Synopsis
Meditation is coming to an interval where the mind stops the inner chattering and for that just a little alertness is needed. Between two thoughts and two words there is a gap. Otherwise the words and thoughts will overlap each other. Between two words there is a gap howsoever small, invisible, and non-perceptible. But the gap is there; with just a little alertness and watchfulness, we can see the gap: The gap is continuously occurring. Ordinarily we look at the words; we don't look at the gaps. Mind has a limited capacity to know -- it cannot know the contradictory. That s why it cannot know God -- God is contradictory; that s why it cannot know the innermost core of our being -- it is contradictory. It comprehends all contradictions, it is paradoxical. The mind can see only one thing at a time. The opposite is not possible at the same time. When we see the opposite the first disappears. The mind goes on looking at the words so it cannot see the silences that come after each word. Change the focus. Sit silently and start looking in the gaps. Not with effort or strain but relaxed, easy -- in a playful mood -- just as fun. No need to be spiritual/religious about it otherwise we become serious, and once we become serious it is very difficult to move from words to no-words. It is very easy if we remain loose, flowing, non-serious and playful. Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the religious in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration. A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him; life is a LEELA, a play. He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed. Sit silently, relaxed, loose, and just allow your attention to flow towards the gaps. Slip from the edges of words into the intervals. Let intervals become more prominent and allow words to fade away. Words are figures; silence is the background. Words come and go; silence remains. When we are born we were born as a silence -- just intervals and intervals, gaps and gaps. Infinite emptiness we came with, unbounded emptiness we brought with us in life -- then we started collecting words. That's why if we go back in our memory we cannot go past the age of four. Memory can function only where words function, emptiness leaves no trace on us. That's why when we go back and try to remember, we can remember, at the most, the age of four. Or, if we are very intelligent, then our remembering can go back to the age of three. But there comes a point where suddenly there is no memory. Up to that time we were an emptiness -- pure, virgin, uncorrupted by words. We were pure sky. The day we die, again our words will drop and scatter; we will move into another world or into another life again with our emptiness. Emptiness is our self. The self is silence.' Mind means words; self means silence. Mind is nothing but all the words that we have accumulated; silence is that which has always been with us, it is not an accumulation. That is the meaning of self. It is our intrinsic quality. On the background of silence we go on accumulating words, and the words in total are known as the mind. Silence is meditation. It is a question of shifting the attention from words into silence -- which is always there. Each word is like a precipice: we can take a jump into the valley of silence. Leave the word behind and move into the gap; use the word as a jumping-board and jump into the abyss. If words change -- ordinarily they do change, of course -- we are never fed up. A new word is always attractive; a new idea is always attractive; a new dream, a new desire, is always attractive. But if we can see that the mind is simply repeating the same thing again and again and again, either we fall asleep or we jump into silence -- these two are the possibilities.
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MY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
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