Januari 21, 2017
in giving away the control you got it you got the kind of control you wanted that's to say where you had a loving relationship to the world but you didn't have to make up your mind what it should do you let it decide now do you see that's how your body's work you don't have to make up your mind what your nerve cells are going to do you
delegated all that authority if the president the united states has to lay awake at night thinking what every official under is good man is going to do he can't be president he's got to make an act of trust in all those subordinates to be responsible and carry on their things in just the same way as you make an act of trust to all your
subordinate organs to carry on their functions without you having to tell them what to do and this is the secret of what we will call organic power as distinct from political power loud sigh puts it in this way the great dhow slows everywhere both of the left and to the right it loves and nourishes all things but does not load it over them and when
merits are accomplished it lays no claim to them the more therefore you relinquish power trust others the more powerful you become but in such a way that instead of having to lie awake nights controlling everything you do it beautifully by trusting the job to everyone else and they carry it on for you so you can go to sleep at night
still nervous system to wake you up in the morning you can even tell it i want to wake up at six o'clock and it will wake you up there's like an alarm clock it seems a sort of paradox to say this but the principle of unity of coming to a sense of of oneness with the whole of the rest of the universe is not to try to obtain power over the rest of the
universe that will only disturb it and antagonize it and make it seem less one with you than ever the way to become one with the universe is to trust it as another as you would another and say let's see what you're going to do but in doing that you see in saying that to everything else that you have been taught to think is not you you are also
saying it yourself because finally as i pointed out you do not know where your decisions come from they pop up like hiccups and when you make a decision people have a great deal of anxiety about making decisions who's this guy who were farmer who ordered a help it man come in and family was an extraordinarily efficient worker was the
first day he put him on sawing logs and he saw more logs than anybody had ever saw it was fantastic but we were all done in one day so the next day putting on put him on to mending fences and there are all kinds of broken fences on the farm in one day he has the whole thing done so if off what am i going to do this guy so he took him down into a
basement and said look here all out all the potatoes that have come in from this harvest and i want you to sort them into three groups those that we sell those we use the seating and those that we throw away so he left him that at the end of the day the laborer came back and said well that's enough mr. i quit so he said you can't quit i've never had such
an excellent weather i'll raise your salary i'll do anything to keep you around it hi edna alright mending fences and chopping wood but this potato business is decision out the decision about the decision obviously so when we decide we're always worrying did i think this over long enough did i take enough data into consideration and if you think
it through you'll find you never could take enough data into consideration the data for a decision in any given situation is infinite so what you do is you go through the motions of thinking out what you will do about this and then when the time comes to act you make a snap judgment i mean i'm speaking a little extremely making some fun of it
and so on because after all we do occasionally get the vague outlines of things that make a right decision on rational grounds but we fortunately forget the variables that could have interfered with this coming out right it's amazing half and it works that warriors are people who think of all the variables beyond their control and what
might happen so then when you make a decision and it works out all right i think there is love it has much to do with your conscious intent and control but somehow or other you are able to decide and control things more harmoniously if you delegate authority it's like very great businessman others who can delegate
authority trust others to work for them because those are people developing businesses on the same basic structure that is fundamental to a living organism delegation of authority it loves and nourishes all things but does not load it over them and you see then the what is happening is this the more you let go of it and trust it as if it were quite
other than you the more you realize being set identity of self and other to go back if you try to find the identity of self and other by subjecting other to self no go if on the other hand you find it through giving self that is control over to other and trusting that you may make a mistake you may make a bad gamble but in
the long run you are acting on a principle which has the backing of evolution this is the way biological evolution goes on constant delegation of authority while obviously the democracy is superior to the monarchy mr. tocqueville is said that democracy is always right but for the wrong reasons because there is operating in a
democracy the principle that buckminster fuller called synergy synergy is the intelligence of a highly complex system the nature of which is always unknown to the individual members because that goes back again to this point yep we're always entering a new environment we don't ever know fully what the new environment is because the early
