In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When an ignorant person laughs, his laughter is very aggressive, egoistic. The ignorant person always laughs at others. The contented person, the person who knows life a little, laughs at himself - at the whole play of life itself. It is not addressed to anybody in particular. He just laughs at the absurdity of it all... the impossibility of it all.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

God is creativity, not a Creator.

Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality.

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

I don't know! Nobody has ever known. Why would Jesus have remained unmarried if he had known the secret? He knew the secret of the kingdom of God, but he did not know the secret of remaining happy in marriage. He remained unmarried. Mahavira, Lao Tzu Chuang Tzu, they all remained unmarried for the simple reason that there is no secret; otherwise these people would have discovered it. They could discover the ultimate - marriage is not such a big thing, it is very shallow - they even fathomed God, but they could not fathom marriage.