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Love your mother: Gaia
"Se as portas da percepção estivessem limpas, tudo apareceria para o homem tal como é: infinito." -William Blake
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"If you want to know the realm of Buddhahood, you must make your mind as clear as empty space; Leave false thinking and all grasping far behind, causing your mind to be unobstructed wherever it may turn. The realm of Buddhahood is not some external world where there is a formal “Buddha”: It’s the realm of the wisdom of a self-awakened sage." -Zen Master Ta-hui
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Meditation
Meditation in the East is not what is understood by it in the West. In the West, meditation means contemplation: meditating in God, meditating on truth, meditating on love. But if you meditate on something, you are not meditating at all, because you are focusing on something outside yourself. It may be love, it may be truth, it may be God, it makes no difference.
Meditation in the East has a totally different meaning, just the opposite of the Western meaning. Mediation in the East means having no object in the mind, no content in the mind, no meditating upon something but dropping everything - neti, neti. neither this or that. Meditation is emptying yourself of all content. When there is no thought moving inside you there is stillness, and that stillness is meditation. Not even a ripple arises in the lake of your consciousness, and that silent lake, absolutely still, is meditation.
And in that meditation you will know what truth is, you will know what love is, you will know what godliness is. Not by meditating on God ... See the point: how can you mediate on God? You don't know anything about God. All your meditation is going to be just imagination, an exercise of imagination. You don't know truth - what are you going to meditate upon? Some idea given by others, some belief, some concept? That is not going to help.
First become mediation, and then in meditation, truth, godliness, love and all that is transcendental will be revealed to you.
Mediation is just being, not doing anything - no action, no thought, no emotion. It is very simple - a totally relaxed state of consciousness where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense, anxious. What to do? How to do it? How to succeed? How not to fail? You have already moved into the future.
In meditation you just are. And it is a sheer delight. Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence; meditation is a delight in your own being.
Where does this delight come from, when you are not doing anything? It comes from nowhere or it come from everywhere. It is not caused by anything, because existence itself is made of the stuff called joy. It needs no cause, no reason. If you are unhappy you have a reason to be unhappy; if you are happy, you are simply happy - there is no reason for it. Your mind tries to find a reason because it cannot believe in 'the uncaused' because it cannot control the uncaused - with the uncaused the mind simply becomes impotent. So the mind goes on finding some reason or other. But I would like to tell you that whenever you are unhappy, you have a reason to be unhappy, because happiness is just the stuff you are made of. It is your very being, it is your innermost core. Joy is you inner most core.
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Truth
Truth is beyond structure. It comes only when you are in an unstructured state of consciousness. It comes only when there is no expectation of it, no preparation for it, because all preparation is expectation. Truth comes unawares, truth comes as a surprise. You cannot manage and manufacture it, it comes when it comes.
There is no path to truth. This is one of the most fundamental things to understand. If you are searching for truth, all paths will lead you astray, because following a path means that you have already decided what truth is. You have decided the direction, the dimension, you have decided how to approach it, what discipline to follow, what doctrine to adopt. Your destination will just be a projection of your own mind. It will be just your mind playing a game with itself. There is no way to truth, because the mind is the barrier and it is the mind that creates the way. The mind has to go. The mind has to cease for truth to be.
Truth is not a discipline either, because truth is freedom. Truth is a bird on the wing, not a bird in the cage. The cage may be of gold, may be studded with diamonds, but the cage is a cage and cannot contain freedom. Truth can never be a prisoner, its intrinsic quality is freedom, so only those who are capable of being free will reach it.
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Philosophy
Aristotle says that philosophy begins in wonder, but it's not so in the East. In the East, nobody has ever said philosophy begins in wonder. In the East we say philosophy begins in the awareness of suffering, not in wonder. Philosophy beings in the angst of man, in the meaninglessness of man's life and in the awareness of it.
So Western philosophy has remained a kind of entertainment. Eastern philosophy is not entertainment, it is work, it is Sadhana. In fact there is not word in any language to translate this Indian word Sadhana because nothing like it has ever existed anywhere else. Sadhana means that philosophy is not just thinking, but being. You have to become your philosophy, you have to live it! It has to become your blood and bones and marrow. Sadhana has to become your way of life. Whatever you think is right has to be lived - that is the only proof that you think it is right. If you think something is right and you live otherwise, than you are fooling others and you are fooling yourself.
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