environments we know the past ones there is always been operating in the development of cellular life on any level a new way of organization higher than any existing form and we are not aware of it until after it's happened if you to solve for example the film contiki this man figured out a few things as to
how to make a balsa wood raft to sail from south america to the pacific islands but once he had set this in motion he discovered that all sorts of unexpected factors cooperated with him that when the wood got wet it expanded so that the ties bit into it and held it completely secure he had never expected that and he found that as he sailed
along a flying fish would simply a light flat on the deck every morning for breakfast that all kinds of natural factors it was he that he had touched the key where he was flowing with the course of nature and everything cooperated with me because he attached the key he'd made the act of fate and he was just picking up in other words of
practice which had been hundreds and hundreds of years ago and then followed by others who have worked it out by their great ecological awareness so we do come out of this way of thinking to something which has i would say the most enormously creative and revolutionary social consequences that it has become not virtual not self-sacrificing and not
anything like that it has become the hardest practical politics to let go control to others to give up trying to dominate the scene also in a parallel way it has become at this time in our history very much hard practical politics to learn how to enjoy ourselves you can go to the protestant people with their protestant ethic who
are against this kind of thing and now say to them greatly it is your solemn duty to learn how to enjoy yourself why because in an age of leisure people have really got to know how to enjoy themselves because if they don't they'll smash the whole future of the human race so you a utopia has become not summer sort of a dream but an urgent necessity
we can't do without it because if we try to do without it what's going to happen is that we are going to terminate our race in a mutual massacre of scapegoats and so the present paranoia in the united states that is going on where everybody is thinking up a new scapegoat and how great it will be to demolish them or get them out of power or all
this kind of bickering and right and left politics has become irrelevant because we now have the opportunity of casting our own intelligence our own technology to take the risk of doing what we want which will up to the extent that we realize that what i want basically what i really want is what you want and i don't know what
you surprise me but that's my that's the kinship between iron bow so when i ask i go right down to the question should we start with what do i want the answer is i don't know when bodhidharma was asked who are you which is another form of the same question he said i don't know planting flowers to which the butterflies come bodhidharma says i know
not i don't know what i'm when you don't know what you want to really reach the state of desire lessness when you really don't know could you see there's a beginning stage of not knowing and there's an ending stage if not know in the beginning stage you don't know what you want because you haven't thought about it or you've only thought
superficially then when you somebody forces you to think about it and go through and say yeah i think i'd like this i think i like that i think i'd like the other as a little stage then you get beyond that say is that what i really want in the end you say no i don't can catch it i might be satisfied with it for a while and i wouldn't turn
my nose up at it but it's not really what i want why don't you really know what you want two reasons that you don't really know what you want number one you have it number two you don't know yourself because you never can the godhead is never an object of its own knowledge just as a knife doesn't cut itself fire doesn't burn itself
light doesn't illuminate self it's always an endless mystery to itself i don't know and this i don't know who uttered in the infinite interior of the spirit this i don't know is the same thing as i love i let go i don't try to force or control it's the same thing as humility can sell the upanishads say if you think that you understand problem
you do not understand and you have yet to be instructed further if you know that you do not understand then you truly understand for the brahman is unknown to those who know it unknown to those who know it not and the principle is that anytime you as it were voluntarily let up control in other words cease to cling to yourself you
have an access of power because you're wasting energy all the time in self-defense trying to manage things trying to force things to conform to your will the moment you stop doing that that wasted energy is available therefore you are in that sense having that energy available you are one with the divine principle you have the energy
when you're trying however to act as if you were god that is to say you don't trust anybody and you're the dictator and you have to keep everybody in line you lose the divine and because what you're doing is simply defending yourself so then the prince to boil is the more you'll give it away the more it comes back now you say i
don't have the courage to give it away i'm afraid and you can only overcome that by realizing you better give it away because there's no we're holding on to it the meaning of the fact you see that everything is dissolving constantly that we're all falling apart we're all in the process of constant depth and that the world we hope men said they're
