“All bondage has a utility for you.”

All bondage has a utility for you. Feeling poverty has a utility for you to become rich. That needs to constantly poke at you. Only then you will become rich. You will plan, plan, plan and finally become rich and got into bigger mess; get into bigger mess. Feeling powerless has a utility value for you so that you plan to become powerful. Feeling ignorant has a utility value for you so that you will work for enlightenment. So the feeling of ignorance and enlightenment should lose its utility value for you.

That’s what has happened in me. I suddenly felt the utility value of me feeling ignorant or me feeling enlightened is no more useful for me. Sometime you try to feel you are enlightened so that you can influence and inspire people, have the by-products of enlightenment. Doesn’t work!

By products of enlightenment has to be always by-product; can never be a main product, can never be induced or infused. It can only happen by enthused. By your presence some enthusiasm will happen. In that by products of enlightenment can happen. It can never be induced, infused, intenduced. It can only be enthused.

I am coining a new word enthused means by your presence if you create an enthusiasm in people and something happens it is a by-product which does not bind you. See this whole sangha I built by the enthusiasm as a by-product of enlightenment. That’s why it’s not binding me. It’s there or not I am not bound. It’s there... great! So many people are enjoying these great truths and values; that’s all.