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No Claims of Consistency

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Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897 – 1981)


Question: Do you smoke?
Maharaj: My body kept a few habits which may as well continue till it dies. There is no harm in them. 

Question: Do you eat meat?
Maharaj: I was born among meat-eating people and my children are eating meat. I eat very little — and make no fuss.

Question: But meat consumption involves murder.
Maharaj : Yes, obviously. I don’t justify the logic of the behavior. I make no claims of consistency. You think absolute consistency is possible; prove it by example. Don’t preach what you do not practice.


Excerpted from I Am That (1973)

Regensburg im Sturm

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This is a shot of our Regensburg Old Town taken during the recent hurricane-force winds in Bavaria, which have finally calmed down only in the last few hours. (The Zen Center is located approximately between the scaffolded right tower of the Dom and the clocktower to its immediate right, directly in the center of the Altstadt.)

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