half the pond turn to ashes or it prospers would like snow upon the deserts dusty face lighting a little our two is dong and all that omar khayyam jazz you know the cloud-capped towers the gorgeous palaces the great globe itself i all which it inherit shall dissolve like this insubstantial pageant faded leave not a rack behind all
falling apart everything is that's the great assistance to you see that that fact that everything is in decay is your helper that is allowing you that you don't have to let go because there's nothing to hold on to it's achieved for you in other words by the process of nature so once you see that you just don't have a prayer and it's all washed
up and that you will vanish and leave not a rack behind and you really get with that suddenly you find you have the power this enormous access of energy but it's not power that came to you because you grabbed it came in entirely the opposite way and father comes to you in that opposite way its power with which you can be trusted of course what we've
been talking about is not so much a set of ideas as an experience or shall we say experiencing and this kind of seminar in comparison with the encounter groups or workshops of various kinds or experiments in sensory awareness is now being called a conceptual seminar although i'm not talking about concepts but the crucial
question arises that an understanding a real feeling understanding of the polar relationship between the individual in the world is something that operates as we say in your bones and isn't just a view that you hold or a belief that you hold it's so curious that the emphasis of the western tradition in religion is primarily upon right belief do you
believe in the right dogmas on the right doctrines and only secondarily upon right action because what you believe is in christianity at any rate are more important than what you do because one is saved through faith not by works and early in its history the christian church rejected the movement in the church which had been known as canasta
scizzum from the greek kenosis which means knowledge and in a way there were some sound reasons for doing so because the gymnastics were what i would call anti materialists they divided human beings into three classes that were called respectively pneumatic psychic and hylick last one being h y el i see from the greek highly or they
would call it now delay ely meaning would so the people were spiritual psychological and wooden and that is to say the wooden people were those most absorbed in materiality and most closely identified with their bodies and orthodox christianity we rejected this sort of distinction because of the perfect to correct idea that material
existence is not inconsistent with spirituality this is something which most christians of forgotten but they do believe as the central principle of christianity and what's called the incarnation that in the jesus of nazareth almighty god did in fact become material become human and by this process initiated a transformation of
the cosmos in the words of saint athanasius god became man that man might become god and you don't hear that from the pulpit very often the christian it's therefore emphasized justice or faith as against kenosis or knowledge because they said you can never know god god could never become an object of knowledge and in this funny roundabout
way the christian theologians were saying exactly the same thing as the hindus only the hindus do call this knowledge of god through faith they calling jnana which is the same as the greek word gnosis just to give you a little side light on how words get mixed up in their meanings we now have a class of person called an agnostic and an
agnostic generally means a person who doesn't commit himself to any beliefs about the ultimate nature of things he just says he doesn't know but the original word agnosia in greek meant a special kind of knowledge it was called the dark knowledge of god the knowledge of god in the cloud of unknowing to use the title of a mystical treatise written
by an anonymous 14th century english month this month derived his ideas from a very mysterious figure who wrote under the name of dionysus the areopagus dionysus was a fifth or sixth century syrian monk who had learned his mysticism from potpourri who got it from plotinus who was a neo-platonists and who probably got a great deal of
stimulation from the intellectual world of alexandria and alexandria in the early years of the christian era was a tremendous exchange place between east and west buddhists months visited alexandria it was one of the great centers of trade between rome and india and as you may know or rome's gold eventually went to india for the
purchase of pepper and as a result of this the roman economy collapsed they bought too much luxury from india india in exchange got roman architecture and you'll see a lot of roman architecture in indian temples but alexandria was the great center for the gnostics and for christian theology and some of the greatest theologians clement origin
athanasius st. cyril all worked out of alexandria are now going back to this strange month dionysus it was he who first put around the idea in christian circles that there was such a thing of the knowledge as knowledge of god by faith by agnosia really by unknowing and he in a book which he wrote very short book called the theologian mystica he
wrote a treatise on the higher knowledge of god which might be quoted directly from the upanishads in certain parts of it the last section of it reads like the mandal kill punisher because it's a series of negations it says what god is not and he goes very far because he says that god is not one this is our idea of unity for far short of
