Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen With the Real

Born in Bombay, India, March 29, 1973 Scripture: When a hen raises her chicks, there is a special "knowing" and a special "doing" in real existence.Since chains and freedom are related in truth, these words exist only for those who are afraid of the universe, which is the reflection of the mind, as if there is only one sun in the sky and you can see many suns from the water.So look at bondage and freedom in this way. Huineng asked a person: "Where is the problem? Where is the root of man's ability to be solved, and the root of man's ability to make some efforts to know who he is?"

Why can't he know without any effort?Why at all should there be any problems?You are, you know you are, so why can't you know who you are?Where did you miss it?You are conscious, you realize that you are conscious, there is a life, you are alive, why are you not aware of who you are?What are the obstacles?What is holding you back from this basic "knowing yourself"?If you can understand the barrier, the barrier can dissolve easily, so the real question is not how to know a person, the real question is to know why you don't know yourself, why you miss something so obvious. A fact, why do you miss a fundamental truth so close to you, why have you not seen it?You must have created a design, otherwise it is difficult to escape from yourself, you must have created walls, you must have deceived yourself in a sense.

So, what is the trick of "running away from oneself", that trick of "not knowing oneself"?If you don't understand the trick, nothing you do will help, because the trick is still there, and you go on asking how to know yourself, how to know truth, how to know what is, and It turns out you've been helping that obstacle.You go on creating obstacles, so whatever you do is of no use. In fact, to know that you don't need anything positive, just something negative.In a way, you are just destroying some kind of barrier that you have built, and you know when that barrier is not there.When that obstacle is not there, knowing happens, and you cannot make any positive effort towards it, you just have to be aware of how you missed it.

So, there are a few things to know about how you missed it.Number one: you live in your dreams, and then those dreams become obstacles, the truth is not a dream, it exists, you are surrounded by it everywhere, inside or outside, it exists, you don't May miss it but you are dreaming and in this way you enter a different plane which is not real then you keep moving in the dream world then the dream becomes like a cloud surrounding you , they create obstacles.Truth cannot be known unless the mind stops dreaming.When you see through dreams, the truth is distorted, and your eyes are full of dreams, your ears are full of dreams, your hands are full of dreams.

So whatever you touch you touch through a dream, whatever you see you see through a dream, whatever you hear you hear through a dream, you distort everything.Whatever reaches you, they arrive through dreams, and those dreams change everything, they color everything.Because of the dreaming mind, you miss out on the outer and inner truth.You can go on looking for the ways and means of how to reach the real existence, but you do that through your dreaming mind, so you can dream religious dreams, you can dream about truth, dreams about truth, Dreams about God, dreams about Christ or Buddha, but that is also dreaming, dreaming has to stop, dreaming cannot be used to know the truth.

What do I mean when I say, "Dream"?You are listening now, but there is a dream, and that dream has been interpreting what I have said, and you are not listening to me, you are listening to yourself, because you are interpreting at the same time, are you not?You are thinking about what I said.Why do you need to think?Just listen, don't think, because if you think, you cannot hear, if you go on thinking and listening, then whatever you hear is your own noise, it is not what I am speaking.Stop thinking, let the channel of listening be completely free from thought, and that which is said will be heard.

When looking at a flower, don't dream, don't fill your eyes with thoughts and dreams about the past and the future, don't fill up with the knowledge of the flower, don't even say, "This flower is beautiful." Because then, You will miss the real being, and the words will be a hindrance.You say, "This flower is beautiful." Then language enters, and the truth is explained through language; don't let language surround you.See directly, hear directly, touch directly. When you touch someone, just touch, don't say the skin is beautiful, smooth, then you miss it, you go into a dream, whatever the skin is, it's here and now, touch it, Let the skin reveal itself to you.When you watch a beautiful face, you watch it, let the face itself come in, don't explain it, don't say anything, don't bring in your past mind.

First thing: Dreams are created by your past mind, and it is the past mind that continues to move around you.Don't let the past come in, don't let the future come in, when you see a beautiful face, a beautiful body, suddenly the desire arises, you want to possess.You see a beautiful flower and you want to pick it off, then you move, the flower is there, but you have moved into desire, into the future, then you are not here, so, or you are in the past, then Does not exist anymore; or you are in the future, which has not come yet, and you miss that which is presently there. So, the first thing to remember is: don't let words stand between you and the truth.The less the language, the less the barrier, without the language there is no barrier, then you are directly facing what is, and suddenly you are face to face.Languages ​​destroy anything because they change the meaning.

