no doer means just observe or witness
see doer or no doer
the observing and witnessing is always
happening you cannot say no i won't
observe now
i want witness now it is not possible to
say that so and the concept of no doer
is simply
not entertaining the concept of do
worship
no doership does not mean
doing something
so i hope you got it
got the answer
just
do not entertain
the idea of doership
then the witnessing is happening anyway
you see
if you say no i don't want to be a doer
i want to be witness well that is
pushing too much
is unnatural
because the observing and witnessing is
happening anyway
don't try to do
not doing
it it does not work like this
now you can see a little bit of funny
thing here that the concept of doership
is so deep in the mind that people want
to do the non doer thing
is it possible
no
and there is an interesting story again
very small story
i heard somewhere from some foreigner
who visited south india
and not south india he visited sri lanka
he was very interested in buddhism there
and he was very excited oh i'm doing the
greatest thing in the world now and
i'll become a monk
so he went to the uh
whatever place there is
and
met the llama whatever they are called
the head he he expressed his wish i to
become i want to become monk
and i want to learn meditation and all
so he told the procedures and all these
things that you will and he agreed you
know without asking without even
listening to the full thing and told
them just teach me the meditation the
fellow there and told him sit down okay
now breathe
i say yes okay now what
no nothing
and that person he was a western person
and
the idea of non-doing is totally alien
to them
so meditation is something we should do
in the west isn't it
[Music]
i get this question how to do the
meditation and then i don't know where
to start so
[Music]
he's doing i'm breathing yes now what
he said no
nothing
just do this
and
the
newcomer was totally confused
i came from thousands of miles to do
nothing
and
[Music]
the llama said yes exactly
so this is the story you know what it
means
you cannot do nothing
don't try to do nothing
it's not possible
this movement is all there is
it is fleeting it is chaotic
it's going away
you cannot grasp it
and that is the only beauty
that it has
to make it permanent
and
well
it becomes ugly it becomes a burden
so on
and you can now apply this knowledge in
everyday life and check what happens
see what happens
when you stop
trying to oppose the flow of the things
so this broke down that broke down he
said this and they'd say well these
things are the most beautiful things
that are happening no i don't want these
to happen i want others to happen
and immediately realize that this is the
projection of the mind
when the other things happen
they will be beautiful
they will be as beautiful
as perfect
as it is actually i habitually use the
word beautiful because sundaram is a
direct translation of sundaram
satyam shivam sundaram
so the english proper english word is
perfection because when i say beautiful
you imagine something beautiful
[Music]
the pile of garbage is also perfection
you see
so
it is
perfect as it is
because it cannot be anything else it
cannot be permanent
it cannot be that which the mind is
projecting
and so you you say okay i'll stop
projection and now the projection is
also perfect
just realize that your mind has
projected something beautiful
this hope
this wish
this desire is also perfect
now now suddenly you will find there is
a change in the mind
the background of the mind will become
peaceful it will also become perfect
yes there is a desire yes okay fine
let it be there
no i need to run okay if i do then yes
that's what
is perfect
there will be peace there will be
background of peace and satisfaction and
that's what we call equanimity
equanimity is not the absence of
mental activities you can achieve that
kind of equanimity if you want
sit down one place and then
just observe the mind flowing
do nothing
and it will settle down and equanimity
it will come out again this mind
so the mind is equanimous not equanimous
the being is always
both
so being is beyond these things the true
nature you cannot apply these words to
the true true nature
it is infinitely peaceful
and so infinitely troubled
is both
so
you can do that by sitting but that's
not the coin that's kind of net practice
you're practicing
you're training the mind
and the real one is when there is
everything is going on this fish market
of the mind is on
and that is
equanimity and that happens when you
realize that everything is fleeting
this is the noise of the river
it is flowing it's chaotic
and that brings the real equanimity
there's the whole teaching
at least i interpret like this
so there is no way to achieve equanimity
this cannot be done
the only way is the negative way of
clearing out
the projections of the mind
not taking them seriously too seriously
this these are the words of
some great teacher that i'm forgetting
name
