Chapter 17 Chapter 16 The Potential of Seeds

Bombay, India, April 1, 1973 first question: Last night you said that Krishna, Christ, Buddha are the highest points of human possibility and growth, and then you said: Yoga and Tantra psychology do not give people ideals, but according to Tantra, there are An ideal is wrong. Referring to these statements, please explain the difference between a heuristic and an ideal.Please tell us, what is the importance of inspiration in the life of a suitor?Tell us, please, whether it is a mistake to be inspired by a great man even in the path of a meditator? Buddha, Krishna, or Christ, they are not your ideals, you don't follow them, if you follow them you will miss them and your own Buddhahood will never be achieved.Buddha is not an ideal, but Buddha-nature is the ideal; Jesus is not an ideal, but Christ-nature is the ideal.The nature of Buddha is different from that of Buddha; the nature of Christ is also different from that of Jesus. Jesus is just one of many Christs. You can become a Christ (God), but you can never become a Jesus; you can become a Buddha, but you can never become Gautama.Gautama (the name of Buddha) became a Buddha, and you can become a Buddha too.Buddha nature is a quality!It is an experience!Of course, when Gautama becomes a Buddha, Gautama has his own individuality, you have your own individuality, when you become a Buddha, the two Buddhas will be different, the innermost experience will be It will be the same, but the expression will be different -- absolutely different, impossible to compare, only at the innermost core will you be the same.

why?Because the innermost core has no individuality, the individuality is only around.The deeper you go, the more the individuality disappears.At the innermost core you are as if there is no one; at the innermost core you are just a deep emptiness, a nothingness - a saga, a zero.Because of this nothingness, there is no difference, because two nothingnesses cannot be different, but two things must be different.Two "somethings" must never be the same, and two "nothings" must never be different.When a person becomes completely empty, becomes a zero point, it is similar to that in Jesus, in Krishna, in Buddha.When you reach the ultimate, you have reached this sagacity -- this nothingness.

But your personality, your expression of ecstasy will be different, Meeera can dance and Buddha can never dance, impossible to imagine Buddha dancing, it looks absurd, but Meeera is like Buddha Sitting under the Bodhi tree also looks absurd, she will lose everything, she will not be a Mira at all, she will be an imitation, the real Mira can only be thought of in ecstasy, in herself Dancing in the madness of love is her expression, but the inner core is the same.In the dancing Mira, and in the Buddha sitting quietly like a statue, the innermost core is the same, but the surroundings are different, dancing and sitting silently are just surroundings part.If you go inside Mira, as you go deeper, the dancing will stop, Mira will stop.If you go deep into the Buddha, the meditation will stop, the personal Buddha will stop.

You can become a Buddha, but you can never become a Gautama Buddha, that's how it is.Don't make them your ideals, otherwise you will start imitating them, and if you imitate, what can you do?You can coerce something from the outside, but that will be a fake phenomenon, you will become fake, just painted on, you will look like Buddha, more than Buddha.You can look like, but that is only an appearance, deep down you remain the same, and this will create a duality, a conflict, an inner pain, you will be in suffering. You can only be in bliss when you are who you really are, you can never feel any joy when you are playing someone else, so remember the message of Tantra: You are the ideal.Don't imitate others, discover yourself.Watch a buddha, you don't need to imitate him, when you watch a buddha, there is a possibility that hits you deep inside you, something beyond can happen, buddha is just a symbol that something has happened In this man, and if it can happen to this man, it can happen to everyone, and then the possibility of the whole of humanity is revealed.

In Jesus, in Mira, in Chaitanya, a possibility is revealed, the future is revealed, you don't need to maintain the status quo, it is possible to go further than the status quo, so Buddha is just a Symbol of the future, don't imitate him, instead let his life, his being, and what happens become a new hunger in you, that's it.Be sure not to be satisfied with your own status quo, let the Buddha become a dissatisfaction in you, a hunger to go beyond, a hunger to go into the unknown.When you reach the pinnacle of your own being, you will know what happened to Buddha under the Bodhi tree, what happened to Jesus on the cross, or what happened to Mira when she danced in the street.You will know, but your expression will be your own.You will not be Mira, Buddha, or Jesus, you will be yourself, and you have never been yourself before.you are unique.

