Chapter 5 third morning

May 12, 1974 to be miserable or ecstatic Beloved Master, You once told us a story about an old man who was over 100 years old. One day, at his birthday party, someone asked him why he was always happy. He replied: Every morning when I wake up, I can choose to be happy or not, and I always choose to be happy. Why do we usually choose to be unhappy? Why do we not feel aware of that choice? This is one of the most complex problems of human beings, it has to be considered deeply, it is not theoretical, it concerns you. Everyone is doing it - always choosing the wrong, always choosing the sad, the depressed, the painful, it must have a deep reason, it does.

First thing: the way a person is brought up plays a very decisive role.If you act unhappy, you can get something out of it, you always gain something; if you act happy, you always lose something. From the very beginning, an alert child will feel the difference.Whenever he is unhappy, everyone sympathizes with him, he can get sympathy, everyone tries to love him, he can get love; what's more, whenever he is unhappy, everyone pays attention to him , he gets attention, attention is the food of the ego, it is an obsessive stimulant, it gives you energy, you feel like you are someone, and therefore have so many needs and so many desires To get noticed.

If everyone pays attention to you, you become important, if no one pays attention to you, you feel as if you are not there, you cease to exist, you are a non-entity.When people look at you and care about you, that gives you energy. The self exists in the relationship between people.The more people pay attention to you, the more ego you get; if no one pays attention to you, the ego disappears.How can the ego exist if everyone forgets you completely?How can you feel your presence?Hence the need for societies, associations, or clubs.Clubs exist all over the world - Rotary, Lions, etc. - and there are countless clubs and societies.These societies and clubs exist only to give some attention to those who could not otherwise get it.

It is difficult to become the president of a country, it is difficult to become the chairman of a company, but it is easier to become the president of a Lions club.And a certain group will give you attention and make you feel important - even though you're not doing anything!Lions or Rotary clubs, they're not doing anything at all, but they still feel like they're important.The chairman has been changing, this year is this one, and next year another, so everyone can get attention, this is a mutual agreement, so that everyone feels that they are important. From the very beginning, children learn politics, and that politics is: Look miserable, and you'll get sympathy, and everybody's paying attention to you; Look sick, and you'll be Very important.A sick child can become very authoritarian, the whole family has to listen to him, whatever he says is the rule.

When he is happy, no one listens to him; when he is healthy, no one cares about him; when he is perfect, no one pays attention to him.From the very beginning, we choose the painful, sad, pessimistic, dark side of life, and this is one reason. Second, one thing related to this is: whenever you are happy, whenever you are happy, whenever you feel ecstatic, blissful, everybody is jealous of you.Jealousy means everyone is hostile, no one is friendly at that time, everyone becomes an enemy, so you learn not to be too happy, lest people become hostile to you, you learn not to be Your joy, don't laugh.

Watch when people laugh, they don't laugh too much, they don't laugh out loud, their laughter doesn't come from the deepest part of their being.First they look at you, then they judge...then they laugh, and they laugh up to a certain point, up to a point you can bear, up to a point where you don't get offended, up to a point where no one feels level of jealousy. Even our laughter is political, so real laughter disappears and people become completely ignorant of bliss. To be ecstatic is almost impossible because it is not allowed.If you are miserable, no one will think you are crazy; if you are ecstatic and dancing, everyone will think you are crazy.Dancing is rejected, singing is not accepted; in a happy man we think there is something wrong.

What kind of society is this?If someone is miserable, everything is all right, he becomes a good fit, because the whole society is more or less miserable, he is a member, he belongs to us; if someone becomes ecstatic, we Just think he's crazy, he doesn't belong to us, we feel jealous. Because of jealousy, we condemn him; because of jealousy, we try every means to bring him back to the old state, which we call "normal."A psychoanalyst or psychotherapist will help you and bring you back to the normal state of suffering. In the west, the whole society is against psychedelics, the government, the laws, the jurists, the high courts, the legislators, the priests and the pope, everyone is against it, they're not really against psychedelics, they're against people's ecstasy , they're not against alcohol, they're not against other drugs, but they're against psychedelics, because psychedelics create chemical changes in you so that the old The hard shell, in other words, the hard shell that imprisoned you in pain, may break, there may be a breakthrough.You may come out of it - even for a few moments - and become ecstatic.

