. Meditate over this poem ...

. This poem is as antique ... as ... earth itself ...

Dark Night of the Soul

Once upon a time,

When time was the time of no time,
When time was not born,
When cycles were not known,
When the knowable was the unknowable,
When the unknowable was the known,
When the known and the unkown were one with the unknowable,

A little boy, a little body, a little Bullah,
Fragile, like a flower, alone was in his aloneness.
Under a Tree was he,
Sitting like a Lotus,
Being soaked, being drowned by the lunar crystalline rays,
Into the foggy,
Into the moteless sky,
Was he staring heartly intoxicated.

When tempting voices, descending from the seven Skies,
And arising from the twenty-eight Hells,
Moving, through mischievous no-moves,
Dancing, through an ineffable rhythm,
Singing, through the song of no-song,
Mockingly, said to the little Bullah:

Ó Son of Śuddhodana,
Where have your Bullah been?
Now listen, ó incarnate spirit!
Open your eyes.
Open your heart.
And you shall see me.

The boy did it.

When eyes were open,
A vast emptiness enchanted Bullah heart.
He was not.
And for the first time,
He was.

Marvelously,
In a drunken state,
The Bullah, the soul pronounced:

How boundless is the sky of Samadhi!

. Society ... tells you ... to be an ethical moral man ...

. Society ... tells you ... to cultivate morality ... independently ... your inner will ...

. Society ... and it's ethics ... What Nietzsche ... this ... brilliant revolutionary of the 19th century... would call Moral costums of the mob ... tell you ... to be ethical ... to any kind of formality and tradition ... anyway ... to be according to that ... which ... subtly ... divides people ... so you can be an efficent machine for society.

. BUT ... that ... in order to be concretized ... you must be deep asleep. And when you are in a deep sleep ... while in wakefullness ... then ... naturally ... you'll think that ... the respectability and the reputation ... that ... society gives to you ... is Truth ... is the essence of existence ... which is not. It's nothing ... but ... just an autohypnosis ... so ... you can be shut up ... for the rest of your Life ... and live Life ... miserably comfortable ... and ... then Die. Deep inside ... the morality of this social structure ... is based on repression. It is always there ... always ... your shadow ... always ... with you ... always ... controlling you ... always ... manipulating you ...

. If you're watchful ... you'll see that ... the majority of people's Life ... is summed up ... like this: Born, eat, drink, sleep, facing the angry boss ... or ... at least ... be competitive and greedy and a miser to others ... return to home and facing the angry wife ... hang out with friends ... so they can forget for a bit about their misery ... eat, drink, sleep, facing ....................... Ad infinitum ... and ... finally ... the physical Death ...

. There's no reason to Live this Burden ...

. My perspective is similar to Nietzsche perspective ... Ethics and morality support each other ... Both the concepts ... are related to the mob psychology ...

. My proposal to you ... friend ... is ... to become more conscious, and you will be moral. But that morality will have a totally different flavor to it. It will be spontaneous; it will not be ready-made.

. Society ... wants ... ready-made moral and ethics ... but that's impossible ... because ... it kills all the spontaneity ... all the dignity of it ...

. First ... become conscious ... as an individual ... not as a collective mind ... and ... then ... yes ... naturally ... you will become moral ... not vice versa!

. Morality ... follows consciousness ... as ... shadow follows man ...

. There is no present too ... friend ...

. Present ... as such ... is ... just a bridge ... a temporal bridge ... connecting the past and the future ...

. If there is no past and future ... necessarily ... the bridge disappears ... exists not ...

. For the sake of language ... you must ... call it so ... but ... existentially ... present exists not ...

. You try to say the word NOW ... the moment you say it ... it's already past ... it's already ... past experience ...

. That's the reason why ... only ... a meditative being ... can Live totally ... can be fully in the present ... because ... he's fully aware of this truth ...

. You're always being rejuvenated ... not only you ... the whole existence ...

. The quantum physics ... at the 20th century ... arrived ... to this conclusion ... that ... in an ultrasonic speed ... all the existence disappears ... and ... appears again ... as a new phenomenon ... as new reality spectrum ...

. So ... it's not just ... spiritually portraying ... it's ... also ... physically saying ...

. In Yoga ... this knowledge ... for thousands of years ... at least ... 5 thousands of years ... have been known by the mystics ... but ... then ... thousands of years later ... the physics arrived to this truth too ...

. There is no past ...

. Past ... as such ... is a myth ... so you can be entangled with and towards that ... which is not ... so you can be dreaming while alive ... so you cannot be in here ... which is the only place ... and now ... which is the only time.

. The society creates guilt ... the priests and the politicians ... towards that you've done ... at a remote past ... so you cannot live in the here-now ... so you can be an efficient machine ...
a beautiful machine ... a flesh and blood machine ...

. When I say ... that ... you must die to that which is not ... but you think it is ... I don't mean that you will not be able to remember it. It does not mean that all your memories will be dissolved or destroyed. It only means that now you don't live in those memories. You're free from them. They will remain, but now they will be just a part of your brain, not part of your consciousness.

. The brain is a mechanism ... a beautiful mechanism ... yes ...

. But ... it is just like a tape-recording machine. The brain goes on recording everything. The brain is the physical part. It will go on recording, and your memories cannot be destroyed unless the brain is destroyed. But that is not the problem. The problem is that your consciousness is filled with memories. Your consciousness goes on identifying itself with the brain and the brain is always stirred by your consciousness - and memories go on flooding you.

. So your question ... must ... do a eighty hundred degree turn ...

. Can the universe be FINITE towards the past?

. The beggining and the end are ... the whole ... of it ... They are one ... an oneness ...

. There is no past ... therefore ... it can be finite ...

. How can the universe be infinite towards that ... which ... is not ... whose existence ... is not ... ?

. In order to exist ... you must be ... you must exist ... you must be a being ...

. That's why you're a human being ... you're constantly ... being ...

. The more conscious one is about oneself ... The less ... dreams will happen ... have you ever noticed that ... ? It's an interesting phenomenon ...

. When one is no more repressed ... sexualy repressed ... naturally ... dreams fade away ...

. In Tantra and in Yoga ... we call it ... When your Muladhara, the sexual chakra ... is no more blocked ... by repressive energies ... is no more condemned ... by social conditioning ... then ... everything becomes crystal clear ... then ... dreams will not happen ... Why is it so? ... because you won't need them as a mediator ... between ... that which is ... and ... you ...

. You cannot dream about that ... whose nature ... is totally known for you ...

. You only dream that whose nature ... you don't like ... whose nature ... you try to deviate from ... while in wakefulness ... whose nature ... deep inside you ... is repressed ... you condemn ... or ... is condemned by society ... and ... you accept unconsciously this condemnation ...

. I don't dream ... I don't have the need to ... but ... in the past ... yes ... surely. Mistakes are vital ... in order to learn with them ...

. For example ... If you dismantle all condemnation about sex ... that ... these priests set up ... and this implies ... destroying all the christianity tradition ... which is unlikely ... and so on so forth ... you would be surprised to know ... that ... pornography and ... all ... the fancy sexual dreams ... would not and ... in fact ... could not exist ... by the very nature of existence ...

. These stupid priests ... are the real playboys ... they're the real founders ... of playboy ...

. Naturally ... when something is repressed ... it will appear in your dreams ... and it does appear ... in priests dreams ... in nuns dreams ... as ... a nightmare ... hence ... pedophilia and other sexual perversions ...

. Hence ... those stupid fancy stories of nuns ... reporting ... how wonderful is having sex with Satan ... It happened at the middle Ages ... They ... actually ... describe how persuasive ... Satan ... would have been with them ... How sexual he used to be ...

. All the pornhubs and etc ... would just vanish away ... completely ...

. Then ... nobody would have the need to pay a means ... to satisfy himself or herself ...

. Then ... this perversion ... would not exist ... at all ... because ... there would not be any repressed impulse ...

. Then ... sex ... would be a beautiful and a natural phenomenon ... would be ... truly ... a playfulness ...

. And in fact ... sex ... is a beautiful and a natural phenomenon ...

. Because ... Life comes from sex energy ... Life ... as such ... is sex energy ...

. This is a tremendously interesting question ... that ... has been debacted through decades ...

. What are the nature of dreams ... ? Are dreams connected to reality ... or ... is it just part of imagination and dreaming ... ?

. Dream is as real as any other reality. Dream is part of reality. We always create a dichotomy in our minds of good and bad, the real and unreal, of God and devil. We continuously create a dichotomy, and then of course we are caught in it, and it becomes a dilemma.

. Dream is part of reality as much as reality is part of dream. They are not two separate things. So dont create unnecessary problems… accept. It is good. Dream good dreams, and dream with more alertness, more awareness. Have a little more watchfulness and then you will be able to enjoy both. You can enjoy the whole movie of the mind. So many beautiful pictures move on the screen and you can just watch. No movie can be so dramatic or so intriguing but you have to become a spectator also.

. And this is a great art because in the dream you are everything: the actor, the story writer, the playback singer, the projector, the hall, the audience, the screen, the projected film. You are everything and you are doing all sorts of things alone.

. So just one thing has to be remembered to be a witness to all that is happening to you and enjoy it. A great drama is being enacted within you. Dont try to fight or to be against it; dont condemn it as being a dream.
If you dont condemn, by and by the dream will start disappearing. One day comes when the witness is left alone, all dreaming gone, all actors disappear, the projector and the film and the screen, and the theatre; everything gone. One is simply sitting alone in tremendous silence, in a great nowhereness, in nothingness….