So, say nothing, you cannot predict, no one can say what will happen, no one can say how you will express, will you sing, dance, paint, or be silent, if you can predict say you It will be like this or like that, then you become a machine. Only mechanical devices can be predicted, human consciousness is not predictable, that is its freedom, so when Tantra says: Don't follow ideals, it doesn't mean to negate Buddha, no, it is not a negation, In fact, it means how to find your own Buddha nature.Follow others, you will miss it, follow your own path, you can get it, you can achieve it. A man came to Zen master Bokuyu.Bukyoyo's master was a very famous, well-known, and great person, so someone asked, "Are you really following your master?" Bukyoyo said, "Yes, I was following him. . . . " But the person who asked the question felt something was wrong, because the whole country knew that Bu Keyou did not follow his master at all, so the person said, "Are you trying to lie to me? Everyone knows it, and you know it too. You You didn’t follow your master at all, but you said you followed him, what does that mean?” Bukeyou said, “I followed my master, because my master never followed his master. What he learned there, he is himself!" Following the Buddha, following Jesus, is to do this, to do this!They are unique, and if you truly follow them, you must be unique too.

Buddha never imitated anyone, and only when he stopped imitating completely did he attain enlightenment.When he becomes himself, when he leaves all paths and all teachings, and all dogmas, he can achieve.If you imitate him, you don't imitate him. This is not plausible, it just seems so.If you follow him in a dead routine, if you imitate him, then you are not imitating him. He never imitates anybody. Only in this way can he become the peak.Know him, but don't imitate him, then a subtle imitation will happen, but that is inner, that is not an imitation. In Nietzsche's great work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", Zarathustra's final message to his disciples is: "Look at me, I have told you all that I have to tell you, now , look out for me, don't imitate me, forget me, leave me, and go away."

This is the last message of all great masters, no great master wants to make you a puppet, because in doing so he is killing you, in doing so he becomes a murderer, he will help You become yourself, and if you cannot be yourself in the intimacy and communication with your Master, then you can be yourself there. Mastering means giving you a chance to be yourself.Only small minds, narrow minds, they pretend to be masters, but they are not masters, only they try to impose themselves on you.The great masters will help you to grow in your own way, the great masters will create many obstacles so that you do not become a victim of imitation, they will create every necessary obstacle!They won't allow it because your tendency is to imitate.That is easy, imitation is easy; it is laborious to be real, and when you imitate you do not feel that you are responsible for it: the master is responsible.No great master will allow anyone to imitate, he will create so many barriers that you cannot imitate him, he will throw you back into yourself by various means.

I remember a Chinese saint who was celebrating his master's enlightenment day, and many followers came and said, "How come we never heard that this man is your master, we never knew you belonged to this man." The old man is dead.They said, "We didn't know until today that you were celebrating your master's enlightenment day. Is this man your master? How to put it! We have never seen you with him." The saint replied, "I was with him once, but he refused, he refused to be my master, because of his rejection, I was able to be who I am, and I am what I am because of his rejection." .I am his disciple, he could have accepted me, then I put all the responsibility on him, but he refused, and he is the last one, there is no comparison, when he refused, I couldn't Go to anyone else, because he is the only refuge, and if he refuses, then there is no point, no purpose in going anywhere, and I will not go to anyone from now on, he is the last. If he Accept me, I will definitely forget about myself, but he refused, and he refused very rudely, that rejection became a shock and a challenge, and made me decide never to look for anyone again, if this person refuses, then None of them were worth looking for, and then I worked on my own, and it wasn't until then that I came to understand why he said no. He threw me back into myself, and only then did I know he accepted me , otherwise why would he refuse?"

