"Don't reduce life into technology. Life reduced into technology loses all flavor of joy.

"I have come across a book; the name of the book is hilarious. Its name is You Must Relax. Now the must is the problem, but it is there. It is because of the must that nobody is able to relax. Now another must on top of all other musts – 'you must relax' – is going to create more tension in your life. Try to relax, and you will find that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more and more tense.

"Relaxation is not a consequence, is not a result of some activity; it is the glow of understanding.

"This is the first thing I would like to relate to you: life is purposeless. It is very hard to accept it. And why is it so hard to accept that life is purposeless? It is hard because without purpose the ego cannot exist. It is hard to conceive that life has no goal because without any goal being there, there is no point in having a mind, in having an ego.

"The ego can exist only in a goal-oriented vision; the mind can exist only in the future. The purpose brings future in; the goal creates the space for thoughts to move, desires to arise. And then naturally there is hurry, because life is short. Today we are here and tomorrow we are gone – maybe the next moment.

"Life is very short. If there is a goal to be achieved, there is bound to be hurry. And there is bound to be worry, a constant worry 'whether I am going to make it or not' – a trembling heart, a shaking of the foundations. You will remain almost always in an inner earthquake, you will always be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Have a goal, and sooner or later you will end up on the psychoanalyst's couch.

"My vision is that of a goal-less life. That is the vision of all the buddhas. Everything simply is, for no reason at all. Everything simply is utterly absurd. If this is understood, then where is the hurry, and for what? Then you start living moment to moment."