I was reading a biography of a person, and she was describing, one day, right after she woke up.The woman wrote, "One morning, I opened my eyes." Then she immediately said, "But, it's not right to say that I opened my eyes. I didn't do anything. The eyes opened." Then She changed that sentence to write: "No, it's not right to say that I opened my eyes, I didn't do anything, there was no effort on my part, it wasn't an action at all." Then she wrote: "The eyes open by themselves." But she thought this was ridiculous, since the eyes belonged to her, so how could they open by themselves?So what to do?

Language never says "Yes." If I say, "I open my eyes," that is a lie.If you say, "The eyes open by themselves." that is also a lie, because the eyes are just a part of the body, they cannot open by themselves, the whole organism is involved, and whatever we say is like that.If you go to a lot of primitive societies in India, you will find that they have a different language structure, their language structure is more basic and more real, but they cannot create poetry, their language structure is not helpful for dreaming . If it's raining, we say, "It's raining." But they ask, "What does it mean? What does it mean!" They only have the word "rain." What does "it" mean?what is rainingThey just say "rain", the rain is the truth, but we keep adding other things, and the more words are added, the more we lose our original essence, the further we are from the real existence.Buddha once said: "When you say: a person is walking, what do you mean? Where is the person? Only walking exists. What is that person you speak of?" When we say: a person is walking, it hears It seems that there is something like a person and something like walking, both together, and Buddha said: only walking.When you say: "The river is flowing." What do you mean?There is only flow, and that "flow" is the river, that "walking" is the person, that "seeing" is the person, "standing" and "sitting" are the person, if you remove all these -- walking, sitting, standing , thinking, dreaming, will there be one person left behind?There will be no one left, but language creates a different world, and by constantly entering into language we go on leaving real existence.

So the first thing to remember is: How can you avoid using words unnecessarily, when you need them, you can use them, but when you don't, you remain empty, remain silent, remain silent , there is no need to verbalize things often. Second, don't project.Don't verbalize, don't project, just see what's there, don't add something to it, say, you see a face, and when you say, "It's beautiful," you put something into it .Or, if you say, "It's ugly," then you're also adding something.A face is a face, beauty and ugliness are your interpretations, they are not there, because the same face may be beautiful to someone and ugly to someone else, to a third Or maybe it's neither beautiful nor ugly, maybe he doesn't care, maybe he doesn't even look at it.That face is just a face, don't add anything to it, don't project, your projection is your dream, if you project then you miss, yet this happens every day. You see a beautiful face and then desire arises, desire is not that face or that body, it is your own interpretation, your own projection.The man who is there, the real man, is taken as a screen, and you project yourself on that screen, and then there must be a disillusionment, because the real face cannot be seen through your projection. Push in the unreal being, and sooner or later that projection has to be discarded and the real face will appear, and then you will feel that you have been deceived and you will say, "What the hell is wrong with this face? This face is beautiful." Yes, the person was beautiful, and now everything is ugly." Saying this, you are explaining again, the person remains the same, but your interpretation and projection go on and on, you never Letting the energy manifest itself, you go on repressing it, you repress both outside and inside, you never let the real being manifest itself. I remembered that one day a neighbor