WHO IS "I"
MY SELF OF LONG AGO
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BEFORE BIRTH WE WERE NON-EXISTENCE, NO-SELF, AND WE SHALL BE SO AFTER DEATH AGAIN. THEREFORE WE ARE IN THIS CONDITION AT THE PRESENT MOMENT, WITHOUT A THING IN THE WORLD WE CAN CALL OUR OWN-NOT EVEN OUR OWN SELVES. THIS GOES TO THE DEEPEST CORE OF THE PROBLEM.
DON'T DISPOSSESS THIGS - DISPOSSESS YOUR SELF, AND THEN THINGS ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISPOSSED. IF I AM NOT, THEN HOW CAN THE HOUSE BELONG TO ME? IF I AM NOT, THEN HOW CAN I POSSESS A WOMAN OR A MAN? IF I AM NOT, THEN HOW CAN I POSSESS A CHILD? IF I AM NOT, THEN HOW IS POSSESSION POSSIBLE? THERE IS NOBODY TO POSSESS. SEE THE DIFFERENCE.
OTHER RELIGIONS HAVE SAID, RENOUNCE POSSESSION! BUDDHA SAYS, RENOUNCE THE POSSESSOR. CERTAINLY, IT GOES INFINITELY DEEPER. YOU CAN RENOUNCE THE POSSESSIONS, BUT THE POSSESSOR REMAINS, AND WITH THE POSSESSOR THE BLUEPRINT TO POSSESS AGAIN THE POSSESSOR WILL BRING HIS POSSESIVENESS BY THE BLACK DOOR.
YOU CAN SEE IT HAPPENING A MAN RENOUNCE HIS WORLDLY LIFE, MOVES TO A HIMALAYAN CAVE, BUT THEN HE POSSESSES THAT CAVE. AND IF SOMEBODY ELSE COMES AND STARTS LIVING IN THE CAVE, HE WILL THROW HIM OUT. HE WILL SAY, "GET OUT! THIS IS MY CAVE, AND THIS MAN HAS RENOUNCED HIS HOUSE, HIS WIFE, HIS CHILDREN. NOW THE SAME POSSESIVENESS HAS ENTERED IN A NEW FORM.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOU POSSESS, BUT IF YOU POSSESS THEN YOU REMAIN ON THE LEAKY ROAD,
DISPOSSESING THINGS DOES NOT MEAN ESCAPING FROM THINGS. THINGS ARE THERE, THEY WILL BE EVERYWHERE, IN THE HIMALAYAN CAVE ALSO THINGS WILL BE THERE, THE MOUNTAINS, THE TREES, AND YOU CAN START POSSESING THEM. IF YOU SIT UNDER A CERTAIN TREE, YOU START POSSESING IT. THIS IS YOUR TREE, NO OTHER ASCETIC CAN COME AND MEDITATE THERE, HE HAS TO FIND HIS OWN TREE OR YOU START POSSESING THE TEMPLES, THE MOSQUES, THE CHURCHES. OR YOU START POSSESING PHIOSOPHIES HINDU, CHRISTIAN, MOHAMMEDAN. OR YOU START POSSESING SCRIPTURES THE GITA, THE KORAN, THE BIBLE. OR YOU START POSSESING CONCEPTS OF GOD, "THIS IS MY CONCEPT OF GOD. YOUR CONEPT IS WRONG AND MY CONCEPT IS RIGHT.
BUDDHA CUTS THE ROOT. HE SAYS THERE IS NOBODY TO POSSESS. JUST SEE THE BEAUTY OF IT AND THE TREMENDOUS IMPORT OF IT. HE SIMPLY CUTS THE ROOT. HE DOES NOT CUT THE BRANCHES AND THE LEAVES, THEY WILL SUPPORT AGAIN, BECAUSE THE ROOTS REMAIN INTACT. CUT THE ROOT AND THE WHOLE TREE DIES. DON'T DROP POSSESSIONS, DROP THE POSSESSOR. AND THEN YOU CAN LIVE IN THE WORLD AND THERE IS NO PROBLEM. JUST LIVE IN THE WORLD AND DON'T POSSESS BECAUSE THERE IS NOBODY TO POSSESS.
THAT'S WHY I DON'T SAY TO MY SANNYASINS TO RENOUNCE THE WORLD. I SAY RENOUNCE THE EGO AND LIVE IN THE WORLD. THE WORLD CANNOT DO YOU ANY HIM. ALL THE HARM THAT HAPPENS HAPPENS THROUGH THE EGO. THAT'S WHAT BUDDHA CALLS, "SELF, IT IS HIS WORD FOR "EGO ATTA THE SELF.
MY SELF OF LONG AGO, IN NATURE NON-EXISTENT..
BUDDHA WORKED FOR SIX YEARS CONTINUOUSLY IN SEARCH OF THE SELF. YOU HAVE HEARD THE FAMOUS TEACHING OF ALL THE AGES. KNOW THYSELF? BUDDHA WORKED HARD. FOR SIX YEARS HE TRIED FROM EVERY NOOK AND CORNER, FROM EVERY ANGLE FROM EVERY POSSIBLE SIDE, TO PENETRATE INTO THIS REALITY OF THE SELF. BUT HE COULD NOT FIND IT. KNOW THYSELF, AND THE DAY YOU KNOW YOU WILL KNOW THERE IS NO SELF.
THAT DAY YOU HAVE KNOWN WHEN YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS NO SELF. THERE IS UTTER EMPTINESS INSIDE, ABSOLUTE EMPTINESS, SILENCE UNDISTURBED, VIRGIN SILENCE. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYBODY. IT IS JUST A DREAM.
IN THE NIGHT YOU DREAM AND THINK YOU HAVE BECOME AN EMPEROR. AND IN THE MORNING YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THE SAME OLD BED, AND YOU ARE NOT AN EMPEROR. BUT THE MIND CAN IMAGINE, THE MIND IS A GREAT IMAGINATIVE FORCE. THE SELF IS MIND'S IMAGINATION. IT DOES NO EXIST IN REALITY.
THOSE WHO HAVE PENETRATED DEEP INTO THEIR OWN BEING HAVE COME TO KNOW UTTER SILENCE. NOBODY HAS BEEN FOUND THERE. AND THAT IS THE GREATEST REALIZATION. TO FIND NOBODY THERE... THEN ALL PROBLEMS DISAPEAR, BECAUSE THE PROBLEM CREATOR HAS DISSAPEARED.
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MY SELF OF LONG AGO,
IN NATURE NON-EXISTENCE,
NOWHERE TO GO WHEN DEAD,
NOTHING AT ALL.
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