Society cannot allow ecstasy, ecstasy is the greatest revolution, and I repeat: ecstasy is the greatest revolution.If people become ecstatic, the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are joyful, you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or Egypt, or Israel.No, a joyous person will laugh and say; this is ridiculous! If people are blissful, you cannot make them attached to money, they will not waste their whole life just accumulating money, it will look like madness to them -- a person destroys His whole life, just exchanging his life for dead money, people are already dying and accumulating money, and when he dies, that money will stay, it's utter madness!Unless you are ecstatic.Otherwise you can't see the madness.

If people are ecstatic, the whole pattern of this society will have to change.This society lives on pain.Pain is a big investment in this society, so when we raise young children from the beginning, we predispose them to pain, and that's why they always choose pain. In the morning everyone has a choice not only in the morning but in fact every moment there is a choice to be miserable or to be happy and you always choose to be miserable because there is a Investing there, you always choose to be miserable, because it has become a habit, a pattern, you have been doing it all the time, you have done it well, it has become a fixed track

42, when your mind has to choose, it immediately flows to pain. Pain seems to be going downhill, ecstasy seems to be going uphill.Ecstasy looks hard to come by, but it is not, it is quite the opposite: ecstasy is downhill, misery is uphill.Suffering is a difficult thing to achieve, but you have achieved it, you have made the impossible, because suffering is so unnatural.No one wants pain, but everyone is miserable. Society has done a great job, education, culture, cultural institutions, parents and teachers, they have done a great job, they have made some miserable scumbags from the masterpiece of a very ecstatic creator.Every child is born in ecstasy, every child is born a god, but every person dies a madman.

