wisdom

Do one thing: don’t stop smoking right now – because that will not help and you will again smoke. Do one thing: breathing. Whenever you have an urge to smoke, make it a point that first you have to breathe deeply for five minutes. Start by exhaling: exhale deeply. Inhale deeply, exhale deeply, but the emphasis should be on exhalation more than on inhalation. All the air has to be thrown out. Just squeeze the whole system so all the air is out. Do this for five minutes before each cigarette.  You have to pay the price for each cigarette, mm? – that is five minutes of deep breathing. If after that five minutes the desire, the urge disappears, there is no need to smoke; if the urge remains, you can smoke. And this will help – this will help in many ways. Firstly, out of one hundred times, seventy-five times the desire will disappear. Good breathing will give you such a good feeling that you will not feel like smoking. You will feel so happy and so full of vitality, you will not feel...

The person who is interested in alcohol must be living in misery, in a kind of suffering. That’s why he wants somehow to forget it all. Alcohol is nothing but a chemical strategy to forget your miseries, anxieties, your problems, to forget yourself.  My whole effort is to help you to remember yourself—and you want to forget yourself! By forgetting yourself you will be creating more and more hell for yourself and for others. Remember, rather – remember yourself.  I am not in favor of any alcoholic beverages. I am not in favor of any psychedelic drugs either, because they all create illusory worlds for you and they all are distractions. They make you more and more oblivious of your own being, unaware of your own self.  My work is based in awareness. The word awareness is the golden key here, the master key. Billu the barber, passing by a tenement house in the predawn hours of the morning, saw a man leaning limply against the doorway.  “What’s the matter?” he asked...