Do you ever see the abundance and richness of existence? The existence in which we live is rich and abundant in every way: One seed has the capability to make the whole earth green; infact the whole universe green. The sky carries the uncountable stars, one tree can give no. of fruits and one person smile can make thousand of other people smile.
There are three layers in our existence. One is thinking; deeper than that is feeling; deeper than that is being. Thinking is the most superficial; being, the most profound. And
Between the two is feeling.
There are religions which are thinking-oriented- they create theologies. They create great philosophies, they invent proofs for God – as if God needs proofs, as if God can be proved or disproved.
A quiet mind without any thought, without any seed of desire. Don't be scared. The desire is alive, it is always there, running bright like a flame. But, it comes and it goes. And therefore, I say it is non-existent. I donot identify with it. It is just simply like watching a wave go up and go down without any involvement. Watching it passively.
Man is like a dewdrop. Existence is like the ocean, and we are trying to keep ourselves separate from it. This is the root cause of our misery. Only one thing is needed: jump into the ocean so the dewdrop disappears. It does not really disappear; it only loses its small boundaries. It becomes oceanic, it becomes the ocean itself. But in a sense it disappears. You cannot find it anymore. It loses its old identity, its old nameplate and its old address. It has become part of such vastness that there is no way to find it, it cannot stand out. That is the fear.
Mind is a beautiful instrument. It is the cause of all our happiness and cause of all our miseries. We think that we are mind, we are thoughts, but that is not true. Just as we cannot say that we are our bodies, we are also not our mind. Mind is an instrument in our hand.
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, nor is it the outcome of a long painful practice and discipline, but it is awareness, from moment to moment, of every thought and feeling as it arises in relationship. Relationship is not on an abstract, ideological level but an actuality—the relationship with property, with people, and with ideas. Relationship implies existence and, as nothing can live in isolation, to be is to be related.
I was meditating once and suddenly, the thought occurred to me why not talk to money. And then there I was. I saw a coin before me and I felt it to be an ethereal being who could talk to me. I said, "Hello" and it said in an arrogant voice, "Hi". That was quite of a shock as I didn't expect it to be arrogant. And my thoughts went blank upon hearing it. And it was not possible to hold back and reply back in a rude manner, “You talk arrogantly dear".
Sex is a problem because it would seem that in that act there is complete absence of the self. In that moment you are happy, because there is the cessation of self-consciousness, of the “me”; and desiring more of it—more of the abnegation of the self in which there is complete happiness, without the past or the future?demanding that complete happiness through full fusion, integration, naturally it becomes all-important. Isn't that so? Because it is something that gives me unadulterated joy, complete self-forgetfulness, I want more and more of it. Now, why do I want more of it? Because, everywhere else I am in conflict, everywhere else, at all the different levels of existence, there is the strengthening of the self. Economically, socially, religiously, there is the constant thickening of self-consciousness, which is conflict. After all, you are self-conscious only when there is conflict. Self-consciousness is in its very nature the result of conflict. . . .
From Original Essays and Shadowless Poetry<br>
Warrior Prince Siddharta Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, experientially confirmed that there is no separate self, no existential other. All phenomena are inseparably ONE with the egoless nonmaterial energy, the unconditioned primordial ONEness, that contains and sustains all existence, including itself.
Reciprocally emergent entities create energetic image events which are stored and holographically reconstructed in the transcendent thought-wave matrix that emerges reciprocally within unconditioned Pure Consciousness, thus conditionally relative phenomena remain inseparably ONE with uncreated absolute Pure Being.
When there is love, there is no effort. No effort to prove or disprove. No intention to convey, though the love may seek expression, but the expression is limited to self. Other
may be involved or may not be involved.
Why? Since, when mind is not there. There is no division and no two individuals exits.
Only one exists. And therefore, love. And this is the peak of love. To transcend mind and thoughts and reach where duality ceases. Two has become one. To reach to this stage needs lot of practice. It can happen accidentally, but again when the mind becomes active, when thoughts become active. The dual has come. You have become different from the other. And hence, no matter what communication you use, love has stopped.