and that is why you are afraid of breaking down.

But what is there to save?

And that which is worth saving is already saved.

122. Love.

You long for the sun

and you will get it for sure,

but you have to have the courage to burn!

You can’t reach the light without dying,

for ego is darkness,

and besides, the sun isn’t anywhere outside

but is born within when everything else there burns.

When the self is alight – that is the light.

The fear of dying is darkness,

the jump into death is the light.

Die, and know this!

Disappear, and you will find it.

That is why I say love is prayer –

it is the first lesson in death.

Regards to all.

123. Love.

Do not look for a purpose in life but live, and live totally.

Do not be serious and grave but turn life into a dance.

Dance – like the waves on the sea!

Blossom – like the flowers in spring!

Sing – as the birds do continuously!

All without purpose, for no reason; then purpose is there,

and all mystery is solved.

The famous physician Rocky Tonsky once asked a student:

What is the purpose of life? What is its meaning?

The student hesitated and stammered, as if trying to remember,

then said: Yesterday I knew, but right now I seem to have forgotten.

Rocky Tonsky looked up at the sky and cried:

God in heaven!

The only man who ever knew and now he has forgotten!

Love to all the family.

124. Love.

You ask for my ten commandments. This is very difficult

because I am against any sort of commandment. Yet just for the fun

of it I set down what follows:

1. Obey no orders except those from within.

2. The only God is life itself.

3. Truth is within, do not look for it elsewhere.

4. Love is prayer.

5. Emptiness is the door to truth; it is the means, the end and the achievement.

6. Life is here and now.

7. Live fully awake.

8. Do not swim, float.

9. Die each moment

so that you are renewed each moment.

10. Stop seeking. That which is, is: stop and see.

125. Love.

The news of the commune delights me.

The tree’s seed is sprouting,

soon innumerable souls will shelter under its branches.

Soon the people for whom I have come will gather –

and you are going to be their hostess!

So prepare yourself;

that is,

empty yourself completely

because only emptiness can be the host.

You are already on your way,

singing, dancing, blissful

like a river flowing to the sea.

I am delighted,

and I am always with you.

The ocean is close –

just run, run, run!

126. Love.

Everything changes except change, only change is eternal.

But the human mind lives in the past – and that is the confusion

of all confusions.

One day the sky was filled with the clouds of war –

plane upon plane loaded with death.

Beasts, birds, worms and beetles –

all that could flee, fled.

Horses, donkeys, rats, sheep, dogs and cats, wolves –

all ran for their lives

and the paths and tracks were full of them.

As they fled, this multitude saw

two vultures sitting on a wall by the road.

Brothers! they cried to them. Flee! At once!

Man is on the warpath again.

The vultures just smiled. They knew!

One said: Since time immemorial man’s wars

have been good news for vultures.

Our ancestors have said so, and so too our scriptures.

It is also our own experience.

In fact it is for the benefit of vultures that God sends man to war!

God has made man and war just for vultures!

This said, the two vultures flew off towards the battle –

and in the next moment were blown to pieces by falling bombs.

If they had only known how things

can change over thousands of years.

But does even man himself realize this?

127. Love.

I received your letter.