Everything changes night into day, day into night, dreams into thoughts, thoughts into dreams only one thing remains eternally there – your witnessing. In the night you see dreams in the day you see things, the world. Sometimes you dream with open eyes and sometimes you dream with closed eyes, but one thing remains eternally there, never changing, and that is your consciousness. In the night the dreams of the day are forgotten, in the day the dreams of the night are forgotten. In the night you see one type of dream, in the day you see another type of dream. Whatsoever you see is illusory the seer is not illusory. SEE life, don’t think about it.Īll is an illusion except the witness. Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, don’t think about life because they say: You can go on thinking and thinking about and about, and you will go round and round and you will never reach to the center. A Confucian approach is a mental approach. And we are going to go into it very slowly, trying to understand each sentence in it, each word actually. This has to be understood-then the parable is of tremendous importance. Intellect is not a bridge., but a barrier. Life has to be lived existentially and not intellectually. Once you start intellectualizing about life, you start going astray. A man who is trying to figure it out is bound to fall into a tremendous trap and will not be able to come out of it easily. When you approach life through the head, and only through the head, it is a part approach misunderstanding is bound to be there. It is bigger than you can ever know, but it can be felt.
It is bigger than your capacity for learning. Life has to give you more than you can learn. Life is more than can be understood by the mind. I am not for those people who have been teaching you to kill your senses they are against the body. Use all your senses, use them at their optimum, then you will really live and your life will be aflame it will not be dull, it will be aflame with energy and vitality. And so, exactly like the taste, you have to look at beauty and enjoy you have to listen to music and enjoy you have to touch the rocks and leaves and human beings – the warmth, the texture – and enjoy. Eat well, taste well the taste is divine. When you are healthy the tongue is sensitive alive, throbbing, pulsates with energy. But that is not a state of health the tongue becomes dull only in illness. They are against taste, they would like you to make your tongue absolutely dull so you don’t taste anything.
Your so-called’ religions’ have tried to de-sensitize you, to make you dull. To be sensitive is to be intelligent, to be sensitive is to be alive. I am not against taste because I am not against the senses. That ’yes’ transforms, transforms totally. When you drop all beliefs and disbeliefs and you are immediate, in contact with life, a trust arises, a great ’yes’ arises in your being. Tao is neither a belief nor disbelief but the dropping of all beliefs and disbeliefs. The stronger the belief, the greater the barrier. Trust is immediate, direct, in life it is not about life. Then arises a totally new kind of trust – trust in life. Tao is the dropping of all belief systems. It does not say ’ Belief.’ That’s what other religions do. The first thing: ’Can one believe in Tao.?’ Tao does not depend on belief. They move in different dimensions they reach the same goal, but they move in different directions.ĬAN ONE BELIEVE IN TAO, NOT INTERFERING WITH OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES, ACCEPTING WHAT IS NOW, AND BY PROFESSION BE A PSYCHOTHERAPIST? WHAT, OR HOW, IS A TAO WAY OF DOING THERAPY? It is from Poonam. These two paths have to be understood as clearly as possible because much will depend on it you will have to choose someday or other. Krishnamurti – they follow the path of the ’no’. Lao Tzu, Buddha, Nagarjuna – they followed the path of negation. The other path is VIA NEGATIVA, through negation, through the ’no’. In modern times, Gurdjieff, Ramakrishna-they followed the path of affirmation, VIA AFFIRMATIVA. The path of affirmation seems the path of effort, the great effort: one is trying to reach God, one has to make all the effort that is possible, one has to do the utmost, one has to put oneself at stake. Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna-they have followed the path of affirmation. Thew first path is VIA AFFIRMATIVA, the positive path, the ‘yes-sayers’ path, The path of the devotee. But man can approach through two ways towards this truth.
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