This may seem contradictory, but the kinetic energy of the deeper consciousness works like this.Masters are mysterious, you can't judge them unless the whole thing is happening.Otherwise you can't be sure what they're doing, you'll only be able to know what they're doing after the fact, that's not possible at the moment, you can't tell halfway through what's going on, you can't know what he's doing, but one thing is Definitely: Imitation is not allowed. Inspiration is another thing, and through inspiration you start that journey, not starting any effort of imitation, but your way into yourself.Inspiration is just a challenge.There is a hunger that arises and you move.

Tantra says: Be inspired, but don't become an imitator, always remember that you are your own goal and no one else can be your goal unless you achieve it and you can say: "I have achieved mine Destiny, now I'm satisfied." That point, otherwise don't stop, keep going beyond, keep being dissatisfied, keep acting, if you haven't sketched out any ideals, then you can be fulfilled by everyone.When you cling to an ideal, you become closed.If you are attached to Buddha, then Jesus is not for you, you are attached to an ideal, you try to imitate him, then all the opposite, all the different things are hostile in your mind. That's why followers are always enemies of other followers, they create enmity in the world. If you're not a copycat then you can try water from many rivers and many wells and if they taste different that's ok, it's beautiful and you'll be filled with it, then you're right Open up to Harvey, Christ, Zarathustra, and everyone, they inspire you toward yourself.They are not ideals, but they all help you to be who you are, they are not pointing to themselves, they are pointing to you in different ways, in different ways, they are all pointing to one goal, and that goal is you. Laura Huxley wrote a book called You Are Not a Target.But I will tell you that you are the target of all these -- Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna, Christ, etc. They all point to you, you are the target, you are the target.Life is trying and struggling through you to reach a unique peak, and you should be happy about it!Be grateful for it!Life is trying to achieve a unique purpose through you, and that purpose can only be achieved through you, no one else can achieve it, you exist for it, your destiny is for it, so don't Waste time trying to imitate others, but that doesn't mean uninspired, in fact, if you don't imitate anyone, you can be enlightened easily, if you imitate others, you become very rigid, you will not be spiritual Enlightenment.Enlightenment is an opening, while imitation is closed. second question: You say that Western psychology is based on Freud's idea of ​​pathological psychology, while Eastern psychology measures a person on the basis of the supernormal, but in the modern world, when I look around, I see Most people fit into the category of Freudian pathological psychology, only one person in a million fits into the category of supernormal, and besides, only a few people actually fit into society's ideal of "normal".In today's world, why is there so much pathology, and what do you think is the definition of "normal"? There are many things that must be understood.It's not like that, it's not that few reach their peak, there are many, but you don't have eyes to see them, whenever you look around, you only see what you can see, how can you see that What are you not able to see?Your ability to see determines many things, you hear what you can hear, not what is there.If a Buddha passes, you may not recognize him; when the Buddha passes, you are really there, but you miss it.you have there!You were there when Jesus was alive, but you crucified him.It is difficult to see