"The more you think you know the more you will be covered with ignorance.

"Knowledge is ignorance. The knowledgeable person is covered with dark clouds of memory, information, scripture, philosophy.

"Dipankara said to Gautama, 'You need not think in terms of learning. Truth is already in you. Truth cannot be transferred.' Not only this, but when Gautama touched the feet of Dipankara, Dipankara bowed down and touched the feet of Gautama. Gautama was not enlightened in those days. He was very puzzled, embarrassed too.

"There was a great assembly of monks; nobody could understand what was happening, what was going on. Dipankara had never done that to anybody else. And Gautama said, 'What have you done? Why have you touched my feet? I am a sinner, an ignorant person. To touch your feet is right, but you touching my feet is absurd. Have you gone mad?'

"And Dipankara laughed again and he said, 'No, Gautama. You are puzzled because you don't know your future. I am not mad. I can see it happening – you will be a buddha soon. Just to honor that fact I have touched your feet. And, moreover, for one who is enlightened all are enlightened. It is only a question of time. It doesn't matter much. I have become enlightened today, you will become enlightened tomorrow, somebody else will become enlightened the day after tomorrow – it doesn't matter. Enlightenment is going to happen to everybody, to every being. You can go on delaying it, that is up to you. The moment you stop delaying, the moment you stop postponing, it is there. It has always been waiting for you to recognize it.'

"It is one of the most beautiful stories – that Dipankara touched the feet of Gautama. And Gautama was an unknown man. After centuries, nearabout three thousand years afterwards, Gautama became enlightened. The first thing he did was he bowed down to Dipankara. Now there was no Dipankara, but he bowed down and he laughed and he said, 'Now I understand why you touched my feet. Now I can touch everybody's feet. Now I know that the whole existence is going to be enlightened.'

"Enlightenment is a natural happening."