god is so does our idea of trinity so does our idea of spirit our idea of mind of justice of love all these things are not really god and he says in another place if anybody having seen god understood what he had seen what he would have seen would not have been god but some creature of god less than god some sort of angel or something like
that it's perfectly amazing to consider the influence that this man had for writing under the name of dionysus the areopagus he became identified you see with some paul's first convert in athens and legend has it that he was the first bishop of athens and was martyred in gaul now where he's known as some dennis but some thomas aquinas looked upon the
writings of dionysus the areopagus as having the highest authority and you could if all the texts of dionysus his work had been dust you could restore most of it from quotations and some thomas he wrote really two very important books one was the 1i said the theologian mistica the other was called the design names and these two books
presented the two phases of his theology the book called the design names was a discussion on the nature of god in terms of what god is like my analogy and this kind of knowledge of god he called katha phatak from the greek see me to speak or say kutta meaning to say according to that is to say to speak by analogy where he used though entirely negative
language about god this sort of discourse was called a pathetic and the word a po meaning away from to talk away from just as a sculptor when he makes an image reveals the image by removing stone and so darn isis explained that one attains the knowledge of god by discarding concepts which is exactly what the
hindus mean when they say of god one can only say neti neti not this not this not any conception class in hindu philosophy the highest state of consciousness in samadhi is called nirav occulta samadhi which means literally non-conceptual the calpro means a concept near is a negation so the non conceptual knowledge now people have greatly misunderstood
this they have imagined that unknowing the state of the highest contemplation was the acquisition of a blank mind from which you first discarded thought you went on to discard perception he went on to discard any kind of sensory content in awareness until you were so far as anyone could say aware of nothing and they supposed that this kind of
catatonic state was mystical consciousness this is often believed in india if you go to the vedanta society and asked what you mean by nearly kalpa samadhi they will tell you that the one in that state has no consciousness whatsoever of the sensory world that he's completely absorbed as you sometimes see into holy men sitting in a
state where they are blind and deaf to everything going on around them the founder of chinese then known as way none describe people like that as no better than pieces of rock and lumps of wood is that is a very serious mistake indeed to confuse sunyata the sanskrit word for the great void which is both the ultimate reality and the
consciousness thereof it is a great mistake to confuse it with nothing it is rather to be thought of as space or like space because space is not empty it contains the whole universe and so in the same way the state of mind of a person who is truly enlightened is not empty it contains everything but like space it is not stained by what it
contains and it's often said enzian imagery you can't hammer a nail into space you can't spit on the sky and soil it if you try the spit will just return and hit your own face so they go on to say the consciousness in all of us your basic mind is like space it is completely pure but of course by purity they don't mean unsexual which is of
course what purity generally means in the western world blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god person is pure in heart has generally understood as one who never has any naughty thoughts you know what not he means means vain negative empty and naughty person therefore as one who doesn't amount to
anything this is nothing that's the real meaning but our this misunderstanding of the nature of contemplation assisted not only in india from which it was transmitted to china but also in the west you read many treatises on western mysticism and we're still feeling that getting into a deep deep trance sometimes called rapture again the word
rapture has undergone some transformations we talk about raptures people being beside themselves with pleasure but to be wrapped means to be taken away from the body so also ecstasy we now interpreters meaning in a state of high pleasure but it means to be outside yourself to stand outside yourself your soul has left you it is
with god as arabs say of all crazy people be kind to them they're not here they're soulless with god but actually if it can be true as buddhists say that nirvana and samsara are one and if it can be true as christians say that the spirits can be made flesh the word could be made flesh then obviously the highest form of man is not fitting in a trance
like a lump on a log with a perfectly blank mind because if that were the highest state of consciousness it would be an exclusive state of mind a state of mind that shuts out life and in that sense it could not qualify for being what the hindus call non-dualistic they always speak of the highest reality as being not one because one exclude many
