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THE SUN RISES IN THE EVENING
Chapter 10: It is not too Late
Question 4
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The fourth question:
Question 4
YOU SAY WE NEED ONLY DECLARE OUR OWN ENLIGHTENMENT TO OURSELVES, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE GAP, THE DISCONTINUITY, THE QUANTUM LEAP, THE DEATH AND THE REBIRTH? IS THE DECLARATION A DEVICE -- A WAY OF CREATING THE EFFECT FOR THE CAUSE TO FOLLOW? IS THIS AN ACCEPTANCE OF ENLIGHTENMENT WITH A SMALL 'E', KNOWING THAT ONE DAY THE BIG 'E' WILL COME IN A SUDDEN FLASH OF LIGHTNING? CONFUSED, CONFUSED.
Krishna Prem, what are you talking about? What gap? What discontinuity? What quantum leap? You are it. The gap is just in your dream, the gap exists not; you have never been other than enlightened -- enlightenment is the stuff you are made of.
You say: YOU SAY WE NEED ONLY DECLARE OUR OWN ENLIGHTENMENT TO OURSELVES, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE GAP, THE DISCONTINUITY, THE QUANTUM LEAP, THE DEATH AND THE REBIRTH?
Nothing ever dies, nothing IS ever reborn. How can there be rebirth when nothing ever dies? It is all one process, it is all one continuum. Life has never known death. You are dreaming.
I have heard a Taoist story...
A great emperor was sitting by the side of his dying son -- the only son. All his hopes were shattered: he had only one child -- he was old -- and the child was dying. And the physicians had failed and they said 'Now, this is the last night.' He was sitting there crying and weeping -- he could not sleep -- the whole night he sat by the side of the bed. By the morning, tired, exhausted, he fell asleep in the chair.
He dreamt that he had a very very big kingdom on some other planet. He had huge golden palaces, he had twelve sons, all beautiful, intelligent -- you could not think of any improvement in the situation; it was perfect.
And then the boy died. The wife screamed in pain. The king's dream was disturbed, and he opened his eyes and started laughing. The wife thought he had gone mad. People gathered. The wife asked 'What are you doing? Why are you laughing? And you loved the boy so much -- why are you laughing?' He said 'I am laughing because now what to believe? Just a moment before I was dreaming that I had twelve sons, so beautiful, so strong -- supermen -- so intelligent, incomparable, and I had a big kingdom with golden palaces; this palace looks just like a poor man's hut. And the moment you screamed, the dream disappeared, and with it my twelve sons and the golden palace, and the kingdom and all. And when I was dreaming about those twelve sons and the kingdom and the palace, it was so real that I had forgotten you, and the dying son, and this kingdom, and this me. Now I am laughing: for whom to weep, for those twelve sons which have disappeared or this one who has disappeared? That's why I am laughing.'
If the gap exists only in a dream, there is no way to bridge it; because the bridge that you make will be a dream bridge. All that is needed is that you wake up. Krishna Prem, wake up! Open your eyes. Just see: all is dream. Sometimes with open eyes you dream, and sometimes with closed eyes you dream. Sometimes you have nightmares and sometimes you have 'daymares', but that is the only difference -- they are all mares. Wake up. Only the witnessing self is reality, all else that you are seeing is a projected film. Turn in, and see that you are enlightened. It is not a question of bridging the gap, it is only a question of recognizing, remembering.
So it can happen any moment. The moment you allow it to happen, the moment you permit it, it can happen. All that I go on saying to you is just to help you to permit it, it is not going to create enlightenment, it is just helping you to permit it, to accept it.
IS THE DECLARATION A DEVICE -- A WAY OF CREATING THE EFFECT FOR THE CAUSE TO FOLLOW?
Enlightenment is not the effect of any cause; enlightenment is already there, it has not to follow any cause. It is your very ground; nothing need be done to attain it. See the emphasis: the emphasis is not on doing anything, the emphasis is only on remembering.
