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Discourse 6
Don’t Just Accept: Rejoice!
Don’t Just Accept: Rejoice!
24 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT IS TOTAL ACCEPTANCE?
Milarepa, the very word total acceptance has somewhere in it the
shadow of non-acceptance. Total acceptance has been preached
because people are living in total rejection; whatever happens to
them, they are bound to find something wrong in it.
It is something very important to understand that all our so-called
religious qualities are reactions.
People are violent – we create a reaction, and a philosophy of
teaching nonviolence comes out of it. A man who has been violent
may become intellectually convinced that it is not right. He may even
strive to become nonviolent, but his nonviolence will also carry the
same violent attitude.
And this is not only true about ordinary people; even people like
Mahatma Gandhi, who became the apostle of nonviolence, carried
a deep-rooted violence all his life. I will give you few examples so
that you can understand...
Question 1
BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT IS TOTAL ACCEPTANCE?
Milarepa, the very word total acceptance has somewhere in it the
shadow of non-acceptance. Total acceptance has been preached
because people are living in total rejection; whatever happens to
them, they are bound to find something wrong in it.
It is something very important to understand that all our so-called
religious qualities are reactions.
People are violent – we create a reaction, and a philosophy of
teaching nonviolence comes out of it. A man who has been violent
may become intellectually convinced that it is not right. He may even
strive to become nonviolent, but his nonviolence will also carry the
same violent attitude.
And this is not only true about ordinary people; even people like
Mahatma Gandhi, who became the apostle of nonviolence, carried
a deep-rooted violence all his life. I will give you few examples so
that you can understand...
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