Let go for things to start happening

Let go for things to start happening

Take a dose of awareness and life is so beautiful, it is so utterly glorious, it is such an incredible splendor, that no drug can add anything to it. All that you need is awareness, and life becomes such a beautiful experience that you cannot imagine that there could be anything better. Ordinary life becomes so luminous. The ordinary tree that you have passed your whole life for the first time you see the luminous presence of the tree.

Life is such a gift, and we go on missing it. And the reason is, between us and life there are so many lies crowding. Your awareness will destroy those lies.

Wrong evaporates

If you are going deeper into silence and something disappears — you saw it receding, evaporating into the air — you can be certain it was wrong. The false cannot face you; it has not the guts. It cannot come in front of you, it cannot encounter you. And that which is real, which is good, becomes stronger. It becomes more a part of your actions, of your thoughts, of your being.

Meditator-Meditation

A moment comes in the life of the meditator when his meditation has reached the point where his whole mind is silent and there is not even a fragment of darkness anywhere inside him — all is light. Then whatever that person does is right, and whatever that person does not do is wrong. In that state, one never thinks about what to do. What is right, what is wrong are no longer alternatives. The right becomes spontaneous action, and the wrong simply becomes impossible — even if you want to do it, you cannot.

Higher things HAPPEN BY THEMSELVES

There are things which man can do and there are things which man can only allow to happen.

Bliss belongs to the second category. You cannot do it but you can allow it to happen, you can be available to it, you can be open to it.

All that is needed on your side is a deep trust, receptivity, love, surrender, let go, and then it immediately starts happening. It is never your doing, it can never be your doing. Even when it is happening, if you start doing something about it, it will stop happening.

Bliss and creativity

There are people who have been trying to be blissful without being creative and all have failed. All the monks and the nuns of the world have failed for the simple reason that they were trying something impossible.

They were trying to be blissful without being creative. And being creative is an absolutely necessary part of it, an intrinsic part of bliss. You cannot drop it.

Never compromise

On the circumference people are different, and they should be different, and everybody should maintain his individuality on the circumference. One should never compromise for any reason. Then only can we create a really democratic world. Real democracy means that the mob, the crowd, is no more in control of the individual life.

Democracy is more important than politics
Democracy is less a political phenomenon than a religious phenomenon; it is far more important than politics. Democracy is a totally new vision of life. It has not yet happened anywhere. Democracy means each individual has the right to live according to his light; he should not be prevented. Unless he becomes a disturbance or a nuisance to others he should be allowed every freedom in all the aspects of life. That’s my vision of a really democratic world.

Don’t interfere with anybody’s life
That is how I would like meditators to function: no interference in anybody’s life. Great respect has to be given to the other. But at the centre, everybody is the same. When you meditate you move towards the centre. You are universal there, not individual. And you have to be both: individual and universal. And you have to be very flexible and fluid between these two. A person should be capable of living on the circumference and at the centre easily. He should be able to move from the marketplace to the meditative space and vice versa — playfully, easily, spontaneously.

You are stranger to yourself
From the very childhood, in every sphere of your life you are told not to come in conflict — be polite. In other words, always manage some compromise. But when there are so many compromises — politically, socially — you become a stranger to yourself. You have so many masks, you lose contact with your original face. And a mask cannot enjoy, it is dead. It cannot laugh, it cannot love. Only the original face is capable of understanding the language of the universe. Love is the language. Dance is the expression of your gratitude.

Be easy, not lazy
My whole teaching is: take everything with absolute relaxation, with ease. Whether you are doing something or not, you must be overflowing with energy even when you are not doing anything. These trees are not doing anything, but they are overflowing with energy. You can see that in their flowers, in their colours, in their greenery, in their freshness, in their absolute naked beauty in the sunlight, in the dark night under the stars.