Chapter 12 11. Appropriate questions

The entire history of human thought, so to speak, is a history of constant questions.The right question to ask is where human intelligence is present. Do not ask theoretical questions.For theoretical questions.Theory solves less and messes up more.If there were no theory, there would be far fewer problems.It is not theory that solves problems or problems.On the contrary, the problems of theory are generated by theory. Don't ask philosophical questions either. Philosophical questions only seem to be asking people, but they are not indirect.So they have been impossible to have an answer.If a problem is really a problem.It can answer.but.If it's fake, just a linguistic confusion, then it's unanswerable.How many centuries.Philosophy is constantly answering.However, the problem remains the same.No matter how you answer a philosophical question.You didn't answer right.Because the question itself is bogus.It shouldn't be answered at all.This question is inherently impossible to have an answer.

Don't ask metaphysical questions either.for example.If you ask: who created this world.That is unanswerable.That's ridiculous.It's not that metaphysical questions aren't real questions, it's that they are unanswerable.They can be resolved, but they cannot be answered. Ask those personal, private, existential questions.One has to be aware of what exactly one is asking, does it make sense to you?If it is answered.Will a new dimension open up to you?What does your presence add.Will your being be transformed through it in some sense?Only such questions are religious questions.

Religion is about problems, not problems.Questions may come from mere curiosity, but problems are personal and personal.You are wrapped in it; it is you.The problem is separate from you; the trouble is you.So, before asking questions, dig deep within yourself, ask about private, personal things, things that confuse you, things that concern you directly.Only then can you be helped. Are our lives preordained? This is not a personal problem it is a philosophical one. Our lives are both pre-ordained and not pre-ordained.It is neither.Both answers are true for all questions about life. in a sense.Everything is predetermined.All your material and spiritual activities are predetermined.However, you have something that is always uncertain and unpredictable.That thing is your awareness.

If you identify with your physical body, your physical existence, then you love the same degree of karmic certainty.Then you are a machine.However, if you do not identify with your physical existence.Whether physical or mental -- if you can feel that you are separate and different from the body, that you are different from the body, that I can feel that you are beyond the body, that you are beyond the body -- then this awareness of the transcendence is not preordained.It is natural and free.Awareness means freedom; matter means slavery.So, it depends on how you define yourself.If you say I'm just flesh then everything about you is totally pre-destined.A man who says that man is only flesh cannot say that man is not predestined.In general, people who don't believe in such a thing as awareness don't believe in predestination either.Those who are religious and believe in awareness usually believe in predestination.So what I say may seem quite contradictory.However, this is the case.One who knows awareness also knows freedom.So, only a spiritual person can say that there is no predestination at all.This realization comes only when you are totally disidentified with the body.Freedom is impossible if you feel that you are a physical being.With matter, freedom is impossible.Matter means that which cannot be free.It must flow in a continuum of cause and effect.As soon as one attains awareness, attains beginning, one completes the realm of cause and effect.He becomes unpredictable.You can't say anything about him.He starts living in every moment; his being becomes subtle.Your existence is like a continuous river.Every step of it is determined by the past.Your future isn't really the future; it's just a by-product of the past.It is simply the past that defines, shapes, formulates, and conditions your future.That's why your future is predictable.Skinner said that people are as predictable as anything else.The only difficulty is that we haven't figured out any way to know all about his past.Once we can know his past, we can know everything about him.Based on the people he's studied, Skinner is right that in the end it's all predictable.He had experimented with hundreds, and he found that they were all biological machines, and that there was nothing in them that could be called free.But his research is limited.Unconscious people have been to his laboratory to do his research. As long as there is a free person, as long as there is a non-mechanical and unpredictable person, Skinner's entire theory will be overthrown.If there is one person in the whole history of mankind who is free and unpredictable, then it is possible for a person to become free and unpredictable.

