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You cannot arrive at the truth gradually. Either you are in the dark, or you are in the light. The jump is everything. The mind is a constant noise, but the quantum leap happens in the absolute silence between two thoughts.
Explore the quantum leap from mind to no mind, revealing enlightenment as a sudden shift beyond gradual change and ego transformation.
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Key Takeaways
- Enlightenment is a sudden quantum leap, not a gradual process.
- The ego cannot be changed but must be dropped for true transformation.
- Spiritual knowledge without direct experience is insufficient.
- True silence arises naturally when the mind’s limitations are deeply understood.
- The seeker and effort itself can be obstacles to awakening.
What the video covers
- Truth and enlightenment cannot be reached gradually but require a quantum leap from the mind to no mind.
- The mind is constant noise; true silence and transformation happen in the gap between thoughts.
- Effort and gradual practice often reinforce the ego rather than dissolve it; dropping the ego is essential.
- Spiritual knowledge and words alone do not transform; true realization comes from direct experience beyond concepts.
- The Buddha’s awakening illustrates that dropping effort and the seeker leads to sudden enlightenment.
- The mind’s desire for comfort and control obstructs true awareness and acceptance of life’s totality.
- The ego can disguise itself as spiritual progress, creating a spiritual ego rather than true liberation.
- True compassion and purity arise spontaneously without motive or accumulation.
- Meditation and spiritual practice are about waking up and emptying the mind, not acquiring more knowledge.
- The soul is already perfect; awakening is like wiping dust off a mirror, a sudden recognition rather than evolution.
Chapters
- 00:00The Quantum Leap: From Mind to No Mind
- 15:14The Futility of Forced Silence and Mind Limitations
- 29:43The Challenge of Giving Birth to Your Own Soul
- 44:41Realizing Nothing Truly Belongs to You
- 58:56Breaking Free from the Prison of the Mind
- 73:42The Power of Uselessness and True Creativity
- 88:13The Mind’s Desire for Pleasure and Life’s Wholeness
- 103:06Baso and Ryo: The Limits of Scholarly Knowledge
- 117:39The Mind as the Source of Selfish Desire
- 132:59Emptying the Cup: Preparing for True Zen
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You are not a person; you are a process. Stop trying to fix the you and jump into the unknown. Enlightenment is not a destination; it is an explosion, the sudden disappearance of everything you thought you were. Don't try to climb a ladder to reach the divine.
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Just jump, and you will find that the divine was always there. My beloved ones, you have been waiting for a long time, not just in this life but for centuries through many lives. You have been waiting for something to happen,
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for some light to descend, for some miracle to transform your misery into bliss. You look at the years passing by, and you ask yourself, why haven't I changed? I have read the scriptures, I have practiced meditations, I have followed the teachers,
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yet I am the same—the same anger, the same greed, the same restless mind. Before we go deeper into this mystery, if you feel this search in your heart, I invite you to join our community here by hitting that subscribe button.
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It is not just a button; it is a way for us to stay connected in this ocean of consciousness. And as we sit here together, if a particular thought touches your soul, share it in the comments. Your reflection might be the light
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someone else is looking for today. The reason you haven't changed is very simple, yet very difficult for the mind to grasp. You have been trying to change gradually. You think that if you practice a little bit every day,
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one day you will reach the goal. But truth is not a destination. It is not something far away that you have to reach by walking. Truth is your very being. You cannot reach it gradually; either you have it or you don't.
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It is like a light in a room. Can you have gradual light? Can you say, I will turn on the light slowly, step by step, over 10 years? No. Either the room is dark, or it is lit. There is no middle ground.
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This is what Zen calls the quantum leap: a jump from the mind to no mind. Not a bridge, but a jump. A bridge connects two points, but a jump happens across a vacuum. I remember a beautiful meeting between a scholar,
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Ryo of Sezan, and the great Zen master Baso. Ryo was a man of great knowledge. He knew all the sutras. He was a professor, a man of letters. Baso, being a master, didn't care for letters; he cared for the spirit.
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Baso asked him, "What sutra are you lecturing on?" Ryo replied with pride, "The Mind Sutra." Baso looked at him and asked a very strange question, "By what do you lecture?" Ryo, surprised, said, "With my mind, of course." Now, this is where most of you are.