asked Mulla Nasruddin to borrow his horse for a few hours, and Mulla said, "I am happy to lend you the horse, but the horse is being ridden by my wife and she is going out for a whole day." God." At this moment, they heard the neighing of horses from the stable, so the man looked at Mulla Nasruddin.Nasruddin said, "Okay, who are you going to believe? Are you going to trust me, or are you going to trust the horse? Besides, the horse is a notorious liar, who are you going to trust?" We create an unreal world around us because of our projections, but if that truth manifests itself, or if a horse neighs from the stable, we ask, "Who do you believe?" We always believe in ourselves, and Instead of believing in the truth that continues to manifest, the truth is manifesting every moment, but we keep trying to believe in our illusions, that's why everyone feels the disillusionment of the illusion at the end, the disillusionment has nothing to do with the truth .Every man and woman feels disillusioned at the end, like the whole life was a waste, but now there is nothing you can do, you can't get out of the illusion, time is no longer with you, time is past, death is near, and you It was disillusioned, and now that opportunity has been lost. Why does everyone feel disillusioned?Not only those who are not successful in life, even those who are successful in life, they feel the same way, if those who are not successful feel disillusioned, that's ok, but even those who cause success Feel.Napoleon, Hitler and Alexander, they also felt disillusioned, felt that the whole life was a waste, why?Is that reason really in the truth?Or is that reason in your projected dreams?If you know, then you cannot project, then the truth will express itself, and in the end the truth will triumph and you will be defeated, and you will be victorious only if you are not projecting. So, remember the second thing: see things directly as they are.Don't project, don't explain, don't force your mind on things, let the truth express itself, whatever it is, it's always good.No matter how beautiful your dreams are, they are bad, because if you live in them, you are on a journey of disillusionment, and the sooner your illusions are disillusioned, the better, but, once a disillusionment , you immediately create another one to replace it. A gap is allowed.Between two phantoms, a gap is allowed.Allow a gap to exist so that the truth can be seen.Seeing the truth as it is is laborious.The truth may not be according to your desires, it need not be according to your desires, but then you have to live with the truth, you have to live in what is - you are in it!It is better to be in harmony with what is and not to deceive yourself, yet you are not aware of how you continue to project.Someone says one thing and you understand it as another thing, you look at things based on your own understanding, and out of it you make a house of cards, you create a palace of cards.It's never been said!It would have meant something else! Always look at that which exists, don't rush, it's better not to know than to misunderstand, it's better to be consciously ignorant than to think you know.Insight into your relationships - your husband, wife, friend, teacher, master, servant - look!Everyone is thinking in his own way, explaining others, there is no meeting, no communication between them, then they are always in struggle and conflict, the conflict does not exist between two people, the conflict exists in the false between phantoms.Be alert so you don't have false images about anyone else.No matter how hard it is, no matter how strenuous, no matter how difficult, even if sometimes it seems impossible, stay with the real, once you know the beauty of being with the real, you will never be a dream the victim. Third, why are you dreaming?It is a substitute, dreaming is a substitute.If you can't get anything you want in reality, then you start dreaming.Let's say you've fasted all day, and at night you're dreaming, you're dreaming about food, you're being invited by a great king, or something like that, and you're going over