IT IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THOROUGHLY THE WAYS OF BUDDHA.

• It is difficult because you are not a Buddha yet. Only the similar can understand, only the equal can understand. A Jesus can be understood only by a Jesus. A Buddha can be understood only by a Buddha. How can you understand? If you live in the valley, if you have the language of the valley, and somebody comes from the top of the hill where you have never been, and he talks about the sunlight and the clouds, and the beautiful colours of the clouds, and the flowers that bloom on the top of the hill, how will you understand?

• You know only the valley, the darkness, and your crawling life. You will misinterpret, you will translate whatsoever he is saying into the language of your valley. That’s why Buddhas say, ‘Come, come with us. Come to the reality we exist at. Come to the top. There only will you be able to understand it.’ It is not a question of logical discourse; it is a question of changing and transforming your plane of being.

• Whatsoever I am saying to you, you can listen to it. In a certain intellectual way you can understand it also, but you will always feel puzzled. You will always feel that this man is talking in contradictions. Sometimes he says this, sometimes he says that. You will always remain in a confusion.

• Just the other night a sannyasin came to me and she said, ‘I was never so confused as I have become listening to you.’ I said, ‘That’s right. You were thinking that you know. Now you know that you don’t know. You were thinking that everything is okay. Now you know — nothing is okay. You were thinking that this valley is all that exists. Now you know there are unknown peaks. Now the challenge has penetrated your heart. Now the desire has arisen and much has been stirred by the desire. You don’t know what those peaks are, but you have started longing for those peaks.’

• Confusion is bound to happen, because the language of the valley and the language of the peak are two different languages. There has been a meeting between the two; chaos has arisen.

• ‘But don’t be bothered by it,’ I told her.’Start moving towards the direction I am indicating, and as you move higher, your confusion will start changing into a fusion. Confusion will be left behind in the valley. By the time you reach the peak, everything will be crystal-clear.’

IT IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THOROUGHLY THE WAYS OF BUDDHA.

• It is enough if you can even understand a bit of it. Try hard. Don’t leave any stones unturned. Try hard to understand. Knowing well it is almost impossible — but try hard. By your very effort, you will become integrated. A center will be born in you, and that center will become a transforming point.

• One day you are all destined to be Buddhas. The whole thing will be understood only on that day, not before it. You will have to grope in the dark, but don’t be lazy — grope. The door is there, certainly. If you go on groping, you are bound to find it. The hill exists. If you take courage and start moving beyond the valley, you are bound to reach. Yes, arduous is the path, dangerous is the path, but that is the only way one matures, grows and attains to life abundant.