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MA TZU: THE EMPTY MIRROR
Chapter 1: The mirror
Question 1
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Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
ARE WE ALL, THE TEN THOUSAND BUDDHAS, POTENTIAL VESSELS OF THE DHARMA?
Maneesha, as far as being potential vessels of dharma, nobody is an exception. You all have the potential -- the same potential, the same highest peaks of consciousness, as any buddha. But you have to go inwards and find your treasures. Outside you are a beggar, everybody is a beggar.
Alexander the Great came to India just three hundred years after Buddha had died. He wanted to meet some master. The name and the fame of Buddha had reached faraway shores -- even to Greece and Athens.
Alexander's master was the father of Western logic, Aristotle. Aristotle had told him, "You are going to conquer the world, you must reach India. I don't want you to bring anything as a present for me, just meet an enlightened master. I have heard so much, but it seems to be so ungraspable. And moreover, because I am a logician, I cannot accept anything unless it is rationally valid, with evidence, argument."
On his way back, Alexander remembered that he had to find a master. He inquired of people and they said, "It is very difficult. Even if you can find a master, we don't think he will be agreeable to going with you to Greece."
Alexander said, "Don't be worried about that. If I want to take the Himalayas to Greece, I can manage it!"
Finally he found a master. Many people had said, "Yes, that person is a realized one. He lives naked by the side of the river."
Alexander reached to the man, and with his naked sword he said, "I want you to come with me! You will be given a royal welcome; every facility will be available to you. You will be a royal guest, so don't be worried about anything. But I want you to come to Greece, because my master wants to see an enlightened man."
The old man laughed. He said, "In the first place, put your sword back into its sheath -- this is not the way to meet a master. And get down from your horse!"
Alexander had never heard such authoritative words -- and from a naked man, who has nothing.
And the man said, "Remember that you may conquer the whole world, but you are still a beggar. Now you are begging me to come with you. But as far as I'm concerned, I have come to the point where there is no movement. I don't go anywhere, I have never gone anywhere. I have been always now and here. Time has stopped, mind has stopped...."
Alexander was very angry. He said, "I will cut off your head if you don't come with me!"
The man said, "That's a good idea. You can take the head, but I'm not coming. And remember: just as you cut off my head, you will be watching the head falling on the ground and I will also be watching. Watching is our secret, tell your master -- and take my head."
Now it is very difficult to take the head of such a man, who is not afraid at all. Alexander said, "I have to go without a master."
The old man said, "Tell your master that enlightenment is not something that you can bring from outside. You cannot export it -- you have to explore it within yourself. Drop all logic, all rationality, all mind, and go inwards as deep as you can. At the very end of your search you will find the buddha.
"My coming will be of no use. I would not have refused, because there is no difference for me, where I am -- but seeing me, do you see any enlightenment? Neither will your master be able to see any enlightenment. To see enlightenment, you need a little bit of the experience of enlightenment, at least some meditativeness. And I don't think meditation has even entered into the consciousness of people in the West."
Strangely, even today -- the twenty-three hundred years since Alexander have not been of any help -- meditation is still an Eastern concept. It is still only in the East that people become thirsty to inquire within.
My effort is to spread the fire all over the world, to destroy the distinction between East and West. But every hindrance is being created. You all have to take the fire of meditation to your countries. Just small beginnings, and soon it can become a wildfire.
Except for meditation there is no way to know yourself -- in your purity, in your utter innocence, just like a mirror. But you are all vessels of the dharma, of the basic principle. You may recognize it, you may not recognize it. You are carrying it, you are pregnant with it -- whether you give birth or not, that is a different matter. Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe.
Just conquer yourself.
The rains have come to hear your laughter. (A LOUD AND FAMILIAR LAUGH IS HEARD FROM THE BACK OF THE AUDITORIUM.) And Sardar Gurudayal Singh has started it.
Three sannyasin kids meet in the ashram and start talking together.
"You know," says the German kid, "my uncle is a priest, and all the people call him `holy father.'"
"That's nothing," says the Japanese kid. "My grandfather is a Zen master, and even the emperor touches his feet."
"That's nothing, you guys," says the American kid. "My mother weighs three hundred pounds, and when she walks down the street, people take one look at her and say, `My god!'"
Father Finger has a little trouble with a sixteen-year-old blonde and the police. He goes immediately to see his lawyer, Boris Babblebrain. "If you win the case for me," says Finger, "I'll give you a thousand dollars."
"Okay," agrees Babblebrain, "get some witnesses."
Father Finger searches around his parish and manages to find two old drunks and a bag lady for his witnesses. They tell the right story, and he wins the case.
"I won your case for you," says Babblebrain. "Now, what about my thousand dollars?"
"Okay," replies Father Finger, "just get some witnesses!"
At a chic cocktail party in Hollywood, Sheikh Ali Baba, the fabulously rich oil millionaire, meets Brenda Babblebrain and falls madly in love with her.
Sheikh Ali Baba approaches her husband, Boris, the lawyer, and leads him into a quiet corner.
"I must sleep with your wife," says Ali Baba, "and in return, I will pay you her weight in gold."
Boris hesitates, and then he insists that he will need a few days.
"To think the deal over?" asks Ali Baba, anxiously.
"No, no!" cries Boris, "to fatten her up!"
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
(Gibberish)
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Be silent.
Let your body be completely frozen.
Close your eyes, and look inwards with as much urgency and totality as possible.
Deeper and deeper... you are entering the space we call the buddha.
This beautiful evening can become a great radical change in your life, if you are courageous enough to go on, just like an arrow, to the very center of your being.
You are just a witness, an empty mirror.
To make it more clear, Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Relax.
Watch -- the body is not you, the mind is not you.
Only the watching, only the witnessing is you.
This witnessing is your eternity.
With this witnessing comes all the ecstasies, all the blessings that existence can offer to you.
The deeper you are, the more watchful you are -- the more silent, the more peaceful.
It is a great event.
Every evening you go a little deeper into your buddhahood.
Look around this empty space within you; you have to remember it, twenty-four hours, when you come back from the inner journey.
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Come back, but come back as buddhas -- peaceful, silent, graceful, with a beatitude.
Sit down for a few moments just as mirrors; remembering your inner world, collecting the experience so that it can become an undercurrent in your daily life.
I don't want anybody to escape from life; I want everybody to make life richer, more blissful, more ecstatic.
I am all for life, because to me life is the only God.
The buddha is another name for life.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.
Can we celebrate the ten thousand buddhas?
Yes, Beloved Master.
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