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Zorba Is Love -- Buddha Is Awareness
Sitting in the discourse, closing my eyes,
I find myself all alone with your voice and the song of the birds,
touching the space where all is one.
It is an experience of silence,
clarity and eternal peace.
Even sleep, war or destruction
appear as divine expressions of life.
Returning to the world of forms, I see persons,
conflicts, dualities everywhere.
Existence becomes a question mark,
and I am afraid this planet can be destroyed,
and all its beauty disappear.
Deep down, I sense
I am both and both are one.
Is awareness a boat crossing to the other shore,
and love a bridge to come back
uniting the banks of the river of life?
What you are saying
is absolutely true,
"Awareness is a boat
crossing to the other shore,
and love a bridge to come back
uniting the banks of the river of life."
It is a very significant statement.
Your so-called saints
have gone only halfway.
They may have attained a certain crystallization,
a certain awareness,
but they are not capable
of coming back
to the old shore
with a shower of love.
A saint
who is without love
is only
half grown.
A lover
who knows nothing of awareness
is also living
half-heartedly.
Your saints
are repressing their love;
your lovers are repressing their awareness.
I want you to be
both together
awareness and love.
Then only is the circle of life complete.
Zorba is love,
Buddha is awareness.
And when you are
Zorba the Buddha,
you have attained
the greatest height that is possible
in existence.
But unfortunately,
man has lived for centuries divided.
Zorbas
think they are against buddhas,
and buddhas think they are against zorbas.
And because of this idea of antagonism,
the Zorba is repressing his Buddha:
he is beautiful in his love, in his song,
in his dance
but his awareness is nil.
The Buddha
has repressed his Zorba:
his awareness is very clear,
but very dry.
There is no juice in it;
it is like
a desert,
where no roses blossom,
where no greenery can be seen.
A Buddha without a Zorba
is only a desert.
I am being condemned by both sides:
the communists,
the socialists,
and other types and brands
of materialists
condemn me
because I am talking about spiritual growth,
awareness,
enlightenment.
According to them,
man is only the body,
and should live as a body.
And I am condemned by the other side,
the Buddhists,
because I am bringing materialism
into their spirituality;
I am polluting
their pure spirituality.
The ambassador of Sri Lanka in America
wrote me a letter:
"You call your
restaurants,
discos,
Zorba The Buddha.
It will hurt the feelings
of the Buddhists all over the world
so I would like you
to consider it
and change that name.
Zorba should not be joined
with Buddha."
I wrote him a letter:
"It is not only a question of
my restaurants being called Zorba The Buddha
I am creating living human beings
who are Zorba the Buddha.
My whole life's effort,
my whole dedication is
to bring Zorba and Buddha
hand
in hand,
dancing
in a disco."
Both are deprived:
the Zorba lives an unconscious life;
the Buddha lives a life without love.
The meeting of both
will create
the whole man
and the whole man is the only holy man.
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