. Dont long for it, otherwise it will not come! Just try to understand the dreams. Watch them, witness; dont fight and then that day will come on its own. If you hope for it, you have already lost your witnessing….

. Then just enjoy whatsoever is happening right now.

. The moment you're totally a witness to your dream ... the moment you're totally alert ... you turn to pure consciousness ... in that moment ... the dream is not ... suddenly ... it disappeared ... and ... for the first time ... you are ... not as a mind ... but as a witness ... which is beyond any mind projection ... therefore ... is beyond any dream ... because dreams are mind projections ... and ... mind projects the world ... hence ... the unreality of the world. The world is a means ... is a ladder ... don't be attached to the ladder. It's merely utilitarian ... but ... it's not an end unto itself.

. That state of pure consciousness ... leads to a marvelous end ... it's a timeless experiencing ... it's indescribable. Nobody can describe it ... and ... in fact ... nobody has ever been able to describe it ... it's beyond any description ...

. Jesus calls it the Kingdom of God ... Buddha calls it Dhamma ... Taoists call it TAO ... Sufists call it AWE ... But it's all the same Truth ... they're talking about the same reality ... from different corners ... from different angles ...

. Why do I say this ... ?

. Because dreams ... psychologically talking ... represent unfulfilled moments of your Life ... repressed desires ... things that you wanted to do but, could not – because of the society, because of the culture, because of the religion ...

. That which you didn't Live ... but you wanted to ... you do it ... through your dreams ...

. For example ... try to experience not eating ... at all ... during 2 days ...

. You'll be surprised ... that ... on the third day ... or even ... at the end of the second day ... most probably ... you'll dream about a big supper ... full of ... delicious food ...

. That's what happens to the so-called hindu yogis ...

. They repress their Libido ... their sexuality ... their sexual energy ... which ... part of it ... is manifested through eating ... and it tends to express from the deepest levels of the unconscious ... in the form of dreams. And ... dreams ... are born in that repressed reservoir ...

. Out of a simple question ... Out of a simple reality ... you're making such a cloudy noise of thoughts followed by thoughts ... unnecessarily ...

. It's good for the Ego ... I know that ... but it's not good for understanding ... as such ... right ... ?!

. I want you to understand this ...

. Knowledge is neither good or bad ...

. There's nothing in this world ... whose nature is .... good or bad ...

. Good or Bad are nonexistent phenomena ...

. Good or Bad are a subtle craft ... created by mediocre beings ... by repressive stupid individuals ... by priests ... so fear can be born in you ... that ... you're not enough ... that ... you're not good the way you are ...

. And ... in fact ... you're good the way you're ... nothing can be improved on you ...

. Do never say a person is bad ... Why is it so ... ?

. Because it makes you presumptuous .... it makes you thinking that just people like you ... are good ...

. Don't be a moralist ... Don't be a puritan ... Don't be a so-called perfectionist ...

. Be ... just ... a simple human being ... Don't judge nobody ... unless you're perfect ...

. You're perfectly imperfect ... and ... that makes you a beautiful human being ...

. Now ... Let's see your question ...

. You can go on thinking, accumulating information—but those are paper boats, they won’t help in an ocean voyage. If you remain on the shore and go on talking about them, it is okay—paper boats are as good as real boats if you never go for the voyage, but if you go for the voyage with paper boats then you will be drowned. And words are nothing but paper boats—not even that substantial.

. And when we accumulate knowledge, what do we do? Nothing changes inside. The being remains absolutely unaffected. Just like dust, information gathers around you—just like dust gathering around a mirror: the mirror remains the same, only it loses its mirroring quality. What you know through the mind makes no difference—your consciousness remains the same. In fact, it becomes worse, because accumulated knowledge is just like dust around your mirroring consciousness; the consciousness reflects less and less and less.

. The more you know, the less aware you become. When you are completely filled with scholarship, borrowed knowledge, you are already dead. Then nothing comes to you as your own. Everything is borrowed and parrot-like.

. The mind is a parrot. The mind is a computer, a bio-computer. It accumulates. It is never original, it cannot be. Whatsoever it has borrowed, is taken from others.

. You become original only when you transcend the mind. When the mind is dropped, and the consciousness faces existence directly, immediately, moment to moment in contact with existence, you become original. Then for the first time, you are authentically your own. Otherwise, all ideas are borrowed. You may quote scriptures, you may know by heart all the Vedas, the Koran, the Gita, the Bible, but that makes no difference—they are not your own. And the knowledge that is not your own is dangerous, more dangerous than ignorance, because it is a hidden ignorance, and you will not be able to see that you are deceiving yourself. You are carrying false coins and thinking that you are a rich man. Sooner or later your poverty will be revealed. Then you will be shocked.

. This happens whenever you die, whenever death comes near. In the shock that death gives to you, suddenly you become aware that you have not gained anything—because only that is gained which is gained in being.

. You have accumulated fragments of knowledge from here and there, you may have become a great ‘encyclopedia’, but that is not the point; and particularly for those who are in search of truth, that is a barrier, not a help. Knowledge has to be transcended.

. When there is no knowledge, knowing happens because knowing is your quality—the quality of consciousness. It is just like a mirror: the mirror reflects whatsoever is there; consciousness reflects the truth that is always in front of you, just at the tip of your nose.

. But the mind is in between—and the mind goes on chattering, and the truth remains just in front of you and the mind goes on chattering. And you go with the mind. You miss.

. First: knowledge is borrowed, realise this. The very realisation becomes a dropping of it. You don’t have to do anything. Simply realise that whatsoever you know you have heard, you have not known it. You have read it, you have not realised it; it is not a revelation to you, it is a conditioning of the mind. It has been taught to you—you have not learned it. Truth can be learned, cannot be taught.

. Learning means being responsive to whatsoever is around you—that which is, to be responsive to it. This is great learning, but not knowledge.

. There is no way to find the truth—except through finding it. There is no shortcut to it. You cannot borrow, you cannot steal, you cannot deceive, to get to it. There is simply no way unless you are without any mind within you—because the mind is wavering, the mind is a continuous trembling; the mind is never unmoving, it is a movement. The mind is just like a breeze, continuously flowing, and the flame goes on wavering. When the mind is not there the breeze stops, and the flame becomes unmoving. When your consciousness is an unmoving flame, you know the truth. You have to learn how not to follow the mind.

. Nobody can give you the truth, nobody, not even a Buddha, a Jesus, a Krishna—nobody can give it to you. And it is beautiful that nobody can give it to you, otherwise it would become a commodity in the market. If it can be given, then it can be sold as well. If it can be given, then it can be stolen as well. If it can be given then you can take it from your friend, borrow it. It is beautiful that truth is not transferable in any way. Unless you reach it, you cannot reach. Unless you become it, you never have it.

. Sure ...

. Otherwise ... money ... as such ... would not be politically legitimized ... and ... would not be a mean towards an end ... or even ... an end towards an end ...

. People are dependent on ethics ... they can't live without that which is not ... ironically ...

. And ... money ... is a mean ... where people through it ... can ... negotiate throughout their whole Life ... in order ... to put their lives more and more miserably comfortable ...

. So ... to people ... money is an end unto itself ... therefore ... your so-called ethics ... as the mean ... justify anything that you do with money ...

. This is what I call - power politics ...

. Exactly ... That's true ...

. Very well ...

. There is no path for Enlightenment ... friend ...

. Enlightenment ... is the Pathless Path ...

. In fact ... Don't ... even ... pronounce ... that ... whose nature is not known for you ...

. To those ... whose soul is lost in deep darkness ... the light ... comming from the highest peaks of the himalayas ... coming from the highest peaks of consciousness ... cannot reach to those pits of unconsciousness ... of ignorance ... of blindness ...

. Just a Buddha ... may talk about Enlightenment ... friend ... not because he knows it! IT'S NOT A KNOWLEDGE ... but ... because ... he Lives it ... but ... because ... he ... himself ... is the seed of Enlightenment ... but ... because ... he ... himself ... bloomed from mud to a Lotus flower ... but ... because ... he ... himself ... is Pure Knowing ... But ... because ... he ... himself ... is just ... a crystal mirror reflecting all that is ... just ... a crystal lake reflecting the moon shape ...

. I'm not saying you're not a Buddha! IN FACT, YOU ARE A BUDDHA ...

. And ... YOU ARE ALREADY THAT WHICH YOU'RE LOOKING FOR ...

. That's the reason ... why ... Enlightenment is not a goal ... cannot be ... otherwise it would be the same trick of the mind ... otherwise ... Enlightenment would be a trivia ... otherwise ... Enlightenment would not be an end unto itself ...

. But ... still ...you're not aware of ... truth as the truth ... therefore ... that unconsciousness ... makes your perception distorted ... about ... your nature ... about ... your Enlightenment hood ...

. The difference between a being who knows satori ... who knows ... samadhi ... who knows ... Tao ... who knows ... Enlightenment ... and ... a being like you ... whose perception ... makes one believe oneself ... as ... Unenlightened being ... is tremendously small ... is ... qualitatively small ...

. In fact ... there is no hidden meanings. You become enlightened when you have found that there are no meanings in Life ... When you have found that ... there is nothing to be achieved ... you become enlightened ...

. There is nowhere where Enlightenment can be found friend ... Enlightenment does not has the quality of money ... however ... does not despise it ...

