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To me, prayerful waiting is love.

I also knew you were going through the pangs of a new birth

and that rebirth is very near –

for only this can give soul to your songs.

Words are the form and form has its own beauty,

its own melody, its own music.

But this is not enough, and he who considers this enough

remains discontented forever.

The soul of poetry lies in silence.

To me, prayerful waiting is love, and the void

is the door to the divine temple.

You have come to me and I want to take you to the Lord

for how can you come close to me

without first coming closer to him?

In fact without coming close to him you cannot come close

even to yourself.

Then as soon as you come near him you attain that life

for which you have gone through so many lives.

To come close to oneself is to be reborn –

the principle of being twice born is just this.

And remember, not even the pebbles lying on the road are just pebbles;

they too await a new birth, for that second birth turns them

into diamonds.

P.S. To run after desires is to run after a mirage.

It is a journey from one death to another.

In the illusion that is life

man dies this way time and time again.

But those willing to die to their desires discover that death itself

dies for them.

62. Love.

Where is truth?

Do not search for it, for when has truth

ever been found through seeking?

For in seeking, the seeker is present.

So don’t seek but lose yourself.

He who loses himself finds truth.

I don’t say: Seek and you will find.

I say: He who loses himself, finds.

63. Love.

I was happy to receive your letter.

The drop doesn’t have to become the ocean.

It already is the ocean,

it just has to know it.

What is,

however it is –

to know it as it is,

is truth.

And truth liberates.

64. Love.

Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who are filled

with knowledgeare deprived of life.

Life becomes known only to the innocent,

to those whose intuition is not covered with the dust of knowledge.

65. Love.

Do not seek nirvana as something opposed to life,

rather, turn life itself into nirvana.

Those who know, do this.

Dogen has these beautiful words to say:

Do not strive after moksha (liberation);

rather, allow all your actions to become liberating.

This happens.

I can tell you this from my own experience;

and the day it happens

life becomes as beautiful as a flower in full bloom

and brims with fragrance.

66. Love.

I received your letter on my return.

Just as the seed within the soil waits for the rains so you wait for God.

Prayerful, wholehearted surrender is the door

leading to him.

Let yourself go completely,

just like a boat floating on the river.

You do not have to row the boat, just let it go loose.

You are not to swim, just to float, then the river itself takes you

to the ocean.

The ocean is very near – but only for those who float

but do not swim.

Do not be afraid of drowning because that fear makes you swim –

and the truth is that he who drowns himself in God is saved forever.

And do not have a goal,

for he who has a goal begins to swim.

Remember always –

wherever one reaches, that is the destination,

therefore he who makes God his goal goes astray.

Wherever the mind is free from all goals –

there alone is God.

67. Love.

I say: Die, so that you can live!

When the seed destroys itself, it becomes the tree;

when the drop loses itself, it becomes the ocean.

But man – man refuses to lose himself.

How then can God manifest in him?

Man is the seed, God is the tree.

Man is the drop, God is the ocean.

68. Love.

Leave the old track –

only the dead walk on trodden paths.

Life is the continuous quest for the new.

Only he who has the knack of being new

every moment truly lives.

Die to the old every moment

so that you are forever new –

this is the crux of the transformation of life.

69. Love.

Truth is like the sky: eternal, everlasting, boundless.

Is there a door to enter the sky?

Then how can there be one to enter into truth?

If our eyes are closed, the sky exists not.

The same holds good for truth.

Opening the eyes is the door to truth; to close the eyes

is to close that door to truth.

70. Love.

Where to find truth?

Well, it has to be sought within one’s own self,

within one’s own self

within one’s own self

within one’s own self.

It is definitely there.

One who seeks it elsewhere loses it.

71. Love.

I am extremely grateful for your loving letter.

I take life as a whole and I am incapable of viewing it in bits and

pieces; it is already the whole but because it has been viewed

in fragments for so long it has become perverted.

There is no politics, no morality, no religion;

there is life, there is God, whole and unfragmented.

It has to be sought, recognized and lived in all its forms,

therefore I shall continue to speak on all its forms.

And this is only the beginning.

Answering journalists is just preparing the ground.

All paths lead to one end – certain friends might take some time

to understand this truth.

As things are, this delay in understanding the truth is unavoidable,

but seekers of truth won’t be afraid – courage is the first condition

in the search for truth.

Remember, as long as spirituality does not become a philosophy