Question 2 Maneesha is also asking: IS NOT OUR UNCERTAINTY, OUR GROPING, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO DISCOVER FOR OURSELVES WHAT IS STRAIGHT AHEAD AND WHAT IS GOING OFF TRACK? If you look in you cannot go off track, because there are no tracks. There are not two ways even. It is the outside world where if you don't know, naturally you will have to grope around. In the inside world you don't even have hands with which to grope. The inside world is a pure seeing. In this country we have called this seeing darshan. Darshan means just seeing. And that does everything, you don't have to do anything else. Before you do the seeing, a little laughing. That's why you have not done it before. Pope the Polack is visiting the optician. "I keep seeing spots in front of my eyes," complains the Polack pope. "Really?" replies the optician, putting a new pair of glasses on the pope's nose. "There! How's that?" "Wow! That's great," replies Pope the Polack. "Now I can see the spots much clearer." Luigi is sitting with his teenage son, Spagnoli. "What-a do you want-a for your birthday, my son?" Luigi proudly asks his son. "I wanna watch," says the son. "Okay," shrugs Luigi. "It is-a okay with me if it is okay with-a your mother." Get it? Otherwise in the middle of the night you will get it! (WAVES OF INCREASING LAUGHTER ARE ROLLING THROUGH BUDDHA HALL AS MORE AND MORE DISCIPLES ARE GETTING IT.) Do you see? Somebody got it! One morning, Miss Goodbody, the fifth grade teacher, asks the class what the best kind of business is. "Real estate," says little Ernie, "because everybody needs somewhere to live, and houses always increase in value." "Oil!" exclaims little Albert, "because cars always need petrol." "No," says little Peggy Sue, from the back of the room. "The best business in the world is prostitution." "What!" cries Miss Goodbody, shocked. "Peggy Sue, how can you say such a thing?" "Easy," replies Peggy Sue, "because it is the only business where you have it, you sell it, and you still have it." Three women arrive at the Pearly Gates. Betty and Margaret are English girls, and Lolita is Italian. Saint Peter looks the women over very carefully. Then he turns to Betty and says, "Have you been a pure and honest woman?" "My good man," replies Betty, "I am English. I have been honest and clean my whole life." "Okay, okay," says Peter, checking his list. "Follow that angel to the pink room." Then Peter turns to Margaret. "And have you been a pure, forthright woman?" "Oh Peter," replies Margaret, "I have been as pure as the driven snow." "Okay," says Peter, checking his list, "follow that angel to the pink room." Then he turns to Lolita. "And have you been honest and pure?" "I never did-a no harm to anyone," replies Lolita. "I could-a say I was honest. I loved love. And I was-a pure. I loved loving purely for love, and only for love." "Okay," says Peter, dropping his list, "follow me to my room!" Nivedano... (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Be silent, close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen. Now look inwards. Collect all your life energy just like an arrow and without stopping anywhere go straight forward to the center of your being. This moment you are the buddha. This moment you are the glory of being. This moment all that is yours will be revealed to you, all the secrets, all the miracles. The greatest miracle is that as you go deeper darkness disappears and a totally different kind of light, a light without source, illuminates your being. And you have an absolute feeling of immortality, of eternity. To make it clear, Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Forget your bodies -- you are not your body. And forget your mind -- you are not your mind. You are the watcher of both. The body is lying there, the mind may be chattering -- you are watching. You have always been a watcher, unscratched by any thought, any desire, any action. Your purity is eternal. Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Come back. But come back with your experience, come back with the light that you have seen. Come back with the joy, with the blissfulness, the pure space in which you have moved. Sit down for a few seconds, just as a buddha. Utterly silent, immensely contented, knowing nothing but full of wonder, desiring nothing but full of love. This is your truth. Okay, Maneesha? Yes, Beloved Master. Can we celebrate the buddhas? Yes, Beloved Master.
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