. An enlightened being does not despise money ... his consciousness wideness ... even ... approaches money ... it can even ... approach ... that ... whose nature is lower than Enlightenment ...

. But ... yes ... money can be discovered or gained ... from the ... so-called outer world ... Enlightenment cannot be ...

. Seek not ... and ... Enlightenment ... you shall find ...

. Seek not ... and ... Enlightenment ... you shall see ...

. Seek not ... and ... Enlightenment ... you shall be ...

. Cogito is that whose nature knows limitation ...

. God ... not the theological one ... that one ... is just mind projection ... a mythical creation of Man ... but Godliness ... the quality of divinity ... is that whose nature is boundless ... whose nature cannot be defined ... whose nature is ... therefore ... the unnameable ... and God ... are one ... an unity ... an oneness ...

. Therefore ... Cogito and God ... are ... diametrically opposite realities ...

. One exists ... God ... while ... other ... is a mind's creation ... a mind's projection ... Cogito ...

. God is a presence, not a person. Hence all worshipping is sheer stupidity. Prayerfulness is needed, not prayer. There is nobody to pray to; there is no possibility of any dialogue between you and God. Dialogue is possible only between two persons, and God is not a person but a presence – like beauty, like joy.

. God simply means godliness. It is because of this fact that Buddha denied the existence of God. He wanted to emphasize that God is a quality, an experience – like love. You cannot talk to love, you can live it. You need not create temples of love, you need not make statues of love, and bowing down to those statues will be just nonsense. And that’s what has been happening in the churches, in the temples, in the mosques.

. God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration. Once you start looking at God as godliness there will be a radical change in your approach. Then prayer is no more valid; meditation becomes valid.

. Martin Buber says prayer is a dialogue; then between you and God there is an “I-thou” relationship – the duality persists.

. Buddha is far closer to the truth: you simply drop all chattering of the mind, you slip out of the mind like a snake slipping out of the old skin. You become profoundly silent. There is no question of any dialogue, no question of any monologue either. Words have disappeared from your consciousness. There is no desire for which favors have to be asked, no ambition to be fulfilled.

. One is now and here. In that tranquility, in that calmness, you become aware of a luminous quality to existence. Then the trees and the mountains and the rivers and the people are all surrounded with a subtle aura. They are all radiating life, and it is one life in different forms. The flowering of one existence in millions of forms, in millions of flowers.

. This experience is God. And it is everybody’s birthright, because whether you know it or not you are already part of it. The only possibility is you may not recognize it or you may recognize it. The difference between the enlightened person and the unenlightened person is not of quality – they both are absolutely alike. There is only one small difference: that the enlightened person is aware; he recognizes the ultimate pervading the whole, permeating the whole, vibrating, pulsating. He recognizes the heartbeat of the universe. He recognizes that the universe is not dead, it is alive.

. This aliveness is God! This aliveness is awe ... Tao ...

. It's simple Mr. ...

. There is no theory about consciousness ... because ... if you have theories about something ... that ... so-called something won't be known at all ... cannot be known ... but rather ... it's theories ...

. Your knowledgeability ... expressed through theories, dogmas, doctrines ... are a way to deviate away from reality ... from that which is ...

. And ... that which is ... is ... in spite of ... your so-called theories about Life ...

. Drop all the abouts ... they're all nonsense ... drop all the theories ... and you'll have and know Life ... you'll know the unknowable ... more than having ... you'll be Life ... on it's totality ...

. Philosophers have theories about Life ... but ... they don't have Life ... their knowing about Life is just like the knowing of a blind Man about Light ...

. You cannot have any theory about Life ... you can live it ... intensly ... lovingly ...

. Put the question ... rather ... on this way - "What is the source of consciousness?" ...

. Consciousness is the source of all. Consciousness is the stuff existence is made of. But there is no source of consciousness itself. Consciousness is another name of God – a better name, more scientific, less mythological.

. People like Gautam Buddha, who had a greater clarity than anybody else ever had, say that bringing God in is in itself absurd. Existence has always been here. Nobody has created it, and nobody can destroy it. But that does not mean that Gautam Buddha is an atheist. It simply means he has a more scientific and less mythological approach.

. He says existence consists of consciousness. Existence itself is made of consciousness. And consciousness has always been here, is here, will be here. It can be asleep, it can be awake, but it is consciousness all the same.

. When it is asleep you work blindly, unconsciously. When it becomes awake you are enlightened.

. But there is no source of consciousness.

. Consciousness itself is the very foundation of the whole existence. Nothing is deeper than that. You cannot go beyond consciousness.

. I won't answer to that question Mr. ...

. Now ... my question to you is - "Did I answer you ... ? " If I did ... how ... ?

. Empty words ... nothing but empty words ... and ... emptiness cannot follow ... by its very nature ... somethingness ...

. Empty words ... cannot be an answer ... in fact their quality is ineffably higher ... than ... any so-called answer ...

. In fact ... all questions itself ... are absurd ...

. You must have noticed that I never answer to any question ... because ... there is no need ... necessity ... as such ... never follows something which is not ... just ... something ... whose nature is ...

. There is no answer to any question ... because ... the answer potentially leads to another question ...

. All questions ... are ... by it's very nature ... stupid ...

. Existence does not know questions ... any question ... friend ...

. That's why ... the wise Being ... they wise Man ... is by nature ... silent ... he cannot be stubborn ... he cannot be an ambitious Man ...

. A creative silence ... a creative force ... surrounds him ... an Aura ... he does not answer to anything ... there is no need ... because ... his silence ... annihilates ... all questions ... through the answer of no answer ... through the voiceless voice ...

. It's a paradox ... yes ... friend ... but existence ... as such ... is a beautiful paradox ...

. So ... empty words ... as such ... are bound to happen ...

. The process of Metanoia ... is the process of the empty words ... is the process of the wise Man ... is the process of existence ...

. I want you to understand this simple Truth ...

. Please ... read it carefully ... with no-mind ... put your mind aside ... with a simple and serene attitude ... so the false can be perceive as the false ... once for all ... and then ... yes ... truth can rise up ... when False is not ... just then ...that which is ... is perceived ... as that which is ...

. Jesus is reported to have said that "God is Love" ... which is totally an absurd ... he could not have said that absurdity ... God is not Love ... cannot be Love ... Why is it so ... ?

. Because ... it emplies that he can be many other things, Love is not his totality - he can be just, he can be all-powerful, he can be all-seeing, he can be present everywhere; Love does not exhaust his whole being, Love is only one of the attributes of God. But if you change it into: "Love is God", then God becomes an attribute of Love.

. And Love is an oneness ... has no other attributes. Love is the only experience on the earth, which is not of this world, the only experience which can give you a taste of the beyond ...

. God cannot be proved ... because ... it is an attribute of Love ... God comes out of Love ... not the other way round. Love can be proved. Love cannot only be proved, it can be lived. And, as you live Love, you will know, something divine has entered into you. You are no longer just an ordinary human being. Something in you, in your consciousness, has gone beyond humanity. And that beyondness, the taste of that beyondness is, the only argument and the only evidence of something which people have called God.

. Now ... your Doubt ...

. First of all ... don't repress yourself ... whenever you want to criticize religions. In fact, religions deserve criticism. They deserve to be burdened completely. Their so-called holy scriptures are very unholy.

. The trinity is not separate ... God cannot be separate ... out of that so-called religious act ... was borned a profanation ... a religious cancer ...

. When Jesus says that ... "I'm the son of God ... " or "I'm the son of Man" ... or even "I'm God ... " he's saying that he turned to a state of non-being ... he reached to a superconsciousness state ... He is one with the whole ... He's Brahma ... He's God ... He's the non-manifestable ... because ... there's nowhere ... where ... he is not ... He's the oceanic consciousness ... He's just a crystal lake ... reflecting the moon shape ...

. The whole history of Jesus has been totally misunderstood ...

. To see God ... means... to become Godly ... because ... it is a state. It is the ultimate peak of consciousness. It is the ultimate flowering of the seed that is hidden within you. It is the manifestation of the one that was hidden.

. Godliness is a state of being. This is why it is a better word than God ... because ... Godliness is a state, not a person. It is divine. Instead of calling the ... ultimate ... God ... or the Brahman ... call it Godliness or Divinity.

. Man is a seed. You can say that he is a seed of existence or of divinity, of godliness, and as long as he does not blossom into a flower of godliness, his restlessness will continue ...

. Jesus is a Christ ... because ... since his unity with that which is ... his restlessness ceased ...

. Don't follow this priests ... follow your inner light ... it will lead you to the ultimate experience of oneself ... one can become a Christ ... because ... Christ is a quality ... not a definition of Jesus ...

. Surely ... subtle and well managed lies are convenient ... for this huge ... massive ... economical movement of Christianity ...

. They don't want you to know ... that ... Christ is a quality ... that you CAN BECOME A CHRIST ... THAT ... IT IS NOT SOMETHING RESTRICTED TO JESUS ...

. But ... if ... they tell you that ... this whole religious cow dung ... produced ... by Christianity and so on so forth ... will be drowned away ...

. When False is perceived as False ... then ... the Lotus ... the flower ... of Truth ... blossoms.

. And ... remember ... the Lotus ... does blossoms from the mud ... from Falsehood ... So even Falsehood ... is valuable ... so you can perceive it as non-Truth ... then ... out of that perception ... The Lotus is born ... Truth is born ... Truth is resurrected ...