and over again in your dreams to eat.All day you are fasting and at night you are eating.If you are sexually repressed, then your dreams will become sexual.Know what you repress during the day through your dreams, and your daytime fasting will show up in your dreams.Dreams are substitutes, and psychologists say that man, as he is, finds it difficult to live without dreams.In one respect, they are right.As far as the current situation of ordinary people is concerned, it is difficult for him to live without dreaming, but if you want to transform, then you must live without dreaming.Why dream?Because there is desire.Unsatisfied desires become dreams. Study your desire, be aware of it, observe it, the more you observe it, the more it will disappear, then you will not create a net in your mind, you will not move in your private world.Dreams cannot be shared, even two close friends cannot share their dreams, you cannot invite anybody into your dreams, why?You and your lover can't both be in the same dream, your dream is your dream, someone else's dream is someone else's dream, they are private, but real existence is not private, only madness is The private, authentic existence is universal and you can share it.You cannot share dreams.They are your personal madness, your personal figment, so what to do? You can live to the fullest during the day so that nothing hangs over there.If you are eating, then eat as much as you want, enjoy it so much that you don't need any dreams at night.If you love someone, you love so completely that no love will enter your dream.Whatever you do during the day, you do it to the fullest so that nothing hangs in the mind, so that there is nothing incomplete that has to be done in the mind.Try it out like this, and within a few months, you'll be having a different quality of sleep.Dreams will continue to become less and less frequent, and sleep will become deeper.When dreaming at night becomes less, there will be less projection during the day, because in fact, whether it is day or night, your sleep continues and your dreams continue.I close my eyes at night and open them during the day, but the dream continues, and there is a stream of dreams continuing inside. Any moment, close your eyes and wait, you will see that video again: the dream is running, it is always there waiting for you, it is like the stars in the daytime, they don't disappear, just because of the sun Exist so you don't see them, they're there waiting, and when the sun goes down they start to appear. Your dreams are like that, even when you are awake, they are moving inside you, they are just waiting, close your eyes and they start working.When there are fewer dreams at night, you will have a different quality of waking.If your nights change, your days will follow; if your sleep changes, your wakefulness will change, and you will be more alert.When there are fewer dreams flowing in you, you are less lethargic and you see more directly. So don't let anything hang in there, this one.Whatever you are doing, follow that action, don't go anywhere else.If you are in the shower, the mind is going to be there, forget the whole world, now the shower is the whole universe, everything stops, the world disappears, just you and the shower, stay there, move completely with every action, Neither lag behind nor leap forward, follow that act, then the dream disappears, and when there is less dreaming, you are more able to penetrate the real existence. Now for this technique, which is concerned with: When a hen raises her chicks, there is a special "knowing" and a special "doing" in real existence. "When a hen raises her chicks, develop a special knowing and a special doing in reality." The key words are "in reality."You are also cultivating many things, but in dreams, not in reality; you are doing a lot, but in dreams, not in reality.Don't teach dreaming, don't help dreaming to grow more in you, don't use your energy to dream, withdraw yourself from all dreams, it will be difficult because you have invested so much in your dreams, if You suddenly withdraw completely from your