You have a purse somewhere in your pocket, but you have forgotten it and you are feeling miserable. And you are thinking that now you are in a strange city, nobody knows you -- where are you going to eat? you don't have any money. And the money is there, just you have forgotten the purse. Or you may have misplaced it; you go on looking in the left-side pocket and it may be in the right-side pocket. And again and again you look, and again and again you feel more and more afraid, insecure -- what is going to happens who is going to give you food today? But nothing has to be done really; all that is needed is to remember where you have put it.
Doing is not the thing, only awareness. That is the emphasis of Zen. Yoga emphasizes doing, 'Do this, do that', that's why Yoga satisfies people's egos very much because it gives you infinite possibilities to evolve in the world of the ego. So many postures, so many rules, so much discipline, PRANAYAMA, and exercises... and it goes on and on. And you feel 'I have done so much. Now I am coming home, now I am coming closer, closer, closer'. But you never come, you never arrive.
Zen is a sudden phenomenon; it is not a gradual process. The whole approach is that you have never been otherwise, you are enlightened; from the very beginning you are a Buddha.
I am repeating it day after day so that this constant hammering on your head may some day break the forgetfulness, the layer of forgetfulness. And any day that the forgetfulness is gone, it will come, it will come like an upsurge, it will well up in you.
You say, Krishna Prem: IS THIS AN ACCEPTANCE OF ENLIGHTENMENT WITH A SMALL 'E', KNOWING THAT ONE DAY THE BIG 'E' WILL COME IN A SUDDEN FLASH OF LIGHTNING?
Enlightenment is enlightenment, whether with a big 'E' or a small 'e' makes no difference. It will not be different with a capital 'E'; it is the same phenomenon. When I go on talking to you, it is not creating an enlightenment with a small 'e', no; it cannot create enlightenment at all. That's what I am saying, that's what Yoka is singing: nothing can create enlightenment. You have fallen asleep, I am shouting. And sometimes I really have to shout.
Just the other day Vivek was saying 'You were shouting so much this morning that I am shaken, jarred; my nerves are on edge.' Good, so I will have to do a little more shouting. Sooner or later how can you avoid waking up? How long can you avoid waking up ?
Jesus says 'Go on the house-tops and shout.' The Hassid mystic, Akiba, actually used to do it, he would go on the house-tops and shout. In the market-place he would go on somebody's house-top and shout and say 'People, what are you doing? Awake! Remember God!' And, of course, the people who were in the market-place would become very afraid when he shouted 'Remember what you are doing! Again? Again the same stupid thing?' He was constantly moving in the market-place and he would hold people and shake them and say 'Remember!'
He must have been a nuisance -- all Masters are. When they become too much, people have to get rid of them. They crucified Jesus because he must have become too much -- too much shouting, and he wouldn't even allow them a night's sleep. They had to poison Socrates; he must have been a nuisance around Athens. He was. It is said that people were even afraid to meet him on the streets, because if he saw you, he would catch hold of you. People were so afraid that they would not even say hello, because he would say 'What do you mean? Wait, let us discuss it, let us go deeply into it.' Now, even 'hello', and you are caught. It is said that people would see him and escape into some side-streets or they would hide somewhere and let him pass. It must have become unbearable. Then they decided that it was better to finish this man.
A Master is a constant shouting in your sleep, but he has to go on doing it whether you listen or not, whether it becomes unbearable, whether you feel jarred, shaken, on the edge of nerves or not. He has to go on and on: he has to stir you, he has to penetrate your sleep. And the sleep is long -- for centuries you have slept; you have completely forgotten how to open your eyes. A Master has to virtually hammer you into wakefulness.
Friedrich Nietzsche used to say 'I philosophize with a hammer.' I don't know about him, but I certainly teach with a hammer, I preach with a hammer. And the closer you come, the more I will shout at you. Only then is there a possibility that in spite of yourself some day you may open your eyes. There is no difference between the small 'e' and the capital 'E', enlightenment is simply enlightenment.
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