because you are looking in your own way, you have concepts, you have categories, you have attitudes, and you see Buddha and Jesus through those. To you, Jesus looks like a criminal.When Jesus was crucified, he was crucified with two other criminals, with a thief on each side of him, three crucified together, and Jesus was in the middle of the two thieves ,why?Somehow, he was considered an immoral criminal, that was your judgment at the time.Even if Jesus returns now, you will judge him in the same way because your judgment and standard have not changed. Jesus is with everyone and with everyone.He stays at a prostitute's house and the whole village is against him, but his values ​​are different.The prostitute came and washed his feet with her tears, and she said, "I am guilty, I am a sinner, and you are my only hope, if you come to my house, I will relieve my guilt, I will be alive again, and if Jesus can come to my house, then I will be accepted." So Jesus went, and he stayed there, but the whole village was against him.What kind of person is he to be with a prostitute?But for Jesus, love is value, no one has ever given him such an "invitation to love", he couldn't say no, and if Jesus said no, he couldn't be an enlightened person, then he was just Seeking the respect of society, yet he does not seek the respect of society. In another village, the whole village came to Jesus with a sinful woman.It says in the Old Testament, "If anyone sins, she must be stoned to death. Men need not be like this, but women must be stoned to death, because only women sin, and men never sin, because all these scriptures It was written by a man, which is a big problem, so they went to ask Jesus, they were playing a trick, because if Jesus said, "No, don't kill this woman, don't judge. "Then they can say: 'You violate the scriptures. "And if Jesus said, 'Yes, kill this woman, stone her to death. "Then they'll say, 'Where's your message of loving your enemies, where's your message of don't judge lest you be judged. " So, they are playing a trick, they are creating a dilemma -- a logical dilemma.No matter what jesus said, he was bound to fall into a trap, but you can't trap an enlightened man, that's impossible, the more you try to trap him, the more you will fall into his Trap, so Jesus said, "The scriptures are absolutely true, but only those who have never sinned come forward and put the stone in your hands and kill this woman, but only those who have never sinned." The crowd started to disappear, and those who stood in the front backed away, because it was up to someone to stone the woman. They became enemies of Jesus, and when I say "they" I mean "you".You are here all the time, but you cannot recognize, you cannot see, you are blind!That's why you have been thinking that the world is bad, unenlightened and everyone is sick, that is not the case, but you can only see sickness because you are sick; you can understand sickness because you is sick; you cannot know health because you have never been healthy, and the language of health has been forgotten by you. I have heard about a Jewish mystic named Baal Shem.Someone asked Balsham, "Which one is more important, wealth or wisdom, and which one is more valuable?" There was a reason why that person asked this question, so Balsham said with a smile: "Of course, wisdom is more important, and which is more valuable?" Valuable." Then the man said, "So, Balshham, second question: I see you all the time, smart guy, serving rich people, you always go to rich people's houses, but I never I have never seen any rich people serve you, a smart person, and you say that wisdom is more valuable than wealth, so please explain this phenomenon and let me know." Ballsham laughed and said, "Yes, wise people go to rich people, because they are smart, so