Saturday 21 February 2015

Our eyes are opened but we are still sleeping.

Understanding.
I’ve never used the word abdication. I always say: enjoy life, meditation,the beauty of the world, the ecstasy of being alive,enjoy everything. Transform homeliness into something sacred, transform this shore into a distant shore create from this world a heaven and then, In an indirect way a kind of refusal takes part. It just happens, you don’t serve as a catalyst of making it, it just happens naturally, it’s an event. You start to refuse from your own stupidity, from trash, from jobs that don’t fulfil yourself, from relationships that have no sense, you start to refuse from places where growth is impossible. But I wouldn’t call those thing refusals, I would call it, understanding, awareness. If you would happen to carry rocks thinking that they are diamonds, I wouldn’t tell you to refuse them, I would tell you to be more aware of your surroundings and take a better look. If you will see that those are not diamonds, will you have to refuse them ? They will just fall from your hands effortlessly.  Huge effort and strong will power will be needed to keep carrying them, but you wont be able to carry them for a long time, once you will realise that they are useless and senseless you will just throw them away and as soon as your hands are empty you will start looking for real treasure, for an actual me. You wont be able to look for or even find real treasure in the future….real treasure is right here, right now.
 
There is a story of a Buddhist master that has reached awareness and has already awakened. He was sitting on the edge of a land, close by a lake one evening, enjoying the sound of water, the sound of the wind in making it’s way through the branches of the trees. A man approached him and asked-       Could you please explain me the meaning of your religion through one word ?
(The master kept himself in a deep quite, not answering the question)-       Are you deaf ? (asked the man ).
-       I heard your question, and already answered it. The answer is silence, I remained silenced.  This pause, this interval was my answer.
-       I cant understand such a mysterious answer, could you please explain it more briefly ?
(Then the monk has written “meditation” with his finger on the sand, with small letters, the man then said)-       Now I read, and this is much better then the previous answer, now i have              a word and i can at least think about it, but couldn’t you please explain it more briefly  ?
The monk had written “Meditation” again, but this time with a little bigger letters.(The man felt a little bit disappointed, angered, offended. )-       Again you’ve written “meditation”, can’t you explain me in a more decent, clear way ?
(and then the master had written “MEDITATION” again with capital letters)-       I think that you’re crazy. Said the man.
-       I’ve already  distant myself from the truth, (said the monk.)  The first answer was the right one, the second one was distant from the truth, the third one was false and the forth one was absolutely wrong because from the moment I’ve written the word meditation with a capital letter, I’ve blessed/praised it.
(that’s why “God” is always written with a capital letter. Every time when you want to give an importance to something, praise it, we always write the word with a capital letter.-       I’ve already committed a sin, (then he erased all those words and then said)
Please, listen to my first answer, only it was the one holding the truth. Silence, is the place where everyone awakens while in the meantime the chaos of your thoughts and knowledge deepens you into sleep, and if your thoughts are still questioning things, that means that you’re still asleep. Sitting steadily in silence when the thoughts are gone, you can hear birds sing, and none of the minds work, full silence. This singing of the birds, no thoughts, is the moment when awareness and awakens comes from, they don’t come from the outside, they are always taking place inside of us, it grows in us, otherwise remember you, me, all of us are still sleeping.