The whole possibility of freedom depends on whether you emphasize your physicality or your awareness.If you are just an outward flow of life, then everything is certain.Or are you also something within?Don't use any pre-thought-out answers.Do not say. "I am the soul." If you feel like there is nothing in you, then admit it honestly.This honesty will be the first step towards inner freedom. If you go deep within, you will feel that everything is just a part of the outside.Your body comes from the outside, your thoughts come from the outside, and even your self is given to you by others.Therefore, we are always so afraid of other people's opinions, because they completely control your "I", and they can change their opinions of you at any time.Your "I", your body, and your thoughts are all given to you by others, so what is inside? You are a layer of external accumulation. If you agree with your personality that comes from others, then Everything is OK.

Be aware of everything that comes from outside, don't identify with them.In this way, one day the external will completely lose power.You will be immersed in the void.This emptiness is the passage, the door, between the outer and the inner.We are very afraid of emptiness, and we are very afraid of empty space.So we cling to external accumulation.One must have enough courage not to identify with this accumulation, enough courage to remain in the void.If you don't have enough courage, you will go outside and cling to something and be filled with it.Yet that moment of immersion in emptiness is meditation.If you have enough courage, if you can stay in this moment, soon your whole being will automatically turn inward.

Once there is nothing to cling to outside, your being turns inward.Then, for the first time in your life, you know that you are beyond everything you have ever identified with.Now, you are not the same as "becoming"; you are "being" and this "being" is free; nothing can determine it. It is absolute freedom. There cannot be causality. Your behavior is related to your past behavior. A creates for B what it can be; B creates for C what it will be.Your actions are connected to past actions.This connection can be traced back to the beginning without beginning and forward to the end without end.Not only your own behavior will define you, but the behavior of your father and mother and your behavior are also a coherent whole.Your society, your history, everything that has ever happened has something to do with what you are doing now.The whole history blossoms within you.

Everything that has ever happened is connected to your actions.So your behavior is clearly OK.It is a very small part of the whole picture. History is a living force, and your individual actions are only a small part of it. Marx said: It is not consciousness that determines the social environment.It is society and its circumstances that determine consciousness.It is not great people who make great societies.But great societies create great people. "In a sense, he's right because you're not the initiator of your actions. The whole history has set them. You're just finishing them.

The whole process of evolution has already affected the structure of your biological cells.Soon those cells inside you can become part of another person.You may think you are his father.And you just act as a stage for the whole biological evolution to perform and force you to perform.The power of the act of procreation is extremely powerful because it is out of your control; it is the entire process of evolution working through you. This is one way: the occurrence of behavior is related to past behavior.But when one starts, a new phenomenon begins to happen.Actions are no longer connected to past actions.Any action, now, is only related to his awareness.It comes from his awareness, not from his past.So, an enlightened person is unpredictable.

"If we know your past behavior, we can figure out what you're going to do," Skinner said. "He said the old adage 'you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink' is wrong. You can force him to drink. You can create a situation where he has to drink. Horses can Being compelled, you can also be compelled, because your behavior is caused by the situation, by the environment. But even if you can bring an enlightened person to the river, you cannot force him to drink water. The more you force him, the more you The less the goal is achieved. Any heat will not make him drink water. Even if a thousand suns shine on his head, it will not work. The origin of the behavior of a aware person is different. It is different from other behaviors. It doesn't matter; it has to do with awareness.

