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Für den Taoismus bedeutet Liebe höchste Erkenntnis. Genau deswegen drückt sich der Taoismus eher in Poesie als in wissenschaftlichen Begriffen aus. Wissenschaftliche Begriffe kommen nicht in Frage, denn sie gehören zum Reich des Wissens. Es kommt...

Während ich gerannt bin, habe ich ein paar Dinge gesehen und ich glaube, ich habe gelebt. Da ich in der Vergangenheit automatisch gelebt habe, beginne ich in der Zukunft zu leben, um die Lücke zu füllen, aber ich projiziere nur. Alles was ich in der Vergangenheit...

I have to be an emperor -- for the first time in the whole history of the world. All the followers of all the religions have been beggars. Enough of that beggary!

There is some attachment to an enemy as well as to a friend. If my enemy dies, then too something breaks within, a place falls empty within. Many times the death of an enemy creates a bigger emptiness in me than the death of a friend because there was...

昔者莊周夢為胡蝶，栩栩然胡蝶也，自喻適志與！不知周也。俄然覺，則蘧蘧然周也。不知周之夢為胡蝶與，胡蝶之夢為周與？周與胡蝶，則必有分矣。此之謂物化。 „Einst träumte Dschuang Dschou, dass er ein Schmetterling sei, ein flatternder Schmetterling, der sich wohl und glücklich fühlte und nichts wußte von Dschuang Dschou. Plötzlich...

When Buddha died he was eighty-two years old. He called his disciples together -- just as he used to when he talked to them every morning. They all gathered. Nobody was thinking at all about his death. And then Buddha said, "This is my last sermon to...

Self cultivation is to become pure and be like a baby. By letting go, it all gets done; the world is won by those who let it go! But when you try and try, the world is then beyond the winning. Everything goes according to fate. Don't try to go against...

To look is one thing, to study is diametrically opposite. If one says to you 'Go and see the rose flowers in the garden', and rather than going to the garden you go to the library and you study about the rose flowers -- that is study. About and about,...

There is no god, there's no devil. It's just you as you are and there is nothing else. Don't look for it because you will not find it. The idea of good and evil is what creates an internal division which is likely to "blind" people and keep them from...

A meditator has to live his life in such a way that everything goes on growing, expanding, without any limit. Your love, your joy, your silence, your life -- everything should be allowed to grow. And it can happen only if you allow the same to others....