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VOL. 2
Chapter 4: Slipping Lazily into Divinity
Question 3
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Question 3
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANALYSING AND UNDERSTANDING? IS IT NECESSARY TO LOOK AT THE PAST FOR UNDERSTANDING TO HAPPEN?
There is a lot of difference -- not only a difference, they are diametrically opposite.
Analyzing is a mind phenomenon, understanding is a non-mind phenomenon. Analyzing, you remain in the mind, because you have to think. Analysis is thinking. Analysis is moving into reason, analysis is rational. Understanding has nothing to do with reason, understanding has nothing to do with thinking. Understanding is hovering above reason, moving beyond reason. Understanding is a pure look -- just a pure look, with no idea to do anything. Analysis is not a pure look; there is a preoccupation, you have to analyze it.
And that is the whole difference between psychoanalysis and religion. Psychoanalysis teaches you analysis, religion teaches you understanding. If you go to a Freud or a Jung, he will teach you how to analyze your dreams, how to analyze your thoughts, how to sort it all out. If you go to a Buddha, he will simply teach you how to look, without any idea of doing anything -- how to just look at the dream.
Don't even call it a dream, because if you call it a dream you have started analyzing. If you call it a dream you have brought in a category of reason. You say it is a dream, it is no more reality -- analysis has started. You have categorized it, you have put it into a certain classification, analysis has started. Don't even call it a dream. And if you call it a beautiful dream, more analysis. If you call it a nightmare, more analysis. Don't say anything about it, don't make any judgement. Just watch it, unconcerned; just look into it.
And while looking into it without any concern, a great experience, an incredible experience, arises. When you simply look, without even a single word standing between you and the object that you are looking at, the object starts disappearing. Like a cloud it starts disappearing. It goes far and far away, it recedes back and back and back, and a moment comes, suddenly it is not there. You are left alone, without any content.
This is what meditation is all about -- to be conscious without a content. And the way to drop the content is not the way of analysis, it is the way of the pure look.
So there is no need to analyze. If you analyze, you are moving into a process which can continue ad infinitum. There is no end to it -- one thing leads to another. If you analyze one dream you will have to analyze your whole life. And then too the process is not finished; you will have to go back into your past lives. That has happened -- in India that has happened.
Freud started something which is not a discovery, which is a rediscovery. Freud started analyzing, and then sooner or later many other things came in the wake of it: primal therapy. Once you start analyzing a single dream that you had last night, you will have to go sooner or later to your very birth scream to understand this small dream. Because everything is connected; this dream is not just out of the blue. The dream that you had seen last night is connected with many things in the past -- you will have to analyze them. And they are connected in their own turn with something else -- you will have to analyze them... and so on and so forth.
If really you want to analyze a man, you will have to analyze the whole of existence. Because if your father was not there in the world, you would not have been here. And your father may have met your mother just accidentally, because they happened to study in the same school. If that school was not there, you would not be here.
Even if the school was there but there was co-education, you may not have been here. Because when there is no co-education people fall in love more -- when there is co-education, who bothers? When there is co-education there is less romance. When children are kept apart -- boys separate from girls -- girls become fantastically beautiful, boys become fantastically beautiful. The separation creates illusions.
And so on and so forth -- you can go backwards to the very beginning of the universe. Not only to the primal scream, you will have to go to God's scream -- the first scream, when he said: 'Let there be light!' My own feeling is that when he uttered the first words, they were not 'Let there be light' -- somebody has misunderstood. He said, 'Let there be logic!' And since then man has been in trouble. Light is not such a trouble: 'Let there be logic.'
This world that we live in is a logical construct. Analysis won't help; you can go on for ever. That's why analysis is prolonged. If you fall into the trap of a Freudian, three years, six years, ten years, it can continue -- it depends on how much you can afford. The analysis never ends, only your bank balance. When the bank balance is finished the analyst says, 'Now it is finished.' Otherwise it continues, because analysis has no beginning and no end. It is a circle -- you can go on moving and moving.
LOOK! is breaking the circle. Just looking, staring into things. Not figuring out what is what, just looking into things as they are. Just looking, a pure look... and suddenly all clouds start dispersing, evaporating. And soon your pure look has created the pure space around you.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANALYSING AND UNDERSTANDING?