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You live with the mind, you think with the mind, you even try to meditate with the mind. But Baso said to him, "The mind is like an actor, the meaning of the sutra is like a jester, the six senses are like your acquaintances.
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How can the mind, this actor, this pretender, lecture on a sutra that speaks of the ultimate truth?" Ryo was a scholar, so he tried to be clever. He retorted, "If the mind cannot lecture, can't no mind?" Baso smiled and said, "Yes,
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no mind can lecture." All right. Ryo, feeling he had won the argument, dusted his sleeves and began to walk away. He thought he had outsmarted the master. But as he was leaving, Baso called out to him, "Professor Ryo." He turned back.
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In that moment of turning, in that sudden split second where the mind was not expecting anything, Baso looked into his eyes. That turning back is the secret. The mind is always looking forward, looking for a result, looking for a how-to.
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But the reality is always behind you, in your center. This scholar was full of the Mind Sutra, but he didn't know the mind itself. He knew about the mind, but he didn't know the silent space from which the mind arises.
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You see, my friends, many of you are like Ryo. You are experts in spirituality. You know all the terms: Nirvana, Satchidananda, awareness. But these are just words. Words are like the jester Baso talked about. They entertain you, they make you feel clever,
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but they don't transform you. If you find these insights valuable and want to help us keep this flame alive, you can use the Super Thanks feature below. Your support allows these teachings to reach those who are still lost in the words,
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helping them find the silence beyond the mind. It is a circular process. It moves in ruts. It is like a gramophone needle stuck in a groove. It repeats the same patterns. You get angry, you repent, you decide not to be angry again,
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and then you get angry again. The repenting is also part of the mind. The deciding is also part of the mind. You are just moving from one corner of the room to another, but you are still in the same room.
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The quantum leap means stepping out of the room altogether. It means realizing that the "I" who wants to change is the problem. You cannot change the ego; you can only drop it. But the ego is very cunning.
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It says, "Okay, I will help you drop the ego. Let's practice a technique." And then you become a spiritual ego. You start thinking you are better than others because you meditate for two hours a day. You have just changed the clothes of the ego.
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Before, it was worldly; now it is religious. But the actor is the same. In my book, Zen: The Quantum Leap from Mind to No Mind, I talk about this fundamental shift. It is not an evolution. Evolution is for the body.
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The soul does not evolve. The soul is already perfect. It only needs to be recognized. It is like a mirror covered with dust. You don't evolve the mirror; you just wipe the dust. The wiping is the leap. Think about the Buddha.
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He tried for six years to find the truth. He did everything. He fasted until he was just skin and bone. He practiced every yoga posture. He followed every teacher. And after six years, he realized he was still as far away as ever.
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In fact, he was further away because now he was also exhausted. One night, he gave up. He realized that the seeker was the obstacle. He ate some food given by a village girl, Sujata, and he slept under a tree.
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He didn't meditate that night. He didn't try to do anything. He just was. And in the morning, as the last star was disappearing in the sky, he looked at it. In that moment, there was no Gautama Siddhartha looking at the star.
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There was just the looking. The observer was gone. Only the observation remained. That was the quantum leap. He didn't become a Buddha through six years of effort. He became a Buddha in the moment he dropped the effort. Many of you ask me also, "How can I be silence?"
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The very question "how" is the mind. "How" means you want a method, a bridge. You want to go from A to B. But silence is not at point B. Silence is the space in which A exists. Stop asking how.
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Just see the futility of the mind. See that the mind is noise. When you deeply understand that the mind cannot lead you to truth, in that very understanding, the mind loses its grip. It becomes quiet, not because you forced it to be quiet.
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Forced silence is just suppressed noise, but because you saw its limitations. It is like being in a dark room and trying to fight the darkness with a sword. You will only get tired. You don't fight darkness; you just bring in a small candle.
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The moment the candle is there, where is the darkness? Did it go out the door? Did it hide under the bed? No. It was never there. It was just an absence of light. Your misery is an absence of awareness.
