If there is any truth in what I am saying, it will survive. I believe and trust absolutely in existence.God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth (1989) YouTube video of the lecture.And the whole person is the holy person to me. No God can destroy it, only the search for truth and the experience of truth - not a belief - is capable of healing all your wounds, of making you a whole being. The fear and anxiety which you have been suppressing for millennia, which is there, very alive, will surface immediately. But in the beginning it is bitter if all your belief systems are taken away from you. The very desire to find the truth disappears. Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth. It keeps you unaware of the reality, and life is flowing past you so quickly - seventy years will be gone soon. Certainly it has given consolation, but consolation is not the right thing! Consolation is opium. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born.You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty. I have always loved women - and perhaps more women than anybody else. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. Those who are in tune with me continuously, without any break, are the only real friends. It is time that I should say to you that now many of you are ready to accept me as the friend. But people want a Master, they want to be disciples hence, I played the role. I had always wanted not to be a Master to anybody.
Then the enlightened Master will be only the friend. It was his clarity of perception - he was not predicting anything - just his clarity to see that as things are changing, as they have changed in the past and as they go on changing, it would take at least twenty-five centuries for the Master and disciple relationship to become out of date. What he meant was that the ancient relationship between the Master and the disciple would become irrelevant in twenty-five centuries. It has nothing to do with his coming back he cannot come back.
What he was saying is of tremendous importance. Buddhas don't come back no enlightened person ever comes back, so it is just a way of saying.
All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. And this is my attitude: you are here, every individual is here, the whole existence is available. you alone are enough to face the sunrise, you don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is. I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. So I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow. I would like that what I am doing is not lost.The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986) ISBN 0880502509.You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen.
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