续上文：你不脚踏实地世俗的生活在大地上，只仰望星空——看着佛陀崇拜、祈祷，对你不会有帮助，你会在灵性上受奴役EN
如果你想要改进存在或者改善别人，你自己就无法自在。你自己的评判会杀死你。你从来没有想过这一点……每当你评判别人，你也在评判自己。如果你谴责别人是个小偷，你也在谴责你自己。你也许进行过各种偷窃——你剽窃别人的思想，你剽窃别人的理论。
不仅是金钱，任何你从别人那里拿来的东西，如果没有感谢对方，如果对方并不知情，那都是偷窃。金钱是世界上最普通的东西，还有更高的价值。当你模仿，你就是在偷窃。如果你模仿耶稣，如果你模仿佛陀，你是在做什么？——你是在偷窃他们的个性。你是个最恶劣的小偷，你不可能感到安心。
人们无法接受他们自己，因为他们无法接受别人就是这样。在我的人生中，我从来没有评判过。我喜爱各式各样的人，正是他们的独特之处让他们更加可爱。因为我不加区分地喜爱各种类型的人，所以我不会觉得有罪恶感，我不会否定我自己。我深深地爱着自己。
这两者是并存的：如果你评判别人，你就会有罪恶感，你就会一直评判自己——这是对的还是错的。两者都要舍弃，因为它们是同一个现象的两面。这非常容易。不要问要用多久时间——那是一种狡猾的拖延方式。放下罪恶感需要的不是时间，而是理解。那种理解现在就是可能的，就在此刻。放下所有的评判，你就放下了所有的罪恶感。它们同归于尽。
然后你会像一只健康的动物一样生活，出于你的健康，出于你健康的动物性，最伟大的体验将会出现。当你变得自然，你就越来越接近佛陀的体验。
只有左巴才能成为佛陀。
佛陀自己就曾是个左巴。佛教徒不明白这一点。他25年的生活——在他生命的早期——他拥有历史上前所未有的众多美女。他享尽那个时代的荣华富贵。他过得极其奢侈，天天饮酒作乐，歌舞升平——他整个25年的生活都是那样。通常到你80岁才会发生的情况，在他29岁的时候就发生了。
他受够了——每天都是重复。因为他身边有太多的女人，所以他对女人感到厌倦。你没有变得厌倦是因为你的老婆。你的老婆是一个警卫，她不让你东张西望，她总是让你往前看，不能超过4英尺！你不想给自己惹麻烦，所以你必须同意。因为她强加给你某种道德，所以她自己也要遵守那些道德，否则她就无法强加它们。
这是个非常复杂的机制。丈夫变成了妻子的束缚，妻子变成了丈夫的束缚。两个人都是奴隶，两个人都是主人；两个人都是囚犯，两个人都是狱卒——而且两个人都想出来！但两个人的价值观都一样：婚姻是天赐的，你们不应该破坏上帝的安排。
不，我没有在天堂里见过婚姻。上帝本人没有妻子，他尽可能地远离女人——也许有几百万光年的距离……不可能找到任何女人。但他的欲望还在，所以他偶尔会来创造一个耶稣基督。偶尔来一次，他必须被原谅……和圣灵生活在一起的可怜家伙。我一直试图找出这个圣灵是男是女，也许它两种性别都有！
我听过一个故事……
当亨利·福特死了……他是个完美主义者，一个伟大的人，他是最富有的人之一。他出身贫寒，他创造的一切都是靠他自己的聪明才智和努力。
当他在天堂里见到上帝，上帝问福特——因为他有资格——“你觉得我的创造物怎么样？我知道你是个完美主义者。你创造了最棒的汽车，你一直在改进。你觉得我的创造物怎么样？”
他说：“你的创造物需要大量改进。”
上帝说：“比如说？”
他说：“比如说，你把男人和女人的性中心放错了地方。女人的性中心居然在两个排泄器官之间！”
他是个汽车制造者，他似乎是正确的：“你是个什么样的肮脏家伙？性中心在最肮脏的地方。你就不能把它放在别的地方吗？比如放在手上……”
我觉得他的批评是正确的。
上帝被震惊了——他一直以为福特是个基督教徒。
但是当你强烈地评判别人，如果这些人碰巧遇见上帝，他们就会强烈地评判上帝。
评判性的头脑将会评判每一个人，它也会自我评判。每个人都变得悲惨，一切似乎都是错误的，一切似乎都是消极的。他总是去数玫瑰上的荆棘，他从来不去看花朵。他没有欣赏花朵的时间，数那些荆棘花掉了他的整个一生。他总是看到事物的阴暗面。如果你问他，他会说：“这是个悲惨的世界。在两个夜晚之间只有一个白天！”
他的整个基调就是谴责，他对于谴责感觉很好。但他不知道当他谴责别人，他也在谴责自己。他会在内心深处感觉有罪。
不要拖延。不要问我它需要多久——那取决于你。如果你是痛苦的，如果你觉得陷入到一个没有胜算的局面，那为什么还要带着它呢？如果我可以扔掉它，你为什么不能？我不是救世主，不是先知，也不是神的化身。我没有任何神奇的力量，我只是一个像你一样的人。如果我可以做到，谁在阻止你呢？
也许你开始享受你的悲惨。也许你已经习以为常，似乎抛弃你的悲惨，你就会变得空虚。是的，你会感到空虚，但那个过渡阶段很短。有一瞬间你会觉得失去了一切，但很快你会看到你的空虚被一种全新的能量充满——那股能量一直受到你的评判、罪恶感、道德、宗教和上帝的压制。
你会突然感觉新鲜的生命之水从你自己的源泉喷涌而出。很快你会发现自己极度满足，充满了光、喜悦、至福——不仅充满，而且还满溢出来。这种丰盛是可能的，但你必须冒险变得空虚。这不算什么，因为你失去的只有悲惨、罪恶感、痛苦、炼狱之火；你失去的并不值得保留。
一旦你得到清理，你就准备好让存在展现自己——以它所有的优雅与美妙，以它所有的智慧与觉悟。不过你必须暂时变得空虚。
在新的进入之前，旧的必须离去。
在真理进入之前，谎言必须消散。
