TO ME, YOUR DISCOURSES FEEL LIKE AN INSIDE DEEP CLEANING.
WHATEVER LOAD OF PAIN, ANGER, OR ANY NEGATIVE FEELING I CARRY WITH ME WHEN I COME INTO DISCOURSE,
IT HAS DISAPPEARED WHEN I WALK OUT,
AND I FEEL LIGHT AND REFRESHED.
SOMETIMES, IT DOESN'T TAKE ME LONG TO CREATE ANOTHER ONE,
BUT I KNOW IT IS NOT GOING TO LAST LONGER THAN THE END OF THE NEXT DISCOURSE.
WHEN AWAY FROM YOU, ALTHOUGH I USED TO MEDITATE EVERY DAY,
THINGS WERE TAKING MUCH LONGER TO DISAPPEAR.
CAN YOU COMMENT?
It is the same thing...
Away from me you were trying to meditate,
and that doer was your disturbance.
With me... I am not even telling you to meditate.
I am just talking to you
and creating a certain atmosphere
that meditation happens to you.
So while you are here,
see the difference
between doing and happening.
Alone also, let it happen.
If you become accustomed to my voice,
perhaps you can put
the tape recorder on:
forget about meditation; you just listen and the meditation will come.
And, slowly slowly,
this coming of meditation
can be detached
from listening to me.
You can sit by the side of the sea
and listen to the waves
thrashing on the shore --
so joyfully, so dancingly they come,
and they have been doing that for millennia
and they are not tired yet.
Just listen to them.
Or sitting under a tree,
just listen to the birds,
or the wind blowing through the tree.
And slowly slowly, get rid of listening too.
Just sit silently --
that listening was only a device.
This is only a device
to help you avoid doing.
But the device is only for the beginning;
soon you have to drop the device
and it will be happening anywhere you are,
and it will cleanse you the same way it does here.
And remember one thing:
if it cleanses you,
that does not mean you have to be careless
in collecting the garbage again
because you know in meditation it will be cleaned away.
You are using meditation
for a very small job.
It is not meant for that.
I have heard -- it happened in Burma
after the second world war
-- a small
airplane was left in the forest.
because
the Japanese
were surrendering,
but a few stubborn samurais
still wanted to fight,
so they escaped in an airplane.
They left the airplane in the forest,
and were hiding somewhere in the forest.
But a tribe lived there, a very ancient tribe,
which had seen airplanes in the sky,
but they could not connect both things, that this thing
is the "air bird", as they called it.
But they tried, "What it is?"
It has wheels, so one thing is certain, it is a vehicle.
They used it with two horses
as a
bullock cart.
And it was doing well and they were very happy that "This is great!"
Then somebody who had been to the city, he said,
"You don't know -- this is not a bullock cart,
it is a car.
Just... I don't understand why these wings are there,
but let me try..." And he tried, and it started.
Then they started using it as a car,
and the man suggested, "You will need fuel,
so somebody who goes to city brings fuel.
No horses, no bullocks are needed,
just fill it with fuel and use it as a car."
And they were immensely happy.
Then a man who had been
in the army passed by
and he said, "What are you doing!
You are using a small aircraft as a car?
This can fly."
They could not believe, they said, "Is it air bird?"
He said, "Yes,"
and he was a pilot,
so he showed them how to fly it.
Meditation can be used as a bullock cart --
and that's how you are using it, just cleaning
the rubbish that you accumulate.
But you will accumulate that rubbish every day
and you will have to clean it every day.
But meditation is a sky bird,
and you are using it for something it is not meant for.
It can do that work too.
So when it cleanses your burden,
be careful not to collect it.
What is the need to collect the burden?
-- just unawareness.
And what you collect is all rubbish.
You know it -- that's why,
when through meditation it is cleaned away,
you feel fresh.
So why destroy your freshness?
Don't collect it. And the way is
to be more alert,
to be more meditative, even
while you are doing other things.
It is a great defense,
it won't allow any rubbish to collect.
And slowly slowly, you will be collecting less amount,
and one day you will find,
between two meditations, you have not collected anything.
Now the bullock cart can become a motor car --
and there is a great distance between the two.
Now you don't need the bullocks or the horses to carry it,
and it can go faster.
Now you have speed;
otherwise,
you can do the same thing every day
and you will die the same.
And when there is nothing else to cleanse,
then the meditation, your energy, starts rising up
because there is no work on the ground.
You can take off.
You can become a bird in the inner sky.
Then it will not be only refreshing,
it will be growth.
You will be growing, maturing,
getting more centered,
becoming more individual.
And the higher you will go,
the more and more you will see
new things happening to you --
the spring coming to you
and the grass growing all around.
The whole life becomes
so green, so full of juice.
You have found the way
-- now go on.
There is too much to discover.
It is your own territory you have forgotten, your own empire
that you have forgotten. Remember it.
The remembrance will come also by itself.
So what is happening is good, but not good enough.
Much more
is possible. Don't be satisfied with small things.
Unless you have come to a point
where you feel absolutely contented,
don't stop.
That is the culmination of evolution,
where each individual becomes
a god.