Unless you recover, unless you reclaim your innocence, you cannot become what I call a white cloud.This is the whole work you have to do, this is the whole training you have to do -- how to restore the innocence of the child again.If you can become a child again, there will be no misery. I'm not saying that little children don't have moments of pain, they can have moments of pain, but still no pain, try to understand that. A child may be miserable, he may be unhappy, very intensely unhappy at a certain moment.But he is so total in that unhappiness, he is so one with that unhappiness, completely inseparable.The child is not separated from unhappiness, the child does not look at that unhappiness dividedly.When the child is unhappy, he is the unhappiness, he is very much involved in it.When you become one with unhappiness, unhappiness is not unhappiness, if you become very one with it, even that has its own beauty. So, pay attention to a child, I mean a child who is not polluted.If he is angry, his whole energy becomes that anger, nothing is left, nothing is retained, he becomes completely that anger, no one is manipulating or controlling him, no mind is involved.The child has become angry -- not that he is angry, but he has become that anger. Then you can see the beauty, the flowering of that anger.A child never looks ugly, even in anger he looks beautiful, he just looks stronger, more alive, more alive, like a volcano ready to erupt.Such a small child, such a large energy, such a person who is like an atomic bomb, will almost explode along with the entire universe. After this anger the child becomes very peaceful; after this anger the child becomes very peaceful; after this anger the child becomes relaxed. You may think it is painful to be in that pain, but The child is not suffering, he is enjoying it. If you are one with anything, you become bliss; if you are separated from anything, even if it is happiness, you become misery. So here's the key: being apart as one self is the root of all suffering.Be one with whatever life brings you, and flow with it, be in it so intensely and so completely that you no longer exist, you disappear...then everything is bliss. The choice is there, but you have become unaware of the choice, you keep choosing the wrong one, it has become a dead habit, you choose it automatically, so it seems As if there was no choice. Be a little more alert, every moment, when you are choosing to be miserable, remember: it is your choice.Even this reminder will help, this alert to say this is my choice, I am responsible, this is what I am doing to myself, this is what I do, and you will feel a difference immediately, mind The quality will change and you will become easier to move towards happiness. Once you know say it's your choice then the whole thing will become a game, then if you like to be miserable, be miserable, but remember, it's your choice, don't complain, nothing else Man must be responsible for it.It's your play, if you want it like this, if you want it in a painful way, if you want to experience life in pain, then it's your choice, your game, it's you playing, Then you play it better! But if this is the case, don’t ask others how to be free from pain, that’s absurd, and don’t ask the master how to become happy.The so-called master exists because you are stupid.You create pain, and then you ask someone how to get rid of it.You will go on creating pain because you are not aware of what you are doing. Just from this moment, try, try to be happy and joyful. I'm going to tell you about one of the deepest laws of life that you may never have thought about.You have heard that the whole of science is based on the law of cause and effect, which is the basis of science.You create the cause and the effect follows, life is a causal link, you put the seed in the soil and it germinates.If there is a reason, then the tree will grow.The fire is there, you put your hand in it, it will be burned, and if there is a cause, the effect will follow.You take the poison and you die; you arrange the cause and the effect follows. Causality is the inner connection of all life processes, which is one of the most basic scientific laws, but religion knows a second law, which is deeper than this law of causality.But if you experiment with it without knowing it, this deeper second law will look ridiculous. Religion says: Create the effect and the cause will follow.This is scientifically absolutely absurd.Science says: If there is a cause, the effect will follow.And religion says the reverse is also true: you create the effect and then see... the cause will follow. There is a situation where you will feel happy.A friend comes, a lover calls you, that situation is the cause, and then you feel happy, happiness is the effect, and the coming of the lover is the cause.Religion says: Be happy and the lover will come.Create the effect and the cause will follow.My experience is: the second law is more fundamental than the first.I've been doing it and it's been happening, just be happy and lovers will come; just be happy and you'll have friends; just be happy and everything will follow . Jesus said the same thing in different words: You seek the Kingdom of God first, and all the rest will follow.But the Kingdom of God is the end, the fruit.Find the end first - the end is the effect - and then the cause will follow, that's what it will be. It's not just that you plant a seed in the soil and trees follow.Let the trees exist first, and then there will be countless seeds.If the cause is followed by the effect, the effect will be followed by the cause. This is a chain!Then it becomes a cycle, you can start from any point, whether you create the cause first or the effect first... I will tell you that it is easier to create an effect, because that effect is entirely dependent on you; the cause may not be so dependent on you.If I say that I can only be happy when a certain friend is around, you must depend on that friend; if I say that I cannot be happy until I have acquired so much wealth, then it It just depends on the whole world, depends on the economic situation, and everything else.It may not happen, then I cannot be happy. The cause is beyond me, but the effect is within me.The cause is all around, in every situation, the cause is external, and the effect is me!If I can create the effect, the cause will follow. Choose happiness - that means you are choosing fruition - and see what happens; choose ecstasy and see what happens; choose to be blissful and see what happens.Your whole life will change immediately, and you will see miracles happening around you, because now you have created the effect, so the cause must follow. This will look like magic, you might even call it "the law of magic".The first is the law of science, and the second is the law of magic.Religion is magic, you can be that magician, that's what I have taught you: