Don’t Struggle
All these ideas of being good are of postponement. How can you be good right now? You will have to wait for tomorrow. To be good means to train, to discipline yourself, to drop many things, to grow new qualities, to have a new character, morality. Of course it is going to be very painful because you will constantly be in a fight with yourself. Anything that creates a rift in your being is ugly.
Our judgments of good and bad, right and wrong, keep us split. In this inner division, the ego flourishes. When we are living fully, accepting the totality of what is, happiness flourishes.
Don’t bother to be good, don’t bother to be this and that, just be whosoever you are. Accept it and live it. If you can start living totally, fully, not holding anything back, if you start flowing totally, your life will have a fragrance; that fragrance I call religion. It has nothing to do with holy or unholy, with virtue and sin. It is the fragrance of a flowing life, of a dynamic life, of one who is not stagnant, of one who is not divided, of one who has no future, no past, of one who has only the present – the only moment – and lives it.
Don’t bother to be good, don’t bother to be this and that, just be whosoever you are. Accept it and live it.
Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine. That will be definition of the holy: aflame with life – as if a torch were burning from both ends. A great passion, a great fire…. This is the last moment, why not live it totally? If existence allows you another moment, again it is the last moment. Don’t wait, don’t postpone.
All these ideas of being good are of postponement. How can you be good right now? You will have to wait for tomorrow. To be good means to train, to discipline yourself, to drop many things, to grow new qualities, to have a new character, morality. Of course it is going to be very painful because you will constantly be in a fight with yourself. Anything that creates a rift in your being is ugly. Anything that creates a division in your being, which makes you split, makes you schizophrenic, is pathological. Be total, be one.
To accept life in its totality and not to divide it. There is nothing good and nothing bad. Whatsoever happens, let it happen. Allow it. Don’t struggle.
