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Chapter 7: There is no final destination

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Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
WHEN THERE IS NOTHING TO PERCEIVE -- NO INPUT FROM THE BODY OR THE MIND AND SO ONE HAS NOTHING BY WHICH TO DEFINE ONESELF -- IS WHAT IS LEFT WITNESSING? THERE DOES NOT EVEN SEEM TO BE A WITNESS, BUT JUST THE AWARENESS THAT THERE IS NO ONE THERE.

That's exactly right. There is no witness, there is only witnessing. There is only consciousness, but no personality to it, no form. There is only awareness, like a flame arising from nowhere and disappearing into nowhere, and just in the middle you see the flame.
Have you watched a candle, where the flame goes? Gautam Buddha himself used as the word for the ultimate experience, blowing out the candle. Nirvana means blowing out the candle. Nothing is, just a pure awareness, not even confined into your individuality, but just a floating cloud, no firm shape -- a tremendous isness, a great joy.
But it is not your joy; you are absent. Then arises in your absence the joy, the blissfulness. The moment you are not, then the witnessing is pure. And this witnessing brings the greatest benediction possible. This witnessing is the buddha.
We have been serious. Now Sardar Gurudayal Singh, a man of great patience... Even if I go on the whole night talking seriously, he will still wait that his time will come. A great trust. That's why he can laugh before the joke is told: it shows a great trust that whatever happens, something good is going to happen.

"My wife is like Venus De Milo," says Paddy into his beer one night.
"Really?" says Seamus, in surprise. "You mean she has a shapely body and stands around naked?"
"No," replies Paddy. "She's an old relic and not all there! Many parts are missing."
"Well, in that case," says Seamus, "my wife is like Mona Lisa."
"Why is that?" asks Paddy. "Is it because she is Italian and has a mysterious, seductive smile?"
"No," replies Seamus. "It's because she is as flat as a canvas and belongs in a museum!"

Little Ernie gets the idea that it might be fun to become a politician when he grows up. So his dad takes him to Washington to watch the inauguration of the new American president, Adolf Ramsbottom.
Little Ernie notices Father Fungus, the bishop of New York, standing on the podium next to the new president.
"Dad," whispers Ernie, "is the priest there to pray for the president?"
"No, son," replies his dad. "The truth is that the priest looks at the president -- and then prays for the rest of the world."

Kowalski goes into a crowded bar for a few drinks after work. A couple of hours later, he feels the need to take a shit, so he asks the bartender for directions to the toilet.
"It's upstairs," replies the barman, "down the hall, turn left, and second door on the right."
Kowalski, who is pretty well plastered by now, blinks at the bartender, and sets off in search of the toilet.
He manages to get up the stairs all right, but gets confused from there onwards. Finally, completely lost and desperate to relieve himself, he pulls up a loose board from the floor and makes his deposit. But what Kowalski does not know is that this floorboard is right in the middle of the ceiling of the bar below.
When he gets back downstairs, he finds that the bar is completely deserted. The place smells awful. Kowalski goes over to the bartender, sits down at the bar and orders another drink.
"Where did everybody go?" asks Kowalski, drunkenly.
"My God!" replies the bartender. "Where were you when the shit hit the fan?"

Nivedano...

(Drumbeat)

(Gibberish)

Nivedano...

(Drumbeat)

Be silent. Close your eyes and feel your body to be completely frozen.
Now look inwards with your totality and with an urgency as if this is your last moment. Deeper and deeper, like a spear, move towards the center. It is not far away, and the moment you reach the center you are just a witness, witness of the body, witness of the mind and witness of many new things -- a silence, a peace, a deep serenity, a cool breeze fragrant with thousands of roses.
At the center you belong to the eternity. At the center you are the buddha.
The buddha is never born and never dies; it is your very nature.
Recognize your very nature as carefully as possible, because slowly, slowly we have to bring the buddha to our ordinary life -- in our actions, in our gestures, in our responses.
To bring the buddha from the hidden center to the circumference of life is the whole art of religion. Everything else is non-essential, commentary.
To make it more clear,
Nivedano...

(Drumbeat)

Relax and watch. The body is lying down, but you are not the body; the mind is there, but you are not the mind.
You are just a pure witness.
You are not a person either.
Suddenly, the Buddha Auditorium has become a lake of silent consciousness. Individuals are gone, like dewdrops in the ocean. A tremendously precious moment...
Persuade the buddha, collect all the flowers that are showering on you the peace, the silence, the blissfulness. You have to bring them out in your actions, gestures, words, silences.
My effort is to bring out as many buddhas around the world, fully recognizing themselves... because that is the only protection against the stupid politicians and the warmongers. They are determined to destroy this beautiful planet.
Only a buddha-consciousness spreading like wildfire and taking over the hearts of millions of men can protect this small, beautiful planet.
In the whole universe -- so vast, unbounded, infinite -- this small planet only is alive, and this small planet only is conscious, and this small planet has been able to reach to the highest consciousness in the buddhas.
Before Nivedano calls you back, remember to gather as much experience of being on the center and bring it with you.
Persuade the buddha every day... Sooner or later the spring will come, and you will, without any doubt, recognize your buddhahood. And your recognition is not only of your buddhahood; your recognition is that the whole life is capable of being at the highest peak of consciousness.
Nivedano...

(Drumbeat)

Come back, but bring the buddha with you.
Show the buddha in every action -- even getting up, sitting down. Show the beauty and the grace and the music.
Life has to become a poetry, a painting, a music, a dance.

Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.

 

 

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