The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 10

Select all	TALKS IN THIS SERIES - 13	Minutes
	1. Beyond Happiness Is Bliss	97
	2. Whatsoever Happens Is Good	86
	3. The Way of Meditation	100
	4. Understanding Is the Fragrance of Silence	75
	5. Be Present to the Present	103
	6. Beware of Coincidences!	95
	7. The Meeting Can Happen	92
	8. Not Gospels but Gossips	89
	9. Freedom Is the Goal, Awareness Is the Method	99
	10. Love Is Its Own Reward	98
	11. All Is Not Lost, but Time Is Running Short	84
	12. Your Mind Is Created by Society	108
	13. Being, Feeling, Action	89

In the tenth volume of twelve commenting on Buddha’s essential teachings, Osho says that wisdom, which he calls knowing, arises from within, from inner silence. Knowledge from others is secondhand; the key to inner direction, knowing, is meditation.

Excerpt from Chapter 13

Your life has to be poetic, your approach has to be poetic. Logic is dry, poetry is alive. Logic cannot dance; it is impossible for logic to dance. To see logic dancing will be like Mahatma Gandhi dancing! It will look very ridiculous. Poetry can dance; poetry is a dance of your heart. Logic cannot love; it can talk about love, but it cannot love. Love seems to be illogical. Only poetry can love; only poetry can take the jump into the paradox of love. Logic is cold, very cold; it is good as far as mathematics is concerned, but it is not good as far as humanity is concerned. If humanity becomes too logical then humanity disappears; then there are only numbers, not human beings, just replaceable numbers.

Poetry, love, feeling, give you a depth, a warmth. You become more melted, you lose your ice-coldness. You become more human.

Buddha is superhuman, about that there is no doubt, but he loses the human dimension. He is unearthly. He has a beauty of being unearthly, but he does not have the beauty that Zorba the Greek has. Zorba is so earthly.

I would like you to be both together: Zorba the Buddha. One has to be meditative, but not against feeling. One has to be meditative but full of feeling, overflowing with love. And one has to be creative. If your love is only a feeling and it is not translated into action, it won’t affect the larger humanity. You have to make it a reality, you have to materialize it.