but probably he everybody uses these
words now don't take the mind too
seriously
you are taking the life too seriously
and there is another very good um quote
that
a man suffers
because he is taking that seriously
which the gods have made for fun
you must have heard this
very popular on twitter
what did the gods made for fun
well
there is fun only when things are
changing isn't it so impermanence
we don't want thing to be impermanent
and that's why we suffer the
impermanence is perfection actually
if somebody wants want me to create
something i'll create it
an impermanent way it must be your own
experience that when you watch a movie
well the movie is kind of there is a
speed there in the movie if nothing
happens in the movie you don't want to
watch it
there is a flow in the movie that's why
you are engaged there you know nail
biting movies
now take poster of that movie and hang
it on your wall
one day today well looks
nice you see
it looks cool
after that you'll stop looking at the
poster
i'll tell you one secret in my house
there is not even one picture that
somebody came and commented actually
your house
very minimalistic and i said is that an
insult
is it no no
but there's nothing to look at
and i actually did not answer but it is
my experience
as soon as i put something there it
became extremely boring after two days
extremely boring now i don't want to
look at this thing
so there is nothing the walls are empty
so i i want you to do this experiment
you see a live minimalistic kind of
design
only that which is very very much needed
throw away everything that is for the
show so it is it was my experience and
you should experiment a little bit
have you seen those um
compartments in
japan
made up of bamboo and paper what is
there in it
is there a shivering
is there a big statue of kali is there
nothing actually
sometimes just leaves a bamboo or
something is painted
very very minimalistic circle
what do you call it
and so
something like that
so
why is that
there are different reasons but the um
good reason according to me is that
the blank the emptiness
is more beautiful
than something which limits it
when you hang a painting on your wall
you have limited the possibility to that
painting isn't it
you made it permanent
so let's bring our minds
into the higher layers
now for intellect
and even higher awareness
because
the daily routine
the mind functions in the lower layers
so there is a very good method to bring
it to the higher layers it is by
thinking about spiritual matters it is
by
asking a question
contemplating
remembering
so i use these methods a lot
some people may want to use a mantra or
can
a statue or something
that puts
that person the ritual
puts the mind
on higher layers instantly so satsang is
a time when
we push the mind to
intellect and beyond
and
probably the whole day will be spent
like this
if you are in a two hour or three hour
so probably we cannot do it every day
which you will need to do it
according to your own ritual
set up your own ritual
satsang is
assisted ritual
so on the path of knowledge because we
do not meditate nothing
we expect the seeker to be always on the
higher side
to be to be always beyond intellect
so there are nothing and no
rituals mentioned on the path of
knowledge
if you find that you cannot achieve
that state of mind
which is conducive for the spiritual
growth
then you can invent your own ritual
there is no harm
at least for beginners
you can take
help of
yogic postures
breathing pranayama
meditation
dhaan
all these techniques are for all
seekers not only for seekers of that
particular
tradition
everybody can use it if you know how to
use it
to know how to use it
you must get some training from a
trainer a guru
or if you can do something very very
light sit down and watch the breathing
pattern
that is
enough sometimes to stop the mind from
abiding in the lower layers the chatter
of the mind will stop there
it mind won't stop and let's not do that
mistake
mind cannot be stopped its specific
activities can be stopped many people
try to
stop their mind by standing on one feet
and torturing the body
and that's a stupidity
because on the path of knowledge you are
now introduced to the mind
you should know
that stopping of the mind is impossible
it will never stop
what happens is the activity shifts from
one layer to another
so if the lower layers they stop
people assume oh my my mind has stopped
now the activity is going on in the
causal body and other bodies
cannot stop your perception will not
will not stop
all there is is the mind it cannot stop
so
let us not make this mistake of stopping
the mind
you can only shift the activity from the
lower layers
to the higher layers
so i i hope
just by talking like this
your mind has already shifted to the
higher layers
you can check
the usual
mess of the mind the garbage in the mind
is gone
for most of you it's very effective
method all you need to put all you need
to do
put the mind into
a job give it a task
