Chapter 12 Chapter 11 Find the Unchanging Through Change

Born 27 March 1973 in Bombay, India Scripture: Treat friends as differently as they treat strangers, and treat them differently in honor and dishonor. This is the realm of change, change, change, and through change, exhausting change. Northrop (Northrope) once said that the Western mind is always looking for the theoretical components of existence, the causal connection of things, what is the cause, how to control the result, and how human beings can control nature; while the Eastern mind, Northrop Eastern minds have been on different adventures, says Throop, and their quest has always been to find the aesthetic component that really exists.Not a theoretical component, but an aesthetic one.

The Eastern mind is not actively seeking to know how to master nature, it has always been interested in becoming one with nature, not in how to overcome it, but in how to maintain a deep friendship with it, And how deeply into it.The Western mind is always in conflict and struggle, while the Eastern mind is always in a relationship of mystery and love.I don't know if Northrop will agree with me, but my feeling is: science is a hate, a hate relationship with nature, so there is struggle, struggle, conquest, and these are all convincing language. Religion is a relationship of love so there is no conflict and no struggle, on the other hand science is a masculine attitude while religion is a feminine attitude; science is agency and religion is receptivity .The Eastern mind is religious, or, if you asked me to say it, I would say: Wherever a religious mind is, it is Eastern, and the scientific mind is Western, as one grows in It doesn't matter if you grew up in the East or in the West. I use "East" and "West" as two attitudes and two approaches, not as two geographical terms.You may be born in the West, but you may not belong there, you may be thoroughly Eastern; you may live in the East, but you may not belong to the East, you may be scientific, your approach may be mathematical, intellectual .

Tantra is absolutely oriental, it is a way of participating in real existence, a way of how to become one with it, a way of how to dissolve boundaries, a way of entering an undifferentiated realm.The mind divides, creates boundaries and definitions, because without definitions, without boundaries, the mind cannot function. The clearer the boundaries, the more possible the mind can function. So the mind cuts, differentiates, shreds everything. Religion is a dissolution of boundaries in order to enter into that undifferentiated realm where there is no definition, no boundaries, everything enters into everything else, everything is everything else, you cannot cut off, You cannot chop existence.In each approach, the result must be very different.By scientific methods, by dividing and chopping, you can only reach dead particles, dead atoms, because life is something that cannot be cut into parts, the moment you cut it apart, it is Gone, it is as if one studies a symphony by studying each single note.Every single note is part of a symphony, but it is not a symphony. A symphony is created by combining many notes. You cannot study a symphony by studying the notes.

I cannot study you by studying your parts, you are not just the sum of the parts, you are more than that, when you divide, cut, analyze, life disappears, only the dead part remains, that That is why science has no ability to know what life is, anything known through science will be about death and matter, it will never be about life.Science may become capable of harnessing life, but life remains unknown to science, science cannot even touch life, life remains unknown to science.Life cannot be known through technological methods, scientific methodology, or scientific methods. That's why science has been negating, negating anything that is not matter, its approach is to prevent any contact with life; the opposite is also true, if you start going deep into religion, you will start negating matter, so Shankara says : Matter is an illusion, it doesn't exist, it just appears to exist.The whole Eastern practice has been denying the world, denying matter, denying anything material. Why?Because science continues to deny life, deny divinity, and deny consciousness.Deep religious experience continues to negate matter, negate all material things.why?Because that's how it works.If you look at life in a way that does not differentiate, then matter will disappear. Matter is divided life, differentiated life, and matter means defined life, life that has been decomposed into many parts.

So, of course, if you look at life without differentiation, and become a part of it, dissolve deeply into it; if you become one with existence, like two lovers become one, then matter disappears , that's why Shankara said: Matter is illusion, if you dissolve into existence then it is illusion, but Marx said consciousness is just a by-product, it does not have substance, it is just a function of matter.If you divide life, then consciousness disappears, it becomes illusion, then only matter exists. What I am going to tell you is this: Existence is one.If you study it through analysis, it looks physical, dead.If you study it through participation, it looks like life, like divinity, like consciousness.If you approach it through science, then it is impossible for any deep bliss to happen to you, because bliss is impossible with dead matter, it can be illusory at best, only deep bliss. Only by participating can there be joy.

Tantra is a technique of love, it's trying to make you one with existence, so before you can get into it, you're going to have to drop a lot of things, you've got to drop your habitual patterns of analyzing things, you've got to drop A deep-rooted attitude of resistance, and a thinking that focuses on conquest. When Hillary reached the highest peak in the Himalayas - Mount Everest, all the Western world reported it as a conquest - the conquest of Everest, only in a Zen temple in Japan Here, the newspaper on the wall reads: "Everest has been regarded as a friend." - not conquered!Here's the difference: "Everest has been treated as a friend." Now humans have become friendly with it.Everest let Hillary go to it, that's not a conquest. The word "conquest" is vulgar and violent, and thinking in terms of conquest shows aggression.Everest accepts Hillary, it welcomes him, now humans have become friendly to it, now the rift has been connected, now we are not strangers, one of us was killed by Egypt Forrest accepts, and now Everest has become part of human consciousness, a connection.

