The Buddha Disease

If you meet the Buddha on the Way 1 January 1977

'Buddha disease' warns: don't imitate - 'if you meet the Buddha on the way, kill him'. Awaken by being yourself; cultivate real, joyful silence, not forced.

I declare you a god, a goddess 2 January 1977

You are already divine: drop anxiety by living in the present; use imagination to become loving and behave like a god. How to drop anxiety now?

This feeling of belonging -- that you are together with these trees and the stars and the moon and the sun -- is what I call trust 3 January 1977

Trust beyond doubt: feel belonging with all life; drop belief and the 'Buddha disease'—desire for enlightenment—and let being replace becoming for freedom.

In life, surrender is the key 4 January 1977

Surrender to life: yield like grass, not resist as trees do; meekness and non‑ego win—Jesus' 'resist not evil' and Lao Tzu's watercourse way show the path.

Take life in the spirit of a picnic 5 January 1977

Take life as a divine adventure: play, not seriousness; become a mirror for the divine, melt solidity into love-energy and evaporate into formless being.

Everything is within the reach of an empty hand 6 January 1977

Sensitive, empty-handed awareness reveals universal Dharma: let go of ego and the past through silence and emptiness (karate) and live here-now.

Meditation is the art of creating inner beauty 7 January 1977

Inner victory: meditation is the art of creating inner beauty—turn success inward and become emperor of the self. What is meditation's true aim?

Meditation is learning to wait 8 January 1977

Meditation is learning to wait and dissolve into pure creativity — God as energy, not person — so bliss arrives without demand; love needs space.

Only dare-devils reach that which is called god 9 January 1977

Drop protections, embrace vulnerability and confusion; only daredevils meet God. Become a witness to experience, seek inner freedom not mere chain-breaking.

Man is made of the stuff called love 10 January 1977

Man's innermost core is love; all existence is love in myriad forms, so choose direct love and wholehearted living. How to seek truth? Enquire without beliefs.

Love is the essential religion 11 January 1977

Silence is the key to intense awareness and liberation; relax, breathe, chant prabhu bhajan while walking or eating - learn how to fall into silent meditation.

My whole work is to help you to die 12 January 1977

Ego is a cloud over the eternal blue sky of being; surrender, drop masks, embrace naked love, die to the ego and be reborn. Can you let go and melt into being?

Meditation is the door to timelessness 13 January 1977

Meditation silences thought and opens the timeless akal, where the finite drop becomes the ocean; humility and a loving home reveal deathlessness.

Go to God through laughter, through dancing 14 January 1977

Love is God: drop the ego, surrender and find anand — go to God through laughter, dancing and creative devotion; make the invisible visible by loving.

Our home is beyond the stars 15 January 1977

Wearing orange is a cooperative gesture with your master; use your fear and negativity as stepping-stones to positivity and then to a state beyond both.

Dance is the basic language of religion 16 January 1977

Dance and spontaneous singing are the living language of the divine; love must flow like a river, not be hoarded — will you celebrate until you disappear?

Become an offering, an opening, a prayer 17 January 1977

Love is inconceivable to the mind; it must be lived, not analysed. Science cannot reach it; be an angali — an offering, an opening, a receptive prayer.

In the hands of love even a rock starts throbbing 18 January 1977

Love is a state of consciousness, uncaused like darkness: lived and expressed it transforms everything; what is love?—a shared, authentic inner flowering.

The master is to shock you out of your sleep 19 January 1977

A master shocks you awake; hypnosis maps past and future while meditation ascends beyond time—initiation invites being shaken into remembering your kingship.

Just get more and more drunk with me 20 January 1977

Contentment comes from understanding, not repression; accept tears and laughter, stop forcing presence, relax, let nostalgia flow, and surrender to the moment.

Celebrate as if you are already a buddha 21 January 1977

Celebrate every moment as if already a Buddha: unite light (meditation) and love (relationship), make love conscious (prem atandra), surrender the ego (samarpan).

When the dance is total, the ego is nullified 22 January 1977

Become a moth to the divine: risk the ego's death in total surrender. Dance, meditate, trust your master — then the 'Who am I?' question can dissolve.

You are just part of a big orange ocean 23 January 1977

Earth's lowest hides the highest possibility; sannyas means dropping the ego to become a wave in the big orange ocean, keeping the mind mirror clean and joyful.

To become aware is to become desireless 24 January 1977

Become aware and desire dissolves: watch the first stir of craving and it loses power; bliss (anand) and mahashunya are non-dual states beyond pleasure and pain.

Life is a risk, that's why it is so beautiful 25 January 1977

Love transcends law and becomes the guiding light; knowing and choosing beyond our inner murderer and ego lets us risk love, drop jealousy, and live ecstatic.

OUr destiny is to have wings, to fly 26 January 1977

Be simple and blissful; seek truth in life through direct experience. Let awareness guide love and service—pretend when necessary, but remain conscious of it.

To be blissful is the greatest courage 27 January 1977

To be blissful is the greatest courage: accept full responsibility, divorce misery, let love release stuck energy, and transform suffering into freedom.

My whole work is to push you into emptiness 28 January 1977

Make a 180-degree turn into receptivity: push into emptiness, be available to love and music's synchronistic flow, cross the fear barrier to meet the divine.

Thorns are as significant as roses 29 January 1977

Divine discontent fuels the soul's quest: the royal swan seeks the Himalayan lake; embrace thorns as much as roses, surrender ego to find true love.

If you know one secret -- to be happy right now -- you have learned it all 30 January 1977

Be centred and non-thinking: happiness is effortless in the present moment like music; transform one 'right now' and you transcend samsara. No past, no future.

Theology becomes alive only when a person is alive who knows God by existential experience 31 January 1977

Theology awakens when direct God-experience (charos) meets reason and teaching; meditation—chanting, witnessing, chosen austerity—opens that existential knowing.