. Then ... the flowering of Truth ... happens ...

. Unless you see things ... as they are ... directly ... without any medium ... between ... you ... and ... reality ... between you ... and ... that which is ... without any so-called Pedia ... as Wikipedia ... reality cannot ... and will not ... blossom to you ...

. Emotions are ... irrational ... they cannot be rational ... by the very nature of it ... because they're comming from the very center of your being ... which is the Heart ...

. Emotions have the quality of transcendence ... they do express that ... which nature cannot be expressed by the mind ... by your thoughts ... by your so-called reason ...

. That ... whose nature ... cannot come out of the mind ... you simply ... watch it ... with total awareness ... and you'll see ... something coming up ... rising through your whole being ... a warm energy ... which was never experienced ... before ... in your Life ...

. Just look into it. If you are laughing, it is beautiful. In fact, if you ask me, even crying is beautiful; nothing is wrong with it. If you really ask me, then I will say accept whatsoever is. Accept the real, and then crying ... which is comming out of emotions ... is also beautiful.

. And there is no need to go into the inquiry of ‘why’ — because that inquiry distracts you from the factual.

. Then crying is not important, but why you are crying is. Then the real disappears and you go on chasing the cause. Where can you find the cause? How can you find the cause? You will have to go to the very beginning of the world — and there has never been any beginning. The world has been here always.

. No question is needed to live. And don’t wait for answers; start dropping questions. Live with the fact.

. If you are crying, cry. Enjoy it! It is a beautiful phenomenon — relaxing, cleansing, purifying.

. Laughter is beautiful. Laugh, and let laughter take possession of you. Laugh, so your whole body throbs and pulsates with it. It will be purifying, it will be vitalizing; it will rejuvenate you.

. But remain with the fact. Don’t move into causes. Remain with the existential. Don’t be bothered why it is so, because it cannot be answered.

I would not, in any way, be trying to suggest that it is ineffable — Jack Cummins

. You're now starting ... to be ... utterly confused ... That's perfectly good ...

. You're skeptical ... That's perfect ...

. Unless one is skeptical ... reality cannot blossom to him ...

. On one hand ... you do say ... that reality cannot be described ... cannot be put on mere words ... at least ... easily ... that ... words are Dead ... and reality ... is Alive ...

. But can you Know reality ... in a hard way ... ? Can you demystify anything ... in a hard way ... ? Or can you ... rather ... do it ... in a lovingly way ... ?

. Just ... lovingly and peacefully ... with a quiet and serene mind ... reality can blossom to you ...

. On the other hand ... you do say ... that reality is not the ineffable ...

. But ... So ... What is reality ... then ... ? If not the ineffable ... and if ... cannot be put on mere words ... or at least ... easily ... so ... What is it ... ?

. I think one ... do not need to be a genius ... to understand that ... understanding ... as such ... is not born out of ... being hard ... towards that which is ...

. So ... one ... need to be simple ... just with simplicity of being ... complexity ... immediately ... turns to simplicity ...

. Anything that cannot be put on words ... is the ... ineffable ...

. Innefable ... means ... that which is beyond any rationalization ...

. And ... yes ... Reality ... Life ... is beyond any rationalization ... because ... it's a paradox ...

. If you try to put reality on words ... you'll get mad ... because ... that's impossible ...

. Heraclitus ... once said: "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

. For example, you cannot explain that sentence by any so-called reasoning ... by any logical thought ... by any philosophy ... because ... it's completely illogical ... out of mind's comprehension ... Why is it so? ... because it's existential ...

. If you go to the river Ganges ... one day ... and the next day ... you step there again ... How and Why the river would be different ... ? Isn't it the same river ... the river Ganges ... ?

. Surely ... you can explain it by words ... but when Truth is put on mere words ... turns ... immediately ... to a Lie ... Why ?

. Because ... your mind (your past projections and your prejudices ... )... is between ... that which is ... and you ...

. Existence ... as such ... is born ... out of nothingness ...

. There is no death in existence ... Death exists not ... Existence does not know death ... Existence knows transformation ... and this transformation ... is too ... out of ... nothingness ...

. Somethingness is a disease created by Man ... so he can ... unnecessarily ... set off limits to his possibility of being ... in the Here-Now ... to his possibility of being aware ... of this cosmic consciousness.

. It is simple ...

. Prejudice is born out of ignorance ...

. If you're ignorant about that ... about ... that which is ... you'll project your ignorance ...

. When this projection happens ... it's named ... prejudices ...

. Racism ... is just ... a prejudice ... born out of ... ignorance ...

. Religion ... which is not Religion ... I call it Pseudo-Religion ... as metaphysics ... is born out of fear ... because ... one is ignorant about his own nature ... hence ... the ideological conflicts ... and so-called religious wars ... whose ultimate end ... is fighting for peace ... although ... no fight can lead to peace ... Fight as such ... inevitably leads to violence ... because ... fight ... as such ... is violent ...

. True religion ... which is ... Love ... is born out of ... being ... out of understanding ... out of consciousness ...

. And Love can lead to Compassion ... to the ultimate experience of oneself ... Samadhi ...

. First of all ... What is Science ?

. Science is the form of Knowledge which looks for the inner ... hidden power in matter ...

. Second of all ... What is Religion ?

. Religion is the form of Knowledge which looks for the inner ... hidden power in consciousness ...

. There is no conflict between religion and science ... in fact ... they are complementary to each other ...

. I'm all for Science ... I'm all for Religion ... I'm all for the whole ... I condemn the parts ...

. Science is the periphery ... and Religion is the core ... Together ... form an unity ...

. The periphery cannot exist without the core ... as ... science cannot exist without religion ... Both try to seek truth ... to know truth ...

. Any scientist who is not religious ... who is not in the pilgrimage of seeking oneself ... who is not in the inner journey ... in the discovery of oneself ... who is just in the outer journey ... know well ... he is not a scientist at all ... he cannot be ... by the very nature of reality ... I'm not talking about these stupid so-called religions ... in fact ... they're not religions ... they're just huge economical movements ... like Christianity ... and so on so forth ... they're just lies ... so you can be comfortably sleepy ... they're just opiums for the mass ... for the mediocres ... for the stupid mind ... I'm talking about self-fulfillment ... that's the true and the only religion possible ... my friend ...

. Religion means ... by it's very roots ... Metanoia ... Metanoia means ... to return to oneself ... to return to the very nature of oneself ...

. That's what Jesus ... in the new testament ... meant with Metanoia ... The inner alchemy of returning to oneself ... By Metanoia ... Jesus meant: " God is within oneself ... ", but you must know yourself ... you must return to yourself ... return to your very roots ... to your innocence ... you must become as innocent as a child is ... so you can become a God ... or according to Jesus ... enter to the kingdom of God ... Which is within you ... not in an outer Heaven ... but in your Heart ... but in your inner Heaven - "I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."

. And unless you do it in a scientific approach ... self-realization ... won't happen. So ... Yes ... religion and science are complementary ...

. Religion can exist without science ... but science cannot exist without religion ... without a religious spirit ... the core can exist without the periphery ... but the periphery cannot exist without the center ...

. One must complement the Inner with the Outer ... one must complement Mind with Heart ... one must complement God with Devil ... one must complement the extremes ... because they are extremes of the same coin ... of the same reality ... of the same energy ...

. Religion and Science ... together ... they're a Whole ... they form reality ... and everything Whole ... is Holy ...

. Any ideology is utterly futile ... friend ...

. Ideology ... as such ... is worthless ...

. The world is full of ideologies ... hence ... the chaos ...

. All ideologies have to be shattered, utterly shattered, so the mind becomes completely free from ideologies ...

. When ideologies are not ... then ... understanding and compassion can be born ... out of it ...

. Then ... Man does not need to live according to any stupid ideology. Ideology ... means ... "I'm right, therefore, you're wrong" ... When ideology is ... pure relations cannot be ... you cannot relate to anybody lonvingly ... Why is it so? ... Because, you identify yourself to a system of thought ... willing to do any stupid act ... willing to be anything ... so you can be in harmony with somehting which nature is dead ... with that dead system ... that's a power trip ... then you'll do anything ... so ... you can reach the ultimate end of that trip ... which is ... power ... the so-called respectability ... even ... if covered by the word peace.

. All the religions talk about love and peace ... all of them proclaim to be ... the truth holders ... all of them proclaim to have ... the key of peace ... the key of universal harmony ... but all of them fight for war ... and ... all of them are in war ... in a way or another ... Have you ever noticed that ... ?

. If there's no mind trips ... if there's no competition in the world ... there would not be any ideology ... with no ideology ... you would not have any so-called religion ... with no religion ... then ... the fragrance of Love could rise up ... then ... Love would be the only religion ...

. And ... in fact ... there's no possible religion other than ... Love ...

. When competition is ... when ideologies are ... then ... wars ... inevitably will follow ... as shadow follows Man ... whether armed wars or subtle wars. Remember ... armed wars are much softer ... compared to ... the subtle ones ...

. The real danger ... is when you don't know you're in a war ... but you are. Not ... when you're in the war ... and you know it ... because ... that's just temporary ... friend ...

. The second world war and first world war ... together ... had less impacts on truth ... than is having this third world war ... which ... has been lasting forever ... which ... has been lasting ... since your cunning mind started acting upon truth ...