not nothing look nothing excludes something not being because being excludes non-being and vice versa he says i use this word non-dual to mean that which doesn't exclude anything which has it were has no outside as we say space has no outside you can only have outside inside space you can't have any outside outside
space there is no outside space even though space may be curved and finite so if you want to think incidentally about curved space go and take a look at photograph in the life a book on mathematics where there's a picture of a klein bottle which is a three-dimensional mobius strip or maybe a strip you know as a piece of paper
that is twisted once and then joined and it has only one side and only one edge our klein bottle is a three-dimensional mobius strip and it only has one inside it has no outside you can say it has an inside and no outside though it has an outside of know inside it's a fabulous little little tricks but there's something like that would be the nature
of space as that which does indeed current transcend the opposites mmm not quite now we'd have to do one extra move on a serpent to make it into a klein bottle you'd have to tuck its head through the in through the side of its skin and make the aperture through the mouth continuous with the inside of the serpent towards the tail you see that's
more or less what i bottle so what i'm getting too i'm giving you something out of the general history of religions to show that what has been meant by the mystical state the state of samadhi or awakening in certain traditions is not this state of plant by the state of consciousness in which you've been perfectly well carry
on your daily affairs and of course what is meant by a bodhisattva as the ideal type of the buddhist person is that he is not wrapped that he is actively engaged in the life of the world because he has gone beyond the illusion that nirvana is to be found away from everyday life so what is them the point of meditation why meditate why do you
have to crawl up into a hole or go to a zen monastery or retire and be quiet when this is only a withdrawal is there anything to be said for it so meditation is in there in that sense as a practice as a discipline is a very curious problem because from one point of view it to help and from another point of view a hindrance and i think we have to
understand first of all that meditation exercises are medicinal rather than dietary the same could be said of lsd a medicine not a diet something that is described in zen as when you want to open the door or summon someone to open the door for you you pick up a brick and you're knock on the door but you don't carry the brick into the house when you
need a raft for crossing a stream you cross the stream on the raft but you leave the rack on the banks at the other side you don't go carrying it around but a lot of people when they get into meditation or they get into religion or into any kind of exploration of this sort turn the door into a revolving door and keep on going round and round and
round and never get through they say what a gas it is to be in this revolving door then it'd be a good definition of a parasite is the person who goes through a revolving door on someone else's push so there are all sorts of people in the religious racket who are going through revolving doors and they're very bitter about people who
walk right through leave the door behind because they say well you haven't paid enough respect you must really understand religious one-upmanship it's a tremendously important thing and don't be caught out by this because what happens is there's a little game going on which i'm going to initiate you and it's played in them which is it works
like this if you go to a teacher and ask for the spiritual instruction or even if you come to a seminar like this you are by doing that confusing yourself because you are looking for what you're asking for outside as if someone else could give it to you because if you didn't have it so the teacher knows that as long as you do that you haven't
understood it but it he doesn't just tell you to go away we may sometimes if they go away i'm too busy and i'm any in any case i can't tell you anything well people won't take that for an answer they won't take no for an answer answer the more if he just said go away they would just find some other teacher who would exploit them and maybe keep them
as follows four years and the choir great deal of money by so doing what he does is another thing he tried to give them the put down as if to say you have a great long distance to go yet your attainment is not at all perfect and where are they they're always talking about other sects and other schools and saying well they haven't
really got the point you see so that you keep losing faith in yourself and feeling my goodness i haven't yet attained this thing and that keeps you working not all the time you're being taught doubt it's like someone who's a pickpocket and he's stolen your own watch and is selling it to you but just so long as you can be talked out of
yourself you deserve to be you become very aware of this if you ever do momentarily slip into some sort of a mystical experience you become aware of this tremendous gamesmanship going on and you see it is sort of continuous with there with all sorts of cosmic games that are going on of creatures eating other creatures up and the
creatures that get eaten of course transform themselves into the creatures that eat them and then in turn eat other creatures and that you see the whole hide-and-seek game going on and then you realize very clearly that the state of development that you are in now is no better no worse than anybody else's state because it's like space