Then the whole thing becomes completely different, it depends on how you look at it.This is something to keep in mind before we get into these tips.Remember: tantra is an effort towards the love of being, that is why so much sex is used in tantra, because it is a technique of love, it is not just love between a man and a woman, it is It is the love between you and existence.For the first time, through a woman, existence becomes meaningful to you.If you are a woman, then, for the first time, existence becomes meaningful to you through a man. That's why sex is discussed and used so much in Tantra.Think of yourself as completely asexual, as if you were born with all sex taken away from you, just think: the day you are born all sex is completely taken away from you, then you will not be able to love, you will not be able to feel close to anyone, you will have difficulty getting out of yourself, you will remain closed, you will not be able to approach, you will not be able to go out and meet people, you will Become a dead thing in existence, closed in every direction.

Sex is your effort to reach out, you go out of yourself, the other becomes the center, you leave your ego behind, you leave it to meet someone.If you really want to meet someone, you will have to surrender, and if someone else wants to meet you, he will have to come out.Watch the miracle in love, watch what happens, you move into the other and the other moves into you, he moves into you and you move into him or her, you change places and now he becomes your soul , and you become her or his soul, this is a participation, now you meet, you become a circle, this is the first meeting you are not enclosed in ego, this meeting can become towards the universe, A stepping stone to a greater rendezvous with existence, with entity.

Tantra is not based on the intellect, it is based on the heart, it is not an intellectual effort but a sensory effort, remember this because it will help you to understand the techniques.Now we're going to get into those tips. First trick: Treat friends as differently as they treat strangers, and treat them differently in honor and dishonor. "Either the same or the same." This is the basis.What is happening inside you?Two things happen, something in you continues to remain the same, it never changes.You may not have observed it, you may not have touched it, but if you observed, you will know that something in you always remains the same, because that is the same, and you can have an identification, because that is the same , you feel yourself centered, otherwise you will be a mess.You say: "My childhood." Now what remains of it?"Who" said "my childhood"?Who is this "I"?

There is nothing left of your childhood, if the pictures of your childhood were shown to you for the first time, you would not be able to recognize them, everything has changed, your body is no longer the same, not a single cell remains stay the same.Physiologists say that the body is a flow, it is like a river, every moment many cells are dying and many new cells are being born, within seven years your body will completely change, so if you can At seventy years old, your body will be completely renewed more than ten times. Your body and your mind are changing every moment, you cannot recognize a picture of your childhood, and if you could be given a picture of your mind, a picture of your mind as a child, you would not be able to recognize it, you The mind is more of a flow than your body, and every moment, everything changes.Not even one thing remains the same for a single moment.As far as your mind is concerned, in the morning you are different, and in the evening you are a completely different person.