dreaming, and you will feel as if you are sinking, dying, because you have been living in a delayed dream, you are never here and now, you are always somewhere else , you've been hoping. Have you ever heard the fable of the Greek "Pandora's Box" (PandorasBox).In order to retaliate against a certain behavior of a person, someone sent Pandora a box, which contained all the diseases that are currently prevalent in humans, which did not exist before, when the box was opened, the diseases were released, and Pandora saw that After many diseases, I feel very scared, so I close the box, and only one disease remains in the box. That disease is hope, otherwise a person will definitely be finished, and all these diseases will definitely kill him, but because there is hope, he Still able to continue. why do you liveHave you ever asked this question?You don't live for the here and now, you live for hope, and you carry Pandora's box.why are you living nowWhy do you have to get up every morning?Why do you start all over again to welcome the new day?Why do you have to greet the new day again and again?Why is there this repetition?Why?You can't find any reason now why you should live, if you find something, it will be something in the future - a hope that something will happen: someday "something" will happen, You don't know when the day will come, you don't even know what will happen, but one day "something will happen", so you go on extending yourself, you go on sustaining yourself. People just live in hope, but that's not life, because hope means dream, unless you live in the here and now, you're not alive, you're a dead weight, and that's the tomorrow that will fulfill all your hopes "It will never come, only when death comes, you will understand that there is no tomorrow, you will understand that there is no longer any delay, then you will feel disillusioned, you will feel cheated, but no one cheats You, you are the master of this whole mess. Try to live in the present moment, live in the present, and not cherish hopes, whatever their nature.Those hopes may be secular or beyond, it doesn't make any difference.They may be religious -- somewhere in the future, in another world, in heaven, in nirvana, in the afterlife, but that makes no difference: don't hope.Even if you feel a subtle hopelessness here, stay here, don't move away from the here and now, don't move away!Go to suffer, but don't let hope in. Dreams enter through hope.Be hopeless, if life is hopeless, then be hopeless, accept it, but don't cling to anything in the future, then suddenly there will be a change, once you stay in this moment, the dream stops because then they cannot arise, that source has been cut off.You cooperate with them, you cultivate them, so they arise; don't cooperate with them, don't cultivate them. This passage says: "...cultivate special knowledge." Why special knowledge?You are also cultivating, but you cultivate special theories, not knowledge; you cultivate special classics, not knowledge; you cultivate special assumptions, systems, philosophies, and world views, but you have never been particularly "knowledge".The passage says: Throw them away.Classics, theories, they are all useless.Have your own real experience, your own knowledge, develop them, no matter how trivial, a real knowledge has some value, you can base your life on this, whatever they are, you always have to Think of the real, of the special knowledge that "you" know. do you know anythingYou know many things, but everything is borrowed, someone said them, someone gave them to you.Teachers, parents, society, they condition your mind.You know about God, you know about love, you know about meditation, and yet you know nothing!You have not tasted anything, everything is borrowed, others have tasted, but the experience is not your own; others have seen, but you have your own eyes, and you have never used them.Others have experienced it -- Buddha has experienced it, Jesus has experienced it, and you just go on borrowing their "knowledge".Those are all fake!They are of no use to you, they are more dangerous than