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to the tree: you can remain with yourself and the thing will happen -- because it is everywhere. Every atom
vibrates with it, every atom celebrates it. Everything is nothing but it.
THE MORE YOU TALK AND THINK ABOUT IT THE FURTHER ASTRAY YOU WANDER FROM THE
TRUTH. STOP TALKING AND THINKING, AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KNOW.
NO-THINKING IS THE DOOR. No-word is the gate. No-mind is the way.
How to achieve this? What will you do to achieve this? Just listening to it won't help, because mind is so
clever. The mind will start thinking about this, what Sosan is saying; the mind will start thinking and
spinning theories around it. The mind will say, "Yes, it seems right." But the mind will say, "It seems right,"
and you have gone astray. The mind will say, "No, it seems difficult, impossible. How can you stop
thinking?" and you have gone astray.
Listen to the mind and you are never near the truth. Listen to the mind, you are always on the journey.
I have heard about a woman who was a philosopher, a thinker -- had written many books, was very well
known. And then she suddenly declared to her friends that she was going to get married.
Never was any rumor heard about her love affairs, because people who think never love. Nobody ever
thought that she was going to marry, so they were surprised.
They said, "Who is this man?"
So she told the name -- they were even more surprised. They said, "What do you see in that man?"
A very ordinary man... and this woman was well known. She was a professor in a university, had written
many books, her name was known all over the country. "To this man? Why, what have you seen in him?"
She said, "One good thing -- he is a traveling salesman. He will never be here, he will be always
traveling." Thinkers are always married to traveling salesmen. "He will never be here and I will be free to
think and do my things."
Being married to the mind is being married to a salesman, a traveling salesman who is always on a
journey. And because of this mind which is always on a journey you can never be in touch with the real.
You eat but you miss eating. The flavor, the taste, the smell -- you miss it. You simply go on throwing
things inside. It is ugly! But why do you miss? Because the mind goes on thinking; you are thinking of a
thousand and one things while you are eating.
Says Rinzai, "When I eat, I only eat, and when I sleep, I only sleep."
Somebody said, "But nothing is special in that, everybody is doing it."
Rinzai laughed and said, "If everybody is doing it, everybody is a Buddha, everybody is enlightened
then."
Eating -- simply eat, be with it. Walking -- simply walk, be there. Don't go ahead, don't jump here and
there. Mind always goes ahead or lags behind. Remain with the moment.
In the beginning it will be very difficult to remain with the moment. And sometimes the moment may
not be very happy. You are angry, then the mind starts thinking of repentance or tries to do something so
that the anger never happens again. Sometimes you are sad; you put on the radio or the TV, you start
reading a book, because you would not like to be sad. You want to divert the mind. And because miserable
moments are more than happy moments it becomes a constant habit. And when it is fixed, even when
happiness comes, you are not found at home. You are somewhere else.
Make it a point: whatsoever -- sadness, anger -- whatsoever -- depression, unhappiness -- be with it. And
you will suddenly become surprised that if you remain with sadness, sadness changes into a beautiful thing,
sadness becomes a depth. If you remain with anger, not thinking about, just being with, anger is
transformed; it becomes forgiveness. If you remain with sex, sex takes on a different quality; it becomes
love.
If you start living with the moment you will see your being with is a miracle, it has a magic to it.
Happiness will become deeper. Ordinarily your happiness is just on the surface. Deep down you carry
millions of things; just on the surface it is. If you remain with it, it will become deeper and deeper and
deeper. If you start living with, everything is transformed because you bring a new quality of being, of
awareness, of witnessing. Don't fight against sadness and don't hanker for happiness, because that is going
away, astray.
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