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Chapter 5: Meditation, the method of great liberation
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Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
SITTING IN FRONT OF YOU AND FACING NOTHINGNESS FOR A FEW MINUTES EACH EVENING IS ONE THING, BUT QUITE ANOTHER WHEN IT CONFRONTS ONE DURING THE OTHER TWENTY-THREE HOURS AND FIFTY-FIVE MINUTES OF THE DAY. IT SEEMS EASIER EITHER NOT TO EVEN KNOW SUCH A SPACE EXISTS, OR TO GO INTO IT TOTALLY THROUGH SITTING IN MEDITATION ALL DAY.
THE THIRD WAY -- OF GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF DAILY LIFE, WHILE WALKING AROUND FEELING EMPTY INSIDE -- IS REALLY WEIRD. YET YOU SEEM TO DO IT SO BEAUTIFULLY. CAN YOU GIVE US SOME TIPS?
Maneesha, it certainly looks weird if you are utterly silent, not angry, and trying to show anger. It looks weird because you feel the split, and your anger has not that heat. Inside you are nothing and outside you are showing love; your love is bound to be lukewarm, not even lukewarm. And you will be feeling a strange split; that creates the weirdness.
But look at it from this point: actors on the stage, do they feel weird? They know perfectly they are not what they are pretending to be. But knowing that it is only acting, there is no conflict. So this is the only tip I can give to you: your whole life should be just an acting -- deep inside, eternal silence; on the outside, whatever is the requirement, act it. But that action does not create any split because you know it is acting.
The weirdness comes only when your action becomes identified with you, and at the same time you are pulling yourself into nothingness, and the action is pulling you towards the outer world. Then you are in a weird space. Otherwise silence, nothingness, can remain untouched.
You can do anything, whatever you feel. See with your clarity what is needed and do it totally. But remember, the outer world is the world of drama. Never forget for a moment that the outside is only drama. Then inside you can remain at peace, carrying on every kind of work without any weirdness.
Before we enter into our daily meditation, just a few tips so that nobody goes weird. Just become a buddha and come out! Go in from the same door and come back out from the same door.
It is a fateful day in the Kingdom of Kwatz! Three notorious criminals -- Gunn, the German; Andre, the Frenchman; and Sagar, the Proper -- are all being brought up to the guillotine for execution.
Gunn, the German, climbs the long stairs, and the black-hooded executioner asks him, "How do you want to go, face-up or face-down?"
The German stiffens up proudly and shouts, "I am the bravest of Germans, I vill vatch it coming -- put me face-up!"
He is placed on the block face-up and the executioner pulls the lever. The blade comes hurtling down, and at the very last moment screeches to a halt, just millimeters from the German's neck.
"Hurray!" shouts the crowd. "It's a miracle! It's a miracle! Set him free! Set him free!" and Gunn, the German, is set free.
Then Andre, the Frenchman, is brought up.
"Which way do you want to go?" asks the black-hooded executioner, "face-up or face-down?"
"I am a man of zee earth!" exclaims Andre. "I will go face-down!"
The Frenchman is placed face-down on the block. The huge guillotine blade is slowly raised into position. There is a tense hush over the crowd. Then the lever is pulled and the blade plunges with tremendous force towards the waiting Frenchman's neck -- but at the last moment it screeches to a grinding halt.
"Another miracle! Another miracle!" screams the crowd. "Free him, too! Let him go!" And the Frenchman is set free.
Then Sagar, the Proper, carefully mounts the stage stairs. Adjusting his crystal necklace, combing his hair and removing some dust off his shirt, he stands ready before the executioner.
"So what will it be for you?" asks the executioner, removing his hood to reveal himself as the Master of Masters, Shree Rajneesh. "Face-up or face-down?"
"Are you kidding?" says Proper Sagar, bowing to touch The Master's feet. "I'm not going near that thing until you get it fixed!"
Balonski is totally drunk and he staggers into a fairground. He goes up to the rifle range and says, "Give me ten shots!"
"That will be two dollars," laughs the attendant.
Balonski fumbles around, pays the money, grabs the gun, and fires ten quick shots, each of them a perfect bull's-eye.
The attendant is shocked and amazed as he hands Balonski the grand prize, a twelve-inch, live turtle.
Some time later the drunk returns, dropping his bottle of vodka on the counter. He plops down two dollars, grabs the gun and fires another ten shots -- again, all of them perfect bull's-eyes.
Flustered, the attendant sweeps his arm across the prizes and says, "Choose anything you want."
Balonski looks around blinking and then says, "Just give me another one of those crunchy sandwiches!"
On their tenth wedding anniversary, Herman and Hettie Horowitz decide to make a trip around Europe. They fly from L.A. to Paris and rent a car.
A week later they are driving through the Austrian Alps when they see a small signpost which reads: "Wishing Well -- first turn left."
Herman is a little skeptical but he follows the signpost and stops the car next to an old, stone well. The couple get out of the car and go over to the well.
Herman leans over the well, and following the instructions he throws in a coin, then silently makes his wish.
Then Hettie does the same, but she leans too far, loses her balance and falls head-first into the well.
"Wow!" shouts Herman, stepping back. "It really works!"
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
(Gibberish)
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Be silent, close your eyes...
feel your body to be frozen.
Collect all your life energy inwards,
move towards the center.
This is the door we have been talking about.
Don't get stuck with the door, look beyond.
Even a few steps beyond the door will be
an immense experience.
Going beyond the door,
you are moving in the oceanic reality.
You are no more.
The door was your boundary -- you have gone beyond it.
These are the most blissful moments of your life....
This is your buddhahood.
To make it more clear, Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Relax, leave the body aside, the mind aside...
and you stand just aloof...
a watcher, just a witness.
This is the heart of the buddha.
This is his great contribution to humanity --
that just by watching, witnessing,
you can enter into the eternal.
Drink as much as you can
from your original source.
It will refresh you, it will resurrect you,
it will give you a new character.
And without any effort
you will find yourself changing every day.
Your whole life will become a dance, a song.
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Come back, but bring with you the fragrance, the silence,
the beautitude that you are experiencing.
Sit down for a few moments just reminding yourself
that you are the buddha,
that eternity is yours,
that you are beyond life and death,
that you are part of this immense universe
which is always here.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.
Can we celebrate the gathering of the ten thousand buddhas?
Yes, Beloved Master!
Next: Chapter 6: Underlying great doubt there is great satori
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