again which planet is an ore which star is in the best position well it's all equal they're all in the middle anyone can be considered as the center one any point on the sphere is the center of the surface of the sphere so you know it they're in the same way everybody in all his behavior whatever he's doing whether we call him from a certain point of view
sick or whether we call in healthy what do we call him good or bad neurotic normal psychotic saying all the manifestations are just like the leaves on the trees and in each being in a unique way is as christians would say manifesting the will of god so there really it from that point of views there is nothing to do to attain buddhahood
nothing at all but you see that's very difficult to understand because a lot of people when they hear that there's nothing to do try to do nothing and you can because you are karma and karma means action you can't do nothing but the thing you're looking for or think you're looking for is what you're doing is what's called you only of course as
we all know we've got ourselves into the idea that oneself is so difficult to see because it's like as i've often said trying to bite your own teeth so look into your own eyes and you can't find it it's always behind it's like your head is from the optical point of view a blank space neither la and light nor dark it's right in the middle of
everything and so one of the great tricks of gurus is to set people looking for their heads there's a famous story of a king in india and ancient times called yards nodata and one morning he woke up and reached out for his mirror brought it over no head he was looking in the wrong side of the mirror you know he was kind of bleary-eyed and had a
hangover so he summoned servants and said he god's i've lost my head find it and they said but your majesty it's there on your shoulders you said he did not i can't cheat in another nobody can show me my head so they were rushing all over the place looking through the head now the trick to that is of course that you are perfectly well aware of your
head and they're not in a form in which you expect to be aware of it you expect to be aware of your own head in the same way as you're aware of other people's heads but that wouldn't be true of you because you've got an inside view on your head you have an outside view on about the people's heads because of course you're taking an inside point of
view but the way in which you are aware of your head is in terms of what you are seeing and hearing because all sites and all sounds are what the nerves inside your head are doing that's how to be aware of one's head you are aware therefore of yourself the mysterious self that you have in terms of experience because there isn't really
any difference but that always escapes people you see so perpetually so long as you don't understand that you can be talked into going on to all kinds of weird excursions and just so long as you believe it you're a sucker you're hooked and it takes a tremendous inner confidence and nerve finally to say i
mean it don't pull that stunt on me anymore i i see through your game and because lulu is a very clever at putting you down but they're just trying to see how strong you are testing you out see if they could good link you so long as they can you see they're going to go on doing it because we go to get you to the point but they can't do it you anymore
then they have graduate and so one of rims eyes students after he saw it said well it wasn't much in rins eyes buddhism after all across the woman he said boldly and straight out my teaching is just like using an empty sis to deceive a child you know when you play games with the child and pretend you've got something here the child goes into
all kinds of tizzy to get you to open your hand and show what it is and then there's nothing fool see you so you can be fooled as long as you can be food but you can't be fooled you don't ask the question anymore because it's all become clear it's all become clear that there is no puzzle about this universe what makes you think the rapunzel without
this universe very simple reason you're trying to explain it and when you explain things what you would what do you mean by explanation there are several meanings of explanation there's really one basic meaning but first of all to be able to translate what is happening in terms of words or numbers in other words to
describe but a real explanation is not just the description it's the description which enables us to control what we are describing but didn't we see in the last session not to control the world is not really what we want to do so that if all explanations have as their function enabling us to control things then maybe an explanation isn't
what we wanted and furthermore you can very simply see that what makes things complicated is explaining and somebody explains to you how a flower works and is a great botanist and analyzes all the innards of the flower and shows the channels the fibers the processes of reproduction and so on that go on in it everybody stands fascinated it's how
complicated that it how clever god must have been to create that flower to have all that complexity going little complicated at all it's only complicated when you start thinking about because the vehicle of words is a very clumsy one and when you try to talk about the processes of nature what is complicated is not the processes of nature but
trying to put them into words that's as complicated as trying to drink up the ocean with a fork take forever and so this intense complexity that we see in everything is created by our attempt to analyse it all and so what we you see when we analyze we use our eyes and ears as scout rules and we dissect everything and we have to put a label on