That's why I always emphasize that you have to be conscious in your actions.That way, whenever you do something, it's not a continuation of something else.you are free.Now.You start to act, and no one can tell what you're going to do. Habits are mechanical; they repeat themselves.The more you repeat, the more efficient you become.Efficiency means that awareness is now no longer needed.If someone is an efficient typist, it means that he needs no effort; typing can be done without awareness.Even if he was thinking about something else, typing would continue.The body is typing; no one is needed.Efficiency means that this thing is lost without any effort.With freedom, effort is always possible.Machines cannot go wrong.To be wrong one has to be aware. So your actions have a continuous relationship with your previous actions.They are certain.Your childhood determines your youth; your youth determines your old age.Your life determines your death; everything is certain.The Buddha often said, "If there is a cause, there is an effect." This is the world of cause and effect, and everything in it is certain. If you act with total awareness, the situation is completely different.In this way everything is moment by moment.Awareness is a torrent; it is not static.It is life itself.So it changes.it is alive.It is constantly expanding: it is constantly being renewed, becoming fresh and young.Then, your behavior will be natural. I remember a Zen story—— A Zen master asked his disciples a special question.The question was answered aptly afterwards.The next day, the master asked the same question to the first floor again.The disciple said, "But I answered that question yesterday." The master said; now I will ask you again. "The disciple repeated the same answer. The master said, "You don't know? " The disciple said, "But I answered the same way yesterday, and you nodded. So I thought the answer was right. Why have you changed your mind now?" The master said: "Anything that can be repeated does not come from you. The answer comes from your memory, not from your awareness. If you really know, the answer will be different, because it has happened. I am not the same person who asked you the question yesterday. The whole environment is different. You are different, but the answer is the same. I have to ask you again, just to see if you repeat The answer. Nothing is repeatable." The more dynamic you are, the less repetitive you will be.Only the dead can last forever.Life is impermanent; life is freedom.Liberty cannot be consistent.With whom?You can only kick past unanimously. A person who speaks is only consistent with his awareness; he is never consistent with his past.He is totally in action.Nothing is reserved; nothing is left out.The next act is over, and his party consciousness has a new look.Whenever and whatever situation arises, awareness will be there, and every act will be in total freedom, as if the person is encountering this particular situation for the first time. So, to your question, I answer both "county" and "no". That's up to you - are you aware, or cumulative, physical beings. Religion 2 brings freedom because religion brings awareness.The more science knows about matter, the more enslaved the world will be.All material phenomena are causal: if you know this condition.That will happen -- then everything can be determined. Before the end of this century, we shall see the whole history of human beings being determined in various ways.The greatest catastrophe that could happen is not nuclear war.It can only destroy.Real disasters will arise from all kinds of psychological sciences.They will learn how a person can be completely controlled.Because we are not aware, others can make us act on a predetermined course. like us.Everything about us is certain.Someone is a Hindu; someone is a Mohammedan.This is predetermined, not free.Parents determine him; society is determining him.Someone is a doctor, someone is an engineer.Now his behavior is certain. We have always been controlled, and our methods are still very primitive.According to the new technology will be able to determine our behavior to the point where no one can say there is a soul.What is the point of the soul if your every reaction is certain? Your response can be determined by the chemical makeup of the flesh.If you are given alcohol, you will behave differently.The chemistry of your physical body is different, so your behavior is also different. .There was a time when the highest tantra technique was to stay sober by taking intoxicating drugs.If a person stays awake when all indications are that he should be unconscious, only then will Tantra say the person is enlightened. Otherwise not. If the chemical makeup of your body can change your consciousness, what is the point of consciousness?If a tube of injection can make you unconscious.So what is the meaning of consciousness?Then the chemical drug in the injection is more powerful than your own consciousness.Tantra says it is possible to remain sober beyond all intoxicating drugs.The stimulus is there but the response is not. Sex is a chemical phenomenon.A certain amount of specific hormone loading will cause libido.You become that desire.Maybe when your physical chemistry returns to normal levels, you'll regret it.However, this regret is meaningless.When the hormones come again, you react the same way again.So Tantra also uses sex as an