. The real wars ... are the ideological wars ... yes ... those ones ... have huge proportions on people's mind ... on people's capability of ... knowing truth ... by themselves ... of reaching their ultimate nature ... samadhi ... nirvana ... tao ...

. Remember ... if you have some idea about how to live your life, you will live wrongly. The right way to live your life is not to have any ideas about how to live your life. Live without ideas and you live rightly. Live without mind and you live rightly. Live moment to moment and you live rightly. Do not live out of the past and don't live out of the future ... which is the same ... of living out of the past.

. Just live Here-Now ... and you will live rightly ...

. First of all ... I think ... you need to understand ... that ...What does it mean to Be Moral? What is Morality?

. By morality they mean that you have to be truthful, you have to be honest, you have to be charitable, you have to be compassionate, you have to be nonviolent. In one word, all these great values have first to be present in you, only then you can move towards being religious.

. This whole concept is upside down. According to me, unless you are religious you cannot be moral.

. Religion comes first, morality is only a by-product. If you make the by-product into the goal of human character, you will create such a troubled, miserable humanity – and for such a good cause. You are bringing the cart before the bullocks – neither the bullocks can move, nor the cart can move; both are stuck.

. How can a man be truthful if he does not know what truth is? How can a man be honest if he does not know even who he is? How can a man be compassionate if he does not know the source of love within himself? From where will he get the compassion? All that he can do in the name of morality is to become a hypocrite, a pretender. And there is nothing more ugly than to be a hypocrite. He can pretend, he can try hard, but everything will remain superficial and skin-deep. Just scratch him a little bit, and you will find all the animal instincts fully alive, ready to take revenge whenever they can get the opportunity.

. Putting morality before religion is one of the greatest crimes that religions have committed against humanity.

. The very idea brings a repressed human being. And a repressed human being is sick, psychologically split, constantly in a fight with himself, trying to do things which he does not want to do.

. Morality should be very relaxed and easy – just like your shadow; you don’t have to drag it with you, it simply comes on its own. But this has not happened; what has happened is a psychologically sick humanity. Everybody is tense, because whatever you are doing there is a conflict about whether it is right or wrong. Your nature goes in one direction; your conditioning goes just in the opposite direction, and a house divided cannot stand for long. So everybody is somehow pulling himself together; otherwise the danger is always there, just by your side, of having a nervous breakdown.

. Morality should not be taught at all. Morality should come on its own accord. I teach you directly the experience of your own being. As you become more and more silent, serene, calm and quiet, as you start understanding you own consciousness, as your inner being becomes more and more centered, your actions will reflect morality. It will not be something that you decide to do; it will be something as natural as roses on a rose bush. It is not that the rose bush is doing great austerities, and fasting, and praying to God, and disciplining itself according to the Ten Commandments; the rose bush is doing nothing. The rose bush has just to be healthy, nourished, and the flowers will come in their own time, with great beauty, effortlessly.

. A morality that comes with effort is immoral. A morality that comes without effort is the only morality there is.

. That’s why one cannot talk about morality at all, because it is morality that has created so many problems for humanity – about everything. They have given you ready-made ideas about what is right, what is wrong. In life, ready-made ideas don’t work, because life goes on changing, just like a river – taking new turns, moving into new territories… from the mountains to the valleys, from the valleys to the plains, from the plains to the ocean.

. Heraclitus is right when he says, “You cannot step in the same river twice,” because it is always flowing. The second time you step in, it is different water. I agree with Heraclitus so much that I say unto you, you cannot step in the same river even once – because when your feet are touching its surface, the water underneath is flowing; as your feet are going deeper, the water on the surface is flowing; and by the time you have touched the bottom, so much water has gone… it is not the same water, that your step can not be said to be entering into the same river.

. Life is just like the river – a flux. And you are all carrying fixed dogmas. You always find yourself unfit, because if you follow your dogmas, you have to go against life; if you follow life, you have to go against your dogmas.

. Morality must be spontaneous. You should be conscious and alert, and respond to every situation with absolute consciousness. Then whatever you do is right. It is not a question of actions being right or wrong, it is a question of consciousness – whether you are doing it consciously or unconsciously like a robot.

. My whole philosophy is based on growing your consciousness higher, deeper, to the point when there is no unconsciousness inside you; you have become a pillar of light. In this light, in this clarity, to do anything wrong becomes impossible. It is not that you have to avoid doing it; even if you want to do it, you cannot. And in this consciousness, whatsoever you do becomes a blessing.

. Your action out of consciousness is moral, out of unconsciousness is immoral ... it may be the same action.

. First of all ... friend ...

. Your first question ...

1º - "Where Are We From?"´

. You're from here ... You're from the whole ... You're from the eternal ... You're always from now ... You're always been rejuvenating ... You're not a conclusion ... You're a process ... this is why ... Man is a mystery ... this is why ... Man is perfectly imperfect ... You're from God ... You're from yourself ... because ... you're God ... and God cannot be perfect ... God is as well ... perfectly imperfect ... that's why ... there's evolution in nature ... that's why ... there's dynamism in nature ... that's why ... nature is ... that's why ... Man is ... He is a being ... because ... he is always being ... He is a continuum ... Man is in the Here-Now ... and ... the Here-Now ... is the timeless time ... is the form of no form ... is the thought of no thought ... where else could you have come from ... friend ... ?

. Your second question ...

2º - What are we?

. Please ... meditate carefully in this zen parable ... apart from any thought ... it sums up all the so-called scriptures of the world ... It's the most important reading ... if you do it properly ... you may get an insight ... which may permit you to ...

. It is not an answer ... it just ... kills all the questions ...

. It is from Hakuin Ekaku ... the zen master ...

The Lion's Roar:

ALL BEINGS ARE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING BUDDHA.

IT IS LIKE WATER AND ICE:

APART FROM WATER, NO ICE, OUTSIDE LIVING BEINGS, NO BUDDHAS.

NOT KNOWING IT IS NEAR, THEY SEEK IT AFAR.

WHAT A PITY!

IT IS LIKE ONE IN THE WATER WHO CRIES OUT FOR THIRST; IT IS LIKE THE CHILD OF A RICH HOUSE WHO HAS STRAYED AWAY AMONG THE POOR.

THE CAUSE OF OUR CIRCLING THROUGH THE SIX WORLDS IS THAT WE ARE ON THE DARK PATHS OF IGNORANCE.

DARK PATH UPON DARK PATH TREADING, WHEN SHALL WE ESCAPE FROM BIRTH-AND-DEATH?

THE ZEN MEDITATION OF THE MAHAYANA IS BEYOND ALL OUR PRAISE.

GIVING AND MORALITY AND THE OTHER PERFECTIONS, TAKING OF THE NAME, REPENTANCE, DISCIPLINE, AND THE MANY OTHER RIGHT ACTIONS, ALL COME BACK TO THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION.

BY THE MERIT OF A SINGLE SITTING HE DESTROYS INNUMERABLE ACCUMULATED SINS.

HOW SHOULD THERE BE WRONG PATHS FOR HIM?

. Your third question ...

3º - Where are we going?

. There is nowhere to go ... There is no Hell ... There is no Heaven ...

. If you do it ... in this Life ... you won't be here anymore ...

. If you don't do it ... in this Life ... you'll be here again ...

. First of all ... Atheism is a belief system ... it is not a fact ...

. And as all belief systems ... is unreal ... because one who believes ... does not know ... otherwise ... he would not believe ... in something which is a fact ... You cannot believe in the moon's existence ... Can you ... ?

. You see ... friend ... Philosophy ... is really for mediocre beings ... and ... you must consider yourself a philosopher ... hence ... your great comment ...

. But reading your sentence ... it teased me a big laugh ... reminding me ... the whole pathology of beliefs and ignorance ... reflected by you ... through you ... that ... humanity have ...

. You did not even read my answer ... you did not even respond to my answer ... you reacted to it ... you must be a reactionary ... a so-called activist ... trying to fight for any stupid belief ... for any stupid dogma ... that you find good with you ...

. You just vomited your prejudices ... because ... it did not make any sense ...

. I did say ... that Life ... is beyond any prejudice ... any stupid belief ... and you ... go to me with your philosophical rubbish ... declaring that I'm one with beliefs ...

. Life is beyond any philosophy ...

. Exactly ... If nothing is wrong then there are no problems to be solved ...

. That's a Good logic ... very well ...

. You must be a logician ... XD

. BUT ... No ... there is no If's ... If's exist not ... don't live in the If's world ...

. In fact ... you're the only problem ... you ... as a human being ... who is not ... are a problem ...

. Life has always been the way it is ... nothing has changed ...

. There is an old wise dictum which is stated - "Everything under the sun ... is old ... everything is as it is ... " (full stop) ...

. Your corruptions ... your cunning mind ... are not new ... they are as old as the ocean itself ...

. Nothing is wrong with Life ... Life ... as such ... is perfect ... if you cannot see that Life is perfectly imperfect ... if you cannot see it ... that's because you're the problem ... Life is an evolution ... so it cannot be perfect ... (yes ... I did contradict myself ... just the mediocres do not contradict themselves ... they think in terms of the extremes ... Life does not moves by extremes ... the so-called logicians are one-dimensional ... but ... Life is multidimensional ... Life is a paradox) ...

. The sun exists ... but the moon does exists too ... The sun won't say ... "You fool ... you cannot exist because I do exist" ... No friend ... Existence is not the way a logician thinks it is ...

. Friend ... it is simple ... do not put your mind in it ... do not complicate a simple phenomenon ... do not become more confused than you already are ...

