Philosophical Questions

Life Is Beautiful

Life is beautiful because it is insecure. Life is beautiful because there is death. Life is beautiful because it can be missed. If you cannot miss it, everything is forced upon you, then even life becomes an imprisonment. You will not be able to enjoy it. Even if you are ordered to be blissful, commanded to be free, then bliss and freedom both are gone. “Will existence protect me when I allow myself to let go?” Try! Only one thing I can say to you.… I am not talking to your fear, remember. Only one thing I can say to you – all those who have tried have found that it protects. But I am not talking to your fear. I am simply encouraging your adventure, that’s all. I am persuading, seducing you toward adventure. I am not talking to your fear. All those who have tried have found that infinite is the protection.

If you miss adventure, you miss all

If you are alive there is inconvenience. If you are alive there are challenges.

If you are alive then every moment you have to face reality, encounter reality.

Every moment you have to be ready to change and to move.

Reality has no security and that is its beauty. Life has no security and that is its beauty.

Because there is no security, there is adventure. Because the future is unknown, nobody knows what is going to happen the next moment.

That’s why there is challenge, growth, adventure. If you miss adventure, you miss all.

If your life is not that of an adventure, of a search into the unknown, then you are living in vain.

Nobody ever loses anything by being adventurous. I am not saying that the path of adventure is full of roses – it is not… But one grows, one becomes crystallized when one accepts a life of adventure.

Life can mean only one thing and that is constant adventure – always moving from the known into the unknown – and finally, ultimately, a quantum leap from the unknown into the unknowable.

Seeker has two steps: First is from the known into the unknown, and the second is from the unknown into the unknowable. It is natural to feel afraid and there is no contradiction that you are also feeling happiness arise; that too is as natural as fear. The person who lives without any adventure lives without fear but also without happiness. He lives a convenient life, comfortable, cozy, but dull, stupid, meaningless, with no joy, no song, no dance; nothing ever happens into his being, he simply vegetates. From birth to death he simply goes on dying every day, each moment, slowly. Of course his death is so slow that he cannot feel it. It is a kind of slow suicide.

People have chosen this kind of slow suicide just because they want to avoid all fear. This is avoiding life itself, and if you avoid life you are avoiding God.