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Revision as of 12:30, 22 March 2022
event type | discourse |
date & time | 19 Jan 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 2h 24min. Quality: good. |
online audio | |
video | Available, duration 2h 31min. Quality: good, a slight constant audio-noise. |
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see also |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | MESS123 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- Then a lawyer said,
- But what of our laws, master?
- And he answered:
- You delight in laying down laws,
- Yet you delight more in breaking them.
- Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter.
- But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore. And when you destroy them the ocean laughs with you.
- Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent.
- But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers,
- But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness?
- What of the cripple who hates dancers?
- What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and the deer of the forest stray and vagrant things?
- What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?
- And of him who comes early to the wedding feast, and when over-fed and tired, goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters law-breakers?
- What shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?
- They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.
- And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows?
- And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth?
- But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?
- You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course?
- What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door?
- What law shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains?
- And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path?
- People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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