every piece we chopped off and so we scalpel eyes and we get it right down to adams getting financed einem we suddenly thought what we've got to the end of it because the word adam means what is not cuttable i promise but anytime we could cut the atom and lo and behold big threes have fleas upon their backs to buy them and it goes on forever there is
no end to the my newton asst which you can unveil your physical investigation for the simple reason that the investigation itself is what is chopping things into pieces and the sharp are you can sharpen your knife the finer you can cut it and the knife of the intellect is very sharp indeed and the sophisticated instruments that we can now make that
was probably the limit to it but in a way all that is vain knowledge in a way because you see it what it does is it gives you the illusion but you've solved your problems when you have control certain things and you have solved certain properties practical problems you say fine more of that please let's go on solving problems and then you do
you create a world of people as we are today far more comfortable than people who lived in the 19th century just remember the troubles of going to a dentist winging the children for some of you when you were children of medicine of badly heated homes of all sorts of things that we don't put up with any more but the problem is we keep running
into this thing all constant stimulations of consciousness become unconscious and when we take it as a matter of course to have certain comforts then we switch the level on which we worry when you solve a whole set of problems people find new ones to worry about and after a while you will begin to get that haven't we
been here before feeling aren't we just going round on a cycle and doing the same old thing over and over and over again because we don't realize that we're tape chasing our own tails by an eternally recurrent process of not knowing who you are that is the hide-and-seek that is the nature of what the hindus call the non mon ventura and
the pro liar the period of the man ventura in which the worlds are manifested and the period of the pro liar in which the world are withdrawn from manifestation in and out in and out evermore came out by the same door as in i went the thing is to get to the point where you can see that you are doing that in every moment of your existence
with every tiny little atom of your body you now at this minute to see are the whole the whole system are leaning and having in other words you often think perhaps maybe a long long time ahead i shall reach the point where i wake up from manifestation and overcome the world illusion and discover that i am the supreme reality behind all this
diversification my friends there is no diversification in other words what you call diversification is your game in the same way as you chop the thing and then you say it is made of pieces will you forget that you cut it so when you see the world is complicated than though there are life problems and that you might one
day succeed the hundreds and hundreds of people are running like mad after something that they caught the this success and they have no idea what it is learn exactly the same way the guru is keeping you running and running out the spiritual attainment you don't know what you want to wear krishnamurti said level because he says if you ask me for
enlightenment how can you ask me to enlighten if you don't know what it is how do you know you want it is it any concept you have of it will be simply a way of trying to perpetuate the situation you're already in if you think you know what you're going out for all you're doing is you're seeking the past what you already know what you've
already experienced therefore that's not it is it because you say you're looking for something quite new but what do you mean new what's your conception of something news clan figure i can only think about it in terms of something old something i once had so he doesn't say anything he doesn't indicate anything positively everybody says why you so
negative why don't you give us something to hang on to well see simple answer is it would be spurious you don't need anything to hang on to your it it will be the religion but then you say well well what religious stuff about them why don't we just forget it you can try by all means let's go away don't go to gurus don't go
to church don't enter philosophical discussions forget it but then you'll realize that by having consented to forget it you're still seeking what a trap what can you do you see if you explain here and listen to me or to anyone else who comes around here you're fooling yourself but if you go away you're fooling yourself too because you
still think that's going to improve your situation it won't and therefore when you discover that it doesn't you think well maybe it was a mistake to go away and you come back to the guru and he looks at you and says you are very undisciplined very very inferior student and you you need to apply yourself well as i explained i explained what he's
doing but it comes down in a way to a sort of contest with a guru you see will you call his bluff you're afraid to because you might discover if you do call this bloody is no better than you are that's what you're supposed to find out but without being cynical about it these as divine as you are but you've got to call
the bluff there's going to be a showdown and it's a double bind the whole situation is a double bind because doesn't do any good to stay here it doesn't do any good to go away either to do something about it ought to do nothing about it now then there's something else when you understand that and when you realize that it's not agree