experiment.If you don't feel sexually motivated in a sexually charged situation, then you are free.The chemistry of your physical body is left far behind.The flesh is there, but you are not in the flesh. Anger is also just chemistry.A biochemist will soon save you from anger, or from lust, but you won't become an enlightened person.An enlightened person is not without the ability to be angry.He can be angry, but the effect of anger is gone. If your physical chemistry is controlled, you lose the ability to be angry.The chemical state makes you feel free from anger, so the effects of anger are gone.Or, if you take your sex hormones out of your physical body, you lose your libido.But the real question isn't whether you're sexually motivated or angry.The real question is how to stay conscious in a situation that makes you unconscious, and how to stay awake in a situation that can only lead to stupor. Whenever this situation occurs.You can meditate, you get a big chance.If you feel jealous, you meditate.This is a good time to meditate.The chemistry of your physical body works inside you.It will make you unconscious; it will make your behavior look the same.Now, to keep the party informed.Let the baby guard there.Don't suppress it, but keep awareness; watch it. If you are angry, watch it; if you are sexual, watch it.Let whatever is going on inside you happen and start to flow with the whole situation.Gradually, your awareness deepens.The less likely it is that Lu's behavior will be determined.You become free.Liberation, freedom means nothing else.It means an awareness that is quite free.Nothing can be sure of it now. What is Divine Love" How does an enlightened person experience love? First let's look at the problem itself.You must have been waiting to ask this question.It can't have just been created; you must have chosen the problem beforehand.It's been waiting for you to ask; it's forcing you to ask. It's your memory that determines creative questioning and not your awareness.If you were aware right then, if you were present, this problem would not arise.If you had been listening to me, you couldn't have had this problem. If the question is already in your head, you cannot hear anything I have to say.Always having a problem in the mind creates a tension, and because of this tension you cannot be here.That is why your consciousness cannot act freely.If you understand this, we can start discussing your problem. The question itself is good, but it is unhealthy for the mind to dwell on it.Awareness has to be there every moment, not only in the act, but in the question, in every gesture.if i lift my finger.That might just be a habit.If so, I am not the master of my body.But if it's a natural expression of something in the present moment of consciousness, that's a whole different story. Every move in a Christian ministry is determined ahead of time.He has learned this trick.I once attended a Christian seminary.Study in this school for five years.A man can become a Doctor of Divinity.absurd!A D.D. is a complete idiot!They are trained in everything: how to stand on the pulpit, how to pray and pray, how to sing hymns, how to look at the audience, where to stop, where to leave a drop or gap.Everything!Such stupid preparations should not happen.That is a great misfortune. So be in the right place.Don't predetermine anything.Be aware of the problem in the body, which keeps breaking the door of your mind.You didn't hear me at all - just because of this question!And when I start talking about your problem, your mind creates another problem.You missed it again.My words are not directed at you alone.It works for everyone. Now for the question. Whenever love exists, it is divine.So saying "divine love" has no meaning. Love is always divine. But the mind is very cunning. It says, "I know what love is."I just don't know what divine love is.But we actually don't even know love.It is one of the least known things.Too much is talked about; it has never been experienced.It's a trick of the mind.We always talk about things we cannot experience. Literature, music, poetry, dance - everything revolves around it.If love is really there.We wouldn't talk about it so loudly.We talk too much about love to show that feelings do not exist.Talking about something that doesn't exist is a substitute.Through talking, through language.Through symbols, through art, we create the illusion that things are there.A man who has never experienced love may write a better love poem than one who has.Because the void of love is deep.It must be filled.There must be something that hosts love and hate. Better to know what the bag is first, because when you ask about divine love, you think you know love.But you don't know love.Love as you know it is something else.Before you can start moving toward real, authentic love, you must recognize false love. Love as you know it is just infatuation.You fall in love with someone.Love dies quickly if that person becomes all yours; but.If there are many obstacles, if you cannot get the one you love, love will be strong.The more obstacles there are, the stronger the love you feel.If you can't get your beloved or lover, your love will become eternal; but if you can easily get your lover, then your love will easily die. When you're trying to get something and can't get it, you're desperately trying to get it.The more difficult it is, the more your ego feels