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Your mind is just a name for the absence of no mind. When I say no mind, I don't mean a state of idiocy. I mean a state of pure, crystal-clear consciousness, a state where there are no clouds of thoughts,
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only the vast blue sky. This sky is your home. As we travel together through these reflections, I have prepared some deeper resources for you. Our ebooks contain the essence of these discourses in a way you can carry with you every day.
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You can find the link in the description. Reading them is like a slow-burning candle that keeps your awareness sharp during your daily course. Remember the scholar Ryo of Sezan thought he knew the Mind Sutra, but a sutra is not a book.
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The word sutra means a thread. It is a thread that...
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Zen masters use these cuts a sound a hit a sudden silence to break the continuity of your thinking if you are constantly thinking you are in a dream to wake up you need a sock the quantum leap is that shock
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it is the realization that I'm not this body I'm not these thoughts I'm not these emotions then who are you you are the witness the witness is not part of the mind the mind is what is being witnessed
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you can see your thoughts passing by like clouds if you can see them you must be separate from them this simple logic is the beginning of the end of the mind's tyranny but don't make it a logic experience it sit silently
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let the body breathe don't try to control the breath let the thoughts come don't fight them don't follow them just watch it's like sitting on a river bank watching the water flow you don't jump into the water you don't try to stop the river
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you just sit is slowly the gap between you and the thoughts will grow in that gap the quantum leap happens suddenly you are no longer the river you are the bank suddenly you are the vastness this is the most blissful moment
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this is what the Buddha call Nirvana and the word Nirvana is so beautiful it literally means blowing out a flame imagine a small lamp burning in a dark room you go near it and you blow it out the flame is gone where did it go
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it didn't go to any particular place it simply disappeared into the infinity it became the whole when the ego is blown out you don't become nothing in the sense of a vacuum you become nothing in the sense of no thingness
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you are no longer a thing with boundaries you are the infinite space this is peace is what I want you to taste if you feel a sense of peace beginning to settle in your heart right now click the join button
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to become a member of our inner circle there we dive even deeper into these silences supporting each other in this pilgrimage from the animal to the Buddha you are a Buddha you might be a sleeping Buddha you might be a Buddha who is dreaming
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he is a beggar but you are a Buddha my work is not to give you anything new my work is only to wake you up to tell you look the sun is up why are you still sleeping the mind will tell you wait
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I need to finish this dream first it's a very interesting dream I'm almost winning the lottery or I'm almost finishing my revenge but a dream is a dream whether it's a nightmare or a beautiful dream it's unreal the reality is outside the dream
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the quantum leap is the awakening people ask me also is it possible for everyone yes it is more than possible it is your destiny you cannot avoid it forever you can delay it you can wander in the desert for many more lives
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but one day you will have to come home because the thirst for truth is built into your very cells you cannot be satisfied with toys for lamb money power prestige these are all ties they keep you busy but they leave your soul empty
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only the quantum leap can fill that emptiness because it doesn't fill it with something else it reveals that the emptiness itself is the divine your inner emptiness is not a lack it is a presence it is the womb of the universe
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in the discipline of transcendence I talk about how difficult it is for the rich and the estranged to observe the way why because they have too many ties they think they have something to lose the poor man the beggar in the spiritual sense
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knows he has nothing he is more ready for the leap but poor doesn't mean having no money it means having no clinging you can be a king and be poor in spirit like Janak you can be a beggar and be full of ego
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clinging to your bowl the leap is not of the body it is of the consciousness as we sit here let this silence penetrate you don't listen to my words with your mind listen to the silence between the words
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the words are just the container the silence is the content if you only drink the container you will remain thirsty drink the silence this silence is the no mind Basso was talking about it is the source the sramanas reach
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it is the immaterial they comprehend you have lived in the material world long enough you have seen its limitations now try the immaterial try the world of the 0 modern physics is just now catching up to what Buddha said 2,500 years ago
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physicists used to think that the atom was a solid thing but then they went deeper they broke the atom and they found electrons protons neutrons they went even deeper and they found nothing just energy waves the solid matter disappears
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the deeper you go into yourself the same thing happens you think you are a self a person a solid ego but you go deeper you wash the thoughts you wash the feelings you wash the sensations and suddenly they all disappear
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and what is left pure space this space is what we call anatta no self it is not a scary thing it is the most beautiful realisation because if you have no self you have no boundaries if you have no boundaries