they know the value of wealth, and those rich people, they just have money, nothing else, they can't understand wisdom Of course, I go to the rich because I understand the value of wealth, and those poor idiots, they only have money and nothing else, they can't understand the value of wisdom, so they never come to me. " If you see a saint go to a palace, you say, "OK! This man is not a saint." That's how you judge.Because you see it through your own eyes, wealth means something to you, so you judge it that way.You can only follow a saint who throws away wealth, because you are money addicted, you see through you, and whatever you say is more about you than about anyone else, it is always about you, You are the object of reference.When you say Buddha is not enlightened, you don't mean that, you just mean: "To me, he doesn't look enlightened." But how old are you?Does enlightenment depend on your attitude, your way, your point of view?You have fixed categories of thought and you continue to use that, to you pathological psychology is recognizable, but enlightenment is not, you cannot know something higher than yourself, remember that Remember, you can only understand what is lower than you, or at most you can only understand what is at the same level as you, you cannot understand what is higher, that is impossible.To know the higher you have to go higher.You can only understand the lower. Seen in this way, a madman cannot understand you.A madman cannot understand you, he sees through his madness, but you can understand a madman, he is lower than you, normal people can understand those who are down, sick, abnormal, but he Higher people cannot be understood.Even Floyd was terrified. Jung wrote in his memoirs: Once he wanted to analyze Freud's dream.He was one of Freud's greatest disciples, and they traveled to America on the same boat, so for a few days, they were all together, and one day Jung got enough courage, he was the closest A close disciple, he told Freud, "I want to analyze your dream, so please tell me your dream, any dream, we will be together many, many days, so I can analyze it. "What about Freud?Freud said: "What do you mean! If you analyze my dreams, I will lose my authority. I will not be able to tell you my dreams." Freud, the greatest psychologist of our time, could have suffered from the same disease as anyone else.When Jung said, "I'm going to leave you," he fell out of his chair and became unconscious, and he passed out, and for hours, he was unconscious because of "a disciple is going to leave him" The concept shocked him, and it was only a disciple who said, "I am going to leave you." He was so shocked. If you tell a Buddha, "I am going to leave you," can you imagine him falling down and becoming unconscious?Even if all 10,000 disciples leave him, he will be very happy, so happy that if you leave, he will feel very good. Why?Your psychologist is the same as you, they are not from above, they have the same problem, so a psychologist will go to another psychologist for analysis, it is not like a doctor to another doctor for treatment , for doctors, that's no problem, they can be forgiven, but for psychologists, that seems absurd, one psychologist goes to another psychologist for analysis?what does that mean?That means he is an ordinary person, and psychology is just a profession. Buddha does not engage in any profession, he is not an ordinary person, he has realized a new truth, he has reached a new state of existence, now he can see from the peak, he can understand you, but you cannot understand him, No matter how hard he tries, you won't really understand him, and unless you look beyond his language and look at his personality, you will continue to misunderstand him; unless you are caught by his magnetism and not caught in His