When someone came to meet the Buddha, before that person was about to leave, when saying goodbye, the Buddha would say: "Remember: the person who came to meet me is not the one who is going back, now you are completely different, you Your mind has changed." Of course, meeting a Buddha will change your mind anyway, and you cannot be the same person again. You have come here with a different mind, you will go with a different mind, something has changed.Something new is added, something old is taken away, even if you don't meet anybody, even if you are just alone, you cannot remain the same, every moment the river is flowing. Heraclitus once said: "You cannot step into the same river twice." The same can be said of people: you cannot run into the same person again - impossible!Because of this fact, because of our ignorance of it, because we continue to expect others to be the same, life becomes a misery.You marry a girl and you expect her to be the same, she can't be!When she was unmarried, she looked the same, but when she got married, she was completely different.A lover is something else, a husband is something else entirely, and you cannot expect your lover to meet you through your husband, that is impossible.A lover is a lover, a husband is a husband. The moment a lover becomes a husband, everything changes. But you go on expecting, and that creates pain, unnecessary pain.If we can recognize the fact that the mind keeps moving, keeps changing, we can escape a lot of misery at no cost, all you need is a simple awareness that the mind changes. Someone loves you, and then you go on expecting love, but the next moment he hates you, and then you are disturbed, not by his hate, but by your expectation.He changes, he is alive, so he must change, but if you can see things as they really are, you won't be bothered. The person who was in love a moment ago can become hate a moment later, but wait!After a moment he will become a subject again, so don't be nervous, be patient, and if other people can also see the changed form, then he will not fight against the changed form.They change, that's natural. So if you pay attention to your body, it is always changing, if you try to understand your mind, it is always changing, it is never the same, even in two consecutive moments, there is nothing will be the same.Your personality goes on flowing, if that's the way it is, if nothing stays the same, forever the same timelessly, then who remembers saying it was "my childhood", childhood has changed, body Has changed, the mind has changed, so who remembers?Who then will know childhood, youth, and old age?Who will know? The knower must remain the same, and the witness must remain the same. Only in this way can the witness have a view, and the witness can say: "This is my childhood, this is my youth." , this is my old age. This moment, I am in love, this moment, that love has become hate." This watching consciousness, this knower, is always the same, so you have two realms, Both planes exist together within you at the same time.You are both: the change that has been changing, and the constant that has remained the same, and if you become aware of both realms, then this technique will help: "Either the same is the same. "Remember: "Be the same without being the same." In the outer part of you you must be different, but in the central part you remain the same. Remember the same, just remembering is enough, you don't need to do anything else, it's the same, you can't change it, but you may forget it, you may be engrossed, fascinated, surrounded by Your changing world - your body, your mind - so that you may completely forget about the center, which is so blinded by the ever-changing flow, of course there is difficulty: it is difficult to remember The one that always stays the same, because change creates difficulty. For example, if there is constant noise around you, you will not be aware of it.If the clock on the wall keeps ticking all day long, you will never be aware of it, but if it suddenly stops, you will be aware immediately.If something always remains the same, no attention is needed. When something changes, the mind has to pay attention. It creates a gap, and then the original pattern is shaken.You keep listening to it so there is no need to listen to it, it is there, it becomes part of the background, but if the clock suddenly stops, you will be aware, your consciousness will suddenly go to that gap . Its like if you lose a tooth then your tongue keeps going to that place and when