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Discourse 20
Life Has No Boundaries
Life Has No Boundaries
31 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
CAN YOU PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE ART OF NOURISHING
ONESELF WITH LOVE?
I FEEL SO MUCH LOVE FOR YOU! IS THIS ENOUGH?
Deva Bhasha, love is never enough. There are mysteries in
existence which don’t have any limitation. Love is the closest
experience to understanding all those mysteries – because as far
as the mind is concerned, it imposes limits; it cannot accept anything
that is unlimited.
Just think of the whole universe. The mind can conceive of it as very
vast, perhaps the boundaries of it are not available to us, but the
mind finds it intrinsically impossible to conceive that there may
be no boundaries at all, anywhere.
The universe has no boundaries; life has no boundaries.
And love is our closest experience of this unbounded, unlimited pure
space, extending and extending and you never come to the point
where it is written, ”This is the end.”
Because of this intrinsic incapacity of the mind, it always inquires, ”Is
it enough?” It wants it to be enough so that it can create a boundary
around it....
Question 2
BELOVED MASTER,
WHY DOES SPONTANEITY CREATE SO MUCH FEAR IN ME?
HAVING NO STRUCTURE FEELS LIKE A DEATH. HOW CAN I TURN
THIS FEAR INTO A LET-GO, A WELCOME, A REJOICING?
Anand Anupam, perhaps you are not aware that you are again
asking for another structure. I will read your question so that you
can become conscious of what you are asking:
”Why does spontaneity create so much fear in me?”
It creates fear in everybody, because spontaneity means you are
taking the responsibility for your act, whatever it may be. If you rely
on the conditionings you have been given by your parents, by your
teachers, professors, priests, leaders, and instead of being
spontaneous just act out of your past conditioning, there is no fear.
Because you know you are not alone; you know your action is
approved.
The fear arises when you find yourself alone and you are doing
something which goes against the whole training. You know you are
revolting; you are going against your parents, you are going
against the whole heritage of humanity. The weight of the past is so
big and huge, so Himalayan, and you seem to be such a small
individual, afraid of going against it. You may be crushed.
In my childhood I loved having hair as long as possible. My father
had a shop and the house together, and I used to move in and out
through his shop. He felt very embarrassed because people
asked him, ”Whose girl is this?” Such long hair in India is allowed
only to the girls, and naturally he felt embarrassed and angry that I
was creating every day some trouble. Finally he became so angry
that he took his scissors, caught hold of me and cut my hair....
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
CAN YOU PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE ART OF NOURISHING
ONESELF WITH LOVE?
I FEEL SO MUCH LOVE FOR YOU! IS THIS ENOUGH?
Deva Bhasha, love is never enough. There are mysteries in
existence which don’t have any limitation. Love is the closest
experience to understanding all those mysteries – because as far
as the mind is concerned, it imposes limits; it cannot accept anything
that is unlimited.
Just think of the whole universe. The mind can conceive of it as very
vast, perhaps the boundaries of it are not available to us, but the
mind finds it intrinsically impossible to conceive that there may
be no boundaries at all, anywhere.
The universe has no boundaries; life has no boundaries.
And love is our closest experience of this unbounded, unlimited pure
space, extending and extending and you never come to the point
where it is written, ”This is the end.”
Because of this intrinsic incapacity of the mind, it always inquires, ”Is
it enough?” It wants it to be enough so that it can create a boundary
around it....
Question 2
BELOVED MASTER,
WHY DOES SPONTANEITY CREATE SO MUCH FEAR IN ME?
HAVING NO STRUCTURE FEELS LIKE A DEATH. HOW CAN I TURN
THIS FEAR INTO A LET-GO, A WELCOME, A REJOICING?
Anand Anupam, perhaps you are not aware that you are again
asking for another structure. I will read your question so that you
can become conscious of what you are asking:
”Why does spontaneity create so much fear in me?”
It creates fear in everybody, because spontaneity means you are
taking the responsibility for your act, whatever it may be. If you rely
on the conditionings you have been given by your parents, by your
teachers, professors, priests, leaders, and instead of being
spontaneous just act out of your past conditioning, there is no fear.
Because you know you are not alone; you know your action is
approved.
The fear arises when you find yourself alone and you are doing
something which goes against the whole training. You know you are
revolting; you are going against your parents, you are going
against the whole heritage of humanity. The weight of the past is so
big and huge, so Himalayan, and you seem to be such a small
individual, afraid of going against it. You may be crushed.
In my childhood I loved having hair as long as possible. My father
had a shop and the house together, and I used to move in and out
through his shop. He felt very embarrassed because people
asked him, ”Whose girl is this?” Such long hair in India is allowed
only to the girls, and naturally he felt embarrassed and angry that I
was creating every day some trouble. Finally he became so angry
that he took his scissors, caught hold of me and cut my hair....
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