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you are one with the whole you are the trees you are the stars you are the person sitting next you when you are no one you are everyone this is the ultimate freedom freedom from the eye every problem you have your anxiety
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your fear your loneliness is rooted in the eye if the eye is not there who is anxious if the eye is not there who is lonely the quantum leap is the death of the eye and the birth of the hole
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it is a tragedy that many people spend their whole lives just being a mummy of themselves they are just biological entities they eat they sleep they reproduce and they die they never become a mother in the spiritual sense
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one who gives birth to their own soul to be a mother to your own soul is the greatest challenge it requires courage it requires the willingness to die to the old so the new can be born it is a quantum event
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because it is not continuous with the past the Buddha is not a better version of Siddhartha the Buddha is the absence of Siddhartha so don't try to improve yourself just be if you find yourself trying to improve while listening to this just catch yourself and laugh
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that laughter is the beginning of the leap laughter is very close to meditation in a deep belly seaking laugh the mind disappears for a second you are just a vibrating energy this is why I love jokes a joke is a miniature quantum leap
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it builds up tension in the mind the mind expects a logical conclusion and then suddenly the punch line the logic is broken the climax is illogical in that shock the mind stops and laughter explodes life should be a laughter
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life should be a dance not a serious discipline of the old dusty kind but a discipline of joy the discipline of transcendence is not about suppressing your passions it is about being so aware that the passions lose their power over you
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it is about being calm in the middle of the storm you cannot find calm by going to a cave in the Himalayas you will just take your restless mind with you you will sit in the cave and think about your bank balance
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are your wife the cave must be found inside this insight gave is the no mind when you find this you are an arhat you are a saint not because you are good in the moralistic sense but because you are whole
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you are pure and spotless because you have reached the source where no dirt can exist the source is always pure the river may get dirty as it flows through the cities but the mountain spring is always crystal clear
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go back to your mountain spring as you listen to me do you feel the spring it's right there in the heart of your heart it's the lotus of your being don't be afraid to go deep the mind will tell you there is nothing there
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it's just a void yes it is a void but that void is full of life it is the pregnant void everything comes out of this white and goes back into it the stars are born from it and disappear into it
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your thoughts are born from it and disappear into it be the wife this is the only temple this is the only pilgrimage I see many people going to Mecca to Jerusalem to Kasi they travel thousands of miles but they never travel those few inches
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from the head to the heart they are missing the whole point the ultimate consciousness is not at a geographical location it is a state of being you have been an animal for many lives driven by instincts by fear
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by survival now the time has come to complete the pilgrimage to become a Buddha an awakened one the word Buddha simply means one who has woken up are you ready to wake up or do you want to hit the snooze button for one
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more life the choice is yours every moment is a choice you can choose to remain in the mind or you can choose to jump if you are choosing to jump let this be the moment right now in this very silence
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don't wait for a better time there is no time other than the present the past is gone the future is yet to be born all you have is this now in this now the whole universe is conspiring to help you
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the trees are silent the air is still my heart is beating with yours if you feel this connection if you feel this conspiracy of the divine help us spread this fragrance share this video with one person you think needs to wake up
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not as a teacher but as a friend just say look I found something beautiful and if you want to support this mission further the join button is there for you it's a way to become a pillar of this temple of consciousness
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we are building together but whether you join or not whether you subscribe or not my only wish is that you wake up that you see the light that you realize that you are not a small miserable creature but a magnificent infinite being
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you are a god in disguise drop the disguise the quantum leap is nothing but dropping the mask when the mask falls the original face is revealed and the original face is full of bliss full of Grace it is the face of the Buddha
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it is your face let's continue this journey let's go deeper into the 20 difficult things the Buddha talked about let's see why it is so difficult for the rich to follow the way and why it is so easy for the poor in heart
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but before that let's just sit for a moment in silence no movement just being do you feel it the silence is not empty it is heavy with prigence this is the taste carry this taste with you when you go to work carry this taste
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when you eat your dinner carry this taste when you talk to your friends let this silence be the background then your life will become a Grace then every action will be a meditation you don't have to do meditation
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you have to be meditative the quantum leap is not an act it is a shift in your isness from I am doing to I am from the actor to the witness from the mind to no mind the professor Rio was walking away
