I Know
A: Where should I put this?
B: You are free.
A: I know.
Silence: Your question says otherwise.
Do you know what an apple is?
Yes.
Have you ever been one?
You can kill me.
Right now.
At this very moment.
You are free to do so.
Nothing can stop you.
What holds you?
I am in prison
when I cannot kill you.
I don’t want to kill you
when I am free.
Why do we put a person in prison?
For the murderer?
For the murdered?
For their loved ones?
For society?
I imprison you for myself;
you call it justice.
I imprison you for yourself;
you call it cruelty.
I love you for myself;
you call it friendly.
I love you for yourself;
you call it heartless.
You don’t hurt me.
I don’t hurt you.
No.
You may hurt me.
I won’t hurt you.
We are in the same equation—
exactly the same.
But not in each other’s equation.
There is only one place
where you have full control.
There is only one place
where you have no control.
They are not the same place.
One single application of freedom:
to preserve it.
My freedom recognizes yours.
Your freedom is for your comfort.
I cannot kill it.
I can live with and out it.
You want to ride this horse,
Do it.
I am not there anymore.
I have love.
I don’t have words.
You are freer than I am.
Freedom is restraint.
When you die,
it is my death.
When I die,
it is your death.
Dying is easy.
Death is another thing.
Do whatever you want.
You cannot be wrong.
Why ask for permission?
You are nobody’s responsibility.
You didn’t get
what you were looking for.
You got
what you were looking at.
Breathe.
There is no right way.
Silence is the voice of the heart.
A smile is the heart recognizing itself.
Laughter is the heart’s return after forgetting.
The mind is a copycat.
You are free.
You can harm only yourself.
There is no truth.
There is harming.
What is yours?
You want to hurt me?
You have to find me first.
In clean hands,
truth is heavy.
Wash your hands.
That is not conditional.
It is situational.
To see,
you don’t have to open your eyes.
You see
when your eyes are open.
That is where I am.
Truth is what I always see,
then, now, and later.
Be here.
Be present.
Be in now.
Instructions for a corpse.
Ego is a fish outside of water.
Don’t still it.
Let it be.
Hold it in water.
You look at a mirror
to see how you look.
You ask someone
to see how you look.
One is therapy.
Another is meditation.
A guru is a free therapist.
Özgürsün.
Hiçbir gücün yok.
You are free
not to harm yourself.
Truth is not what the mind thinks.
Love is not what the heart feels.
Stillness is not what the body does.
Presence is not a practice.
Change is disappearance.
Buradayım.
Gelin.
Korkmuyorum.
Dokunabilirsiniz.
Ben dokunamam.
Dokunamam.
Korkuyorum.
Let her come in.
There is space.
If I could have,
I would give it to you.
With a tour guide,
you see his house,
not the city itself.
My ship sank.
I am in the water.
The world is sleeping.
There is just you and me.
He just sits.
The world is his.
He is harmless.
Nothing can harm him.
How calm,
how secure he is.
He has nothing to power him;
he is the most powerful.
He has nothing to hide;
he is the most invulnerable.
He has no movement;
he is the most untouchable.
He has nothing to gain;
he is the most giving.
How much can you see?
Can you even get bored?
Let me stay with you.
Let me sit with you.
Let me listen to you.
Don’t let me go from you.
Speak to me in your native language.
I won’t understand you.
I am going to be with you.
You love,
the way your parents were loved.
He loves,
the way does not exist.
There is external silence.
That is the tongue.
There is internal silence.
That is the mind.
There is silence of silence.
That is the heart.
There is external stillness.
That is the body.
There is internal stillness.
That is the mind.
There is stillness of stillness.
That is.
One goes for swimming.
Another cannot get out of the water.