language, otherwise you will go on misunderstanding him; unless you become like a piece of iron, attracted by his magnetism, you will not be able to understand him, you will be misunderstanding, that's why you cannot see, but There are always enlightened people in this world.Morbid psychology is recognized because we are pathological, we can see it, and we understand it. Second, in the whole history of mankind, even if only one person has ever become enlightened, even if there is only one Buddha, he is enough to show his personality to you, if it can happen to a person, why can't it happen to you ?If there is a seed that can become a flower, then every seed has the potential to become a flower, you may be only a seed, but now you know your future, now you know that much more is possible. But for the human mind, things happen just the opposite, it always happens like this.You see a cocoon, and then it breaks, and a butterfly flies out.But for man it seems completely opposite. Man is born like a butterfly, then he enters a cocoon; every child is more like a Buddha than he will ever be.Watch a child, watch his eyes, they are more Buddha-like than any grown man's eyes, the way he sits, the way he moves, the grace, the beauty, the being in the moment, even his anger Everything is beautiful, it is so indulgent, whenever anything is indulgent, it is beautiful. Watch a little child jump and scream when he is angry, just look!Don't think about yourself and think that he is bothering you, just pay attention to the phenomenon, that anger is also beautiful, because when a child is angry, he is very full and unreserved, he is anger.He's so real, so unrepressed, he doesn't hold back, he's angry, and becomes angry.Watch a child, when he loves, when he welcomes you, when he is near you, he is like a Buddha.But soon you will help him, society will help him into that cocoon, and then he will be in that cocoon. We go from cradle to grave right away so there's so much sick psychology because no one is allowed to be natural and sick psychology is forced on you and you're put in a cage and you're put in a dead Then your natural nature will suffer, and you will not be able to get out, so there are so many sicknesses. This sickness is man-made. When human beings become more civilized, they become more sick, so The rule now is this: If your country has fewer madmen, then it is clear that you are less civilized; if in your country madmen are increasing, everyone is mad, everyone Go to a psychoanalyst, then you can know very clearly that your country is the most civilized country in the world. When any country is at its best, everyone goes crazy, civilization drives you crazy because it doesn't allow you to be your natural self, everything is repressed, and when repressed, everything is disturbed , you can't even breathe naturally, let alone anything else, even your breathing is not natural, you can't breathe deeply because society doesn't allow you to breathe deeply. Breathe deeply because if you breathe deeply you cannot suppress your instinct, if you want to suppress anything you can watch the breath change inside you, if you are angry and you want to suppress it, what are you going to doYou will stop breathing immediately.When you are angry, the breathing deepens because anger needs a hot flow of blood in you, anger needs more oxygen, anger needs some chemical changes in you, and through breathing, those changes happen, so whenever you feel Angry and you try to suppress it, you will not be able to breathe naturally, you will take superficial breathing. Watch a child, when you forbid him to do something, immediately his breathing becomes superficial, he cannot breathe deeply, because if he breathes deeply, he cannot obey your orders, then he will Do whatever he likes, so, not even