K ON COFFEE – collected by Reza Ganjavi

We drink coffee, we take alcohol, we smoke, we do all kinds of things including taking drugs, marijuana, grass, hashish, opium and heroin – right? … why do we take them? Coffee and tea are stimulants aren’t they? Physiologically you may need some form of stimulants. Some people need them… football stimulating, alcohol stimulating, tea, tobacco, heroin, all the rest of it. Why do you need them?…why do you depend on any of these stimulants?  Coffee, tea may be physiological because we eat wrongly, we live wrongly, we overindulge and so on, we need certain form of stimulation. SAANEN 71

Do you need constant stimulation and entertainment, must you have tea, tobacco, drugs and all the rest of it? Why do you need them?

Some feel the need of coffee in the morning, and without it they get a headache. The body may not have required it at first, but it has gradually got used to the pleasurable taste and stimulation of coffee, and now it suffers when deprived of it… but is coffee a necessity? C.O.L. #3

You drink coffee, tea or alcohol; when you keep drinking it, you will need more and more, which makes the mind more and more dull – not sensitive, alert, awake. So when one realizes that any form of outward or inward stimulation breeds inevitably a sort of indifference and dullness and when one sees the truth of it, the stimulation naturally will drop away. 1966 NEW DELHI

A person takes a cup of coffee every morning, for example, because without it he feels he will have a headache. That action has become a habit, based on what he considers a necessity; that is, the stimulation of coffee has become a necessity. – 1956 NEW DELHI