. Atheism is ... a Negative Belief ... about existence ... It is a big NO to existence ... to Godliness ... to divineness ...

. Yes ... There is no God beyond ... God is in Here-Now ... Everything is God ... Everything is Brahma ... There is nothing in this whole existence whose nature is apart of Godliness ...

. Atheist are right in a sense ... but wrong in another sense ... Yes ... there is no God up there to judge you ... not because ... there is no divine quality in existence ... as atheist do say ... but because ... everything is God ... and everything is good as it is ... nothing is judged by anything ...

. You don't need a belief about that which is ... because that which is ... is ... regardless your so-called philosophical beliefs ...

. Nothing ... is the greatest blessing of existence ...

. Everything is born out of nothingness ... and everything ... dies in nothingness ... Life is a cycle.
The beginning is the end ... and ... The end is a beginning of a new Birth ... of a new Being ... of a new Life ...

. Nothingness is where Truth is ...

. Somethingness is where Lie is ... Somethingness is a disease ...

. Life requires no effort ...

. Accomplish do-nothing. Enjoy not doing anything. Simple - but it looks difficult because of you, otherwise it is simple. Your ego is the problem ... your ego is subtlest poison ever existed ... and this poison kills the very source of Love. Find time to do nothing ... Whenever you can find some time just close your eyes and do nothing. Soon you will have the taste of: the flavorless. Soon ... you'll enter a different kind of existence, where Jesus lives, Krishna lives, Lao Tzu lives ...

. Only nothingness can be infinite; somethingness is bound to be finite. Only out of nothingness is an infinite expanse of life, existence, possible - not out of somethingness ...

. Thoughts are your guests ...

. You are the host ...

. Thoughts are your servants ...

. You are the master ...

. But ... apparently ... for people .... it seems exactly the opposite ... isn't it?

. So ... "Do thoughts help to explain the nature of consciousness?" (That's your question ... )

. No ... exactly the opposite ... Thoughts help your ignorance to know about your consciousness ... You think that you know by thinking ... that's a paradox friend ...

. You cannot know anything clearly ... by thinking ... you can do ... by understanding ... you cannot have any preconceived ideas when you face that which is the unkown for you ... otherwise you will miss it ... right? ... For example ... you cannot understand your friend clearly while listening to him ... if the day before he did insult you ... and you carry on this stupid insult with you ... Your inner rageful thoughts ... won't allow understanding being born in you ... even if he is a completely new being while talking to you ... even if he did repent and he just would like to apologize you ... you will just listen to that thoughts ... you will not even allow him to apologize you ... because you cannot see the obvious fact that he is not the person he was yesterday ... do you understand ... Thoughts are always the past memories ... never the new ...

. So ... yes ... understanding is not a corollary of thinking ... but of listening your inner voice ... Thoughts cannot give you understanding ... it can just make your intellect sharper ... nothing else ... It can make one more and more cunning ... more and more unnatural ... more and more far away from his home ... Thoughts are like clouds ... obstructing the sun daylight ...

. They have made a lodging house of your mind. It is wrong to think of them as yours; and this same mistake comes in the way of getting rid of them. If you identify as yours, you stand in the way of their exit.

. And the thoughts which are your temporary guests become permanent lodgers. By looking at thoughts impersonally, you sever connection with them. Whenever a thought or desire is born in you, watch its birth ... see it grow before the mind’s eye ... and then observe its decline ... and the final departure.

. No ... TaySan ...

. Your common word for ... responsability ... is not responsability ... You're not talking about responsability ... your're talking about respectability ... you're talking about Duty.

. In the so-called dictionary they're synonyms ... but in Life ... in existence ... not in a stupid dictionary ... they're not synonyms ... in fact ... they are diametrically opposite to each other ... as sky-earth ... as Hell-Heaven ... but paradoxically ... they may be complementary ... because the whole Life is a Paradox ...

. Duty and respectability are a social contract ... they are ugly phenonema ... they're not natural ... it's useful ... it is not an end unto itself ... Duty is mind-oriented ... goal-oriented ... responsability ... is heart-oriented ... Love-oriented ... do you understand ... Responsability means ... that ... you responde to the moment ... regardless the consequences ... you're whole in the moment ... and everything whole ... friend ... know well ... that is Holy ...

. Responsability is not something cultivated by you ... it rises through you ... through your innermost core ... it is existencialist ...

. Unless you're responsible to yourself ... unless you Love yourself ... as an unique human being ... not as a personality ... but as an individual ... you cannot and will not respect others ... respect the whole universe ... One who plays the duty role ... pretends to love others ... In fact ... he's an hypocrite ... that's the reason why he needs to be confined to stupid rules ... made by stupid people ... He does not trust in his heart ...

. "Shouldn't humans look forward to future in a more positive way?"

. Why?

. Why do you say that?

. Are you aware about the implications of that simple idea, friend ... ?

. Why look forward to future in a more positive way ... ?

. I would like you to seriously meditate over that thought of yours ... because ... that thought is a trap from the ego ... it is made and cunningly produced by the society ... so you can forget about the misery of the present ... and dream beautiful dreams about a positive future ... that's impossible friend ...

. That thought ... Had led and has been leading to ... uninterrupted religious wars ... and that religious people ... talk about Love and Peace ... but all of them live for war ... have you ever noticed that?

. It is from that thought that all the religions are born ... Please do not accept what I'm saying ...

. You meditate deep into it ... do not think about it ... you just make a three hundred and sixty degrees turn on your being ... you reach to your innermost core ... and you'll see it as a fact ... Religion is the opium of the masses ... Karl Marx was not wrong about it ... it was a good insight of him ... at least the theologian religion ... But he was not a meditator ... Hence his misery ... Hence his violence ... Hence his revolutionary ideas ...

. A truth ... only ... comes from a Truth ... And ... A lie ... only ...comes from a lie ... friend ... That was one of the insights from Vyasa on the Upanishads ...

. So if your present is a Lie ... it cannot ... turn to a Truth ... in some moment of the future ... that's impossible ... friend ...

. Now - the only time; Here - the only place ... right?!

. The future is that which is not yet ... and that which is not yet ... will be perfect ... just ... if that which is ... is perfect ... because the tomorrow is the outcome of the today ... do you understand ... ?

. So ... if you're a so-called poor in spirit ... if you live miserably while alive ... you'll not ... reach to Heaven ...

. Because ... at the first place ... There is no Heaven and there is no Hell ... God is Here-Now ... you're God, I'm God ... When you reach to self-realization ... you recognize that you're perfect the way you're ... you don't need any improvement ... you're God itself ... How God needs improvements ... ?

. While alive ... you should make your Life a Heaven ...

. Yes ... the society tells you that you cannot be the way you are ... All the schools and universities say that ... in one way or another ...

. But the society does not want you to be a human being ... because ... to be human is to be free ...

. Society wants you to be a slave ... In a tremendous subtle way sure ... So subtle ... that ... one is unaware about it ... The society gives you entertainment ... but cannot give you pure happinness ... it gives you respectability ... Still ... one do not respect oneself ... and ... therefore ... others ... for the pure sake ... of respect.

. Happiness is something that comes from your innermost core ... nobody can give you ...

´

. So ... Your question is ...

. Is there a Goal in Life ... and if there is ... What is it, then?

. My question to you ... is ... - "Why should Life have a Goal?" ... "Why should one be after a goal in Life?"

. Can't you just live in the present ... ? Is it so hard to be purposeless ... ? Is there a way to live without living in here-now?

. Life is present ... Life is here ... Life is now ... Here is the only place ... and ... Now the only time ...

. There is no tomorrow ... the tomorrow never comes ... Why is it so ? ... because ... when the "tomorrow" comes ... it comes ... as the present ... Do you understand, friend? ... it comes as the present ... because ... it is a present ... from nature to you ... and you just perceive the tomorrow ... when you're in it ... and when you are in it ... it's present ...

. Therefore ... one who thinks in terms of goals ... is always procrastinating Life ... In fact ... he never lives ... He can has ... though ... beautiful dreams ... while alive ... but he never lives ... he pretends to lives ...

. Goals are always inexistent ... because where goals are ... Life is not ...

. Goals are the biggest lie ... supported by your beloved society ... so your attention is always in the after ... never in the now ... So you can be always asleep ... while alive ... Always working for the stupid society ... while your Life ... while your energy ... is sliding off through your hands ... like water ... slides off through your hands ... You're never the owner of your Life ... The society is ...

. There is no goal in Life, friend ... Life as such ... is purposeless ...

. It doesn't mean ... that ... Life is meaningless ... No! ... Not at all, please do not misunderstand me! ... This is where all the so-called existentialists were wrong ... as ... Sartre or Nietzsche ...

. Life is like a seed ... in itself ... it is not enough. You will have to work hard to the seed sprouts, becomes a tree and comes to bloom ...

. True Love is the unknown ...

. True Love is the uncharted ...

. True Love is a roseflower in your being ...

. True Love is a spiritual experience – nothing to do with sexes and nothing to do with bodies, but something to do with the innermost being ...

. True Love is ... Tao ... God ...

. And ... Tao is ... Life ...

. But Love is tremendously relative. There are as many loves as there are people. Love is a hierarchy, from the lowest rung to the highest, from sex to superconsciousness. There are many, many layers, many planes of love. It all depends on you. If you are existing on the lowest rung, you will have a totally different idea of love than the person who is existing on the highest rung.

