it,

but who are you?

Living in a palace

but what the hell you are doing here?

The question is bound to happen.

The poor man cannot ask it.

He is looking for bread,

he is looking for his children's medicine,

he has no house

You think he will

start inquiring about his

interiority,

about truth,

about the meaning of life?

It is impossible for a poor man

to be religious.

That's why I say I am the rich man's guru.

It has nothing to do

with me.

Only the rich man

has the opportunity

to inquire

beyond

the mundane things

The poor man

I feel sorry for him

but I cannot think that

I should go to Ethiopia and teach meditation there

They will kill me.

And I am not suicidal.

The world

has enough

technology now.

If its

old

prejudices and stupidities

can be dropped

we can make the whole world

a paradise.

Nothing is lacking.

If we can reach to the moon,

if we can create so much destructive power,

why we cannot create

creative power?

The same power can be transferred

into creativity

because power is always neutral.

You can burn your cigar by the lighter

you can burn your house too

Cigar does not...

your

lighter does not give you

any instructions what to do.

Science has made available

all the energies.

You are using them in the service of death.

Use them in the service of life.

I would like the whole world

to live so luxuriously

that

people start becoming

bored with luxury.

You should ask me

how I am bored with Rolls Royces.

How are you bored with Rolls Royces?

Ninety Rolls Royces

anybody will be bored.

And my people

are going to try

to have three hundred sixty-five.

They are bent upon to bore me.

What you can do?

And the whole earth

is capable for the first time

to be so luxurious

that you don't feel

any material need.

All material needs are fulfilled.

Then what you are going to do?

There is nothing else

than meditation.

That is the only door that is left

still open.

All other doors you have knocked

and seen there is nothing.

Only one door

is still open, inviting.

And whoever has entered that door

has never come

frustrated,

disappointed —

not a single case in the whole

history of humanity

that anybody who has

reached

the center of his being

was disappointed,

felt meaningless,

was miserable,

committed suicide.

Not a single exception.

That's why I say meditation

is a scientific thing.

That's how science works:

if you can find something without any exception

it becomes rule.

Meditation is a scientific method

because in the whole history

nobody has

denied

that it does not lead you

to the ultimate

blissfulness.

This is such

a strange phenomenon

that these politicians go on

sympathizing with the poor people,

with the starving people,

with the dying people,

and the same politicians go on

throwing food into the sea.

Ethiopia is dying

and Europe has thrown

thousands of tons

of fresh oranges

into the ocean.

And the political leaders go on talking

about sympathy, compassion.

The religious leaders go on

talking about sympathy

and they are against birth control.

They are against

abortion:

it should not be legalized.

Strange,

they are responsible for creating more population;

that means more poverty.

The politicians are putting seventy-five percent

of their nation's income

into wars,

army,

nuclear weapons,

and people are dying —

even their own people.

Thirty million people in America itself

are on the streets.

And you are creating nuclear weapons,

and you are

making efforts to reach to the mars

or to the moon.

You must have gone nuts!

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