be that magician and know the mysteries of magic. try it!You have been trying another all your life, not only this one, but many others, now listen to me!Try this magic formula, try this mantra that I give you: create the effects and see what happens... The causes will surround you immediately and they will follow.Don't wait for the cause, you have waited long enough, choose to be happy and you will be happy. Where is the problem?Why can't you choose?Why can't you operate with this law? -- because of your mind, because of your whole brain, which has been trained to think scientifically.It says that if you are not happy and you try to be happy, then that happiness is artificial; That's what scientific thinking says -- that won't be real, you're just acting. But you don't know, the life energy has its own way of working, and if you act fully, it will become real, the only thing to note is that the performer has to be absent.Get into it completely, then there will be no difference.If you only do it with half your heart, then it will remain artificial. If I tell you to dance and sing and be blissful and you try with half your heart just to see what happens and you're still stuck...and you go on thinking: this is man-made, I tried, but it didn't happen, it's not gray haired...then it will remain an act, a waste of time. If you try, try with all your heart, don't stay behind, go all into it, become the acting -- the actor disappears into the acting, and see what happens, it will become real, and then you will feel It is spontaneous, you are not doing it - you will know it happened, but unless you are total it cannot be.Create the fruit, fully commit to it, and see the result. I can make you a king instead of a kingdom, but you have to behave like a king, and you act so completely that even a real king looks before you as if he is only acting.When all energy is put into it, it becomes real!Energy makes everything real.If you wait for kingdoms, they will never come. Even for a Napoleon or Alexander with a big kingdom, they never come.They remain miserable because they do not understand the second law - the more fundamental, primordial law of life.Alexander tried to create a bigger kingdom, to become a bigger king.His whole life was wasted creating the kingdom, leaving no time for him to be king, and he died before the kingdom was complete. It happened to so many people that the kingdom was never possible.The world is infinite, your kingdom must remain only partial, how can you be a complete king with only a partial kingdom?Your kingdom must be limited. With a limited kingdom, how can you become a king? It is impossible. But you can be a king...just create the fruit. Male disciple Rom, he is the mystic of this century, he went to America, he used to call himself "King Rom", when in fact he was a beggar!Someone told him: You are just a beggar, but you keep calling yourself a king.So Nanmu said: Don't look at my things, look at me.He is right, because if you look at things, everyone is a beggar, even the king is a beggar, he may be a bigger beggar, that's all.When Nanmu said: Watch me!At that moment, Nam was the king, and maybe you saw that the king was there. Create fruit, become a king, become a magician, start from this very moment, because there is no need to wait.If the kingdom has to come first, then one has to wait; if the cause has to be created first, then one has to wait.Wait, wait, delay, but to create there is no need to wait, you can be king in this very moment. When I say: Go!Just be king and behold, the kingdom will follow. I know this from experience. I am not talking to you about a theory or a doctrine.Be happy, and in that pinnacle of happiness you will see the whole world happy with you. There is an old saying; when you cry, you are the only one crying, and when you laugh, the whole world laughs with you.If you can create the fruit and become ecstatic, even the trees, the stones, the sand and the clouds dance with you, and then the whole existence becomes a dance, a celebration. But it depends on you -- on whether you can create the fruit.I'm going to tell you that you can create it, it's the easiest thing to do.It looks hard because you haven't tried it yet, give it a try! goose is outside Beloved Master, we heard what you said, but in the west, we are used to keep information in our heads. How do you get out of your head?What method can we use?Can willpower help us? No, willpower cannot help you.In fact, willpower is not a force at all, because will depends on the ego, it is a very small phenomenon, it cannot create much power.When you are willless, you are powerful, because then you are one with the whole. Deep down, willpower is an inability.To hide the fact of our impotence, we create willpower, we create the opposite to deceive ourselves and others. People who feel stupid try to appear smart.They are constantly aware that they are stupid, so they do everything they can to make them look smart.Ugly people, or people who think they are ugly, are always trying to beautify themselves—even if it's a painted beauty, just a face, or a mask.Vulnerable people are always trying to look strong.The opposite was created, and that was the only way to keep the truth inside. A Hitler was a weak man, so he created a lot of willpower around him just to hide that fact.A really strong man will not be aware that he is strong, that his power flows, exists, but he will not even be aware of it. Lao Tzu says that a truly virtuous person never knows that he is virtuous; a truly virtuous person never becomes aware that he is virtuous.A man who is aware that he is virtuous, that immorality is hidden deep within him; a man who thinks he is good, that he is holy, that he is a saint, is a sinner -- he knows!To hide that fact, he created the opposite. Willpower is not real strength, but fragility.A really powerful man has no will of his own, the whole is his will, he floats like a white cloud, he is one with the universe.He keeps pace with it. Your wills are always in conflict, it makes you small, it makes you an island, and then the struggle begins. A man who has no will naturally becomes mindless, remember, you cannot get out of your mind, you can cut it off, it is easier, it is almost impossible to get out of it, because even if the person wants to get out of it The idea is also part of it. The mind is a trough, it is a state of confusion, you think and you use thought against thought, and the thought against thought is also thought, you do not come out of it.You can condemn your thoughts, but this condemnation is also a thought, you have not achieved anything, you are just spinning in a vicious circle, you can keep spinning, but you still can’t get out. So what to do?How do you get out of your head? Only one thing is possible: don't create any struggle inside, don't make any effort to come out, because every effort will be