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 You have moved towards that risk. You have taken a few steps -- staggering, stumbling, 

groping, haltingly, with many doubts, but still you have taken a few steps; hence I call 

you bodhisattvas. 

And THE DHAMMAPADA, the teaching of Gautama the Buddha, can only be taught 

to the bodhisattvas. It cannot be taught to the ordinary, mediocre humanity, because it 

cannot be understood by them. 

These words of Buddha come from eternal silence. They can reach you only if you 

receive them in silence. These words of Buddha come from immense purity. Unless you 

become a vehicle, a receptacle, humble, egoless, alert, aware, you will not be able to 

understand them. Intellectually you will understand them -- they are very simple 

words, the simplest possible. But their very simplicity is a problem, because you are not 

simple. To understand simplicity you need simplicity of the heart, because only the 

simple heart can understand the simple truth. Only the pure can understand that which 

has come out of purity. 

I have waited long...now the time is ripe, you are ready. The seeds can be sown. These 

tremendously important words can be uttered again. For twenty-five centuries, such a 

gathering has not existed at all. Yes, there have been a few enlightened masters with a 

few disciples -- half a dozen at the most -- and in small gatherings THE 

DHAMMAPADA has been taught. But those small gatherings cannot transform such a 

huge humanity. It is like throwing sugar in the ocean with spoons: it cannot make it 

sweet -- your sugar is simply wasted. 

A great, unheard-of experiment has to be done, on such a large scale that at least the 

most substantial part of humanity is touched by it -- at least the soul of humanity, the 

center of humanity, can be awakened by it. On the periphery, the mediocre minds will 

go on sleeping -- let them sleep -- but at the center where intelligence exists a light can 

be kindled. 

The time is ripe, the time has come for it. My whole work here consists in creating a 

buddhafield, an energy field where these eternal truths can be uttered again. It is a rare 

opportunity. Only once in a while, after centuries, does such an opportunity exist. Don't 

miss it. Be very alert, mindful. Listen to these words not only with the head but with 

your heart, with every fiber of your being. Let your totality be stirred by them. 

And after these ten days of silence, it is exactly the right moment to bring Buddha back, 

to make him alive again amongst you, to let him move amongst you, to let the winds of 

Buddha pass through you. Yes, he can be called back again, because nobody every 

disappears. Buddha is no longer an embodied person; certainly he does not exist as an 

individual anywhere -- but his essence, his soul, is part of the cosmic soul now. 

If many many people -- with deep longing, with immense longing, with prayerful 

hearts -- desire it, passionately desire it, then the soul that has disappeared into the 

cosmic soul can again become manifest in millions of ways. 

No true master ever dies, he cannot die. Death does not appear for the masters, does not 

exist for them. Hence they are masters. They have known the eternity of life. They have 

seen that the body disappears but that the body is not all: the body is only the 

periphery, the body is only the garments. The body is the house, the abode, but the 

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