Blocking Out The Cause: My Position

I am relaxed.You should now be relaxed. Be Jesus, be Buddha, be Krishna, but never be yourself. Everybody is playing some part, knowing perfectly well that this is not what he or she is supposed to be. From tomorrow, I'm going to keep the promise I've given to myself. If your ideal is being a person with popularity and power, visualize images of that such as having an entourage of people around you, giving a speech before an audience of thousands, or arriving at a gala opening as the press snaps photos of your arrival. So only the essential is to be done. The mind lives in the no, it is a no-sayer; its nourishment comes from saying no to each and every thing. My definition of religion is to be in tune with nature. The key point is that once you increase your creativity, you can apply it to be more innovative in anything you want to do.This method will get you thinking about new uses for things. Whatever he said, people would start laughing—even if he was saying something beautiful and true. I am saying, whatsoever you are, unconditionally accept it—and acceptance is the key to transformation. If one has to choose between the head and the heart, one should choose the heart, because all the beautiful values of life belong to the heart. Remember that death cannot destroy you, fire cannot burn you, weapons cannot penetrate you. The fellow by your side was crying! He would say, The whole hall was crying. Of course, they say one thing in front of you and they say something else, just the opposite, behind your back. That night he had a beautiful dream—beautiful and very revealing. Feeling sad—dance, or go and stand under the shower and see sadness disappearing from your body as the body heat disappears. Every few weeks he'd send his wife a wire saying, Can't come home, still buying. Notice what comes up. Only one thing is missing from the animals, and that is that they don't have saints and moralists, Christian and Hindu and Mohammedan. You are seated in a large, comfortable chair in front of a small table. Workplaces, too, used to be more interactive. You can pray to God, but you will pray so depressingly that you will even make God depressed through your prayers! Don't do that violence to poor God. This is the illogic of life! If you want to be authentically true, then you will have to risk. If you are one hundred percent a watcher, then there is no mind—no sadness, no anger, no jealousy—just a clarity, a silence, a benediction. Their own unconscious, repressed unconscious, exploded. He has not become committed to it forever, it was a momentary flare-up, a ripple. That gives you a trembling. I said to him, There you go—you are being logical, and life is not logical. Slowly, you become aware of the vicious circle; slowly, you become capable of getting out of it, too. It will disappear; nothing is permanent in this world. But it only appears paradoxical; it is not. Now that they have them, they have the implications, too. And there are rich people who have everything but are absolutely poor and hollow and empty. A trained professional will help you be successful in this lifesaving quest. Now you know the secret, and the same secret has just to be applied to different objects. This feeling is so strong it comes always like thousands of wild horses running. They have become such an automatic part of my life that I use them without thinking about them. The man who controls is judgmental, continuously condemning: This is wrong. Half of you goes toward the other and half of you is pulling you back. You have been told that the Buddha is cool, detached, far away. The mind is not your friend. But you can depend on the fact that he will not carry these things forever. But remember, you cannot fight death. Its ways are very irrational. You will feel ridiculous, foolish—but anger is ridiculous; you cannot do anything about it. But in an organism, if you take the members apart, something dies. If all their illnesses disappear and they are completely whole and healthy, there will be nothing for them to talk about. Death is the disappearance of a false entity in you, the ego. But it is easier to reach to the being from the heart than from the head. But if you sit together in front of the same laptop or a TV, watching a favorite show and chatting about it as it plays, that may count as quality time. You can charge your energy using the power of your mind alone—and that's a much healthier way to go. I come and go, the whole remains. That's why humanity has stopped the functioning of feeling: because when you become sensitive to pleasure, you also become sensitive to pain. You will find in the monastery immense misery, dullness, deadness, and you will see in the eyes of your monks stupidity and nothing else. People are right when they say, When you laugh, the whole world laughs with you. Once it happened that with closed eyes I was in my boat meditating on the beautiful night. No woman is made for a certain man, and no man is made for a certain woman. If there is jealousy, if there is possessiveness, if there is anger, this is how the mind works—everybody's mind more or less; the differences are only of degree. Without a firm sense of self, you can easily agree with them and tear yourself down rather than viewing any criticism objectively as an opinion about your behavior rather than a critique of yourself. What number flashes into your mind?Where is this feeling located? You are still desiring transformation. It is a trick to destroy you, it is a trick to weaken you. While working, be in the conscious mind; be alert, be calculative. But love is not like that, poetry is not like that; they come from the unconscious. It's very common for parent-figures to project their own unresolved traumas onto their children. Sometimes it happens that on the surface you are one thing and potentially you are another. He presented the flowers and the ice cream, and then I entered. The way I walk, the way I look at myself when taking a shower, the way I feel in my body—everything seems so different to me that I can barely recognize it! Does the body follow the mind, and is my mind being influenced by my heart? Everybody is watching what the other person is doing, what the other person is wearing, how he looks—that is the most superficial watching. The trees exist, the animals exist, the birds exist, but they cannot do anything about their existence; they are part of it. Nan-In laughed and said, This poor fellow, if he could drop these small fictitious things, he would have already become a buddha. If you don't have a pet right now, I hope you'll consider adopting one that suits your lifestyle, volunteering at an animal shelter, or spending time with one that belongs to a friend or neighbor. There are no different mechanisms; it is only one organic mechanism. The night is so beautiful, and the moon is full! Don't listen to the mind. In fact, stop right now and spend a minute asking yourself, What makes me feel hopeful? For instance, if you have seen someone give an impressive speech, imagine yourself giving a talk using the same approach. Have the drawing materials readily available. You suddenly remember a dog you had in your childhood and how much you had loved that dog, and then the dog died, and how you suffered. In anger, you feel a little better. Can you say something about how guilt and fear are related? The head is the mechanism for doubt; the head is constantly a question mark. Right now, and for centuries, just the opposite has been happening: the servant has become the master. And we will do everything for each other, but we are not going to be jailers to each other. The homeostatic impulse regulates our physiological functions from breathing to body temperature to heartbeat. Visualization helped her feel fully prepared and full of confidence for the real thing. Move there and just be a silent onlooker. Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher. You have to be utterly nonjudgmental. Because with this depression you cannot smile, you can only pretend. Write down ideas or images as they come to mind. The beyond is neither positive nor negative: the beyond is godliness, the beyond is enlightenment. Why in fear does trembling arise? That is safer; nobody comes to know about it. Certainly there are times it is prudent to be cautious and to make sure the opportunity is a valid one, but other times too much due diligence can hold you back when all other signs are telling you to go. And if you can manage watchfulness, nothing else is needed. Deep down he knows that he is not the role he is playing; he is somebody else. From nowhere! If he doesn't believe in God, then he will say, From nowhere! This decision has bubbled up in me. Never be negative, negatives lead nowhere. You can do this wherever you are—waiting in line, on a bus, in an airplane, or wherever.