When the mind sees that any action on its own part is still the functioning of memory, and therefore that it is incapable of finding truth, what then is the state of the mind? detach ourselves from the past and enjoy what we have right now, how much better will we feel? We must learn to flow from one moment to the next. be composed, unruffled, and to abandon all seeking. the understanding of passion frees one from passion because it reveals its painful character. The knowledge of pain is freedom from pain. Nobody, having known pain, can want it. And when there is no desire, when the mind is neither disturbed by passion nor searching for anything, then at that very moment, at that calm and tranquil moment you experience your real authentic being. The soul declares itself when passion disappears. The mind must be empty but watchful, and in that state of tranquillity the door to truth opens. Truth is realized only out of emptiness and one’s whole life is subsequently transformedMeditation means becoming actionless. In action we come into contact with the outside world; in inaction, with ourselves. When we are not doing anything we become aware of what we are, but we are constantly involved in different activities and do not know ourselves. We do not even remember that we exist. We are deeply preoccupied. At least the body rests but the mind does not rest at all. Awake, we think; asleep, we dream. Engrossed in these constant preoccupations and activities, we simply forget ourselves. In the press of our own affairs we lose ourselves.We have become lost, not in the crowds of other people, but in our own thoughts, in our own dreams, in our own preoccupations and activities. We have become lost in ourselves. Meditationis theway to extricate ourselves from this self-created crowd, from this mental wanderlust \\ Wherever and whenever creativity happens, it is always through Him. Ask all the great poets. They will say that whenever great poems have descended on them, they were, at the most, passive receivers. It happened; they were not the creators. The idea that you can create is simply your illusion. All creativity belongs to Him. Even through you, whatsoever is created He is the creator. To understand this is a great illumination. To understand this the ego disappears; to understand this is to allow Him to take total possession of you. You become an instrument, and in small things, great things become possible. Then He moves through you. If you dance, He dances. You are, at the most, the field where He dances. When you sing, He sings. You are, at the most, the flute, the empty flute, which just becomes a passage to it. At the most you can allow -- it is always He who is doing things. This is what I mean when I say `float', when I say `flow with the river'. Allow His creativity to flow through you. Don't impose any pattern on Him; don't impose your will. what you do is not the question -- -what quality do you bring to it while doing it?
By and by the child comes to understand one thing: that whatsoever is cheerful for him has something wrong about it. Whatsoever makes him happy is wrong, and whatsoever makes him sad and serious is right and good and accepted. Be happy and you are virtuous; be unhappy and you are committing what religious people have called sin.
if you can't enjoy, then what is this life for?
the people who cannot enjoy anything (love, life, food, a beautiful scene, a sunset, a morning, beautiful clothes, a good bath -- small things, ordinary things), if you cannot enjoy this things, [ and there are people who cannot enjoy anything:] they become interested in God. They are the most impossible people; they can never reach to God.
God enjoys these trees, otherwise why does He go on creating them? He is not fed up at all, not at all. For millennia He has been working on trees and flowers and birds, and He goes on listening.He goes on replacing: new beings, new earths, new planets. He is really very, very colorful! Look at life, watch it, and you will see the heart of God -- how it is.
When you are ready, when the sadness has disappeared and you can dance, when the heaviness has disappeared and you can sing, when the heavy weight of conditioning is no more on your heart and you can flow --
God happens.
God is not a thing that exists; It is something that happens. It is a dynamic, organic unity.
the moment you choose, you have lost your total freedom, you are left with only a part.
remain choiceless, your freedom remains total.
there is only one thing which is totally free and that is choiceless awareness. Everything else is limited.
all kinds of language and knowledge and all your daily activities as you respond to people and adapt to circumstances,
through so many upsets and downfalls,
whether joyous or angry, good or bad, favorable or adverse -- these are all trivial matters, the branches.
be spontaneously aware and knowing as you are going along with circumstances,