a man breathes deeply, if you breathe deeply, your sex center is massaged from within, and society is against this.Take slow, shallow breaths, don't go deep, then the sex center won't be hit! In fact, civilized man has become incapable of having a deep orgasm because he cannot take a deep breath.In the act of love your breathing has to be very deep, involving your whole body, otherwise you will not be able to orgasm, you will be frustrated.A lot of people come to me and they say, "There is no joy in sex, we go on doing it, it's like a mechanical act, we just lose energy, and when it's done, we feel frustrated and depressed." The reason is not sex , the reason is just: they don't get into it fully, it becomes localized, only semen is released, and then they feel weak; through it, nothing is gained. If, like an animal, the whole body is involved; if every cell of the body is aroused and begins to vibrate, if the whole body becomes like an electricity and the senses are active; if you become egoless, mindless, Thought does not exist; if you are the body, moving in rhythm, vibrating in rhythm, then you will have a deep joy in it, you will feel relaxed, you will be fulfilled in a sense. But this cannot happen because you cannot breathe deeply, you are afraid, watch the body, the body has two ends, one end is for ingestion, your head is for ingestion, the upper end is for ingestion of food and air, receiving impressions, thoughts, and anything.You ingest from the top half, which is one end.The lower body is for letting out, it is not for taking in, you cannot take anything in from the lower body, the lower body is to let out, to let go; you take in from the upper body and let out from the lower body. But the civilized man just takes in and never gives out, and this creates a sickness, so you go crazy, it's like eating something and storing it all the time, never excreting it, you will go crazy.The other end must be used.If someone is a miser, he will naturally become constipated. Watch out for anyone who is miserly, he will suffer from constipation. Miserliness is a kind of spiritual constipation. Those who are against sex, they don't know what they are doing is an act of miserliness, they continue to take in food, but they don't give off sexual energy, then they will go crazy, there is no need to release energy only from the sex center, there is another One possibility - release the energy from the sahasra above the head, but anyway the energy has to be released, you cannot store it, nothing in the world can be stored.The world is a flow, it is a river.Ingest and then out, if you ingest and never out, you will go mad. This is how it happens: everyone is taking and no one is giving.When a moment of giving comes, you become afraid, you just want to take, even for love, you want someone to love you, but the basic need is that you should love someone, then you will Be released, if someone loves you, that's not going to help you, because then you're still ingesting, both poles have to be balanced, and then health happens, and that's what I call a normal human being, A normal person is one who takes in and gives in parallel, in balance, so that he is normal. A man who takes in too much and gives out of balance, I call that man an abnormal man, he doesn't give at all, even if he gives sometimes, it has to be forced, it's not voluntary, You can take something from him, you can force him to give, but he will not give, his giving is like an enema, it is unnatural.You can force him, but he won't poop on his own, he's not ready yet.It is not normal to go on hoarding everything, and then he will go mad because the whole system is disturbed, which is not normal, and a supernormal person is one who gives and never takes. These are three situations: abnormal people only