ignorance, because ignorance is yours and knowledge is borrowed. Ignorance is better, at least ignorance is yours and it's real!It's true, sincere, and honest!Don't go on borrowing knowledge, otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant and you will remain ignorant. This passage says, "...cultivate special knowledge." Always try to know something in a fresh, direct, immediate way, trust no one, your believing will lead you on the right track, trust you Yourself, if you can't trust yourself, how can you trust anyone else? Shariputra came to the Buddha and said, "I have come to believe in you, here I am! Help me build up my confidence in you." The Buddha is said to have replied, "If you don't believe in yourself, how can you trust me? So , forget me, first of all, you have to trust yourself, you have to believe in yourself, only in this way, you can trust others." So remember: if you can't even trust yourself, you can't trust anyone. The first trust is always within, only then can it flow, only then can it flow, It is able to reach others, but if you don't know anything, how can you trust?How can you trust yourself if you don't have any experience?Try to trust yourself.Don't think that this experience of looking through someone else's eyes is only for "the Absolute", it is also used for experiences in general, however, these experiences must be your own; your own experience will help you grow, will mature you. It's really weird: you see with someone else's eyes, you live with someone else's life.You say a rose is beautiful, and in fact, is that how you feel, or is it just a teaching spread around you?Is this your "knowledge"?do you know itYou said that the moonlight is very good and beautiful. Did you know that?Or is it just that the poet keeps singing it and you repeat it?If you are like a parrot, you cannot live your life very authentically.Whenever you assert anything, whenever you say anything, first check within yourself to see if it is your knowledge and your experience. It is useless to throw away everything that is not yours, cherish and cultivate everything that is yours, because only through that can you grow, "Cultivate special knowledge and special doing in real existence." Must Remember: "in real existence".Do something, have you ever done something?Or have you been just following others, just following orders? "Love Your Wife": Do You Really Love Her?Or maybe you're just doing a duty that someone else has said or taught.The dogma says, "Love your wife, or your mother, or your father, or your brother." So you love, and you do the same!Did you really love anytime you were there?Does the situation work without being taught, or imitating others?Have you ever really loved?You can lie to yourself, you can say, "Yes!" But before you say anything, you have to think it is, and if you have loved, you must be changed.This particular act of loving is bound to change you, but it doesn't change you because your love is false and your whole life has become false, you have been doing things that are not yourself.Do your thing, and cultivate it. Buddha is good but you cannot conform to him; Jesus is good, beautiful but you cannot conform to him, if you conform to them you will become ugly, you will become a photocopy, you will become False you will not be accepted by existence, false cannot be accepted.Love Buddha, love Jesus, but don't be a copy of them, don't imitate, always allow yourself to act in its own way, one day you will become like Buddha, but that path is basically yourself Yes; one day you will become Jesus, but you will have to walk a different way, you will experience different things.One thing is certain: whatever that path is, whatever that experience is, it has to be real, real, and your own, and then one day you will get there.Through falsehood you cannot reach truth, falsehood leads to more falsehood. Whatever you do, remember that you are doing it and not according to anyone else, then even a small act, even a smile, may become a Satori ), a source of samadhi (cosmic consciousness).You go home and smile at your kids, that