self-destructive. So what can be done?Just watch, watch in it, don't try to jump out, just watch in it. If you can watch, in those watching moments there will be no mind, and suddenly you are beyond, not out, but beyond, and suddenly you will be hovering beyond you. There is a Zen story, which is very absurd, like all Zen stories, they have to be absurd, because life is what it is, they are describing it as it is. A Zen master asked his disciples: Some days ago, I put a goose into a bottle.Now the goose has grown up, the bottle mouth is very small, so the goose can't get out, that bottle is very precious, I don't want to break it, so now there is a crisis, if the goose doesn't come out, she will Die in there, but I don't want to break that bottle, because that bottle is precious, and I don't want to kill that goose, so what do you think? Here's that puzzle!The goose is in the head, and the bottle is very small. You can break the head, but it is precious, or you can let the goose die, but that is not allowed, because you are the goose. The old Zen master continued to question his disciples and beat them. He told them: Find a way!Because there was no time left and he was only allowed to answer once.A disciple said: The goose is outside! Many disciples tried many questions and answers, but he always hit the person and said: No.Some people will suggest to start with the bottle, but the master will say again: that bottle will be broken, or something will be wrong, that is not allowed.Or someone might say; if that bottle is so precious, let the goose die.These are the only two ways, there is no other way, and Master does not give any hint. But to this disciple, he bowed down and bowed to him, and said: He is right - the goose is outside!She's never been in it. You are out there!You have never been in it, and the feeling that you are in is just a false notion. So actually there is no question of how to take you out of your mind, just watch.When you watch, what happens? - The phenomenon of witnessing occurs.Just close your eyes and watch the thought. What happens?Thought is there, in it, but you are not in it. The watcher is always transcendent, the watcher is always on the mountain.Everything goes around there, but the watcher is beyond this. The watcher can never be inside, can never be a thing inside, he is always outside.To watch means to be outside, you can call it seeing, to be aware, or to notice, or whatever you like to call it, but the mystery is - to watch! So whenever you feel that the mind is too much, just sit under a tree and watch, don't think out, who will come out? -- nobody has been in, the whole effort is useless, because if you have never been in, how can you come out?You can go on trying and trying, dabbling in it, you may go crazy, but you will never come out. Once you know, then in a moment of noticing you are on the other side, you are beyond -- you are outside.From that moment you will be headless. The head belongs to the body, not to you. The head is part of the body, it belongs to the body, and it has a function in the body.It's beautiful, it's good.That bottle is precious, if you know its method, its mysteries, it can be used.What am I doing when I'm talking to you?I am using that bottle.When Buddha is preaching, what is he doing?He is using that bottle.That bottle is indeed precious and worth preserving, but getting into it, getting stuck in it and then trying to get out and making the whole life a mess is not the way to preserve it. Once you know that point of view, you are outside, you become headless, then you move on this earth, but headless, what a beautiful phenomenon! ——If a person moves without a head, it will show what I mean by turning into a white cloud—a phenomenon without a head. You can't even imagine how much peace can come to you when your head is not there.Your physical head will still exist, but the involvement, the attachment, is gone. This header is not a problem!It's beautiful, it's a great design, it's the greatest computer ever invented—such a complex, efficient mechanism.It is beautiful, it can be used, you can enjoy in using it, but where do you get the notion that you are in it?It seems like a false teaching. You may not know that in ancient Japan, or some elderly people in Japan today, if you ask them: where do you think?They'll point to their bellies.Because in Japan, they are taught that the stomach is the center of thinking.So when the Europeans first arrived in Japan, they couldn't believe that the whole country thought the mind was in the belly, not in the head. To think that you are in the head is a Western attitude.In ancient Japan, it was really ok to think from the stomach, but now they have switched from the stomach to the head.There are other traditions where they think in terms of other parts of the body.Lao Tzu said that you think from your heels, so there are some Taoist yoga techniques that can take you off your heels, but the thinking is still going on there. What is the real situation?The truth is: you are transcendent, but you can be attached to any part of the body -- a Westerner is attached to the head, an Easterner is attached to the belly.You must have heard what Lawrence said about him thinking that a person thinks from the sex center and he thinks that is the real center of thinking and there is no other center. In fact, all these claims are the same - equally wrong and equally right, there is no choice, because witnessing is transcendent, it is present in the whole body and beyond the body at the same time.You can get attached to any part of the body and start thinking it is this part. No need to come out because you have never been inside, the goose is outside -- already outside! Watching... When you are watching, you have to remember, when you are watching, don't judge, if you judge, that watching is lost; when you are watching, don't judge, if you judge , the witnessing is lost; while you are witnessing, don't comment, if you comment, you miss the point. When you're watching, just watch...it's like a river is flowing - the river of consciousness is flowing, there are many thoughts floating there, like foam, and you sit on the bank and watch, and the river goes on and on , you don’t say it’s good, you don’t say it’s bad, you don’t say it shouldn’t be, you don’t say it should be, you don’t say anything, you just watch, you don’t comment, you don’t A referee, you are just a watcher and see what happens. Looking at the river, all of a sudden you're beyond... the geese are out there. Once you know this, once you know that say you are outside, then you can remain outside, then you can move around the earth without a head. So, here's how to cut off the head.Everyone is interested in cutting off other people's heads, that's not going to help.You've been doing that, and done a lot, and now cut off your own head. To be headless is to be in deep meditation.