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THE ORIGINAL MAN
Chapter 6: Roots in the universe
Question 1
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Question 1
Anando has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
DOES MANZAN MAKE IT AS A MASTER?
Certainly, Anando. He made it as a master.
HE SOUNDS GOOD, EXCEPT WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THE MIND OF FAITH.
I have told you the translation is by a Christian missionary. To them, faith is the great thing.
To a Zen master, faith is the barrier. You have to be clean of all faith and all belief. You have to be just silent, searching, your eyes having no dust in them. All faith and belief is nothing but dust.
NOT BEING REALIZED OURSELVES, IS THERE ANYTHING OTHER THAN INTUITION WE CAN USE TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TEACHER AND THE REAL THING?
Anando, there are many things that you can use to recognize the difference.
The teacher will be always speaking in quotes. He will be quoting the scriptures. His words will not carry any authority; his words will not be coming from his very being.
His presence will be different. The teacher's presence has no aura to it. The master's presence has a certain energy field. Those who are receptive, sensitive, can almost touch it; it is tangible.
It is a question of being open, and immediately you can recognize who is only a teacher and who is a master. The difference is very great, but very subtle. And all depends on your receptivity. All depends on your open heart. Only your heart can say whether you are confronted by a master or just listening to a teacher.
With a teacher you don't have a love affair.
With the master you have a great love affair.
With the teacher, you may be convinced by his arguments. With the master, the arguments don't matter but his presence, which quenches your thirst. Just being close to a master, you start feeling a new, fresh breeze. The teacher is stale, carrying old, rotten scriptures. He does not have a fresh experience of the truth.
Traditionally, seekers would go from one master to another master just to find a place where they could feel a kind of rapport, where they could feel with the master a certain oneness. Then they stop. They have found the master.
But one has to be very intelligent, very receptive, very sensitive, because the energy of the master is the most subtle energy possible.
If you are open, and you are thrilled and your heart dances and you want to sing, you have found the man.
This is called, in Zen, the Great Love Affair.
There are ordinary love affairs, which are biological. You cannot even explain those, why you find a certain man or a certain woman and suddenly you feel you have fallen in love. You know it. Something has clicked in you, but you cannot give any explanation. All your explanations will look absurd, idiotic. Just try. When you have fallen in love with a woman or a man, just try to explain to somebody who knows nothing of love -- "Just look at her hair..."
He will say, "What nonsense! You have fallen in love with hairs?"
"Just look at her nose, just look at her eyes..." And whoever you are giving the explanation to will think you are a little cuckoo!
A person falls in love not with noses and eyes and hair but with a total being.
Zen is a great love affair. It is not biological. Hence, it becomes even more difficult but it goes very deep.
The biological affair can change -- has to change. It is a temporary phenomenon. The same woman for whom you could have died, now you want to kill.
I have heard about a psychologist who was taking a round of the madhouse and the superintendent was explaining to him whatever he wanted to know about. In a small room, a young man holding a picture to his heart was weeping and weeping.
The man asked, "What has happened to him?"
The superintendent said, "It is a tragedy. He is a very intelligent man, but he has fallen in love with a woman. He is holding the picture of the woman -- waking or asleep he does not leave the picture. But the woman married somebody else; that has driven him mad."
The professor said, "It is really a sad story."
In the next room a man was hitting his head on the wall. He said, "My God! What is he doing?"
The superintendent said, "He married that same woman! Now he wants to kill himself, so he has been put in the madhouse."
At the biological level things are continuously changing. It is very natural that they should change.
At the spiritual level, where being is never changing... if you have found the master, then there is no way to go anywhere. But if you have not found, then it is better not to waste your time.
And it is a question of your inner thrill, inner click. You can call it intuition. I don't want to call it intuition because that makes it more mathematical. It is not that mathematical.
I can call it a click. Something simply happened to you. You cannot explain, nor is there any need to explain. Just being with the master you will see the transformation happening. Whether your click was right or wrong, time will prove.
If no transformation happens to you, that means either you are with a teacher who pretends to be a master or you may be with a master, but you are not open; you don't want to change. No master forces change on you. He creates all the situations in which the change, if you are ready, will be spontaneously happening.
Whatever happens spontaneously is beautiful. Whatever is rehearsed and practiced and disciplined creates hypocrisy. No master will support any hypocrisy.
Before we enter into our inner world, just to remind you that you have to come back... we will be waiting here for you.
You can go as deep as possible, but don't get stuck somewhere, howsoever beautiful and howsoever enchanting.
When Nivedano calls with his drum, come back.
My whole effort is to bring buddhas into the marketplace. I don't want you just to be a buddha and escape. Even Sardar Gurudayal Singh comes back every day. He reaches as deep as possible, but he always thinks, "Who knows what kind of joke is going to be told tomorrow?"
These jokes are keeping him in the world; otherwise, he would have gone long ago.
Paddy and Sean are walking to the Christ is Love Pub, when all of a sudden they hear an explosion. They run around the corner to see that the pub has been blown up by the IRA.
They are looking through the rubble when Paddy finds a head. He picks it up, holds it in the air and says, "Sean, isn't this Danny O'Riley?"
"No," says Sean, "it can't be. He was not as tall as that!"
Two rats in a laboratory are having a conversation through the bars of their cages.
"Tell me," says the first rat, "how are you getting along with Professor Katzoff?"
"Pretty good," replies the second rat. "It took me a while, but now I have finally got him trained. Whenever I ring the bell, he brings my dinner!"
Father Finger, the priest, is reputed to have an enormous prick. It is so large, that he has great difficulty in getting any of the local women to sleep with him.
"Sorry, Father," is the reply he always hears. "I wish I could, but your member is just too big for me!"
Feeling desperate, Father Finger goes to Mother O'Mary's whorehouse on the other side of town where he is not recognized. He quickly chooses a girl and she takes him to a room upstairs. Closing the door behind him, Father Finger tells the girl that he is very shy, and would like to undress with the lights off.
"It is okay with me," agrees the girl, and the two of them undress in the dark.
When Father Finger gets into bed, he immediately climbs on top of the girl in the missionary position.
"Do you know, Father," says the girl, "I'm really glad that this is what you came here for. When I saw you coming in, I was sure you were going to talk to me all about... JEEZUS CHRIST!"
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
(Gibberish)
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Be silent... close your eyes. Feel the body completely frozen. Look inwards... go as deep as possible.
There is nothing to fear; it is your own space.
Deeper and deeper. When you are deepest in your being, you are at the source of life, and you will also find the roots into the universe.
This is your buddha-nature.
Blessed is this experience of your own being, a buddha. Remember it. Let it become your very breathing and heartbeat... twenty-four hours, day in, day out.
This very remembrance will change everything in your actions, in your gestures; it will bring a grace, a beauty, which is not of this world.
To make it more clear that you are not the body nor the mind, but just a pure awareness...
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Relax... let go.
The body is there, the mind is there -- you are neither, you are just a watcher...
Just a mirror.
This quality of being a mirror is what makes you a buddha. Drink from this universal source as much as you can.
Let it sink into your every fiber and cell.
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
You can come back -- but come back with your experience, don't leave it behind.
Silently, gracefully, sit down for a few moments, reminding and remembering your inner purity, your inner beauty... your inner innocence.
Okay, Anando?
Yes, Beloved Master.
Can we celebrate the ten thousand buddhas?
Yes!
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