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114 THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12 ”Now I will be sitting by the side of my mind too, watching it with all its dirtiness and problems and old leaves and hurts and wounds, memories, desires. Unconcerned I will sit on the bank and wait for the moment when everything is clear.” And it happens on its own accord, because the moment you sit on the bank of your mind you are no longer giving energy to it. This is real meditation. Meditation is the art of transcendence. Freud talks about analysis, Assagioli about synthesis. Buddhas have always talked about meditation, awareness. You ask me, Amitabh, ”What is the uniqueness of this third psychology?” Meditation, awareness, watchfulness, witnessing that is the uniqueness. No psychoanalyst is needed. You can do it on your own; in fact, you have to do it on your own. No guidelines are needed, it is such a simple process simple if you do it; if you don’t do it, it looks very complicated. Even the word ’meditation’ scares many people. They think it something very difficult, arduous. Yes, if you don’t do it it is difficult and arduous. It is like swimming. It is very difficult if you don’t know how to swim, but if you know, you know it is so simple a process. Nothing can be more simple than swimming. It is not an art at all; it is so spontaneous and so natural. Be more aware of your mind. And in being aware of your mind you will become aware of the fact that you are not the mind, and that is the beginning of the revolution. You have started flowing higher and higher. You are no longer tethered to the mind. Mind functions like a rock and keeps you. It keeps you within the field of gravitation. The moment you are no longer attached to the mind, you enter the buddhafield. When gravitation loses its power over you, you enter into the buddhafield. Entering the buddhafield means entering into the world of levitation. You start floating upwards. Mind goes on dragging you downwards. So it is not a question of analyzing or synthesizing. It is simply a question of becoming aware. That’s why in the East we have not developed any psychotherapy like Freudian or Jungian or Adlerian and there are so many in the market now. We have not developed a single psychotherapy because we know psychotherapies can’t heal. They may help you to accept your wounds, but they can’t heal. Healing comes when you are no longer attached to the mind. When you are disconnected from the mind, unidentified, absolutely untethered, when the bondage is finished, then healing happens. Transcendence is true therapy, and it is not only psychotherapy. It is not only a phenomenon limited to your psychology, it is far more than that. It is spiritual. It heals you in your very being. Mind is only your circumference, not your center. The second question: Question 2 BELOVED MASTER, I FEEL LIKE I HAVE JUMPED INTO AN OCEAN KNOWING NOTHING OF ITS WATERS. I SEE YOU AS THE LIFEGUARD. MY FEAR IS THAT I AM A TERRIBLE SWIMMER AND THERE ARE SO MANY OF US OUT HERE, YOU WON’T SEE OR KNOW WHEN I AM DROWNING. My whole effort here is to help you drown, because the moment you disappear, God appears. To be drowned is to reach the other shore. Yes, you are right, Mradula. If I was trying to take everybody to the other shore, it would be really difficult: one lifeguard and one hundred thousand people to be taken to the other shore. It will be really tiring and almost impossible, unmanageable. Then every possibility is that you will drown the lifeguard! But the beauty of my work is that it is not a question of going to the other shore. If you are drowned, in that very drowning you have reached the other shore. So I need not remember everybody, his name, face there is no need for me to be bothered with all that. My whole concern is to push you into the water, and then the water takes care. And really it is a deep ocean, and there is no possibility of anybody ever crossing it so whether you are a terrible swimmer or not does not matter. If you are a terrible swimmer that is better, you will drown sooner than others! Those who can swim a little longer will remain a little longer in misery because they will be saving themselves. There are people here who are good swimmers, but they are the unfortunate ones. The really fortunate ones are those who don’t know even the ABC of swimming, so the moment I push them in the water they are gone down! And that is the way to reach the other shore because only your ego drowns; you cannot. Only your ego dies; you cannot. You were never born and you will never die. No ocean can destroy you. No power can destroy you. No fire can consume you. That’s why I go on pushing you without any worry about you whether you know swimming or not, whether you will be able to reach the other shore or not. I talk about the other shore so that I can persuade you to jump into the ocean. Once you have jumped I forget all about you! I have to persuade others too! So, Mradula, don’t be worried. You are fortunate that you are not a good swimmer. Soon you will be drowned. And the moment you are gone, that is the greatest moment of your life, because in that very death is resurrection.
THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12 115 The third question: Question 3 BELOVED MASTER, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY UNDERSTANDING SOMETHING IN MEDITATION? HOW DOES ONE GO ABOUT IT, AND WHAT PART OF ONESELF IS INVOLVED IN THE UNDERSTAND- ING? Nigel, meditation and understanding are synonymous. So when I say ”understand in meditation,” I am simply saying to be silent, quiet, cool, and see. You are not to do anything else, you have to be just silent, cool and calm, and see. And understanding arises on its own accord. It is the fragrance of being silent. Misunderstanding arises because your mind is very cloudy, noisy. Your mind never allows you to see that which is, never allows you to hear that which is said to you. Buddhas come and go but you remain the same. Yes, you become Christians and you become Buddhists, and you become Hindus, but you don’t change. These are your strategies to escape change, to avoid the awakened ones. You ask me, ”What do you mean by understanding something in meditation?” It is not a great problem. Meditation is understanding. You are trying to figure it out intellectually, and that is not possible. You are trying to think about it, what it is all about. Whatsoever conclusion you arrive at will be wrong. It is not a question of thinking what is meant by it. Meditate, and experience. It is something to be experienced. You say, ”How does one go about it...?” One does not go at all about it, otherwise you will go about and about. The word ’about’ means around, and you will go around and around in circles. Don’t make it an intellectual question; it is an existential approach. But the very word ’understanding’ has misled you, because by ’understanding’ we always think ’intellectual understanding’. That is not so. There is nothing like intellectual understanding. Intellectual understanding is pseudo. It is misunderstanding pretending to be understanding. The word ’understand’ is beautiful. When you are in meditation everything stands under you, you are so above it. That’s the meaning of understanding. Everything is there far below you, so you can see... like a bird’s-eye view. You can see the whole from your altitude. Intellect cannot see it; it is on the same plane. Understanding happens only when the problem is on one plane and you are on a higher plane. If you are also on the same plane, understanding is not possible. You will misunderstand only. And that is one of the greatest problems to be encountered by every seeker. Jesus says again and again to his disciples, ”If you have ears, hear; if you have eyes, see.” He was not talking to blind people or deaf people, he was just talking to people like you. But why does he go on insisting? for the simple reason that hearing is not listening, and seeing is not true seeing. You see one thing and you understand something else. Your mind immediately distorts it. Your mind is upside down. It makes a mess of everything. It is in confusion, and you look through that confusion, so the whole world looks confused. Old Nugent loved his cat, Tommy, so dearly he tried to teach it to talk. ”If I can get Tommy to converse with me,” he reasoned, ”I won’t have to bother with ordinary humans at all.” First he tried a diet of canned salmon, then one of canaries. Tommy liked both but he didn’t learn to talk. Then one day Nugent had two extremely talkative parrots cooked in butter and served to Tommy with asparagus and french fries. Tommy licked the plate clean, and then wonder of wonders suddenly turned to his master and shouted, ”Look out!” Nugent didn’t move. The ceiling caved in and buried the old man under a mass of debris. Tommy shook his head and said, ”Eight years he spends getting me to talk, and then the dummy doesn’t listen!” You go thousands of miles to listen to a master and then ”... the dummy doesn’t listen.” The mind cannot, it is impossible for the mind to listen; it is not in a state of receptivity. The mind is aggressive, it jumps to conclusions so fast, so quickly that it misses the whole point. In fact, it has already concluded, it is simply waiting for its conclusion to be proved right. Nigel, please don’t try to understand; rather try to meditate. You must be new here. Dance, sing, meditate, let the mind settle a little bit. Let this stream of the mind, which is full of dead leaves and dirt, settle down a little. Let it become clean and clear, transparently clear; only then will you be able to understand what I am saying. Then it is so simple. I am not talking very complicated philosophy it is not philosophy at all I am simply indicating towards certain truths which I have experienced, and you can experience any moment you decide to experience. But it has to be a journey. You say, ”How does one go about it, and what part of oneself is involved in the understanding?” It is not a question of any part being involved in it. Your totality is involved. Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming beautifully; they are in a melody... one.
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