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I AM ECSTATIC because just the name of Bodhidharma is psychedelic to me. In the long evolution
of human consciousness there has never been such an outlandish Buddha as Bodhidharma – very
rare, very unique, exotic. Only in some small ways George Gurdjieff comes close to him, but not
very close, and only in some ways, not in all ways.
There have been many buddhas in the world, but Bodhidharma stands out like Everest. His way
of being, living, and expressing the truth is simply his; it is incomparable. Even his own master,
Gautama the Buddha, cannot be compared with Bodhidharma. Even Buddha would have found it
difficult to digest this man.
This man Bodhidharma traveled from India to China to spread the message of his master. Although
they are separated by one thousand years, for Bodhidharma and for such men there is no time, no
space – for Bodhidharma Buddha was as contemporary as Buddha is contemporary to me.
On the surface you are my contemporaries, but between me and you there is a long long
distance. We live on different planets. In reality, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Pythagoras, Bahauddin,
Bodhidharma – these are my contemporaries. Between them and me there is no gap either of time
or of space. Superficially there is a one thousand years’ gap between Buddha and Bodhidharma,
but there is not even a single moment’s gap in reality, in truth. On the circumference Buddha was
already dead for one thousand years when Bodhidharma arrived on the scene, but at the center he
is together with Buddha. He speaks the essence of Buddha – of course he has his own way, his
own style, but even Buddha would find it strange.