that something has to be done.It becomes a conundrum of ego.The more rejection you get, the more nervous you get -- and the more infatuated you become.You call this tension love.So, as soon as the honeymoon is over, love gets old.Even before that was old.Love as you know it is not like or hate.That is just ego obsession, ego expansion.It is a battle, a war. Ancient human societies were very cunning.They invent all sorts of ways to make love last.If a man cannot look at his wife for long periods of time, infatuation is set; tension is aroused.In this way, a man can stay with his wife for the rest of his life. But now in the West, marriage can no longer be maintained.It's not that Western minds are more sexual, it's that there are no conditions that allow this kind of obsession to accumulate.It is so easy to have sex that marriage cannot exist.In such freedom, love cannot exist.If a society is completely sexually free, then only sex can exist. Disgust is just the other side of infatuation.If you love someone and don't get the beloved, the infatuation deepens, but if you win him.You start to feel bored and bored.There are many dualities: obsession/boredom, love/hate.Attract/repel.Because of infatuation, you feel attraction and love, and because of boredom, you feel repulsion and hate. No attraction can really be love because repulsion is bound to happen.It is the nature of things that things must be reversed.If you don't want the opposite, you have to create barriers so that the obsession can never end; you have to create tension every day.And so the infatuation will continue.That's why the whole primitive system creates obstacles for love. But it won't be long before such a thing can happen again.That's when marriage dies and love dies.It will go deep into the background of consciousness.Only sex will remain.But sex cannot last on its own either; it can become mechanical too.Nietzsche declared God dead.What is really dying in this century is sex.I don't mean that people will become sexless.They have sex, but the overemphasis on sex is gone.Sex will become a normal act, like any other act -- like pissing or eating or anything.That would be pointless.It only makes sense because of those barriers we've built around it. What you call love is not love.It's just continued sex.So what is love?Love has nothing to do with sex.Sex may come into it, it may not, but it's never really about sex.It's completely different from sex. In my opinion, love is a by-product of a meditative mind.It has nothing to do with sex; it has to do with meditation.The more peaceful you become, the more free you become, the more content you become.There will be a new expression of your being number.You will start the script.It's not about loving someone in particular.It might happen to someone special, but that's another story.You start to pass.This love becomes your way of being.It never turns into repulsion because it is not attraction. You must be aware of this distinction.In general, when you fall in love with someone, true love is how to get his affection.It's not you who gave him love.Instead, expect him to give you his love.That's why love always becomes possession.You possess someone so that you can get something from him.But what I call love is neither possession nor any expectation.It is what you do.You have become so peaceful, so loving, that your tranquility begins to spread to others. When you are angry, your anger spreads to others.When you hate, your hate spreads to others.When you love, you feel your love is flowing to others, but you are not trustworthy.You love one minute and hate the next.Hate is not the opposite of love; it is an integral part of love, a continuation of love. If you loved someone, you hated him.You may not be brave enough to admit it, but you will hate him.The two always fight endlessly when they are together.When they're not together, they may sing love songs to each other, but when they're together, they're always fighting.They can't live alone, and they can't live together.The infatuation is sparked when the other person is not around.They feel in love with each other again.But when the other person is around, the infatuation disappears and the hate reappears. What I mean by love is that you have become so peaceful that now there is no anger nor attraction nor repulsion.Actually.Now there is neither love nor hate.You are not pointing at anyone at all.The other has disappeared; you are alone with yourself.In this feeling of aloneness, love comes to you like a fragrance. Asking for love from others is always ugly.Dependence on others, taking something from others always creates bondage, torment, struggle.A man should be sufficient to himself.What I mean by meditation is the state where one is sufficient for oneself.You alone become a circle.Your mandala is complete. You try to complete this mandala with other people man and woman.Women and men.There are times when the two lines meet, but, almost before they meet, the separation begins.Only when you become a perfect circle - complete, sufficient to yourself - will love blossom within you.At that time.whatever comes close to you.You love both.It's not an act at all; it's not what you're doing.Your being, your presence is love.Love flows in your ny. If you're with someone who's reached this state: "Do you love me?" It's hard for him to answer you. He can't say, "I love you." "Because that's