feel the river is crushing them, fighting, trying to defeat and be victorious.
The whole is not against you, cannot be -- the whole is your mother. You come from the whole, you will
dissolve in the whole. How can the whole be against YOU? It simply loves you. Whether you go upstream
or downstream, it makes no difference for the whole -- but just because of love the whole cannot flow
upstream.
And remember, if it flows upstream you will start going against it -- because that is not the point. Your
no-saying mind is the point, because the ego gathers strength through no. The more you say no, the more
ego feels powerful; the more you say yes, the more ego drops. That's why it is very difficult to say yes to
anything, even ordinary things.
The child wants to play outside and he asks the father, "can I go and play outside?" "No!" What is the
POINT of it? Why does no come easy? Why is yes difficult? Because when you fight you feel you are.
Otherwise everything fits so beautifully, you cannot feel you are.
If you say yes, you are not there. When a real yes is said, you are absent. How can you feel? You can
feel only AGAINST, and then you feel powerful. No gives you power. And how can no give you power?
Because, saying no, you are cut from the source of all power. It is a false feeling, it is a disease, it is illness.
Say yes, and a transformation starts happening.
Ordinarily you say no unless you have to say yes. Whenever you say yes, you don't feel very good -- as
if defeated, as if helpless. Whenever you say no, you feel good: you are victorious, you have put someone
again in his place, you have said no, you are more powerful. No is violent, no is aggressive. Yes is
prayerful, yes is a prayer.
No need to go to the church and the mosque and the temple -- life is a big enough temple. You simply
start saying yes, and everywhere you will feel prayerful because everywhere the ego will be absent. And
when the ego is not there, the whole suddenly flows in you. You are not closed, you are open. Then new
breeze from the whole comes, a new surge of energy enters you. Then you are renewed moment to moment.
SO THE FIRST THING: the mind substitutes by thinking and dreaming, but it can never become the
real. It remains an imitation. It may look like the real but it is not -- it cannot be. How can a symbol, a
linguistic symbol, be the real?
You are hungry and I go on talking about bread. You are thirsty and I go on talking about water, not
only talking, but I give you the best scientific formula for it. Or I give you the clear cut definition, or I tell
you, "Don't worry, water means H20. You just go on repeating H20, H20... make it a mantra, a
transcendental meditation, a TM: H20, H20, H20. And everything will happen to you -- the thirst will be
gone -- because this is the formula."
H20 may be the formula, but your thirst won't listen to it. This is what is happening all over the world.
Go on repeating AUM, AUM, AUM. Aum is also a formula, just like H20. Because Hindus discovered that
three sounds -- A, U, M -- they are the root sounds, so AUM comprehends all sounds possible. So what is
the need of any other mantra? You simply repeat AUM, AUM, and the whole range of sounds is repeated,
the root. So if you have the root, go on repeating it, soon flowers will follow.
Neither H2O nor AUM nor anything like that will be of much help, because who will repeat? The mind
will repeat. And reality is there surrounding you; there is NO need to repeat about it, no need even to think
about it. You just look, you just open your eyes and see: it is everywhere! It is a miracle how you have
missed it. When you attain it, it is not a miracle.
Remember, I never say that Buddha is a miracle or Sosan is a miracle -- YOU are the miracle! Because
whatsoever they have attained is such a simple thing, it should be attained by everyone. What is there
mysterious to talk about? A Buddha has seen reality, and reality is just in front of you. Why call the
attainment such a big phenomenon, such a great happening? Nothing! It is simple!
The reality is as much before you as before a Buddha or before a buffalo. The miracle is you -- how you
have missed it, and how you go on missing it. Really, you must have devised such a technique, and so [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]