that tooth was there the tongue never wanted to touch it and now the tooth is gone there is a void there , then no matter how you try to stop it all day long, your tongue can't help running to that opening, why?Because something is lost, the background changes, something new comes in. Whenever something new comes in, you become conscious, for many reasons, it is a safety measure, it is what you need to live, it is what you need to survive.When something changes, you have to become aware, it may be dangerous, you have to pay attention, you have to readjust to the new situation, but if everything is as it is, then No more, you don't need to be aware.This constant element in you, this thing that the Hindus call the Atman, this soul, has been there from the very beginning - if there is any such thing as a beginning; The end - if it will have any so-called end.It is always the same, so how can you be aware of it? Because it is so forever the same, forever the same, you miss it.You notice the body, you notice the mind, because they are changing, and because you notice them, you start thinking that you are them, you only know them, and therefore you identify with them. The whole spiritual endeavor is to find the same in the different, the eternal in the change.Find that which is always the same, that is your center, and the technique will only be easy if you can remember that center, or, if you can do the technique, "remember" ( Remembering the center) will be easy, and you can do it from both ends. Try this technique, the technique is "Be differently same to friends as to strangers." What does it mean to be "differently same" to friends or to enemies or to strangers?It seems contradictory, in one respect you have to change, because if your friend comes to see you, you will have to meet him differently, and if a stranger comes, you will have to meet him differently. Way to meet him, how can you meet a stranger as if you already knew him?You cannot be like that, the difference will be there, but, deep down, you remain the same, the attitude has to remain the same, but the behavior will be "different", you cannot meet someone you don't know as if you have How could you know him like this?At most you can only pretend, but pretending won't work, the difference will still exist. With a friend there is no need to pretend that he is a friend, with a stranger even if you try to act as if he is a friend, it will become a pretense, that is a new situation.You cannot be the same, it is necessary to be different.In terms of behavior you will be different, but in terms of your consciousness you can be the same, you can look at a friend as if you were looking at a stranger.That is difficult. You may have heard: "Look at a stranger as if he were a friend." If you are not able to see your friend as a stranger, the above is not possible. Friends are strangers, only then can you see strangers as friends, they are related. Have you ever looked at your friends as if they were strangers?If you haven't, then you haven't seen it at all.Pay attention to your wife, do you really know her?You may have lived with him for twenty years or more, and the longer you lived with her, the more likely you continued to forget that she was a stranger—and she remained a stranger, no matter how much you loved her it's the same. Really, if you love her more, she will seem stranger, because when you love more, when you go deeper into her, you know more how much she is like a river, flowing, changing, Alive, every moment is different.If you are not looking deeply, if you are just obsessed that she is your wife, or that "this" is her name. "That" is something of her, then you have chosen a certain piece, and you go on identifying that certain piece as your wife.Whenever she changes she has to hide her change, she may not be in a loving mood but she has to pretend because you expect love from your wife. Then everything becomes pretended, she is not allowed to change, she is not allowed to be herself, then something is forced and the whole relationship becomes dead.The more you love, the more you will feel that