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This Very Body the Buddha

Chapter 7

Dec 17, 1977 Buddha Hall

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If you are bored don't listen to me

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Lezingenreeks over Hakuins Lied van de Meditatie en antwoorden op vragen.
➜ The last question:

Horseshit, horseshit, horseshit. Why don't you shut up? I am bored with your lectures, utterly bored.

Oh! Another angel from Munich? This time his name is not Alois, his name is Swami Deva Bhanu.

If you are bored don't listen to me. Who is forcing you to listen? You are free. If you want to be bored then it is perfectly okay, listen. But the decision is yours. You cannot tell me 'Shut up.' Who are you to tell me? Even if nobody is here, if I want to speak I will go on speaking. That is my joy!

There have been masters like that. A great master happened in Greece, Pyrrho, who used to talk even when there were no disciples. A disciple would be sitting there and the disciple would feel that it is too long and he is going on and on. And the disciple would leave. And he would continue. Who bothers about disciples? Pyrrho was really a master. It was a song he was singing — if you want to participate, participate, otherwise you are free. Unless you are a masochist and you want to torture yourself, then it is your decision. Don't listen to me.

And your feeling bored may not have anything to do with what I am saying. It may be just that you cannot understand it, that it goes above your head. So raise your head a little higher! Or maybe you are expecting something else, maybe you are here for some kind of entertainment. Then you are in a wrong place.

But to be here or not to be here is your decision. You are completely free not to be here.

And I don't know — others may not be bored. Let us see. Where is Deva Bhanu? Can you stand, sir, so all can see? Good. And now I will ask others: Those who don't agree with Deva Bhanu, raise your hands. Now, sir, what can I do? I agree with you — but what are we two against so many?

Enough for today.

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