THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12 The ...

48 THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12
but you keep moving around it, around and around. You forget the whole world love becomes your world for the
moment.
Meditation is not contemplation either because it is not thinking at all consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane.
It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is
happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise the traffic in
the head. So many thoughts trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every
direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation.
You ask me, Gautami, ”Is it necessary to go through dream analysis for attaining enlightenment?”
No, not at all. Have you ever heard anybody becoming enlightened through psychoanalysis? Yes, people have
become mad, but nobody has become enlightened.
Psychoanalysis depends on analysis of the mind, and they don’t see anything else in you. The body is taken
care of by the physiologists; then all that remains is a constant traffic in the mind either of thoughts or of dreams,
memories, imagination, desires. The psychoanalyst has nothing else to do: he looks into your dreaming process.
And why does he choose dreams? because if he asks you what you think when you are awake you are never
authentic, you are never sincere. You are so deceptive, so dishonest, that whatever you say about your thinking
is bound to be managed; it is not going to be true. You will say only that which is worth saying and you will
delete many things. You will edit your thoughts. You will not allow the psychoanalyst to look into your thoughts
without any censor, without any editing. You will not allow him the raw material of your thoughts because that
will look like you are insane.
You can try it. Sit in your room, close all the doors so nobody can come in, and start writing whatsoever is
happening in the mind whatsoever it is. Just go on writing for fifteen minutes, then read it and you will be
shocked. This is your mind? All these thoughts are going on in your mind? Are you mad or something? You
can’t show it to anybody.
It is good that people don’t have windows in their heads; otherwise the wife will look through the window in
the head of the husband and she will find everything. She finds everything anyway, window or no window!
The psychoanalyst has to depend on your dreams because in dreams it is very difficult for you to deceive him.
You don’t know yourself what your dreams mean so you have to say them as they are, and he can find a few clues
about you. But this is not going to make you enlightened. This may help you a little bit to become more normal,
but what is normality? Even the people who are normal are not normal they are normally abnormal, that’s all.
So you will be normally abnormal.
There are two kinds of abnormal people in the world: normally abnormal, abnormally abnormal. The work of
the psychoanalyst is to bring abnormally abnormal people to the first category: normally abnormal. He helps you
to adjust with the society, with people, with yourself, but he can’t help you to become enlightened.
You can go on and on analyzing your dreams and you will never come to your witnessing soul through that
analysis. How can you come to the witness by analyzing the dreams? One dream will lead you into another
dream. Maybe you will become a very skillful dreamer, very artful. Maybe you will start dreaming in a better
way, in a more scientific way, but dreams are dreams. They cannot take you to the witness of the dreams which
is your reality.
Al: ”I had a great dream I dreamed I broke the bank at Monte Carlo.”
Charles: ”I had a great dream too I dreamed I was in a room with Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot.”
Al: ”Wow! Bardot and Sophia! Why didn’t you call me?”
Charles: ”I did, but your maid said you were in Monte Carlo!”
You can analyze this dream. What will be the gain? Neither the bank in Monte Carlo nor Sophia Loren or
Bardot nothing is going to be your gain. But the psychoanalyst will analyze it. If you go to the Adlerian, his
emphasis will be on the bank in Monte Carlo: will to power, money, prestige. He will forget all about Sophia
Loren and Bardot; he is not interested that is nothing. If you go to the Freudian he will not think about Monte
Carlo and the bank at all; that is nonessential, accidental. The real thing is Sophia Loren and Bardot.
And if you go to a Jungian, then nobody knows what he will do with your dream. He is so confused! But he will
make much fuss about it, that much is certain. He will create much dust esoteric dust. He may start looking into
your dream and finding things which you would have never suspected some ancient mysteries, maybe Egyptian.
Or he may go even farther back Atlantis. He is really a grave digger. And he goes on finding things which are
not there.
You must have heard the definition of a philosopher. The philosopher is a man who is blind looking in the dark
night, in a dark room, for a black cat which is not there. But Jung finds it there! That’s the beauty of Jung he