Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.
You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.
Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.
Attachment is the root cause of all misery – and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery.
Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.
Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, “Love me; I am your mother.” The father will say, “Love me; I am your father” – as if someone is a father or a mother so he becomes automatically lovable.
Seeing means that you don’t condemn fear as bad from the very beginnings.
Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship.
Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised – when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.
Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It is eternal. To be healthy in consciousness means: first, to be awake; second, to be harmonious; third, to be ecstatic; and fourth, to be compassionate.
The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.
I don’t teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one’s sensitivity, one’s respect, one’s reverence for life.
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly – so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.
Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don’t destroy life. It simply means: life is God – avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology.
That is the ultimate synthesis – when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.
Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but he has no wings. He cannot fly into the sky. He has roots but no wings.
The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.