form of change, then every moment you are a stranger, you cannot predict, you cannot say what your husband will do tomorrow morning, only when your husband Only when you are dead can you predict. When your husband is dead, then you can predict. Only things can be predicted. People are never predictable. If someone is predictable, then you know he is Dead, he is already dead, his life is just a fake, so you can predict, because of changes, people cannot predict. Watch your friend as if you were looking at a stranger, and he is a stranger!Do not be afraid.We are afraid of strangers, so we continue to forget that even a friend is a stranger.If you can also see strangers in your friends, you must have no frustration, because you can't expect anything from a stranger.You have identified your friends, so you have expectations of your friends, and then you are disappointed, because no one can meet your expectations, no one is born to meet your expectations, everyone is born to meet His own expectations, no one is born to satisfy you, everyone is born to satisfy himself or herself, but you expect others to satisfy you, and others expect you to satisfy them, then There is conflict, violence, struggle, pain. Continue to remember that stranger all the time.Don't forget that even your closest friend is a stranger - push him away as much as possible, if this feeling, this knowing happens to you, then when you are looking at a stranger, you can also be in his Find a friend in yourself, and if a friend can become a stranger, then a stranger can also become a friend.Watch out for a stranger who doesn't know your language, who doesn't belong to your country, who doesn't belong to your religion, who doesn't belong to your color, who is white and you are black, or you are black , and he is white, you cannot communicate through language, so you have no common ground in terms of country, religion, race and skin color, no common ground!He was a total stranger, but, looking into his eyes, you could see the same humanity there, and that was the common ground; you could see the same life, and that was the common ground; you could see the same Existence, that is the root of your friendship. You may not understand his language, but you can understand him because even silence can communicate.Just by looking deeply into his eyes, that friend will be revealed.If you know how to see, then not even an enemy can deceive you, you can see a friend in him, it is impossible for him to prove that he is not your friend, however far he is from you, he is near you, For you belong to the same stream of existence, you belong to the same river, you belong to the same earth of existence. If this happens, then not even a tree is far from you, not even a stone is far from you.The stone is very strange, there is no meeting point, and there can be no communication, but the same "being" is there: the stone also exists, the stone participates in the being, he is there, I call him "he", Because "he" also occupies a space, "he" also exists in time, and the sun also rises for "he", just as he also rises for you.One day he will not exist, just as one day you will not exist; one day you will die and "he" will die: the stone will disappear.We meet in existence, and that meeting is friendship.Our personalities are different, our appearances are different, but in essence we are one. In appearance, we are strangers, so no matter how close we are, we are still far away.You can sit close, you can hug each other, but you can't get closer, in terms of your altered personalities, you've never been the same, you've never been alike, you've always been strangers, you can't meet because Before you can meet, you are changed, so there can be no meeting.As far as body and mind are concerned, there can be no rendezvous, because before you can rendezvous, you are no longer the same. Have you ever observed?You feel loving someone, a deep inner surge, you are filled with it, and when you go and say "I love you" to him, it disappears.Have you observed it?It may not exist now, it may be just a memory, it used to exist, but it does not