The Alpha and the Omega - Kabir Kadre.Com

four o!clock he jumped out of the bed and said,
"Whatsoever happens, I must go. This man may
have something; his eyes say that he has something.
Looks a little crazy, but still I must go and see what
can happen."
So he reached, and Bodhidharma was sitting with
his big staff. He said, "So you have come? Where is
your mind? Have you brought it or not?"
The emperor said, "You talk nonsense. When I am
here my mind is here, and it is not something
which I can forget somewhere. It is in me." So
Bodhidharma said, "Okay. So the first thing is
decided # that the mind is within you." The
emperor said, "Okay, the mind is within me."
Bodhidharma said, "Now close your eyes and find
out where it is. And if you can find out where it is,
immediately indicate to me. I will put it at peace."
So the emperor closed his eyes, tried and tried,
looked and looked. The more he looked, the more
he became aware there is no mind, mind is an
activity. It is not something there so you can
pinpoint it. But the moment he realized that it is
not something, then the absurdity of his quest
became exposed to himself. If it is not something,
nothing can be done about it. If it is an activity,
then don!t do the activity; that!s all. If it is like
walking, don!t walk.
He opened his eyes. He bowed down to
Bodhidharma and said, "There is no mind to be
found." Bodhidharma said, "Then I have put it at
peace. And whenever you feel that you are uneasy,
just look within, where that uneasiness is." The
very look is anti-mind, because look is not a
thinking. And if you look intensely your whole
energy becomes a look, and the same energy
becomes movement and thinking.
YOGA IS TH E CESS ATION OF MIN D.
This is Patanjali!s definition. When there is no
mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are
not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if
the mind goes on functioning, if you go on
thinking, you are not in yoga. Yoga is the state of
no-mind. If you can be without the mind without
doing any posture, you have become a perfect yogi.
It has happened to many without doing any
postures, and it has not happened to many who
have been doing postures for many lives.
Because the basic thing to be understood is: when
the activity of thinking is not there, you are there;
when the activity of the mind is not there, when
thoughts have disappeared, they are just like
clouds, when they have disappeared, your being,
just like the sky, is uncovered. It is always there #
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