take but never give; normal people give and take in balance; and supernormal people only give but never take.The Buddha is a giver, and the madman is a taker. He stands on the opposite end of the Buddha. If the two ends are balanced, you are a normal person, at least you must become a normal person, because if you are not normal, you will be It will fall down and become abnormal. That's why "giving" is so emphasized in all religions.give!Whatever it is; give, don't think in terms of taking, then you will become supernatural, but that is a very distant thing.First of all be normal, balanced, whatever you take in, give it back to the world, you just become the channel, don't hoard, then you will never go crazy, you will never become neurotic, spiritual Schizophrenic, psychotic, or whatever you want to call it. My definition of a normal person is: a balanced person, a perfectly balanced person.Nothing is retained, he takes the breath in and lets it out, the breath that comes in and the breath that goes out are the same, balanced.试着成为平衡的，一定要记住，你必须将你所收到的给回去，这样的话，你将会成为活生生的、健康的、宁静的、和平的、快乐的。有一个深深的韵律将会发生在你身上，而这个韵律的发生是透过一个"给"和"取"的平衡。 但是我们一直以摄入更多更多来思考，任何你摄入而没有再给出的都将会产生打扰、紧张和痛苦，你将会成为一个地狱。在你将某些东西摄入之前，永远都要想到将某些东西放出去。你有没有观察到，你总是强调吸进来的气？你从来没有强调呼出去的气，你将气吸入，然后身体将气吐出。将这种情形调过来，你将会变得更正常，着重在呼出去的气，仅你的可能，将气呼出，而让身体来吸入。 当你吸入，而没有放出，你的肺就充满二氧化碳，那么你就继续摄入，而你从来不将整个胸部的东西都排放出去，你继续将二氧化碳逼进体内，然后你的呼吸就变得很浅，而整个胸部就充满二氧化碳。首先将它丢出，忘掉摄入，身体将会照顾它自己，身体有它自己的智慧，它比你更聪明，将气呼出，忘掉摄入，不要害怕，你不会死，身体将会摄入，而它将会摄足它所需要的，你呼出多少，它就会摄入多少，平衡将会存在，如果你只是摄入，那么你将会扰乱平衡，因为有那个聚藏的头脑存在。 我曾经呆过很多很多人的家，我看到人们搜集了很多东西，以致于他们不能够生活，没有空间可以生活，而他们还继续在聚藏。他们继续在聚藏，他们认为某一天将会需要用到那些东西。任何不需要的东西，不要聚藏它，而如果别人更需要这些东西，那么最好将它给他，成为一个给予者，你将永远不会成为病态的，所以古老的文明都以给予为基础，而现代的文明以聚藏为基础，那就是为什么有更多的人变得不正常、变成神经病。每一个人都在问要从那里得到，而没有人在问要去那里给予、要给谁。 最后一个问题： 在你每一天的谈话里，你都谈到觉知——全然的觉知，没有间断的觉知等等。你也说它无法由头脑或由重复一个思想而达成，它只能够被感觉到，但是一个人怎么能够感觉到，除非他能够达成它。那个感觉是什么？那个感觉是达成的前兆，但它是什么？如何去想象或投射那个尚未发生的？它的发生也是藉着排除头脑吗？整个过程是怎么样？这要怎么做才可以？ 当我说觉知无法由头脑达成，我的意思是说：你无法藉着想它而达到它，你可以一直去想它，但是你将会老是在绕圈子，当我说它无法由头脑达成，我的意思是说它无法藉着思考而达成，你必须去练习它、你必须去做它，它只能够藉着"做"而达成，不能够藉着思考而达成，这是第一件事。所以不要一直去想：觉知是什么，要如何达成它，或者结果将会是什么；不要一直思考，开始去做它。 当正在街上走路的时候，要有觉知地走，那是困难的，你会一直忘记，但是不要害怕，每当你再度想起时，要保持警觉，踏出每一步要保持完全警觉，要知道，要保持跟那个步子在一起，不要让头脑移到其他地方。当吃东西的时候，吃，要有觉知地咀嚼，不论你在做什么，不要机械式地做它，那是不同的。当我说：它只能够被感觉，它的意义是：比方说，我能够机械式地举起我的手，但是我也能够带着完全的警觉举起我的手，我的头脑意识到我的手被举起来。做它、尝试它，先机械式地做，然后再觉知地做，你将会感觉到那个改变，那个品质将会立刻改变。 带着警觉走路，那么你的走路就会不同，一个不同的优雅将会表现在你的走路，你将会更慢地移动、更优美地移动。如果你机械式地走路——只是因为你知道如何走路，而不需要警觉，那么，那个走路是丑陋的，在它里面没有优雅。带着觉知做任何你在做的事情，然后感觉那个不同，当我说"感觉"，我的意思是说"观看"，先机械式地做，然后带着觉知来做它，感觉那个不同，你将能够感觉到那个不同。 比方说，如果你带着觉知来吃，那么你就不能够吃比你身体的需要更多。人们一直来找我，他们说："使我们节食。我的体重一直在增加，身体一直在累积。使我们节食。"我告诉他们："不要想节食，只要去想意识，藉着绝食，将不会有什么事发生，你做不到，你在某一天做它，隔天你就放弃了，你无法继续，倒是，你要有觉知地吃。" 那个品质将会改变。如果你带着觉知来吃，你将会嚼得更多；带着无意识的、机械式的习惯，你只会继续将东西填进胃里，你根本没有在嚼，你只是在填饱肚子，那么就没有快乐，因为没有快乐，所以你需要更多的食物来得到那个快乐；没有滋味，所以你需要更多食物。 只要警觉，然后看看会怎么样，如果你是警觉的，你将会嚼得更多，你将会更加感觉到那个滋味，你将会感觉到吃的快乐，这需要更多的时间。如果你用餐需要半个小时的时间，那么如果带着觉知来吃等量的食物，你将需要一个半小时——三倍的时间。半个小时的时间，你将只能够吃三分之一的量，而你将会觉得更满足，你将会更享受那一餐。当身体享受，它就会告诉你什么时候要停止。当身体根本没有享受，它从来不会说什么时候要停止，所以你就继续，那么身体就变迟钝，你就永远不会听到身体在说什么。 你在吃东西的时候心神不在那里，那会产生问题。心神要在那里，然后每一个步骤都将会慢下来，身体本身将会说："不要了！"当身体这样说，那就是正确的时刻。如果你是觉知的，你就不会侵犯到身体的秩序，你将会停止，所以，要让你的身体说。身体每一个片刻都在说，但是你没有在听。要警觉，然后你就会听到它。 当我说："感觉它。"我知道那是困难的，你没有觉知怎么能够感觉到觉知？我不是说你现在就能够感觉到佛陀的成道，但是一个人总得去开始。你或许无法得到整个海洋，但是一滴，只要一滴海水，就能够给你那个味道，而那个味道是一样的。如果即使只有一个片刻你变得觉知，你就已经尝到了佛性，它是短暂的，只是惊鸿一瞥，但是如此一来你就知道得更多，而这个将永远不会透过思考而发生在你身上，它只会透过感觉而发生。 重点在于感觉，重点在于"活过的"经验。思想是假的，你可以一直想关于爱的事情，而且创造出理论，你甚至可以用爱的论文或爱是什么的论文来拿到博士学位，而不曾处于爱之中。你或许不知道爱是什么，你或许从来没有感觉过它；你能够在知识上增加，但是在你存在的任何方面都没有成长，而这是两个不同的层面。你可以一直增加知识，你的头将会继续成长得更大更大，但是你将会维持同样渺小的自己。 那么就没有什么东西真正在成长，只有累积，当你开始感觉事情，你就成长，你的存在就成长，一个人总得在什么地方开始，那么就开始吧！将会有错误，那是一定的。你将会继续忘记，那是自然的，但是不要感到挫折，不要抛开努力说："我做不到。"你做得到！存在耶稣或佛陀里面同样的可能性也存在你里面，你是种子，你根本不缺任何东西，你只是一个不同的排列，你只是一个混乱的整体，每一样东西都有了，你能够变成一个佛，但是你的品质需要一个重新组合。 目前你是混乱的，因为没有排列，当你开始觉知，那个排列就会产生，只要藉着你的觉知，东西就会开始排好队，而你目前的混乱就会变成一个交响曲。