And Now, And Here 精彩片段:
Chapter 7
I Teach Death
31 October 1969 pm in Mediation Camp at Dwarka, Gujarat, India
Question 1
A FRIEND HAS ASKED: ARE YOU TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO DIE? ARE YOU TEACHING DEATH? YOU SHOULD TEACH LIFE INSTEAD.
He is right, I am indeed teaching people how to die.
I am teaching the art of dying, because one who learns the art of dying becomes an expert in the art of living as well.
One who agrees to die becomes worthy of living the supreme life.
Only those who have known how to erase themselves also come to know how to be.
These may seem like opposite things because we have taken life and death to be opposing each other, contradictory, but they are not.
We have created a false contradiction between the two, and that has produced fatal results.
Perhaps nothing has caused so much harm to the human race as this contradiction.
Subsequently, this contradiction has had ramifications on many levels.
If we divide things which are essentially one into separate parts -- not only separate but contradictory parts -- the ultimate result can be nothing but the creation of a schizophrenic, insane man.
Lets assume there is a place where mad people live.