B.: 'Dhyan Deva. Dhyan means
meditation, Deva means god.
The way to god is meditation. Meditation means a state of no-mind.
Mind is the way to the outside world and no-mind is the way to the
inside world. If you want to approach the world you have to become
more and more of a mind. That's what a scientist becomes: more and
more a mind, To reach farther into the exterior reality, that is
the only way. For science it is the only valid method.
But if you want to go inwards you have to retrace your steps, you
have to become less and less of a mind. Then the ultimate change,
you start becoming a no-mind. When you have come to the full point
of being a no-mind, when nothing is left of the mind, all the mind
is gone, you simply are, just being. The throbbing of the heart
is heard, even the pulsation of the blood is felt. but there are
no thoughts, no feelings. no moods -- all is quiet and calm. You
are just sitting or just standing.
A Zen master was standing on a hilltop. Three people had come for
a morning walk and they started arguing about what he was doing.
One said 'As far as I know his cow sometimes gets lost so he goes
to the top of the hill and from there he looks around for where
the cow is -- it is easier from there to see all around. So he must
be looking for the cow.'
The second man said 'I don't think it is so because I don't see
him moving at all. If he were looking for the cow at least his head
would be moving, searching all around. But he is standing just like
a statue, he cannot be looking for his cow.'My feeling is,' said
the second man, 'that he is waiting for some friend who came with
him but has been left behind.'
The third said, 'I cannot agree because if he were waiting for somebody
then once in a while he would look back, wondering why he has not
come yet, where he has gone, how long he is going to take -- but
he never looks back. This is not the way of a man who is waiting
for somebody.' |
They could not agree so they all travelled to the
peak, reached the master and asked him... the first man asked 'Are
you looking for your cow?' And the master said 'My cow? I have come
into the world without anything and I will go from the world without
anything. Nothing is mine. Even my body is not mine, my mind is
not mine. I don't exist at all -- what nonsense you are talking.
What cow?'
The second man said 'Then I must be right, you must be waiting for
the friend who came with you for a morning walk, who is left behind.'
The master said 'Friend? But I don't have any enemy in the world
so how can I have a friend? You can have friends only if you have
enemies. The more friends you have, the more enemies you have.'
And the master said 'I am not interested either in friends or in
enemies. I have come alone and I will go alone. Between these two
alonenesses why get into trouble unnecessarily? I am alone.'
The third man jumped up. He said 'Then I must be right. I told these
people that he is not looking for his cow, not looking for his friend,
he is meditating. The way he is standing, utterly still, he must
be meditating.'
And the master said 'Meditating? Do you think meditation is an act?
I am not meditating, I am not doing anything; I am simply standing.'
But that's exactly what meditation is: simply standing or simply
sitting, simply being. The moment you are in that space you know
what god is. And to know god is to know all, to know god is to be
a god. And that is the unfoldment of your being, the ultimate flowering
of the one-thousand-petalled lotus of your consciousness. That is
the goal of sannyas.' |