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but he was called back he was called back to himself I'm calling you back professor is scholar seeker turn around the truth is not in the direction you are looking it is in the looker themselves the Mind Sutra is not on the paper
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it is in your heartbeat Vasu was right the mind cannot lecture on it only no mind can when you are silent you are the most eloquent lecture on the divine when you are empty you are full of the sutra
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lets dive deeper into this emptiness lets dive deeper into this emptiness it is not an ordinary emptiness in the world of the mind emptiness means absence of things if you take all the furniture out of your room you say the room is empty
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but for Zayn that is not emptiness that is just a vacant space the true emptiness is when even the room disappears when the observer the furniture and the space itself become one single vibrating energy the Buddha speaks of 20 difficult things in this world
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and the first few are very revealing he says it is difficult for the rich and the estranged to observe the way now why should it be difficult if you have everything money power health shouldn't it be easier to meditate
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you have no worries about your bread and butter you have all the comforts but the reality is just the opposite the more you have the more you are possessed by what you have you don't possess the wealth the wealth possesses you
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you become a guard a watchman for your own treasures your mind is constantly occupied with protecting increasing and sewing off the rich mind is a very heavy mind it is full of things and to take the quantum leap
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you must be weightless you must be able to fly a bird cannot fly if it is carrying gold bricks in its class it has to drop them the poor in heart that Jesus talked about are the beggar that Buddha talks about
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is simply someone who has realized that nothing belongs to them even this body is a gift from the earth it will be taken back these thoughts are just echoes from the society they are not yours your name was given by your parents
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it is not yours when you realize that you purchase nothing not even your own self you become weightless in that weightlessness the jump happens automatically you don't even have to jump the wind of the divine simply blows you across the abyss
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but the strong and the rich are stuck in their ego the ego is the strongest thing they have they think they are somebody and to enter the temple of no mind you have to be nobody you have to leave your sues and your ego outside
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most people can leave their shoes but they find it impossible to leave the ego they want to bring the ego into Nirvana they want to sit on a golden throne even in the afterlife this clinging to somebodyness is the barrier
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understand the difference between the mummy and the mother this is a beautiful distinction the mummy is the physical biological and psychological entity that clings to you it is the ego based relationship the mummy wants to possess the child
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to make the child a part of her own ego she wants the child to be her child her projection this is what most parents do they don't love the child they love the mindness of the child they try to mould the child
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to instruct the child to give the child a pattern but a mother in the spiritual sense is one who gives birth to your soul a mother is like a Buddha she doesn't want to possess you she wants to set you free
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she gives you love but not her knowledge she sends you into the world to find your own truth she doesn't give you a map she gives you the courage to explore the unmapped to take the quantum leap you must stop being a mummy to yourself
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you must stop trying to preserve your old image most of you are just mummies you are preserving a dead past you are carrying the carps of who you were yesterday and because you are carrying a carps you smell of death
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your life has no fragrance no freshness the quantum leap is the moment you drop the carbs you bury the past and you step into the present absolutely fresh like a Newborn baby Buddha calls this comprehending the immaterial this is what modern physics is struggling with
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for centuries science thought that matter is the ultimate reality but now they have reached the immaterial they have found that at the core of the atom there is no thing there is only a dance of energy if you look at a fan is spinning very fast
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it looks like a solid disc you can't see the blades but if you stop the fan the disc disappears the solidity was just an illusion created by speed yourself your ego is exactly like that it is a disc
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created by the fast spinning of your thoughts desires and memories because they move so fast they create the illusion of a solid eye but if you slow down if you meditate if you sit in silence the spinning slows down
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the gaps between the thoughts become visible and through those gaps you see the truth there is no I there there are only blades of energy moving in a vacuum this realisation of no self our anatta is the quantum leap
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the mind is very afraid of this it says if I'm not there then I'm dead this is suicide no it is not suicide it is a resurrection it is the death of the small and the birth of the infinite
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it is like a drop of water falling into the ocean from the viewpoint of the drop it is a disaster the drop is dying it is losing its identity its shape it's dropness but from the viewpoint of the ocean
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the drop has just become the ocean it has expanded it is no longer a tiny fragile thing that can be dried up by the sun it has become the mighty eternal sea you are a drop trying to protect yourself from the ocean
