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We say "We don't have time but The Mind is on Fire".
" BUT WE DON'T HAVE TIME..........
Buddha says: THE WORLD IS ON FIRE! Fortunate are those who can
understand it, not only intellectually but existentially. Can't you see
your life is nothing but anguish? Now there are two ways to get rid of
this anguish, this fire; one is to become so involved in meaningless
things that you can forget your anguish, so that the anguish cannot
raise its head because you are so occupied: the whole day occupied with
money, power, prestige, running after shadows, and when you come back
home you are so utterly tired that you fall asleep. And then too you
remain engaged in your dreams. Dreams are nothing but reflections of
your day; the same game continues in your sleep.
People pass
their whole lives in this way. People cannot sit silently even for a few
minutes. And the whole Buddhist approach is that unless you are capable
of sitting silently for hours together, doing nothing, just being, you
will never know who you are and you will
never go beyond your anguish. So the first way is to become occupied,
involved in anything, whatsoever it is, the only purpose being that you
can keep the ultimate question of your life repressed. There is no time.
When people are told to meditate, They say, "But we don't have any
time." And these are the same people who are sitting for hours in the
movies and they have time. And these are the same people who go to the
Rotary Club and just go on doing stupid things. These are the same
people whom you will find in the hotels, at football matches; these are
the same people who will be playing cards and chess, and if you ask them
they will say, "We are playing just to kill time." Time is killing you
and you think you are killing time. Nobody has ever been able to kill
time: time kills everybody.
And when you tell them to meditate the
immediate response is, "But where is the time to meditate?" And it is
not that they are consciously saying it; it is a very unconscious
reaction. It is not that they are deceiving, they are deceived. It is
not that they are just trying to deceive you by saying, "I don't have
any time," they really feel, they think, that they don't have any time.
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