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What’s the idea of doing so much yapping?

You are past ninety

and there is little chance of your living long enough

to wear these shoes out.

The old fellow looked sternly at the shoemaker

and said: Apparently you are not aware

that statistics prove that very few people

die after ninety years of age!

328. Love.

Information is not knowledge

because information is not transformation

and can never be –

and knowledge comes only through transformation.

Information is adding something to the same old mind.

It is quantitative;

there is no qualitative change

because the mind behind it remains the same.

That is why all that is called education

just proves to be superficial.

Mind must go through a qualitative change,

otherwise there is no wisdom;

and to go on adding information to ignorance is fatal.

I call meditation

the method for mind’s total mutation.

First let there be a transformation

of the very quality of the mind

and only then education can be educative.

In ancient times

the king of a certain country was concerned

because his son was something of a fool.

The king’s counselors urged that the son be sent away

to a great university in another land

in the hope that the boy

would acquire learning and wisdom.

The king agreed.

The son studied hard for several years

then wrote to his father that he had learned

just about everything possible

and pleaded to be allowed to return home.

The king assented.

When the son arrived at the palace

the king was overjoyed.

A great feast was prepared

and all the great men of the kingdom were invited.

At the end of the festivities

one of the sages present asked the son

what he had learned.

The young man ticked off the university’s curriculum

that he had gone through. While the lad was talking

the sage slipped a ring off his finger,

closed his hand over it,

held up his hand and asked: What do I hold in my hand?

The son thought for a moment and said:

It is a round object with a hole in the center.

The sage was astonished at such wisdom.

Maybe the lad had become a great mind.

Will you now name the object? asked the sage.

The king’s son pondered for a few moments, then said:

The sciences that I studied do not help me

in answering your question,

but my own commonsense tells me that it is a cartwheel.

The sage concluded to himself

that you can educate a fool

but you cannot make him think.

329. Love.

Yes, there is a way,

but in many the will is lacking to find it.

And it is not far away,

it is just by the corner, so to speak.

Knowingly or unknowingly all men long for it.

Really, the whole of life is a longing for it

because without it

there is no reaching, no flowering, no fulfillment.

But few men seek it

and still fewer seek it rightly

and still fewer find it –

and all of those who find it do not enter.

Only a few enter

and still fewer progressively follow it.

But those who follow it with their total being

realize that the way is the goal itself!

330. Love.

Mind and meditation are two names

of the same substance,

or the same energy.

Mind is energy flowing in dualisms,

in conflict and dis-ease;

and meditation is non-dual energy,

one with itself and at ease.

Thinking is impossible without dualisms,

that is why meditation asks you to go beyond thinking.

The moment there is no thinking –

or a single ripple of thought –

the energy becomes integrated

and there is a qualitative change.

The no-thinking energy

opens the door of the dimensionless dimension.

So refrain from seeking even

Enlightenment or Buddhahood

because with any seeking whatsoever

the mechanism of thought

begins to operate and create dualisms.

331. Love.

Do not forget the search for the divine

for even a single moment

because the time is always short and the task is great,

and besides, the mind is wavering.

In fact the mind is the wavering.

Remember this, and remain aware of this fact

as much as you can

because the moment one is aware, the wavering stops,

and in the intervals are the glimpses:

glimpses of oneself, glimpses of no-mind.

One has to absolutely transcend the wavering of the mind before one comes to the doors of the beloved.

No-mindedness is the door.

And the door is not far off.

But the seeker is asleep.

Mind is the sleep.

That is why you will have to be attentive and alert

to everything that passes before your consciousness –

even be attentive to the inattentive moments.

Through constant awareness

the spiritual sleep will be broken

and you will he transformed.

This is your potentiality,

this is everyone’s potentiality,

and for you the time is ripe.

But the seed can remain a seed and die.

The opportunity can be lost.

You are free to be that which you are meant to be