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THE BUDDHA: THE EMPTINESS OF THE HEART
Chapter 7: From the surface to the center
Question 1
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Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
WHEN WE FUNCTION FROM THE PERIPHERY, WHEN WE FUNCTION OUT OF UNAWARENESS, IT SEEMS THAT OUR ENERGY GETS CAUGHT UP SOMEHOW AND SO OUR MAXIMUM ENERGY IS NOT AVAILABLE. IS IT TRUE THAT WHEN WE FUNCTION FROM OUR EMPTINESS, WE COULD HAVE ACCESS TO UNLIMITED ENERGY?
Maneesha, what you are asking is almost true. Just on one point you have to be reminded -- that when your energy is not involved in anything... Your last sentence is, "we could have access to unlimited energy." When your energy is not involved in anything, you will not be there. So the question of your access to unlimited energy does not arise. You will be ultimate energy; it will not be something that will be available to you. You will have merged with it, you will be it.
Never think in terms of separation. It is just one experience: you and the cosmos becoming one. There is no need... the whole cosmos is you, so never think in terms of access, achievement. Those words are wrong words. They are perfectly usable in the ordinary world, in the ordinary-world matters, but as you enter in, you are entering into a different dimension of being where you have never been. All your words will defy you. Whatever you experience will not be possible to express. And finally there will be no one to express it.
The ultimate experience is when you disappear, when there is nobody but pure awareness. It will not be your awareness or my awareness, it will be simply awareness.
Before we enter into the meditation, Sardar Gurudayal Singh has to be given a chance....
Popova the Russian mouse gets a visa to visit the West. Her friend, Barbarov the elephant, hears the news and wants to go along too. After a little hesitation, Popova agrees to take her friend with her.
The little mouse bakes a beautiful loaf of French bread, slices it in half down the middle, and puts one half along either side of big Barbarov.
At the Moscow airport, the police officials check Popova's papers and her baggage, and then wave her through. Barbarov, the elephant, is stopped.
"Where are your papers?" asks a policeman.
Popova the mouse turns around, really pissed off. "What's the matter with you guys?" she squeaks loudly. "Can't I even take a sandwich with me?"
Swami Jivan Joke is sitting with his girlfriend, Ma Bliss-abyss, at the back gate.
"Isn't it wonderful?" coos Bliss-abyss. "This is our third anniversary of being together, and everything is so spiritual!"
"It is?" asks Jivan Joke, shaking and trying to learn how to smoke a beedie.
"Sure!" smiles Bliss-abyss, winking at several of her new boyfriends. "We've been together for three years, and now we are experimenting with the other side -- being apart and free!"
"Oh, that!" says Joke, twitching nervously, and trying to stay centered.
"Yes," giggles Bliss-abyss, "and with all this new energy and all these new friends...!"
"My god!" interrupts Jivan Joke. "Are you ovulating again?"
"No, silly!" replies Bliss-abyss, "but since tonight is our anniversary, what shall we do?"
"Well," says Joke, closing his eyes and trying to meditate. "Let's do like everyone else I know is doing -- let's go in and celibate!"
General Jackass, now retired, is walking down the street one day when he sees Donald Dixteen. Donald used to serve as the general's valet during the last war.
General Jackass is very happy to see Donald, and shaking hands, tells Donald that he is looking for someone to take the job as his personal butler.
"You'll have exactly the same duties you had with me in the army," smiles the general. "You can begin by waking me up tomorrow morning at eight o'clock."
Donald takes the job, and the following morning, he rushes into the general's bedroom and shakes him until he wakes up.
Then he slaps the general's wife on the ass, and shouts, "Okay, baby! Here's your twenty dollars, it's time to go home!"
Nivedano...
Nivedano... Be silent, close your eyes, feel the body to be completely frozen.
Look inwards, as deep as possible, because the life source is not very far away. It is just in your empty heart. An absolutely concentrated look into your being, and you have encountered your buddhahood.
Your very life source is also the life source of the whole universe.
Deeper and deeper, so that you can gather the inner experience and bring it out into your daily life.
Slowly slowly
your buddha has to become
your very expression, your very lifestyle.
Nivedano...
Let go. Just be a watcher...
The mind is there, the body is there,
but you are not the body
and you are not the mind.
You are just the watcher.
This watcher is called the buddha.
Watching, witnessing, silently your heart becomes empty. And the empty heart is the buddha.
Let it sink deep, in every fiber of your being. This is the most precious moment -- when you are just a witness and a tremendous silence surrounds you.
It is a great, blissful evening.
Your recognition of your buddha nature
and your recognition that you are one with the whole...
There are not ten thousand buddhas here
but just one consciousness.
Nivedano...
Come back.
But come back not the way you had gone in; come back more gracefully, more peacefully, more like a buddha.
Sit down for a few moments to recollect the experience, to remember the space you have gone into, to remember the path that you have followed.
Whatever you have experienced in your witnessing is going to affect and change your twenty-four hours' life.
Unless meditation becomes a revolution, a revolution of your whole character, it is not meditation.
Meditation liberates you from yourself and brings the new, original face which we have named the buddha. Remember in your day-to-day work who you are. Let your inside affect your activities, your gestures, your language, your relations.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.
Can we celebrate the ten thousand buddhas?
Yes!
Next: Chapter 8: The man of enlightened freedom
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