which involves higher layers
and it's like a very good servant it
will do that and by you i mean the
intellect
the intellect should be in command the
command center
should be in command
not the body or the lower centers
they need to be active only when needed
when not needed
well
should rest or do something
which the body and mind likes like
watering the plant cleaning the house
nobody likes it i think
do listen to the music something like
this
this is totally different world we are
living in
so
probably your servants to clean the
house and wash your clothes and all
but somebody who lives alone like in a
jungle
these options are not available
so what i do is i do my daily work while
trying to be
aware
i don't even push the mind to the higher
layers
let it do whatever it's doing
and become aware of that
the awareness takes care of everything
you see
when you are situated at the aggya
everything else behaves properly
this must be your indirect experience
isn't it
so this was a tip hopefully that will be
useful
uh whatever you are doing
become aware of that and then
you will be always for most of the time
will be
on the
higher layers
it does not mean that the activity at
the lower layers totally stops no it can
continue
the body can keep doing whatever it is
doing
mind can keep thinking the ego even the
ego can function the i didn't identity
can function
as long as it functions under the
command center
in the intellect and higher awareness
it's okay
what is wrong in that
what is happening is for an ordinary
person the higher layers are not so
active and the lower layers are like
in behaving in a rogue fashion
they are behaving in
like a unmanaged
office
where
you must have seen those offices when
the boss is not there
everything is a mess in that office
nobody works
so
i had the
fortune of
working in such an office
so every time i went out people also
went out they did their own jobs they
did their own thing
as as long as i am there everything
worked
so it was very frustrating it was very
frustrating
nobody will come to the office
until i am there
they come exactly one or two minutes
behind me
because no need no need to work if
nobody's asking them to work
so and the lower layers are like this
they are they lack motivation
they are programmed to do
whatever is the default behavior
so it needs to be always under the
control
not the obsessive control you cannot use
a hunter a whip
stick to control them
it's not healthy way
it needs to be done only for a severely
defective mind
for only for an afflicted mind mental
disorders
then you need to take those heavy
steps heavy
what you call corrective measures
for an ordinary mind
simple motivation is needed that's all
be present and everything will work
don't leave the office
[Music]
it is okay if they are working it's okay
if they stop working then you need to
worry isn't it the identity stops
working then it becomes a big mess
and
happens to many people
if the lower layers the anger and fear
stop working
lust stops working it becomes a total
disaster
for
that human being
the higher layers that they are not
concerned with such functions if they
are working is okay not working is okay
but body and the ego
they need to be maintained they need to
be healthy
so many people have this and this
misconception i need to get rid of body
i need to get rid of ego
and
that comes because of the half knowledge
they heard it somewhere
they heard a 10 minutes video on youtube
look at your ego it's dreadful thing get
rid of it and then you will become
spiritual that's the end of the video
the videos don't tell you everything
you see
so
even the books won't tell you
this detail
because it's a matter of practice
it's a matter of
implementation of the teachings there
are teachings
and then there is implementation of the
teaching
now you need to be practical
it happened to me that i recognize this
very very late
this needs to be recognized first
that the body and mind and ego and all
these the society in the world
is here for some reason
yes it's all false
no doubt about it
it's all
non-existent
still there is a false reason behind it
what is that reason
we need to find out surely it is not
to destroy water has been created isn't
it
and that is that will if you assume like
this it will be
it will be in disaster
because you heard somewhere mukti mukti
mukti and then you want mukti and then
and they will tell you it is cessation
of the mind
no more birth
and instantly
the destructive pictures come in your
mind
destructive ideas come in your mind
okay it's all
maya
let it go to hell
i'm going somewhere else
where will you go
is there a place to go
in the totality when you are the
totality
is there a place to go anywhere
this is all there is
cannot go anywhere and therefore
acceptance
therefore we accept this life this body
this mind this ego
and
the koscielny
is to live
with
the experience instead of rejecting the
experience
this is the
art
the art of living
No comments:
Post a Comment