. Adolf Hitler will have one idea of love, Gautam Buddha another; and they will be diametrically opposite, because they are at two extremes.

. At the lowest, love is a kind of politics, power politics. Wherever love is contaminated by the idea of domination, it is politics. Whether you call it politics or not is not the question, it is political. And millions of people never know anything about love except this politics – the politics that exists between husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. It is politics, the whole thing is political: you want to dominate the other, you enjoy domination.

. And love is nothing but politics sugar-coated, a bitter pill sugar-coated. You talk about love but the deep desire is to exploit the other. And I am not saying that you are doing it deliberately or consciously – you are not that conscious yet. You cannot do it deliberately; it is an unconscious mechanism.

. Hence so much possessiveness and so much jealousy become a part, an intrinsic part, of your love. That’s why love creates more misery than joy. Ninety-nine percent of it is bitter; there is only that one percent of sugar that you have coated on top of it. And sooner or later that sugar disappears.

. When you are in the beginning of a love affair, those honeymoon days, you taste something sweet. Soon that sugar wears off, and the realities start appearing in stark nakedness and the whole thing becomes ugly.

. Millions of people have decided not to love human beings any more. It is better to love a dog, a cat, a parrot; it is better to love a car – because you can dominate them well, and the other never tires to dominate you. It is simple; it is not as complex as it is going to be with human beings.

. A little story ...

At a cocktail party the hostess couldn’t help overhearing the conversation of a suave gentleman.

“Oh, I adore her. I worship her,” declared the gentleman.

“I would too if she were mine,” agreed his friend.

“The way she walks and swishes. Her beautiful big brown eyes, her head so proud and erect…”

“You’re very fortunate,” commented his friend.

“I would too if she were mine,” agreed his friend.

“The way she walks and swishes. Her beautiful big brown eyes, her head so proud and erect…”

“You’re very fortunate,” commented his friend.

“And do you know what really thrills me? The way she nibbles my ear.”

“Sir,” the hostess interjected. “I couldn’t help listening to those affectionate words. In this day of numerous divorces I admire a man who so passionately loves his wife.”

“My wife?” said the gentleman, surprised. “No – my champion race horse!”

. People are falling in love with horses, dogs, animals, machines, things. Why? Because to be in love with human beings has become an utter hell, a continuous conflict – nagging, always at each other’s throats.

. This is the lowest form of love. Nothing is wrong with it if you can use it as a stepping-stone, if you can use it as a meditation. If you can watch it, if you try to understand it, in that very understanding you will reach another rung, you will start moving upwards.

. Only at the highest peak, when love is not a relationship any more, when love becomes a state of your being, the lotus opens totally and great perfume is released – but only at the highest peak. At its lowest, love is just a political relationship. At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness.

. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return. Their love is given for the sheer joy of giving it; it is not a bargain. Hence the radiant beauty of it, hence the transcendental beauty of it. It surpasses all the joys that you have known.

. When I talk about love, I am talking about love as a state. It is unaddressed: you don’t love this person or that person, you simply love. You are love. Rather than saying that you love somebody, it will be better to say you are love. So whosoever is capable of partaking, can partake. Whosoever is capable of drinking out of your infinite sources of being, you are available – you are available unconditionally.

. That is possible only if love becomes more and more meditative.

. ‘Medicine’ and ‘meditation’ come from the same root. Love as you know it is a kind of disease: it needs the medicine of meditation. If it passes through meditation, it is purified. And the more purified it is, the more ecstatic.

. Another little story ...

Nancy was having coffee with Helen.

Nancy asked, “How do you know your husband loves you?”

“He takes out the garbage every morning.”

“That’s not love. That’s good housekeeping.”

“My husband gives me all the spending money I need.”

“That’s not love. That’s generosity.”

“My husband never looks at other women.”

“That’s not love. That’s poor vision.”

“John always opens the door for me.”

“That’s not love. That’s good manners.”

“John kisses me even when I’ve eaten garlic and I have curlers in my hair.”

“Now, that’s love.”

. Everybody has their own idea of love. And only when you come to the state where all ideas about love have disappeared, where love is no more an idea but simply your being, then only will you know its freedom. Then love is God. Then love is the ultimate truth.

. Let your love move through the process of meditation. Watch it: watch the cunning ways of your mind, watch your power-politics. And nothing else except continuous watching and observing is going to help. When you say something to your woman or your man, look at it: what is the unconscious motive? Why are you saying it? Is there some motive? Then what is it? Be conscious of that motive, bring it to consciousness – because this is one of the secret keys for transforming your life: anything that becomes conscious disappears.

. Your motives remain unconscious, that’s why you remain in their grip. Make them conscious, bring them to light, and they will disappear. It is as if you pull up a tree and bring the roots to the sunlight: they will die, they can exist only in the darkness of the soil. Your motives also exist only in the darkness of your unconsciousness. So the only way to transform your love is to bring all the motivations from the unconscious into the conscious. Slowly, slowly, those motives will die.

. And when love is unmotivated, then love is the greatest thing that can ever happen to anybody. Then love is something of the ultimate, of the beyond.

. That is the meaning when Jesus says, “God is love.” I say to you: Love is God. God can be forgotten, but don’t forget love – because it is the purification of love that will bring you to God. If you forget about God completely, nothing is lost. But don’t forget love, because love is the bridge. Love is the process of alchemical change in your consciousness.

. I would like you to understand this basic truth ...

. "Your Life is your Karma" ...

. You are 100 per cent responsible for what happened ... happens ... and will hapen in your Life ... One who do that ... is truly responsible ... Why is it so? ...

. Because ... unless you're in a tremendous conscious state of being ... you cannot and will never conceive yourself as the doer of your Life ... to this ... I call ... Ignorance ... an ignorant man ... a blind being ... trying to put his responsability on the society ... on politicians ... on the state ... on the government ... on the social structure ... and so on so forth ...

. The mediocre being ... therefore ... the ordinary mind ... the mass population ... always ... throws the responsibility on somebody else. It is always the other who is making you suffer. Your wife is making you suffer, your husband is making you suffer, your parents are making you suffer, your children are making you suffer, or the financial system of the society, capitalism, communism, fascism, the prevalent political ideology, the social structure, or fate, karma, God ... you name it!

. One is full of bull**** ... and one want others to be responsible for one misery ...

. People have millions of ways to shirk responsibility. But the moment you say somebody else – X, Y, Z – is making you suffer, then you cannot do anything to change it. What can you do? When the society changes and communism comes and there is a classless world, then everybody will be happy. Before it, it is not possible. How can you be happy in a society which is poor? And how can you be happy in a society which is dominated by the capitalists? How can you be happy with a society which is bureaucratic? How can you be happy with a society which does not allow you freedom?

. Excuses and excuses and excuses – excuses just to avoid one single insight that “I am responsible for myself. Nobody else is responsible for me; it is absolutely and utterly my responsibility. Whatsoever I am, I am my own creation.”

. Pantheism is a belief system ...

. As all belief systems ... Pantheism is not an exception ... inevitably is an abstract organization ... with organized and preconceived conclusions, your so-called a priori ideas, that "God is everything ... there is nothing ... whose nature is apart of God's nature" ...

. God cannot be conceived by any religion ... by any ideology ... by any system of thought ...

. God is beyond any philosophical idea about that which is ...

. Yes ... God is that which is ...

. But when you pronounce verbally ... that God is that which is .... and that which is ... is all ... since ever ... Then ... "God is everything" ...

. You´re lying ... Why is it so?

. Because ...

. Truth cannot be said ... and even said ... it turns immediatly to a lie ...

. Truth is beyond any word ... any pronunciation ... Truth is just a crystal mirror ... a crystal lake ... reflecting the moon shape ...

. Your so-called philosophical words about Truth ... are like ... dust clinging in a mirror. They can even express theoretically ... what Truth is ... Still ... Truth will be missed by them ... because Truth is beyond any mind activity ...

. You must live Truth intensly ... You must live Life intensly ... because ... Life is Truth ...

. Tao cannot be expressed verbally ... and even expressed ... it turns into a lie ...

. Tao and God ... are one ... an unity ... an oneness ... that ... must be lived ... while ... one is Alive ...

. Look friend ...

. I think you already know What I do say about it ...

. But ... I would like to tell you ... that ...

. Reading is important ... but ... as a means. Reading is important ... as the mother is important ... tremendously important ... when a child is trying to take his first step ... right?

. But ... please ... don't make reading an end. Don't be a so-called intellectual.

. Kahlil Gibran once said, beautifully, in his book "The Prophet" - "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth" ...

. The same happens friend ... you're a bow ... your reading is an arrow ... but please remember ... the arrow is poiting to the inner truth ... to the ultimate book ... to your inner book ... the knowledge about this inner book ... is not borrowed ... by any philosopher ... by any physicist ... is virgin ... that's the true knowledge ... is given to you by nature ... by tao ... or whatever you want to call it ... right?

. Make your reading a preparation ... for self-realization. Why do I say this? Because ... there's a state much higher than intellectuality ... and unfortunately ... the majority never experienced this state which is beyond any mind activity ... which is beyond any kind of rationalization ... the society does not like when people really know ...

. The key to being human in the highest manner is to be balanced with the mental and emotions. Of course, one with a keep intellect is fortunate for themselves and others if balanced by common sense, compassion, and a general love of life.

. Intellect and intelligence are similar at least in appearance, but only in appearance.

