“If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.”
"The point here is awakening, right? The point is not to learn how to suppress yourself so that you feel better. It’s how to wake up to the reality of your being, and we wake up to the reality of our being by relating with our human nature, not by avoiding it. Not by going around it. Not by trying to pray it away or mantra it away or meditate it away. We wake up by letting everything within ourselves reveal itself, be felt, be experienced, be known. Then and only then can we move on to a deeper level. This is very, very important and it’s something that a lot of people don’t understand. It’s easy to use meditative techniques to suppress our human experiences, to suppress things that we don’t want to feel. But what is called for is just the opposite. True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself."
“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”
I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you
can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by
being a simple witness of your thought processes.
It is simply
sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just
witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you
judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good,
this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.
It
takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind.
Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not
the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.
And this process
of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become
more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing.
You are, but the mind is utterly empty.
That’s the moment of
enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an
unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
“Your heart has answers that you cannot get from anywhere else. Only your heart knows what is right for you, what is good for you, and what is best for you. Ask in your own heart about those things for which there seem to be no answer.”
