Chapter 10 Section IX

※※※ I want to tell you that there is no evil in the world, and there is no power of evil. It is just that some people are aware and some are sleeping, but sleeping has no power. The whole energy is in the hands of the Enlightened One, one Enlightened Man can awaken the whole world, one lit candle can cause countless candles to be lit without losing its own light. ※※※ Suffering feeds your ego, that's why you can see many suffering people in the world.That basic center is the ego. ※※※ To understand love you must first become loving; only then will you be able to understand love. Millions of people are suffering, and they all want to be loved, but they don't know how to love.Love cannot exist in a single language, it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

It's not what people give you that satisfies you, it's what you give people that satisfies you.Not by being a beggar you will be satisfied, but by being a king you will be satisfied.When you give love it can make you a king. You can give a lot, it is inexhaustible, and the more you give, the more refined and civilized you become, the more fragrant your love becomes. ※※※ The moment you know what love is, the moment you experience what love is, you become love, then you don't need to be loved, you don't have to love, love will be you Simple, spontaneous being, love is your breath.

You cannot do anything else but be loving. Now, if someone doesn't love you in return, you won't feel hurt, for the simple reason that only those who become love can love, and you can only give that which you have. Ask people to love you -- ask people who have no love in their lives, who have not come to the fountain of their being, where love has its own shrine... How can those people love?They may be able to pretend that they love you, they can say they love you, they may even believe they really love you, but sooner or later it will be revealed and you will know that it was just a pretense, it was just Acting, it is nothing but hypocrisy.

He may not have intended to deceive you, but what can that person do? You ask for love, and others ask for love.Both understand that you have to love someone before you can be loved, so both try to show love in every possible way, but that is just a gesture, and that gesture is empty, and both will Find out, and then both parties will complain to each other that it is not right. From the beginning it was two beggars begging each other, and both of them had empty begging bowls. ※※※ The ego is the greatest bondage, the only hell I know. ※※※ Those who find the source of love within themselves no longer need to be loved, but they will be loved.

Their love will have no other reason than that they have too much, as the cloud that carries the rain wants to rain, as the flower wants to spread its fragrance, they have no desire for reciprocation, The reward of love is in loving, not in being loved. This is the mystery of life, that if a person is rewarded simply by loving others, many will love him, because just by being in contact with him, they will start to find that source within themselves slowly.Now they know that there is at least one person who radiates love, and his love is not out of any need, and the more he shares and radiates his love, the more it grows.

※※※ Don't think of truth as an object, it is not an object.It's not there, it's here. ※※※ The mind operates in an "either this or that" way: either this is right, or its opposite is right.But as far as the mind and its logic and rationality are concerned, both together cannot be right. If the mind is "either this or that," then the heart is "both." The mind has no logic, but has a sensitivity, a perception.It can see that not only can the two be together, but in fact they are not both, but just the same phenomenon seen from two different angles.

If there is a problem of choosing the mind or choosing the heart, the heart is always right, because the mind is a product of society, it is educated, it is given to you by society, not by existence. The mind is not polluted. The mind is pure being and therefore it has a sensitivity. From the point of view of the mind, contradictions will start to melt like ice cubes. ※※※ I tell you: to become one with the universe, you have to disappear, and to allow existence to exist, you just have to be "not there" so that existence can be completely "in".But the person I said will disappear is not your real existence, he is just your personality, he is just a concept in you.

The truth of the matter is that you have become one with existence, you cannot exist any other way, you are existence. But the personality creates an illusion that you are separate.You can assume yourself to be open -- the existence gives you complete freedom, it even gives you freedom to oppose itself.You can think of yourself as a separate entity, as an ego, and that is your blockage, which holds you back and keeps you from being part of the vastness that surrounds you every moment. ※※※ Watching the sunset, once in a while, you forget that you are separate, you feel that you are the sunset, that is the moment you feel its beauty, but the moment you say it is a beautiful sunset, you no longer Feel it, and you have returned to your separate, enclosed entity, the Self.At this moment, the mind is speaking.

This is one of the mysterious things: the mind speaks but it knows nothing; the heart knows everything but it does not speak.Perhaps because it knows too much it is difficult to speak; the mind knows little so it can speak.Words are enough for the mind, but not enough for the heart. But sometimes, in some moment of shock -- a starry night, a sunset, a beautiful flower -- for a moment you forget that you are separate, and that forgetting can release a lot of beauty and ecstasy. ※※※ In life, nothing is eternal, nothing can be eternal.To make anything permanent is out of your control.Only dead things can be eternal.The more alive things are, the easier it is to fly by.

There is love today, but I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, it may be there, or it may not be there, it is out of your control, it is a happening, you can’t do anything about it, if it doesn’t exist, you can’t Create it.It is there, if it is not there, it is not there, you are helpless. Stones may be eternal, but flowers cannot be eternal. Love is not a stone, it is a flower, a flower of rare quality. ※※※ The mind can transcend duality, the mind can see clearly, and love is its natural quality, it needs no training, this love has no hate as its opposite half. ※※※ You have the ability to transcend the "love-hate" dichotomy.

