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or that which is shown and not even said,
or that which is meant and not even shown.
That is – look in,
because the words are without
but the meaning is within.
188. Love.
Reason is not enough;
it is necessary but not enough.
The beyond must be remembered – and always,
because reason in itself is destructive;
alone, it is nothing but an implement to dissect.
It makes a man anti-all and pro-nothing.
It creates absolutely negative minds
which can criticize but cannot create,
because reason has no healing force within itself.
It is only a tiny part and not the whole of life,
and the healing force is always with the whole.
189. Love.
With thought the mind has boundaries
but without thought the mind is just infinite space.
That is why in thoughtless awareness
one stops being a drop
and becomes oceanic.
And then there is great energy.
This energy wipes out everything which is dead.
It wipes out the whole karmic past –
and with no effort at all.
The greater absorbs the lesser and remains untouched.
190. Love.
The will to wholeness is inherent in everything,
but only in man has it become conscious.
Therefore man lives in tension,
and only when this longing is fulfilled
is his negative state of tension erased.
The tension is symbolic of the infinite potential
and also of the infinite possibilities.
Man is not what he can be,
and unless he is that which he can be
he cannot be at ease.
This dis-ease is man,
and health is in wholeness.
The fact that language has one root
for the words whole, holy and to heal
conceals a deep truth:
He who is whole is also healed,
and to be healed is to be whole.
This wholeness can only be achieved
by becoming totally conscious of oneself:
The darkness of the unconscious is to be penetrated
and transformed into light.
And meditation is the method.
191. Love.
The new world revealed in meditation
is not something added from the outside.
It has always been there – within,
is in being itself.
It is being itself.
One may know it or not, but it is there –
as a seed, of course, as a potentiality.
One has to make it actual, that is all.
That is why when it is revealed,
when it flowers,
one laughs uproariously
because it has always been there and one never knew it.
To work towards meditation is just like sculpturing
because as the sculptor chisels out a figure
deeply buried in a mass of inert matter,
so the meditator transforms his own inert potentialities
into living, dynamic and conscious creations.
Of course, here
the creator and the creation and the means of creation
are not different but one
because the meditator himself is all.
And that is why I call meditation the greatest art.
192. Love.
Do not think of others and waste your time;
really, that is a subtle and cunning way of the mind
to escape from itself.
Once a monk asked Ummon:
Sir, you always say that Buddhism helps us in
every possible way,
but how can it help the blind, the deaf or the dumb?
The blind cannot see the teacher’s staff
that is raised before them,
the deaf cannot hear the teacher’s words, no matter how wise,
the dumb cannot ask their questions or speak
their understanding:
so since we cannot help these people
how can we say that Buddhism helps in every possible way?
What good is it?
Ummon just remained silent for a while
and then abruptly poked at the questioner with his stick.
The monk of course jumped back.
Ah! said Ummon. I see you are not blind!
Then he told the monk to come forward, which he did.
Ah-ha! said Ummon. I see you are not deaf!
Then he asked the monk
if he understood what all this to-do was about.
The monk said he did not.
Ah-ha! said Ummon. I see you are not dumb!
193. Love.
Meditation does not require any application of the mind
or use of effort.
It descends upon you as effortlessly as sleep.
You cannot try to sleep,
nor can you try to meditate.
On the contrary,
every effort hinders its smooth and silent coming.
There is no place in it for action or aggression –
and action is always aggressive.
Meditation is passive receptivity.
Mind is aggressive,
meditation is passive.
Be passive
and receptive
and open
and vulnerable
and wait.