exist now.When you assert it, when you make it manifest, you bring it into a realm of change.When you feel it, it may be hidden deep within the essence, but when you bring it out, you bring it into a time and changing form: it enters the river.By the time you say "I love you," it may have completely disappeared.It's hard to perceive, but if you observe, it becomes a fact, then you can see, there are strangers in friends, and friends in strangers, then you can keep "different" Same", you change in the peripheral part but remain the same in the essential part, in the center. "In honor and dishonor", who is given honor?Who is dishonored?is it you?Absolutely not!It's just that that's changing, not you.Someone glorifies you, if you think he is glorifying "you", you will have difficulty, when in fact he is glorifying your special performance, not you, how can he know you?Not even you know yourself.He glorifies a particular manifestation, he glorifies something that goes into your altered personality.You are kind and loving and he is honoring that.But this kindness and love are only in the surrounding part, the next moment you may not love, you may be full of hatred.Perhaps the flowers are gone, and only thorns remain.You may not be so happy, you may be just sad, depressed, you may be cruel, angry, and then he slanders you, and then you will show love again.It is not you that others are exposed to, but your performance. Remember, they are not glorifying you and slandering you, they cannot do that because they do not know you, they cannot know you.If even you don't know yourself, how can they know you?They have their own formulas, they have their theories, they have their yardsticks and criteria, they have their touchstones, and they say: "If a man is so, we glorify him; if a man is Whatever, we'll slander him." So, they're acting according to their code, and you're never close to their touchstone, only your performance is their concern. They can call you a sinner one day and a saint another day.They can call you a saint one day and turn against you tomorrow and stone you to death.What exactly is going on?Because they are in contact with parts around you, they have never been in contact with you.Remember: whatever they say is not about you, you stay there, you stay outside.Their condemnation, their appreciation, whatever they do, isn't really about you, it's just about how you behave in time. I'm going to tell you an anecdote about Zen.There was a young monk who lived near Kyoto, he was young and beautiful, and the whole village loved him, they glorified him, they believed he was a great saint, and then, one day, everything was reversed Come, a girl was pregnant, she told her parents that this monk was responsible, so the whole village turned against him, and they burned down his hut.It was a morning, a very cold morning, a winter morning, and they threw the child to the monk, and the girl's father told him, "This is your child, you are responsible." The monk just said, "" Is that so?" Then the little child started crying, so he forgot about the crowd and took care of the little child. The mob destroyed the whole hut and burned it down, the little boy was hungry and the monk was penniless, so for the sake of the little boy he had to go to the city to beg, who would give him anything now? ?Just a few moments ago he was a great saint, and now he is a great sinner, who will give him anything now?Everywhere he went, they closed doors in his face, and they condemned him without reservation, and then he came to the door of the girl's house, and the girl was very upset, and she heard the little child crying, screamed, and the monk stood there, and he just said, "Don't give me anything, I'm a sinner, but a child is not a sinner, you can give this child milk." Then the girl confessed, just to hide the The real father of the child, she used the name of that monk, he is completely innocent. So the whole village changed their minds again. They bowed at his feet and asked for his forgiveness.The girl's father came, took the child back with tears, and