“You have to be aware. At least individually, you can drop all death orientation. And the only way to drop it is to love life, to love love, to love laughter, to rejoice not in a paradise after death but here now. Before death destroys, you have to find the eternal in you. That eternal can be found only by rejoicing people, loving people, compassionate people, silent people – not people who are against life. They can never find the source. It is such a simple arithmetic. If you are against life as all the religions are and all the militaries are, then how can you go deeper into life to find the source, the roots in the cosmos?

“Particularly my people have to be life-affirmative, against destruction. They have to be creative in their small ways. Maybe they create poetry, music, dance; maybe they create a small garden with flowers. Inside they have to find their buddha. The more people find the buddha in their innermost being, the more secure this beautiful planet Earth is.

“In this whole universe, the scientists can only guess that there may be some planets somewhere that have life on them. But this is all guesswork; there is no valid evidence. In this vast universe, only this small earth is full of life. The whole universe, in a way, is dead. Nothing green, no river has been found on any planet, on any star – no mountains, no thick forests, no birds fly in their skies, no cuckoos sing songs, no peacocks with their psychedelic-colored feathers dance. There is no sign of any human beings anywhere else in the whole universe.

“This is the glory of this small planet. It is a very small planet but strangely of a tremendous glory and splendor. It is a miracle. In this whole universe, only this earth has greenery, only this earth has humanity, only this earth has the possibility for human beings to rise to the ultimate peak of being buddhas. This is our only security; otherwise religions and armies are going to destroy the only place where life exists, where consciousness has grown, where a few people have touched the ultimate eternity, where a few people have reached the very center of existence and found the ultimate significance and meaning of life.

“It is not just a question of five billion people dying; it is a question of the whole universe becoming without life, without consciousness. It is a tremendous problem. You are responsible for such a great work. Your meditation is not only for you. It is creating a certain milieu around the earth to help people become more creative, more life-affirmative, more in tune with existence, saner and more in the present.”