Analysis is of the mind; it is an exercise of logic, reason, thinking. Understanding is not of the mind at all; it is a pure witnessing. You simply see. The mind is there all around you, and you see from the center. The mind is all around you, many clouds moving, traffic, rush hour... you see it, but you are the seer. You are not troubled by it; there is nothing to be troubled about. A few empty thoughts floating around you -- why be troubled? And why get into analysis? Those empty thoughts are just empty thoughts, forms flickering around. Let them flicker. You remain settled in your being, you remain centered, you remain at the very core.
This is what is called witnessing. And witnessing is the technique, the ultimate technique, of all spiritual understanding. Just SEE.
Zen masters end their talks with a shout: 'San!' San! means Look! That is the final touch to their every talk -- and with a shout, so nobody is allowed to remain sleepy. It is almost a lion's roar: Look! Into what? -- that is not the point. Just look -- anything will do. When you are looking at the trees, just look. Don't say this is an ashoka tree and that is a cypress tree. Don't say that the tree is beautiful and don't say the tree is green, very green, and don't say that the gulmohr is flowering. Don't say anything, that the flowers are red... don't SAY at all. Just LOOK!
Let words disappear. Let there be you and the phenomenon of the trees. Or you and the phenomenon of your woman or your man, your friend -- people. Let there be just reality. And have a look. And suddenly you will start having a few moments, great moments. Great moments of timelessness, great moments of vision, clarity, transparency. Great moments when suddenly everything stops. And when you simply see, a pure vision arises -- the same vision that may have been there when you were born, and for the first time you opened your eyes....
There was no word. You must have seen colours, obviously. You must have seen the man standing there, the doctor. You must have seen your mother, or the nurse. You must have seen the clock on the wall, you must have seen the electric light -- but there was no way to use any word. You could not have said, 'This is electricity.' The electricity was there, but there was no word forming in you. You could not have said, 'Beautiful! the room is good, well-furnished' -- you could not have said that. You could not have said to the doctor, 'Hello, Doctor, how are you?'
Everything was there -- only words were missing. But you must have seen -- eyes were not missing. That's what I mean by 'look', that's what Zen masters mean when they shout: San!
Bring that look back. It can be brought, because you KNOW it. You HAD it -- you have only forgotten, you have put it aside. You are clinging to JUNK, and you have put aside the diamond.
I have heard about a very great king. One day on the road, passing on the road, he came across a beggar. He recognized suddenly that he was his friend -- they had studied in the same school. What had happened to this man?
He took him back home. The poor man was given a good massage and a good bath, good food -- and the king himself was serving him -- and valuable drinks. And the poor man ate too much and drank too much and fell asleep at the table.
At that moment the king felt very sorry for him. They had lived together, they had studied together in school when they were children... he took out a great diamond from his pocket and slipped it into the pocket of the beggar.
By the morning, when he came back from his long sleep, the beggar departed very happy. The king didn't say anything about the diamond because it might be embarrassing to the beggar. And he knew the man, a very proud man -- he would not like the idea. So he simply put it in the pocket and didn't say anything.
After three, four days he came across the beggar again, and he was begging in the marketplace. So he came to him, and he said, 'Why are you begging? What is the point of it?'
And the beggar said, 'What should I do? Just because for one day you gave me food and good drinks and a good bed to sleep in, I cannot live on it for ever. I have to beg, I am a poor man.'
And the king said, 'What happened? I slipped a diamond into your pocket.'
And the poor man looked into the pocket and it was there. But for these three days he had not looked into the pocket at all. It is not good to look into your pocket when you don't have anything, it is very embarrassing -- again and again to put your hand into the pocket and find nothing, an emptiness. So he had not looked, he had not bothered. There was nothing; he knew it well, there was nothing.
Exactly that is the case: you have put aside the diamond. You brought it with you. When you were coming from God's house he slipped a diamond into you. He always gives a diamond to everybody who comes to the world -- of such great value that all is possible through that diamond. All treasures of the world are possible through that diamond, a man can become a Buddha through that diamond. That diamond has some magic in it. You came with it -- you have not looked inside yourself.
No, analysis is not needed. If you analyze, you will miss the diamond. Only look, just look. Become watchful, become very alert -- bring more awareness, but no analysis. Just see. And by and by, small moments will come -- valuable moments, precious moments, diamond-like. And they go on growing. Once you have the taste, it becomes easier. Once you know they are there, they come more -- because you recognize them more. Then they start growing. Then small intervals come -- half an hour, and no thought arises. One hour passes by, and you are simply sitting there and no thought arises.
That's what paradise is! That's what heaven is! You are entering into a different dimension: the caterpillar is growing wings.
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