smile is fake, you're pretending, you're smiling because they expect you to smile, it's a fake smile, you're just smiling but not real, that smile is Manipulated, mechanical, you will become so used to it that you may completely forget how to laugh; you will laugh, but the laugh may not come from your center. Always remember: no matter what you are doing, pay attention to whether your core is involved, if it is not involved, it is best not to do it, don't do it!No one is forcing you to do anything, don't do it!Save your energy to do it when something real happens to you.Don't smile, keep that energy, the smile will come and then it will change you completely.It will be total, and then every cell of your body will laugh, it will be an explosion, not a fabrication. Children know that you can't fool them, when you can fool them, they are no longer children, they know when your smile is fake, they can detect it, any real person can detect it it.Your tears are fake, your smile is fake, these are small acts, but you are made of small acts, so don't think about doing big things, don't say what you will be able to do in the future, if you Be false in small things and you will always be false. It is easy to be false in great things; if you are false in small things, then you can easily be false in great things, because great things are always showing, they are made for others to see, so you can be false easily, if the divine is Respected, you can become a divine person, and in doing so, you are showing, you are just a showpiece.You can be a holy person because it is revered and ego-satisfying, but everything will become false. I think of a friend who was a Buddhist monk who went to Russia during the Stalin era, and he told me that whenever someone shook his hand, all of a sudden, that person would back off and say, "You have a pair of middle-class Hands." He has beautiful hands.As a monk, he never did anything, his hands were very smooth, very beautiful, very feminine.In India, whenever someone touched his hand, they would say: "It's so beautiful!" You have the hands of the middle class, the hands of an exploiter." He came back and told me, "I was condemned there, and I wanted to be a worker." Saints disappeared from Russia, because no one respected them, so the sacredness that was there before was just for display, an artificial display.Now only real saints can exist in Russia, unreal saints are impossible, because if you want to be a saint there you will have to fight and the whole society will be against you.In India the easiest way to live is to be a saint. Everyone will respect you. You can be false, and that falsehood will bring you good. Remember: Every morning when you open your eyes, try to be real and don't do anything false.Keep remembering, just seven days, don't do anything false, if there is something to lose, let it be, whatever you lose, let it be lost, but be true, within seven days, in you A new life will be felt, the dead plane will be broken, and a new flow of life will come to you, and you will feel alive again for the first time - a resurrection. "Cultivate Doing and Knowing in Real Being" - not in a dream.Do whatever you like, but really think: are you doing it, or is your mother doing it through you, or is your father doing it through you?因为那些死去的人、死去的父母、社会和已经离现在很久的前辈子的人，他们仍然在你里面运作，他们已经创造出某种制约，而你继续在满足他们，他们在满足他们死去的父母亲，而你在满足你死去的父母亲，然而，事实上没有人被满足，你怎么能够满足某一个死去的人？但是那个死去的人却透过你而活着。 每当你做什么事，你一定要观察，是你父亲透过你在做它，或是你在做它。当你生气，那是你的生气，或是你父亲惯用的生气方式？你只是在模仿。我看到那个模式在继续着，在被重复。如果你结婚，你的婚姻将大概跟你父亲和你母亲的婚姻一样，你的行为会像你父亲一样，你太太的行为会像你母亲一样，而你们将会再度创造出同样的一团糟。当你生气的时候，你要观察：是你在哪里，或是其他某人在哪里？当你爱，记住，是你在那里或是其他某人在哪里？当你说些什么，记住，是你在说，或是你的老师在说？当你作一个手势，记住，那是你的，或是其他某人存在于你的手中？那将会很困难，但这就是修行，灵性的努力就是这个意思。 离开所有的虚假，你或许会暂时觉得无趣，因为你所有的虚假都将必须抛弃，而那真实的需要经过一些时间才能够来临，才能够表现出它本身。将会有一段空档，要让那一段空档存在，不要害怕、不要恐惧，迟早你虚假的自己将会消失、面具将会消失，而你真实的脸将会出现，唯有透过那真实的脸，你才能够碰到神，那就是为什么这段经文说："当一只母鸡培养她的小鸡，要培养在真实存在里特别的知和特别的做。" 第二段经文： 既然在真理当中，枷锁和自由是相关联的，这些文字只是为那些对宇宙感到恐惧的人而存在，这个宇宙是头脑的反映，就好像天上只有一个太阳，而你可以从水中看到很多太阳，所以要以这样来看枷锁和自由。 这是一个非常深的技巧，是最深的技巧之一，只有非常稀有的头脑曾经尝试过它。禅是基于这个技巧，这个技巧在说一件非常困难的事，很难去了解，而不是很难去经验，但是，首先，了解是需要的，这段经文说：世界和涅槃并不是两件事，它们是同一件事；天堂和地狱并不是两件事，它们是同一件事；枷锁和自由并不是两件事，它们是同一件事。