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THE MIRACLE
Chapter 2: Dissolved, just like ice
Question 1
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Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
YOU SEEM TO BE THROWING US BACK TO OURSELVES MORE AND MORE LATELY, REMINDING US THAT YOU HAVE DISAPPEARED, SO THERE IS NO ONE TO RELATE TO.
BY WHAT MAY WE GAUGE IF WE HAVE A "GOOD AND FRUITFUL" CONNECTION, WHEN WE ARE CONNECTING WITH NO ONE?
Maneesha, don't commit the same mistake that Dogen committed. There is no need of any connection, because connection means you are separate; drop all ideas of connecting. Just like a wave disappears into the ocean, let this place be an ocean where you all disappear.
You cannot have any connection with me, because I am not there. But you can dissolve into the same silence and the same space where I used to be once; where for thirty years I have not been. If you want to enter into an uninhabited house, it is up to you. It is dilapidated, but if you want to enter the space... the walls may have fallen, the roof may have fallen, but the space is still there and has been always there. When the walls were standing, it was there; now the walls are not, it is still there. You cannot connect with it but you can join, you can participate.
Remember, Dogen's thought was not a mature thought of a master. Your question has arisen out of Dogen's GOOD AND FRUITFUL CONNECTION with the master. With the master you don't have any connection at all, because the master is the name of an absence. He is no more! Just an open sky... what connection can you have with the open sky? You can disappear into it, but it will be participation, and only participation is significant.
Before we enter into this evening's meditation, into a great participation, dissolving ourselves into an ocean of consciousness... just to make you light, just to make you playful, not serious...
Ronald Reagan has gone deaf, so he calls in the White House doctor.
Doctor Spook immediately looks in the President's ear. "Why do you have that suppository in your ear?" he asks.
Reagan says nothing.
"Why do you have that suppository in your ear?" shouts Spook.
"What?" replies Reagan.
Doctor Spook pulls the suppository out of the President's ear and shows it to him.
Reagan's face lights up. "A-ha!" he says, "now I know where I put my hearing aid!"
Jerry Jablonski, the traveling salesman, phones home.
"How are the kids?" he asks.
"Well," replies Jezebel, his wife. "I have got some good news and some bad news."
"So tell me the bad news," says Jablonski.
"Okay," says Jezebel, "the bad news is that Jerry junior grabbed your pet Doberman dog, and chopped it up for fishing bait."
"What?" shrieks Jablonski. "That's ghastly! What could the good news possibly be?"
"Well," says Jezebel, "we have got three giant catfish for dinner!"
Rufus, the big black guy, is fed up with living in Mississippi, so he goes to the station to catch a bus north to Chicago.
Looking around the bus station, he suddenly notices a weighing scale that tells your weight and also your fortune.
Rufus goes over to the scale, steps on it, and drops in a quarter. A little card shoots out that reads: "You weigh one hundred and fifty pounds, you are black, and you need to go to the bathroom."
"Mmm," says Rufus, "I guess I do." He goes to the bathroom, but all he does is pass wind.
He decides to try the machine again, so he digs out another quarter and drops it into the slot. The little card shoots out and Rufus reads it. It says, "You weigh one hundred and fifty pounds, you are black, and the waitress in the snack bar would like to meet you."
So Rufus goes to the snack bar, strikes up a conversation with the waitress, and they end up screwing behind the counter.
Very pleased, Rufus returns again to the machine for another try. This time the card shoots out and reads, "You are still one hundred and fifty pounds, you are still a nigger, and with all this fucking and farting around you have missed your bus!"
Nivedano, just give the beat and everybody goes into gibberish....
(Drumbeat)
(Gibberish)
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Be silent... close your eyes,
feel your body to be frozen.
No movement.
Gather your energy inwards,
deeper and deeper.
You have disappeared,
only the buddha remains.
Just a pure consciousness,
the very origin of existence.
You are not your body,
you are not your mind,
you are this consciousness,
this awareness, this watchfulness.
To make it more clear, Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Relax... let go... die completely.
Remember this peace,
this silence, this blissfulness.
These are all your flowers.
You are no more,
but the existence is rich, radiant.
When Nivedano calls you back,
come back with a great splendor,
joy, ecstasy,
and sit down for a few moments,
remembering that you are a buddha.
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Come back,
slowly
remembering.
You have been to a new space within yourself.
It makes you a participant
of an oceanic consciousness.
Feel fresh,
unburdened of past and future,
let this moment be just a pure watching.
You are blessed to be here,
you are blessed to enter into your own being.
Remember it twenty-four hours,
not as a thought, but as a heartbeat,
and it will transform your whole existence.
You don't have to do anything,
just this watchfulness
and you will find everything
slowly, slowly changing.
We have to fill this whole world
with buddhas... not Buddhists, but buddhas.
Next: Chapter 3: Unhitch the Universe
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