If you want to improve on existence, on other people, you cannot be at ease with yourself. Your own judgments will kill you. You have never thought about it ... whenever you are judging somebody, you are judging yourself also; if you condemn somebody as a thief, you are condemning yourself also. You may have have done many kinds of stealing -- you may have stolen thoughts from other people, you may have stolen hypotheses from other people.
It is not only money, anything that you take from others without being grateful to the person, without his knowledge, is stealing. Money is the most ordinary thing in the world, there are far higher values. When you imitate you are stealing. If you imitate Jesus, if you imitate Buddha, what are you doing? -- you are stealing their personality. You are a thief of the worst kind and you cannot feel at ease.
People cannot accept themselves because they cannot accept others as they are. I have never judged in my life. I have loved all kinds of people; just their uniqueness makes them more loveable. And because I have loved all kinds of people without discrimination, I have no way of feeling guilt, I have no way of rejecting myself. I have loved myself immensely.
These both go together: if you judge others you will feel guilty, and you will be judging yourself also continuously -- whether it is right or wrong. Both have to be dropped together because they are two sides of the same phenomenon. And it is so easy. Don't ask me how long it will take -- that is a cunning way of postponing. It does not take time, it needs understanding. And that understanding is possible now, this very moment. You drop all your judgments -- you drop all your guilt. They go together down the drain.
Then you will live like a healthy animal, and out of your health and out of your healthy animal will arise the greatest experience possible. As you become natural you are coming closer to the experience of the buddha.
Only Zorbas can be buddhas.
Gautam Buddha himself was a Zorba. Buddhists don't understand it. For twenty-nine years of his life -- the first part of his life -- he had as many beautiful women as any man in the whole of history. He had all kinds of comforts and luxuries that were available in those days. He lived in so much luxury, so much drinking, dancing, singing -- that was his whole life for twenty-nine years. What does not normally happen to you even by the time you are eighty years, happened to him by the age of twenty-nine.