这是难以了解的，因为唯有当我们以相反的两极来措辞，我们才能够很容易地去设想事情。 我们说这个世界是枷锁，所以，你怎么能够离开这个世界而变自由？这样的话，自由就是某种相反的东西，它就不是枷锁，但是这段经文说此两者都是一样的——自由和枷锁——除非你能够免于此两者，否则你就没有自由，枷锁会束缚你，自由也是一样，枷锁是一种奴役，自由也是一样。 试着去了解这个，注意看一个试着去超越枷锁的人，他在做什么，他离开家、离开家庭、离开财富、离开世俗的东西、离开社会，为的只是要脱离枷锁、脱离世界的锁链，然后他为他自己创造出新的锁链，他自己所创造出来的锁链是负向的。 我曾经看过一个圣人，他不能够碰触到金钱，他备受尊敬，他一定会被那些疯狂追逐金钱的人所尊敬，因为他已经跑到另一个极端。如果你将钱放在他的手中，他会将它丢掉，好像它有毒似的，或是好像你将某种毒蝎放在他的手中，他会将它丢掉，然后他会变得害怕，他的身体会产生微妙的颤抖，到底是怎么一回事？他一直在跟金钱抗争，他一定曾经是一个贪婪的人、过分贪婪的人，唯有如此，他才会跑到这个极端，他或许曾经太过分执著于金钱，现在他仍然执著，但是是以相反的方式，然而，那个执著还是存在。 我曾经看过一个弟子，他不能够看任何女人的脸，他会变得害怕，他会一直往下看，如果有某一个女人在那里，他一定不会往上看，问题在哪里？他一定是太过分注意性、过分执著于性，他仍然执著，以前他一直在追这个女人或那个女人，而现在他在逃离女人，逃离这个女人和那个女人，但是他仍然执著于女人，不管他是在追逐，或是在逃离，他的执著仍然存在。他认为现在他已经免于女人，但这是一个新的枷锁，你不能够藉着相反的反应来免于什么东西，那个你所反对的东西将会负向地束缚着你，你无法逃离它。如果某人反对世界而赞成自由，那么他就无法自由，他将会继续停留在这个世界，那个反对的态度就是一个枷锁。 这段经文非常深，它说："既然在真理当中，枷锁和自由是相关联的……"它们不是相反的，它们是相关联的。自由是什么？你说："不是枷锁。"而枷锁是什么？你说："不是自由。"你可以使用双方来互相定义。然而，它们就好像冷和热，它们不是相反的。热是什么，而冷是什么？它们只是同一个现象的不同程度，它们是不同程度的温度，但那个现象是一样的，它们是相关联的，如果有一桶热水和一桶冷水，而你将你的两手放进去，一只手放进热水，另一只手放进冷水，你会感觉到什么？不同的温度。 如果你将双手先用冰冷却，然后将它们放进热水和冷水，将会怎样？如此一来，你将会再度感觉到一个差别，你冰冷的手在热水里将会觉得比以前更热，而如果另外一只手已经变冷了，比冷水更冷，那么你将会觉得那些冷水是热的，你将不会觉得它是冷的，它是比较的，只是程度上的不同，但那个现象是一样的。 坦陀罗说枷锁和自由；善什和莫克夏，并不是两件事情，而是同一件事的相关现象。所以坦陀罗是独一无二的，坦陀罗说，你不仅要从枷锁里面自由出来，你也必须从莫克夏（自由）里面自由出来，除非你能够从两者里面自由出来，否则你并没有被解放。 所以，第一件事是：不要试着去反对任何事，因为你将会跑到仍然属于它的事情上面去，它看起来是相反的，但其实不然。不要从性跑到无欲，如果你试着从性跑到无欲，你的无欲将只不过是性意念；不要从贪婪跑到不贪婪，因为那个不贪婪将再度成为一个微妙的贪婪，那就是为什么如果一个传统教你不贪婪，它都会给你某种利益的动机。 我曾经跟一个圣人在一起，他告诉他的追随者说："如果你摆脱贪婪，你将会在另一个世界得到更多；如果你脱离贪婪，你将会在另一个世界获得更多！"那些贪婪的人、那些贪婪另一个世界的人，他们将会受到这个所影响，他们或许会受到激励，为了要获得，他们将准备好离开很多东西，但是那个想要去得到的动机还是存在，否则一个贪婪的人怎么能够走向不贪婪？一定要有某种能够深深满足他贪婪的动机存在。 所以，不要创造出相反的极端，所有相反的极端都是相关联的，它们是同一现象各种不同的程度，如果你能够觉知到这一点，你将会说：那两个极端都是一样的，而如果这个感觉加深，你将会从两者解放出来，那么你既不要求善什（世界；枷锁），也不要求莫克夏（自由）。事实上，如果能够这样的话，你就不要求任何东西，你已经停止要求，在那个停止当中，你就解放了（自由了），当你感觉到每样东西都一样的时候，未来就被抛弃了，如此一来，你能够跑到哪里呢？性和无欲两者都是一样的，所以一个人要跑到哪里去呢？如果贪婪和不贪婪是一样的、暴力和非暴力是一样的，那么，一个人要跑到哪里去呢？ 没有地方去，那么活动就停止了，那么就没有未来，你不能够欲求任何东西，因为所有的欲望都是一样的，所不同的只是在于程度，你能够欲求什么呢？有时候我问人们，当他们来到我这里，我问他们："你真正在欲求什么？"他们的欲望以他们现在的情况为基础，如果他们是贪婪的，他们就欲求不贪婪；如果他们是具有性欲的，如果他们执著于性，他们就欲求无欲、欲求如何超越性，因为他们被性困扰得很痛苦。 但是这个对无欲的欲求是基于、是植根于他们的性意念，他们问："要如何走出这个世界？"世界对他们来讲太过分了，他们被压得透不过气来，他们太过于执著。世界无法重压你，除非你执著于它。那个重担是在你的头脑里，并不是因为那个重担，而是因为你，你携带着它。他们携带着整个世界，因此他们受到重压。在这个痛苦的经验里，有一个新的、要求相反之物的欲望产生，因此他们就开始渴望那相反的东西。 以前他们追求金钱，现在他们追求静心；以前他们追求属于这个世界的东西，现在他们追求属于那个世界的东西，但那个追求还是存在，那个追求就是问题之所在，目标是不相关的，欲望才是问题。你欲求什么，那不是问题，你欲求，那才是问题，而你一直在改变目标，今天你欲求A，明天你欲求B，你认为你在改变，然后，后天你欲求C，而你认为你已经蜕变了，但你是一样的，你欲求A、你欲求B、你欲求C，然而A或B或C都不是你，你欲求，那才是你。你保持一样，你欲求枷锁，然后你遭到挫折；你受够了，然后你就欲求自由。你欲求，而那个欲求就是枷锁。 所以，你不能够欲求自由，因为欲求就是枷锁；你不能够欲求自由，当欲求停止，自由就存在。这段经文说："在真理当中，枷锁和自由是相关联的。"所以不要变成执著于相反的东西。 "这些文字只是为那些对宇宙感到恐惧的人而存在。"这些自由和枷锁的文字只是为那些对宇宙感到恐惧的人而存在。"这个宇宙是头脑的反映。"任何你在这个宇宙里所看到的都是一个反映，如果它看起来像枷锁，它意味着那是你的反映；如果它看起来像自由，那么它也是你的反映。 "就好像天上只有一个太阳，而你可以从水中看到很多太阳，所以要以这样来看枷锁和自由。"太阳升起，有很多池塘，——肮脏的和纯洁的；大的和小的；美的和丑的——一个太阳反映在很多池塘里，一个继续在数那些反映的人将会认为有很多很多太阳，一个洞察真相而不是看那些反映的人将会只看到一个太阳。世界、就你所看到的世界，反映着你。如果你是具有性欲的，那么整个世界就似乎是属于性的，如果你是一个贼，那么整个世界就似乎是在同一个职业里。 有一次，木拉那斯鲁丁和他的太太在钓鱼，那个地方是管制区，只有持有执照的人能够在那里钓鱼，突然有一个警察出现，所以木拉的太太说："木拉，你有执照，所以你跑开，同时，我会逃走。"所以木拉就开始跑，他跑了又跑，跑了又跑，而警察在后面追，当然，木拉把太太留在那里。木拉跑了又跑，直到他觉得气喘如牛，在那个时候，警察抓到他，警察也是汗流夹背，警察说："你的执照在哪里。"木拉把执照拿出来，警察看了一下，没有问题，所以他说："你为什么要跑，那斯鲁丁？为什么你要跑开？" 那斯鲁丁说："我去看医生，他说每次饭后要跑半英里。"警察说："好，但是你看到我在你后面跑，追赶你，大声喊，你为什么不停下来？"那斯鲁丁说："我以为或许你也要去找同一个医生。" 那是合乎逻辑的，那就是所发生的。任何你在你周围所看到的大部分是你的反映，而不是真实的东西，你看你自己被反映在每一个地方。当你改变，那个反映就改变了；当你变得完全宁静，整个世界就变宁静。世界不是一个枷锁：枷锁是一个反映；世界不是解放：解放也是一个反映。 佛陀发现整个世界都处于涅槃之中，克里虚纳发觉整个世界都在狂喜当中庆祝、在喜乐当中庆祝，没有痛苦。但是坦陀罗说：任何你所看到的都是一个反映，除非所有的"看"都消失，只有镜子被看到，而没有什么东西被反映在它里面。那就是真理。 "如果某种东西被看到，那只是一个反映，真理只有一个，而如果有很多个的话，那只能够是反映，一旦这个被了解，不是理论上的了解，而是存在性的、透过经验的了解，那么你就解放了：从枷锁和自由两者当中解放出来。 当那罗帕成道的时候，有人问他："你现在达成解放了吗？"那罗帕说："是和不是两者，是是因为我已经不处于枷锁之中，不是是因为那个解放也是枷锁的一个反映，因为枷锁的缘故，我才会想到解放。" 以这样的方式来看它：你是生病的，而你渴望健康，那个渴望健康也是你生病的一部分，如果你真的健康，你将不会渴望健康，你怎么会呢？如果你真的健康，那个渴望要从何而来？有什么需要？如果你真的健康，你从来不会觉得你是健康的，只有生病的人才会觉得他们是健康的，有什么需要呢？你怎么会觉得你是健康的？如果你一生下来就是健康的，从来没有生过病，你能够感觉到你的健康吗？健康存在，但是它不能够被感觉到。唯有透过对照、透过相反的情况，它才能够被感觉到，唯有透过相反的情况，事情才能够被感觉到，如果你是生病的，你能够感觉到健康，而如果你感觉到健康，记住，你仍然是生病的。 所以那罗帕说："是和不是两者，是是因为现在已经没有枷锁，但是解放也随着枷锁而消失，所以才会说不是。解放也是枷锁的一部分，现在我超越两者，既不在枷锁里，也不在解放里。" 不要使宗教成为一个追求、一个欲望，不要使莫克夏（解放）、涅槃成为一个欲求的目标，它是当没有欲求的时候才会发生。