. The intellectual person is not necessarily intelligent and the intelligent person is not necessarily intellectual.

. I'm not an intellectual ...

. You can find a farmer so intelligent that even a very great professor, a very great intellectual, will look like a pygmy in front of him.

. Intuition is frequently the master over the intellect ...

. No ...

. Man is not more valuable than animals ...

. Why would man ... whose nature is animalistic ... whose nature is like a seed, a potencial, a Lotus flower ... ready to open it's thousand petals ... be more valuable than animals?

. In fact ... Let us go deeper and deeper ...

. Man ... as such ... is an animal. Man's nature is not yet human beings nature ... because ... to be a human being ... you must know how to be ... rather of thinking what you would like to be ... or what you were ... right? Rather of thinking in terms of your past and in terms of your future ... Rather of thinking How to do ... instead of thinking ... How to be ... and ... What to be. You don't even know How to be in this cosmic universe ... and even then ... you want to know How to do ... and ... What do you want to do ... if you don't even know ... How to be? ...

. All the animals know how to be ... just man ... as an animal ... is ignorant about his own nature ...

. Unless you're absolutely aware that this - the only place ... and now - the only time ... you will never be a human being ... despite having the potential for it ...

. In fact, there is nothing wrong with individualism ...

. Follow this criterion ...

. Anything that goes against individuality is wrong ... Anything that spoils and poisons your individuality ... your very being ... your very uniqueness ... is essencially wrong ... Anything that tries to conform you to anything else but you and take away your singularity ... coming from your innermost core ... is absolutely wrong.

. Individuality is exactly what it means: it is individual. Personality is not individual, it is social.

. Society wants you to have personalities not individualities ... Society wants you to conform to others ... Society wants you unnintelligent ... because just unintelligent beings can be easily but subtly enslaved to monotonous and stupid jobs. For example, spend the whole Life being a clerk. That's tremendously insensitive.You are not allowed to be the way you are ... you are allowed to be carbon copys of others ... whose Life is meaningless ... so you can be easily manipulated through your so-called beloved politicians ...

. They perfectly know ... since 5,000 years ... that your individualities if not corrupted will create conflit. The society hides your individuality ... puts you a blind man ... and gives a personality ... a mask ... that's the meaning of personality ... from a greek root ... Did you know that? In Greek drama the actors used to wear masks to hide their real face and to show some other face. From persona comes the word personality, it is a mask that you wear, it is not your original face.

. When the personality disappears, don't be afraid. For the first time, you become authentic ... for the first time you become real ... for the first time you attain to essence. That essence, in India, has been called atma, the soul.

. The ego is the center of personality and godliness is the center of essence. That's why there is so much insistance from every corner that ego has to be dropped: unless you know what you are, not what you are expected to be ...

. Personality is false, it is the greatest lie. And because the whole society depends on personality, the state, the church, organizations, the establishment are all lies. The western psychology goes on thinking about the personality too much, that's why the whole of western psychology is a psychology based on the basic lie. The East is being westernized as well ... and ... unfortunately ... the ancient wisdom ... is being lost ...

. Human beings must think in terms of essence, not of the personality. That which you have brought, that which is your intrinsic nature, that which is your intrinsic essence has to be known and has to be lived ...

. Personality is that which you are not ... but ... cunningly ... try to show that you are. Personality is that which you have to use as a convenience when you move in society.

. But you'll see that ... when you're alone surrounding by nature ... personality ... spontaneously ... is dropped ... and ... in that moment ... you truly are ...

. I do not move by arguments ... arguments are futile friend ...

. That which is ... is ... was ... and it will ever be ... regardless your so-called philosophical arguments ...

. I'll stop ... if you philosophize me ... how does the sugar tastes. Do it, so I don't have to prove it ...

. Consciousness is your nature; mind is just the circumference created by the society around you, the culture, your education.

. Mind means the conditioning. You can have a Hindu mind, but you cannot have a Hindu consciousness. You can have a Christian mind, but you can't have a Christian consciousness. Consciousness is one; it is not divisible. Minds are many because societies are many; cultures, religions are many. Each culture, each society, creates a different mind. Mind is a social by-product. And unless this mind dissolves, you cannot go within; you cannot know what is really your nature, what is authentically your existence, your consciousness.

. The effort to move into meditation is a struggle against the mind. Mind is never meditative, it is never silent, so to say 'a silent mind' is meaningless, absurd. It is just like saying 'a healthy disease'. It makes no sense. How can there be a disease that is healthy? Disease is disease, and health is the absence of disease.

. There is nothing like a silent mind. When silence is there, there is no mind. When mind is there, there is no silence. Mind, as such, is the disturbance, the disease. Meditation is the state of no-mind. Not of a silent mind, not of a healthy mind, not of a concentrated mind, no. Meditation is the state of no-mind: no society within you, no conditioning within you. Just you, with your pure consciousness.

. In Zen they say: Find out your original face. The face that you are using is not original; it is cultivated. It is not your face; it is just a facade, just a device. You have many faces, each moment you change your face. You go on changing it. The changing has become so automatic by now that you don't even observe it, you don't notice it.

. When you meet your servant you have a different face from when you meet your boss. If your servant is sitting on your left side and your boss is sitting on your right, you have two faces. The left face is for the servant and the right face is for the boss. You are two persons simultaneously. How can you have the same face for your servant? Your one eye has a certain quality, a certain look. Your other eye has a different quality, a different look. It is meant for the boss and the other one is meant for the servant. This has become so automatic, so mechanical, so robot like that you go on changing your faces, you have multi-faces, and not a single one is the original.

. In Zen they say: Find out your original face, the face you had before you were born, or the face you will have when you are dead. What is that original face? That original face is your consciousness. All your other faces come from your mind.

. Remember well that you don't have one mind; you have multi-minds. Forget the concept that everyone has one mind. You don't have, you have many minds: a crowd, a multiplicity; you are poly-psychic. In the morning you have one mind, in the afternoon a different mind and in the evening still a different mind. Every single moment you have a different mind.

. Mind is a flux: river like, flowing, changing. Consciousness is eternal, one. It is not different in the morning and different in the evening. It is not different when you are born and different when you die. It is one and the same, eternal. Mind is a flux. A child has a childish mind, an old man has an old mind; but a child or an old man have the same consciousness, which is neither childish nor old. It cannot be.

. Mind moves in time and consciousness lives in timelessness. They are not one. But we are identified with the mind. We go on saying, insisting, 'My mind. I think this way. This is my thought. This is my ideology.' Because of this identification with the mind, you miss that which you really are.

. Dissolve these links with the mind. Remember that your minds are not your own. They have been given to you by others: your parents, your society, your university. They have been given to you. Throw them away. Remain with the simple consciousness that you are ¯ pure consciousness, innocent. This is how one moves from the mind to meditation. This is how one moves away from society, from the without to the within. This is how one moves from the man-made world, the maya, to the universal truth, the existence.

. Descartes and his so-called philosophical system is reigning on the western philosophy ... you watch it carefully ... on all the dimensions ... and you'll see it so ...

. There is a famous dictum of this western philospher Descartes: cogito ergo sum - I think, therfore I am. This is probably the most stupid, absurd and catastrophic idea ever created by any human being who philosophize ... on earth ...

. This stupid sentence has made the western man ... mind-oriented ... materialistic-oriented ... stingy, ambitious ... male-oriented ... not female-oriented ... instead ... of being-oriented ... instead ... of heart-oriented. Your mind is not existencial ... it is a by-product of millennia ... utilitarian, useful ... yes ... but not when you're alone ... and you want peace and ecstasy rising up in you ... there is no other source of suffering and misery but mind ...

. And this question arises ... Why do I say this ... ?

. Because, it shows that thinking is primary and being is secondary - I think, therefore I am.

. Descartes was a great thinker ... but he was not a man of peace ... a meditator ... unless you're a meditator you cannot be a man of peace ... Why is it so ? ... Because mind activity with no inexistence of mind activity leads to psychological suffering ... Have you ever noticed this fact on your Life ... ?

. Thinking is secondary ... not primary. Being is first. First you are, then you think. First you exist, and then ... yes ... the substance comes after. First you be ... and then ... thinking follows ... as shadow follows man.

. I want you to understand this ...

. If you're not, then who is going to think? Thinking cannot exist in a vacuum. If somebody says, "I am, therefore I think," it is right. But to say "I think, therefore I am", is absolutely foolish, idiotic, absurd.

. Descartes must have been an absurd thinker ... and all of them are. They cannot see their existencialist nature.

. But still, there is a meaning to his maximum: Descartes is the father of western philosophy, and the whole western has been influenced by two persons - Aristotle and Descartes. So, in the west anything goes through thinking; even being goes through thinking. Even being is not a simple fact; you have to think about it first, then you are - as if it is a logical conclusion ... this is just absurd.

. Life is existencial ... It is not logical ...

. When will you understand this ... While alive ... or while you're in a graveyard ? You choose ...

. Life is a paradox ... Life is beyond logic ... it is beyond any syllogism ... it does include illogical phenomena too ...

. There is no logical phenomena why a bird must sing ... Why does these people sing, for what purpose? For what logical reason? ... What do they gain with it ... ? This is the thinking of a western mind ...

. They cannot see that which is ... and that which is ... does not need any explanation ... it just exists ... the beauty and the sweetness of their song is enough ...

. The mystic is beyond any mind activity ... And I would like you to be mystics ... one with the whole ...