said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? In the morning, why didn't you refuse to say that the child does not belong to you." The monk is said to have replied again: : "Is that so?" In the morning he said, "Is that so? Is this child mine?" In the afternoon he said, "Is that so? Isn't this child mine?" This scripture must be applied in life in this way.You must remain "differently the same" in times of honor and infamy.The innermost core must remain the same no matter what happens to the surrounding part, the surrounding part must change, but you should not change because you are both, you are both the surrounding part and the core, so use the opposite , contradictory words: "To be the same as different..." You can apply this technique to all opposite poles: in love and hate; in poverty and wealth; in comfort and discomfort; or in any In thing, keep "differently the same." Just know that change is happening around you, it can't happen in your core, that's impossible, so you can remain detached, and this detachment is not forced, you just know it is so, this It is not a forced detachment, it is not a detachment to be maintained through any effort on your part, if you try to be detached then you are still in the peripheral part, you do not know the core yet.The core is transcendent, it has always been, it is transcendent, it is beyond.Anything that happens outside of the core never happens. Try this at the extreme, go on feeling something in you that is constant.When someone insults you, focus yourself on the point that you are just listening to him, don't do anything, don't react, just listen, he is insulting you, then someone is complimenting you, you just listen.Insult or praise; glorify or slander: you just listen.The parts around you will be disturbed, watch it, don't change it, watch it, keep deep in your center, from the center you will have a detachment without compulsion, that is spontaneous, that is natural. Once you can feel the detachment of nature, then nothing can disturb you, you will remain peaceful, whatever happens in the world, you remain unmoved, even if someone is killing you, only the body will be destroyed Touched, "you" will not be touched, you will remain detached, and this detachment leads you into being, into that which is blissful, which is eternal, into which is real, which is always the same, into that which is immortal Yes, into life itself.你可以称之为神，或者你可以选择你自己的名词；你可以称之为涅槃，你爱怎么称呼就怎么称呼，但是除非你从周围的部分，移到中心的部分，除非你觉知到你里面那永恒的，否则宗教并没有发生在你身上，生命也没有发生在你身上，你是错过的，你错过了一切。错过生活的狂喜是很可能。 山卡拉说："当一个人知道那个改变的和那个不变的，当一个人知道那个移动的和那个不动的，我就称他为弟子（一个弃俗的人）。"在印度的哲学里，这个被称为"辨别——味味克（Vivek）"。在改变的领域和不改变的领域两者之间辨别，它被称为味味克——辨别、觉知。 这段经文可以用在任何你所做的事，用得非常非常深，而且非常容易。你觉得饿吗？记住两个领域，饥饿只能够被周围的部分感觉到，因为周围的部分需要食物、需要燃料；你不需要食物、不需要任何燃料，但是身体需要它们。记住，当饥饿发生，它是发生在周围的部分，你只是知道它的人，如果你不在那里，它就不会被知道；如果身体不在那里，它就不会被知道；如果身体不在那里，它就不会发生。当你不在的时候，那个知道就不存在，因为身体无法知道，身体能够有它，但是身体无法知道它；你知道它，但是你不能够有它。 所以，永远不要说："我是饥饿的。"要在里面说："我知道我的身体是饥饿的。"注重在你的知道，然后那个辨别就会存在。你在变老，永远不要说："我在变老。"只是说："我的身体在变老。"然后在死亡的那个片刻，你也会知道："我没有在死，是我的身体在死，我在改变身体，我只是在改变外壳。"如果这个辩别能够加深，那么，有一天，突然之间就会有成道。 第二段经文： 这里是改变、改变、又改变的领域，透过改变，耗尽改变。 "这里是改变、改变、又改变的领域，透过改变，耗尽改变。"第一件要了解的事就是：你所知道的每一样东西都是改变，除了你——那个知者以外，每一样东西都是改变，你看过任何不是改变的东西吗？整个世界都是改变的现象，即使喜马拉雅山也在改变，他们说——那些研究喜马拉雅山的科学家们说：喜马拉雅山在成长。这群喜马拉雅山是世界上最年轻的山——它仍然一个小孩子，真的——它仍然在成长，它们尚未成熟，它们还没有到达开始衰退的点，它们仍然在上升。 如果你跟另外一个叫做文达雅楚的山相比，它们只是小孩子，文达雅楚是最古老的山之一，某些人说它是世界上最古老的山，它那么老，所以它正在减少、正在下降。有好几世纪的时间，它一直在下降，因年老而正在垂死，所以，甚至看起来那么稳定、那么不变、那么不动的喜马拉雅山也正在改变。它只是一条石头的河流，石头也是一样，它们也是像河流一样——在漂浮。就比较上而言，每一样东西都在改变，某些东西看起来改变较多，某些东西看起来改变较少，但那只是相对的。 你所能够知道的，没有一样东西是不变的。记住我的要点：没有一样你所知道的东西是不变的，除了那个知者以外，没有一样东西是不变的。那个知者总是在背后，它一直都是"知道"，而不"被知道"，它永远无法变成客体，它一直都是主体。任何你所做的，或是你所知道的，它总是在后面，你无法知道它。当我这样说，不要觉得困扰，当我说你无法知道它，我的意思是说你无法把它当成一个客体来知道。我能够看着你，但是我怎么能够以同样的方式看着我自己？那是不可能的，因为在一个知道的关系里，两样东西是需要的——知者和被知者。所以，当我看着你，你是被知者，我是知者，而那个"知道"可以作为一个桥梁而存在，但是当我看着我自己，当我试着去知道我自己，要在那里产生那个桥梁？只有我，单独的、完全单独的，另外一边丧失了，所以要在那里产生那个桥梁？如何去知道我自己？ 所以"知道自己"是一个负向的过程，你无法直接知道你自己，你只能够一直削除你所知道的客体、继续削除你所知道的客体，当没有你所知道的客体，当你不能够知道任何东西，当什么东西都没有，而只有真空，只有空（静心就是如此——削除所有你知道的客体），那么就有一个片刻会来临，在那个片刻里，只有意识存在，但是没有什么东西让你意识到；"知道"存在，但是没有什么东西可以去知道，只留下简单的、纯粹的"知"的能量，而没有留下什么东西可以去知道，没有客体。 在那种状态下，当没有什么东西可以去知道，那么，就某种意义而言，它就被说成你知道你自己，但是那种知道跟所有其他的知道是完全不同的，两者使用同一个字是不对的。