It is currently going hand in hand in your life.You love the person you hate, so in the morning it is hate, but in the evening it becomes love again, it is a very chaotic thing.You don't even know whether you love that person or hate that person, because you do both, just at different times. But that's how the mind works, it works through contradictions.Evolution also works through relative things, but those relative things in existence are not contradictory, they are complementary. ※※※ Hate is also a kind of love, just standing upside down. ※※※ Love from the mind is always "love-hate".It's not two words, it's one: "love to hate" -- not even a hyphen in between.But the love from your heart transcends all dichotomies... Everyone is looking for that love which is beyond love and hate, but he is looking with the mind, so he is unfortunate.Every lover feels like a failure, cheated, betrayed, but no one is wrong, the truth of the matter is that you are using the wrong tools.It is as if someone is listening to music with their eyes and is surprised to find that there is no music, but the eyes are not for hearing and the ears are not for seeing. The mind is a very businesslike, very calculating mechanism, it has nothing to do with love. Love will be a mess, will disturb everything in the mind.The mind has nothing to do with business, it is always on vacation.It can love, it can love without turning its love into hate; it does not have the poison of hate. Everyone is looking for it, but they are all through the wrong tools, that's why there are so many failures in the world.Slowly, slowly, people see that love brings only pain, so they close up, they say, "All love is meaningless." They create a thick barrier against love, But they're going to miss out on all the joy in life, they're going to miss out on everything of value... ※※※ Friendship is the purest form of love.It is the highest form of love, it asks for nothing, it has no conditions.In friendship one is just enjoying giving, and in doing so one will get a lot, but that is secondary, that happens by itself. ※※※ Don't think about the future and live is the greatest courage, only cowards live in the future. Human beings have always been cowardly in the past, they live not in the present, but in the future: "What must happen will happen tomorrow." So people live in that hope and die in that hope, yet they What was waited for never came. The "now" has never been explored, never lived, yet it is the only real existence. ※※※ What you want to be in death, you have to be exactly like that in life, because death and life are not separate. Death is not the end of life, it is just a change in life. Life will go on, it has gone on, and it will go on forever, but the form will age, it will become unusable, it will become a burden, not a joy, then it is better to give life a new, fresh form. Death is a blessing, not a curse. ※※※ The simplest way of meditation is the way of watching.There are one hundred and twelve methods of meditation, but observation is a very important part of those one hundred and twelve methods of meditation, so as far as I am concerned, observation is the only method, and those one hundred and twelve methods are just observation. different applications. The most important core, the main spirit of meditation, is to learn how to watch. You see a tree, you are there, the tree is there, but can't you find one more thing? --You are looking at the tree, but there is a witness in you, and the witness is watching you looking at the tree. The world is not just divided into object and subject, there is something beyond both, and that transcendence is meditation. ※※※ To be homeless is to be free, it is freedom.It means no attachment, no attachment to anything external; you don't need warmth from outside, that warmth is inside you, you have a source of warmth, so you don't need more warmth.So when you have no home, no matter where you go, strangely, you are at home -- homeless everywhere. The one who is looking for a home is always going to be disappointed.In the end, he must feel: "We have all been lied to, life has lied to us. It has given us a desire to find a home, and yet there is no home, it doesn't exist." We try to build a home in every possible way: one will find a husband, or find a wife, and have children... One tries to create a home -- a psychological home. ※※※ One not only builds a house, but tries to make it almost as if it were a living entity. A man will make a house according to his own dream, it will make him feel very warm, in this cold... It's huge, the coldness of being is huge.You want to create a little home for yourself where you can feel that you are taken care of, that you feel that something is protecting you, that you feel that it is yours, that you feel that you own it, and that Not a homeless bum, but the entire universe is very cold, very indifferent to you doing this. In fact, this idea will bring you pain, because one day you will find that the husband or wife you live with is a stranger.Even after living together for fifty years, the strangeness has not disappeared, on the contrary, it has deepened, and on the contrary, it was not so strange when you met on the first day. ※※※ As time goes by, you spend more and more time together, but you become more and more strangers because you know each other more and more - and now you have no idea who each other is at all.The more you know, the less you know, it seems that as you get to know the person more and more, you become more and more aware that your ignorance of the other person is absolute and you cannot destroy it. Your children - you think they are your children, one day you will find that they are not your children, you are just a passage for them to come into the world, they have their own life, they are complete strangers, they are not Belonging to you, they will find their own way and their own life. Who is with you? No one is with anyone. You are always in the crowd, not alone -- it makes no difference whether you are alone or in the crowd; it makes no difference whether you are at home or just a bum.