not what he does; that's not 'doing'. He can't say it either; I don't love you. Because he loves. He is Min." This love can only come together with the freedom I spoke of earlier.Freedom is what you feel.Love is how other people feel about you.When lightness is happening inside, ou feel that you are completely free.This freedom is an inner feeling; it cannot be felt by others. Sometimes your behavior may make others uncomfortable because they cannot imagine what is going on inside you.In a sense, you will be a nuisance, an inconvenience to them, because they cannot predict you.Now they know nothing about you.what will you do nextwhat will you sayNo one can know.Everyone around you feels some kind of inconvenience.They will never be able to be comfortably with you because now you have the potential to do anything; you are not dead. They cannot feel your freedom because they have never experienced anything like it.They didn't even seek it. They didn't pursue it.Their bondage is so great that they cannot even imagine what freedom is.They are in various cages, and they have not known the open sky, so even if you talk to them about the open sky, you cannot convey your feeling to them.But they can feel your love because they have been asking for love.Even in their cage, in their bondage, they are always seeking love.They have created all bondage -- bondage, bondage -- simply because they seek love. So, once someone is free, his love is felt.However, you will feel that this kind of love is compassion, not love, because there is no passion in it.It is diffuse - no heat, not even warmth.There is no passion in it.It's there, that's all.Passion comes and goes, it cannot last.So, if there is passion in Buddha's love, then Buddha has to go into hate again.So there's no passion there.There are no peaks and no valleys.Love is just there.You will feel that it is karuna - compassion. You cannot feel his freedom from the outside; you can only feel his love.And that too is just compassion.This is one of the most troubling phenomena in human history.An enlightened person's freedom brings inconvenience, and their love is compassion.So society's attitude towards these people is always divided. Some people feel that one Christ will only bring trouble.The social status of these people is secure.They don't need mercy.They think they have love, health, wealth, honor, everything, and as soon as Christ comes, those "owners" will turn against him because he will inconvenience them.At the same time those "without" will support him, because they will feel his mercy.They need love.No one understands them, and this one loves them.They don't find Christ bothersome because they have nothing to worry about, nothing to lose. When a Christ dies, everyone will feel His mercy, because now there is no trouble.Even those with status feel comfortable.They will adore him.But when he was alive, he was a rebel.Because he is free, he is a rebel. He's not a rebel because society has problems.This rebellion is only political.If the society changes, that who was originally rebellious will become orthodox. But a Christ is always rebellious.No circumstances suppressed his rebellion, for his dogma was against no one.That is because his awareness is free.Wherever he is hindered, he feels rebellious.This rebellion was in his soul.So, if Jesus came here today, Christians would not feel comfortable with him.They're part of the authority now; they've settled down.If Jesus came to the marketplace again.He would destroy everything they had.With Jesus, there can be no Vatican, no church.It is only possible in the absence of Jesus. Every enlightened teacher is rebellious, but the traditions associated with them are never rebellious.Tradition has always had nothing to do with his rebellion or his freedom, but only with his compassion and love.But in doing so, it becomes very powerless.Love cannot exist without freedom, without rebellion. You cannot be loving like Buddha unless you are free like him.A Buddhist monk is just trying to be compassionate.His compassion has no strength because he has no freedom.Freedom is the root of compassion.Mahavira is compassionate, but a Jain monk is not compassionate at all.He is just acting compassionately without violence; he is not really compassionate.He is very cunning.Even in his compassion, in his expression of mercy, he is cunning.He has no mercy because he has no freedom. Whenever freedom occurs in human consciousness.He will feel freedom from within, while others will feel love from without.This kind of love, this kind of compassion, means neither love nor hate exists.The whole duality is absent; there is neither attraction nor repulsion. So, if you're with a free and loving person, it's up to you to take away his love.It doesn't depend on how much love he can give you back; it depends on how much love you can take away.In general, love depends on the person giving it.He may give you love; he may not.But what I call love does not depend on the giver.He is totally open and He is giving every moment.His love flows even when no one is by his side. It is only like a flower in the desert.Perhaps no one knows that it is open and is stimulating its fragrance, but it will still emit its fragrance.它不是在散发给任何人；它只是在激发。花开了，于是芳香四溢。是否有人经过没有关系。如果有人经过而且十分敏感或许会闻到它。但是，如果他完全是死的、迟钝的，他甚至可能不会发觉那里有一朵花。 当爱在那里的时候，它取决于你是否能用接收它。只有当爱不在那里的时候，别人才能给你或者不给。有爱，有慈悲，就没有神圣和不神圣的区别。爱就是是神圣的。上帝就是爱。