有一些神秘家（很少为人所知的成道者）说，"知道自己"是矛盾的，那个名词本身就是矛盾的。知道总是在说知道其他东西，"知道自己"是不可能的，但是当其他的东西不存在，那么，就有某件事会发生，或许你可以称它为"知道自己"（Selfknowledge），但那个字是误导的。 所以，任何你所知道的都是改变。每一个地方，甚至这些墙壁都经常在改变，现在，物理学家支持这个观点，即使是墙壁，它看起那么固定、那么不变，它也是每一片刻都在改变。有一个很大的流动在进行着，每一个原子都在移动，每一个电子都在移动，每一样东西都在快速移动，那个移动是那么快，以致于你无法测知它，那就是为什墙壁看起来那么永恒不变。早上的时候，它像这样，下午的时候，它像这样，晚上的时候它像这样，昨天它像这样，明天它也将会像这样，你看着它，好像它是一样的，但它是不一样的，你的眼睛没有能力测知这么大的运动。 风扇在那里，如果风扇移动得非常快，你就看不到那个空隙，它看起好像一个圆圈，因为那个运动很快，所以空间无法被看到，如果那个运动非常快，快到好像电子在移动，你将根本不会看到那个风扇在移动，你将无法测知那个运动，那个风扇将会看起来是固定的，你将甚至能够去碰触它，它将会是固定的，而你的手将甚至不能够进入那个空隙，因为你的手无法移动那么快而进入那个空隙，在你进入之前，另一片风扇叶子就已经来了，在你移动之前，又另外一片叶子就又来了，你将一直都会碰触到风扇的叶子，而那个移动是那么快，以致于那个风扇将会看起来好像是不动的。那些不动的东西事实上是动得非常快，所以它们外表看起来是固定的。 这段经文说每一样东西都是改变："这里是改变的领域……"佛陀的整个哲学就是根据这段经文，佛陀说每一样东西都是一个流动，都是改变的、不永恒的，一个人必须知道这一点。佛陀对这一点非常强调，他的整个观点都以它为根据，他说："改变、改变、改变，继续记住这一点。"为什么呢？如果你能够记住改变，你就会变得超然，当每一样东西都在改变，你怎么可能执著？ 注意看一张脸，它非常美，当你注意看一张非常美的脸，你会觉得它将会继续保持，深入了解它，永远不要期待说它将会保持，如果你知道它改变很快，如果你知道：这个片刻它是美的，而下个片刻它或许是丑的，你怎么可能感觉任何执著？That is impossible.注意看一个身体，它是活的，下一个片刻它将会是死的。如果你感觉到那个改变，一切都是没有用的。佛陀离开他的皇宫、他的家庭、他漂亮的太太、他的小孩，当某人问他："为什么？"他说："在那个无常的地方，有什么用？小孩子将会死。"佛陀离开的那个晚上，他的小孩子刚被生下来，他刚出生只有几个小时，佛陀到他太太的房间看了最后一眼，她太太的背对着门，抱着那个在睡觉的小孩，佛陀想要说再见，但是他抗拒，他说："有什么用？" 有一个思想闪过他的头脑："小孩子才第一天生下来，才生下来几个小时，我必须看一下。"但是接着他说："有什么用？每一样东西都在改变，今天小孩子被生下来，明天小孩子将会死，一天之前他在这里，现在他在这里，再过一天，他就不在这里，所以有什么用？每一样东西都在改变。"他离开了，他掉过头来就走了。 当某人问："你为什么离开一切？"他说："我在找寻那个从来不改变的，如果我执著于那个会改变的，将会有挫折，如果我执著于那个在改变的，那么我就是愚蠢的，因为它将会改变，它将不会保持一样，而我将会受到挫折，所以我在找寻那个永远不会改变的，如果有任何从来不改变的东西的话。唯有如此，生命才有价值和意义，否则一切都是无用的。"他的整个教导就是以改变为基础。 这段经文很美，这段经文说："透过改变，耗尽改变。"佛陀一定不会说第二部分，第二部分基本上是坦陀罗的。佛陀会说一切都是改变，感觉它，那么你将不会执著于它，当你不执著于它，渐渐地，藉着离开每一样改变的东西，你将会进入你自己，进入那个不变的中心。只要继续削除改变，你将会来到那个不变的，你将会来到那个中心——轮子的中心。所以佛陀选择轮子作为他宗教的象征，因为轮子会转动，但是那个转动的轮子的中心保持不动。所以，世界就像轮子一样在转动；你的人格就像轮子一样在转动，而你最内在的本质就停留在那个正在转动的轮子中心，那个中心是维持不动的。 佛陀会说：生命是改变，他会同意第一部分，而下一个部分——第二个部分是典型的坦陀罗："透过改变，耗尽改变。"坦陀罗说：不要离开那个在改变的，要进入它。不要执著，但是要进入，为什么要害怕呢？进入它、经验它，让它发生，而你进入它。透过它本身来耗尽它，不要害怕、不要逃避，你要逃到哪里去呢？你怎么能够逃避呢？到处都是改变，坦陀罗说：到处都是改变，你要逃到哪里去呢？你能够走到哪里去呢？ 不管你走到哪里都会有改变，一切的逃避都没有用，所以不要试着去逃避，那么要怎么办呢？不要执著。去经验改变，成为那个改变，不要跟它抗争，跟着它走。河流在流动，你要跟着它流，甚至不要游，让河流带领你，不要跟它抗争，不要因为跟它抗争而浪费你的能量，只要放松，只要放开来，跟着河流流动。 将会发生什么？如果你能够跟着河流流动而不要有任何冲突，不要有任何你自己的方向，如果河流的方向就是你的方向，突然间你就会觉知到：你不是河流，你会觉知到你不是河流！感觉它，找一天到河里去试试看。去到河流那里，放松，让河流带领着你。不要抗争，变成河流，突然间你将会觉得到处都是河流，但你不是河流。 在抗争当中，你或许会忘掉这一点，那就是为什么坦陀罗说："透过改变，耗尽改变。"不要抗争，没有这个需要，因为改变不能够进入你，所以不要害怕。生活在世界里，不要害怕，因为世界不能够进入你，去经验它，不要选择这个方式或那个方式。 有两种人：一种会执著于改变的世界，而另一种会逃避，但是坦陀罗说：它是改变，所以执著于它是没有用的，逃避也是没有用的，有什么用呢？佛陀说："停留在改变的世界里有什么用？"坦陀罗说："逃避它有什么用？两者都是没有用的，相反地，要让它发生，不要去顾虑它，它在发生，对它来讲，你甚至是不需要的。以前没有你的时候，世界在改变，将来你不存在的时候，世界也将会继续改变，所以，为什么要创造出任何无谓的纷扰？" "透过改变，耗尽改变。"这是一个非常深的讯息。透过愤怒，耗尽愤怒；透过性，耗尽性；透过贪婪，耗尽贪婪；透过世界，耗尽世界。不要与它抗争，要放松，因为抗争产生紧张，抗争产生焦虑、痛苦，而你将会不必要地受到打扰，让世界保持它现在的样子。 有两种类型的人，一种是不能够让世界保持它现在的样子的人，他们被称为革命分子，他们会去改变它，他们会奋斗去改变它，他们会在改变它的当中摧毁了他们的整个人生，而事实上世界已经在改变，他们是不需要的，他们只会耗竭他们自己，他们将会在燃烧的世界中燃烧掉，而世界已经在改变，没有革命是真正需要的，世界本来就是一个革命，它正在改变。 你或许会怀疑为什么印度没有产生伟大的改革者，那是因为有这个洞见说每一样东西都已经在改变，为什么你要很麻烦地去改变它，你既无法改变它，也无法停止它的改变。它正在改变，为什么要浪费你自己？ 有一类型的人格总是试着要去改变世界，在宗教的眼光里，他是神经病的，事实上，他是害怕来到他自己，所以他继续去改变世界，而变成心灵被世界所占据。国家必须被改变，政府必须被改变，社会、结构、经济，每一样东西都必须被改变，而他将会死，他将不会有狂喜的片刻，他将不能够藉着知道他是什么而狂喜。世界将会继续，轮子将会继续移动，世界曾经看过很多革命分子，而它还是继续在移动，你既不能停止它，也不能加速它的改变。 这是神秘家的态度：神秘家们说不需要去改变世界，但是神秘家也有两种类型，其中一种会说不需要改变世界，但是需要改变自己，他也相信改变，但他不是相信改变世界，而是相信改变他自己，然而坦陀罗说不需要去改变任何人，既不需要改变世界，也不需要改变你自己，那是神秘主义最深的核心，你不需要改变世界，也不需要改变你自己，你只要知道每一样东西都在改变，然后在改变中漂浮、在改变中放松。 当没有努力去创造任何改变，你就能够完全放松，因为如果有努力存在，你就不能够放松，那么紧张就会存在，因为在未来，某种有价值的东西将会发生：世界将会改变，世界将会"变成共产主义的"，或是"地球的乐园将会来临"，或是将会有一个未来的乌托邦，或是你将进入"神的国度"，进入"莫克夏"（自由）。在乐园的某一个地方"天使们正在等着来欢迎你"，但是这个"某一个地方"是在未来，有了这种态度，你就会产生紧张。 坦陀罗说：忘了它，世界已经在改变，而你也已经在改变，"改变"就是"存在"，所以不要为它烦恼，没有你，它也已经在发生，你是不需要的，你只要在它里面漂浮，而不要对未来焦虑，突然间，在改变当中，你将会觉知到你里面从来不改变、一直都保持原来的样子、一直都一样的中心。 它为什么会发生？因为如果你放松，那么那个改变的背景将会给你对照，透过它，你就能够感觉到那个不变的，如果你作任何努力去改变世界或改变你自己，你就无法看到里面那个很小的、不动的中心。你的心灵太过于被改变所占据，因此你无法看清事实是怎么样。 到处都在改变，"改变"变成背景、变成对照，而你是放松的，所以，在你的头脑里没有未来，没有未来的思想，你在此时此地，这个片刻就是一切。每一样东西都在改变，突然间，你会觉知到有一个点在你里面，那个点是从来不改变的。"透过改变，耗尽改变。"这就"透过改变，耗尽改变。"的意思。 不要抗争，透过死亡，变成不朽的；透过死亡，让死亡死掉，不要跟它抗争，坦陀罗的态度很难去设想，因为我们的头脑总是想要去做某事，而它是一个无为，它只是在放松，而不是在做，但这是最被隐藏的秘密之一，如果你能够感觉到这个，你就不需要担心其他任何东西，这个技巧就能够给你一切。 那么你就不需要做任何事，因为你已经知道了那个秘密：透过改变，改变可以被耗尽；透过死亡，死亡可以被耗尽；透过性，性可以被耗尽；透过愤怒，愤怒可以被耗尽。现在你已经知道了那个秘密：透过毒药，毒药可以被耗尽。