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the reason for his play is work.
212. Love.
Life does not need comfort when it can be offered meaning
nor pleasure when it can be shown purpose,
because in the total intensity of intentional living
is the fruition of the seed of consciousness.
And consciousness without the self is the goal.
Consciousness without the center –
and you have reached.
Consciousness without ego is nirvana:
or you may call it God or whatsoever you like.
Know that everyone is seeking this state of being,
but unless the seeker is lost, this state of being cannot be found –
and the seeker can only be lost
in the fire of total intensity of living.
So live totally.
And live in the moment
and moment to moment,
because there is no other way to live totally,
and no other way to dissolve the center, the self, the ego.
213. Love.
The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning.
Mind is learning;
meditation is unlearning.
That is – die constantly to your experience.
Don’t let it imprison you.
Experience becomes a dead weight
in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness.
Live in the moment unburdened of the past,
flow in the moment unblocked by the mind,
and you will be in meditation.
Know well that it is innocence that is full
and experience that is empty –
although the surface appearance is quite the contrary.
It is innocence that knows
and experience that knows not –
though innocence never claims
and experience is nothing but claims and claims and claims!
And that is why I say:
innocence is meditation because it opens the doors of the unknown.
So learn how to unlearn.
So learn how to be beyond the mind.
Do not cling to the known
and the master key will be in your hands.
Be open and vulnerable,
always living and flowing into the unknown,
and you will be in meditation –
you will be meditation.
214. Love.
Three men made their way to the circle of a Sufi
seeking admission to his teachings.
Almost at once one of them
detached himself from the group,
angered by the erratic behavior of the master.
On the master’s instructions
the second was told by a disciple
that the sage was a fraud.
He withdrew soon afterwards.
The third was allowed to talk
but was offered no teaching for so
long that he lost patience and left the circle.
When they had all gone away
the teacher instructed his circle thus:
The first man was an illustration of the principle:
Do not judge fundamental things through seeing.
The second was an illustration of the injunction,
Do not judge things of deep importance through hearing.
The third was an example of the dictum:
Never judge by speech or the lack of it.
When asked by a disciple
why the applicants could not have been
instructed in this matter
the master retorted: I am here to give real knowledge,
not to teach what people pretend
that they have already learned at their mother’s knees.
215. Love.
Always remember the golden rule: One step at a time.
A good natured woman was often asked for food by tramps.
She finally decided to refuse them;
it was becoming too burdensome.
But shortly after she made her resolution
one young man stopped
and asked her for a little piece of thread.
She noticed that his pants were badly ripped,
that he had a needle,
and she realized he could not get work
with his pants in their present condition,
so she gave him the thread.
The fellow took the thread,
went down the road and sat under a tree
for a few minutes,
then came back to the house.
He told the woman he could not repair the pants
unless he had a piece of cloth for a patch.
She gave him a small piece of material.
About an hour later the young fellow
came again to the house
and said: Madam, these pants are beyond repair.
It would be very good of you
if you could give me a pair of your husband’s old pants.
So she gave him a pair of old pants
and smiled at his cleverness.
The young man went behind the barn
and changed into the pants given to him.
Then he returned to the house and told the woman
that the pants were sort of big around the waist,
but if she could give him some food
he was sure they would fit perfectly.
This time the woman burst out laughing
and gave him a big dinner.
And all because he took one step at a time.
216. Love.
Knowledge is accumulation,
that is why knowledge is always dead,