Taoism is not here to create a new religion; its every effort is to destroy all religions. They have done enough harm to humanity. To tolerate them even for a single day is against anybody who understands the meaning of compassion, who understands the eternity of his own being. Unless all these organized religions become memories of the past, man cannot live without fetters, without chains, without moralities imposed on him against his will. He cannot live as an individual, he has to subdue himself according to the masses. That is the ugliest slavery.
But for thousands of years man has lived in slavery of many kinds. He has forgotten the taste of freedom. He has forgotten the beauty of responsibility. He has forgotten that he has wings, that the whole sky is his. And he need not be tied to a post like an animal, he is a bird of the beyond.
But even great symbols have been misunderstood.
Zarathustra was talking about the fire, but his people have carried fire, ordinary fire, from Persia to India, persecuted by the Mohammedans. For centuries they have been keeping the same fire alive, which is simply absurd. That fire is not going to transform you, and Zarathustra did not mean that fire. He meant that fire in you that it can burn your ego and your slavery simultaneously and make you a freedom, a light unto yourself.
Man has always been misunderstanding great symbols. And the men who have attained to the ultimate are helpless, they have to use symbols.
Their temples are called agiyari, fire temples. For centuries they have carried the same fire; they don't allow it to go out, they go on refueling it. And not even for a single moment do they think: "What has this fire done for us? Certainly this is not the fire that Zarathustra was talking about."
Man is so blind, it is almost certain that he will misunderstand. He is not only blind, he is greedy.
An unconscious love is a blind love. It is only a superficial hypocrisy, of which we are not aware.
Down the ages millions of people have been misunderstanding or trying to manipulate things according to their own vested interest.
Without being a buddha you don't have any meaning in your life.

Wer Mut hat zum Wagnis, wird sterben;
Wer Mut hat zum Nicht-Wagnis, wird fortbestehen.
Jeder der beiden mag nützen oder schaden.

Die Natur entscheidet, welcher schlecht ist,
Aber wer will wissen, warum?
Selbst reife Menschen halten dies für schwierig.

Das Tao in der Natur
Streitet nicht
Und siegt doch meisterlich.
Spricht nicht
Und antwortet doch meisterlich.
Ruft nicht zu sich
Und zieht doch an sich.
Beeilt sich nicht
Und gestaltet doch meisterlich.

Das Netz der Natur ist endlos weit, so weit.
Sein Maschenwerk ist grob, doch nichts schlüpft hindurch.



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Es ist und bleibt in dem Wust an Berichten, Zeugenaussagen und Schilderungen über das Phänomen Chupacabra bis heute offen, was hier vornehmlich in Lateinamerika vorgeht. Ist es ein rein kryptozoologisches Phänomen oder aber ein unheimliches UFO-Subphänomen? Könnte es sich tatsächlich bei der gesamten Hysterie um Unsinn handeln? Alles hochgeputschte Vorfälle, die jedoch völlig normale Ursachen wie wilde Hunde oder andere Raubtiere haben? Doch warum dann das fehlende Blut? Und was ist mit der mutmaßlichen Chupacabra-Leiche aus Nicaragua? Können wilde Hunde tatsächlich eine derart großen Anzahl von Tieren töten, und gab es streunende Hunde nicht schon immer?
Ein Bericht soll noch erwähnt werden, denn auch in Indien, Tausende Kilometer von Mittelamerika entfernt, geht eine rätselhafte und Tod bringende Kreatur um. Seit Jahrhunderten berichten Menschen, die den dichten Urwald Indiens bereisten, von einem absolut tödlichen und unheimlichen Wesen. Die lokalen Bewohner kennen die Kreatur als Mantichora und schildern ausnahmslos grauenhafte Begegnungen mit dem Wesen. Der Kopf des Mantichora ähnelt sehr dem eines Menschen, habe aber ein riesiges Maul mit großen, in drei Reihen angeordneten Zähnen. Der Körper erinnert an den eines starken Löwen mit überlangen Klauen und muskulöser Statur. Besonders tödlich soll der Schwanz gewesen sein, der nach den Zeugenaussagen mit dem eines Skorpions vergleichbar sei. Er habe am Ende ein "Organ", mit dem er Stachel bis zu 30 Meter weit auf seine Opfer schießen kann. Die Inder sind auch von der Arglist der Kreatur erschrocken, denn er greift auch am hellichten Tage an und kaum jemand entkam bisher seinen Killerstacheln.
Eine indische Version des Chupacabra? Oder im Laufe der Jahrhunderte vermischte Berichte von unheimlichen Begegnungen in der Nacht mit großen Stachelschweinen – die ja zum Teil Stachel abschießen können – und löwenartigen Raubtieren? Natürlich gibt es noch zahllose andere Wesen des Grauens wie etwa den Mottenmann aus den USA. Aber der Ziegensauger ist derzeit aktueller denn je - aktuelle Sichtungen des Monsters in Alabama bestätigen dies.

It is something that has disappeared from the world. There are millions of tourists in the world but it is very rare to come across a pilgrim. Tourism is not pilgrimage. A tourist is superficial. He is in a hurry, he is rushing from one place to another place. In fact he is not even aware of why he is doing it. Maybe he cannot sit at ease in one place, that's why he is doing it; he is restless. His being a tourist is nothing but an expression of his inner restlessness.
The pilgrim is a totally different phenomenon. It has something beautiful about it, something sacred. The pilgrim is not just visiting places; he is searching, he is a seeker. He is not only curious; he has an intense, passionate desire to know. He is not really interested in places; he is interested in energy-fields and he is searching for some energy-field where he can dissolve himself.
That is the meaning of a sacred place: a place where you would like to die, to disappear, a place where death is mote valuable than life, a place where the ego can be dissolved, because something higher is available, because you can exist on a different plane, on a higher plane. There used to exist many places on the earth, many energy-fields. They have disappeared because pilgrims are not there so those energy-fields cannot be nourished; those energy-fields have no more function.
At an energy-field, a sacred place, a place for pilgrimage be ready to dissolve, to put your ego aside. Only then do doors open, only then does communion become possible; and only through communion can truth be conveyed, not through words. Truth can be conveyed only beyond words: it is a transmission without scriptures.
Love is the most sacred thing in existence, and those who are not aware of love cannot be aware of tao. Those who are aware of love need not worry about tao, because love is another name for tao. And to live love is religion -- not to philosophise about it, not to speculate about it, but simply to love it, to live it, simply to be it. Then one's whole life becomes a story of love a song of love; and that's how life should be.
Then there are millions of mysteries, and miracles happen every moment. Mysteries and mysteries go on opening their doors. Then this existence is not ordinary; even ordinary things start moving in an extraordinary way. Then even an ordinary leaf of a tree is so utterly, incredibly beautiful one could not have imagined it ever. Then the whole existence is a celebration.