lies but it's all here hey then what are you gonna do well of course this is the sense of resent i'm supernatural activity and marvelous power drawing water carrying fuel no do whatever one does as a human being there's a little element of philistine ism than that it's like when a child is pestering father or mother with all sorts of questions they
finally get down with deepest metaphysical problems they say oh shut up at each of them and i wouldn't say that you see at this point because life as one looks at it you see is in fact the celebration of itself when you look out at night at the stars and you really want a good god what is all that about well it's a firework display and its
celebrating high holy day as would be and the whole world is whoopee it's a kind of exuberance now for the proper function and religion is digging this it's not sinking it's not seeking anything but is in a way thanksgiving that's why of course the christians were right and calling the mass see the eucharist the thanksgiving
only they had such a complicated way of thinking about it and nobody can understand it so they're in in religion or religious exercises whether they are meditating or whether they are ritualistic ah whoopee they are not something you do in order to attain anything they are like art forms like dancing they are expressive of
attainment of the attained lesser tainment so here's another hand up for you when you go through mr. suzuki who runs the vent center he's a good disciple of dog em who brought them a certain school of zen to japan in the 13th century yogen said you can't sit and meditate unless you're already a buddha in which case why meditate or
meditation is just the way of buddhist trips and he called this sitting justice if not to attain enlightenment the minute you do that you see you're not meditating so you only become a good meditator if you're not looking for anything and therefore you realize what a great thing it is to be able to sit and what a great thing it is not to
dissect the world with your analytical intellect to be able to look out with the water or the trees or the floor the light on it in front of you without calling it light or flaw or trees or thinking that it has parts or thinking that it's complicated it isn't so when you can sit without thinking not with an empty mind mind you i'm going back to
that point not with an empty mind but just among a non analytic mind the non probing mind where you're not creating problems all the time i try to control it by trying to control your mind by trying to control your experience what you see in here you then just simply discover that there is no way of controlling what
you're experiencing because what you're experiencing is you and to try and really fundamentally control that this is going around the circle so if i would say to you now what you have to learn is to let it happen that's wrong too there's no one to let it happen if i say to you except your experience be calm and open to think that again perpetuates
the illusion that you're something different from so we go round and round but if there are some people who want to get together and like we would get together to play poker or to have a walk go fishing or save a boat if there are some people who want to get together to meditate and to have rituals and to charmed great it's an art form and you
can only use it and make it a good art form if you're not using it to get something and this is what really is the bane of temples all over the world going to buddhist temples where they theoretically don't believe in any god but there are the people praying and they are all doing it in order that we get a male child next time around or
that the horse recover from the disease or the mama gets cured of the dropsy and all your petitions are going on and on and on people always coming to the temple to ask for something low brow people for low brow zings eyebrow people for high brow things and they're all the vendors sit outside and sell souvenirs and magic and charms and all the people
go in and do this and all these serious priests sitting there really having to keep up face and say yes we can provide these services on the other hand if you go in to one of these temples along with all the faithful followers i have a ball bye bye abby buy a candle by a display that bicep implants go in these is great
thing going on salute the buddha's or the crystal causes or the crucifixes or what you will don't take it too and this is one of the great important transformations of today in our consciousness is that a great many people are finding out that religion is not supposed to be taken seriously this is a shocking thing too many people
those used to be an old saying that a religion is dead when the priests laughs across the altars that's true in one sense when the police know that they've got a racket going they don't believe one word of it and they're laughing across the author because of all these suckers around doing it then it's true the religion is dead but when the priest
laugh at the older because they're having such fun because this whole scene is so beautiful well it's the difference between some stuffy old buddhist priest humming of sutra and allen ginsberg chanting a suit that's the thing to hear other things again no they got the interminable move before they are sick of it but they get paid for it this is
magical when i'm ginsburg tompa suture everybody gets massage when you get these little bells get going it's just like it it's like a jam session where everybody is absolutely delighted well that's the way to do it and if you can't do it that way forget it
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