He became fed up -- everything was repetition. Because he was surrounded with so many women he became fed up with women. You don't become fed up because of your wife. Your wife is a protection, she does not allow you to look this way or that way, she keeps you looking straight forward, looking ahead -- four feet ahead, not above! And you don't want to create unnecessary trouble for yourself, so you have to follow. And because she is imposing certain moralities on you she has to follow those moralities herself; otherwise she will not be able to impose them.
It is a very complex system. The husband becomes the prison to the wife, the wife becomes the prison to the husband. Both are slaves and both are masters; both are prisoners and both are jailers -- and both want to get rid! But both have values -- that marriages are made in Heaven, and what God has put together you should not put asunder.
Now, no marriage I have seen happens in Heaven. God himself does not have a wife and he has escaped from women as far away -- perhaps millions of light-years away ... no possibility of finding any woman. But the desire is there so he comes once in a while to create a Jesus Christ. Once in a while, he has to be forgiven ... poor fellow is living with a Holy Ghost. I have been trying to find whether this Holy Ghost is a man or a woman; perhaps he is capable of functioning in both the ways!
I have heard a story ....
When Henry Ford died ... and he was a perfectionist and a great man, one of the greatest, richest people. He came from a poor family and all that he created was by his own effort with his own intelligence.
So when he met God in Heaven, God asked Henry Ford -- because he was the right person to ask -- "What do you think of my creation? You are a perfectionist, I know. You have created the best cars and you went on improving and improving and improving. What do you think about my creation?"
He said, "Your creation needs tremendous improvement."
God said, "For example?"
He said, "For example you have put the pleasure center of men and women at the wrong places. The woman's pleasure center is between two exhaust pipes!"
He was a manufacturer of cars, and he seems to have been right: "What kind of dirty fellow are you? The pleasure center is at the dirtiest place. Could you not put it somewhere else? -- in the hands ...?"
And I think his criticism is right.
God was just shocked -- he used to think that Henry Ford was a Christian!
But when you force judgment on people, these people are going to force judgment on God if by chance they meet him.
The judgmental mind is going to judge everybody, it is going to judge the person himself. Everything becomes miserable, everything seems to be wrong, everything seems to be negative. He always goes on counting the thorns in a rosebush and never looks at the flower. There is no time to look at the flower, counting the thorns takes his whole life. He always looks at the dark side of things. If you ask him, he will say, "It is a miserable world. Between two nights there is only one day!"
His whole perception is to condemn and he feels good in condemning. But he does not know that when he is condemning others he is also condemning himself. Deep down he will feel guilty.
Don't postpone. Don't ask me how long it is going to take -- it depends on you. If you are miserable and feeling caught in a no-win situation, then why carry it? If I could drop it, why can you not drop? I am not a messiah, or a prophet, or an incarnation of God. I don't have any miracle powers with me, I am just as human as you are. If I could do it, who is preventing you?
Perhaps you have started enjoying your misery. Perhaps you have become habituated and it seems that if you drop your misery you will be empty. Yes, you will be empty, but just in the interim period which is very small. For a moment you will feel all is lost, but soon you will see your emptiness starts becoming filled with a totally new energy that you have been repressing by your judgments, and guilt, and morality, and religion, and God.
Suddenly you will feel from your own very sources new, fresh waters of life are rising like fountains. Soon you will find yourself filled with tremendous contentment, filled with light, joy, blissfulness -- not only filled but overflowing. Such an abundance is possible, but you have to take the risk to be empty. And it is not much because what you are losing is only misery, guilt, sadness, suffering, hellfire; what you are dropping out is not worth keeping in.
And once you are clean, you are ready for existence to assert itself with all its grace and beauty, with all its wisdom and enlightenment. But for a moment you will have to be empty.
Before the new enters, the old has to go.
Before the truth enters, the false has to fall out.
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