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this Protection is what you call your personality you build walls of character of morality of knowledge just to make sure you don't disappear but I am telling you disappear only by disappearing will you find who you really are
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this is the discipline of transcendence it is not a discipline of rules it is not about what to eat or when to wake up it is the discipline of seeing through the falls Buddha says to be free from passions
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and to be calm is the most excellent way but how to be free from passions people have been trying for thousands of years they suppress their sex they suppress their anger they suppress their greed but a suppressed passion
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is like a spring you are holding down with your hands the moment you let go it will jump back with even more force you cannot be free through suppression you can only be free through watching when anger arises don't say I am angry
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just say anger is there be the witness watch the anger like you watch a storm in the sky does the storm affect the sky no the storm comes and goes but the sky remains pure and untouched you are the sky
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your passions are just clouds if you can maintain this distance if you can watch the clouds without becoming them then you are calm not the calm of a graveyard but the calm of a deep living centre this is what it means to be a sramana
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one who has reached the source the source is always within you you don't have to go to a temple or a church to find it you are the temple the escholar Rio of Sezan was full of the Mind Sutra
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he thought he was explaining the truth but truth cannot be explained it can only be experienced you can explain the chemical formula of water H2O but that won't quench your thirst you need to drink the water Rio was an expert in the formula
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but he was dying of thirst Baso the master was trying to push him into the river when Baso said the mind is like an actor he was telling Rio that his whole life was a performance he was playing the role of a scholar
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is stop playing roles is stop being the husband the wife the boss the employee for few moments every day just be no role no script just your pure existence in that just being the quantum leap is already happening
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you are shifting from the acting to the isness people are so afraid of nothingness but look at a house what is the most useful part of the house is it the walls no the most useful part is the space inside
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you can't live in the walls you live in the empty space between the walls look at a cup what is the most useful part the emptiness inside you drink from the emptiness not from the ceramic look at a window
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it is a hole in the wall it is the nothingness of the window that allows the light and the air to enter your room the nothingness is the most precious thing and you are that nothingness you are the no-thingness
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through which the divine light enters the world but your ego is like a wall that has no windows and no doors it is a prison and you have decorated the prison so beautifully with your degrees your money and your social status
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that you have forgotten it is a prison you have even started loving your chains I'm here to tell you the door is open in fact there is no wall the wall is just a hallucination you have only to wake up and walk out
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the quantum leap is not a jump over a real chasm it is a jump out of a dream in a dream you might be standing at the edge of a deep cliff terrified but when you wake up you find you are just lying on your bed safe and sound
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the cliff was never there your misery is like that cliff your problems are like that dream wake up this is the message of Zen this is why Zion doesn't have any elaborate rituals are complicated philosophies it just has socks
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I have heard of a Zen master who was walking with his disciple the disciple was asking a very profound intellectual question about the nature of the buddhamind suddenly the master pointed at a bird flying across the sky and said what is that
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the disciple said it's a wild goose the master asked where is it going the disciple said it has flown away the master suddenly grabbed the disciple's nose and twisted it hard the disciple cried out in pain ouch the master said you said it has flown away
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it has been here since the beginning in that moment of pain in that ouch the disciple's mind is stopped the intellectual question was forgotten there was only the isness of the moment that ouch was more real than all the sutras in the world
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the goose is your consciousness it never flies away it is always here but you are looking at the flight you are looking at the past and the future and you are missing the bird itself the quantum leap is the shift from the flight to the bird
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don't look for the truth in the distance don't look for it in the next life are in some heaven heaven is here and now if you can't find it here you won't find it anywhere the arhat is one who exerts themselves
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for the attainment of the fruits of saint ship but what are these fruits they are not something you get they are a state of being pure and is spotless pure means unmixed your consciousness is currently mixed with all kinds of junk
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ambition jealousy fear ego when you are pure you are just consciousness no content only the container and when the container is empty of junk it is full of God this is the paradox when you are empty you are full
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when you are nobody you are the whole the mind will never understand this it will say this is crazy how can nothing be everything and the mind is right it is crazy but the sanity of the world has only given you wars
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madness and misery maybe it is time to try some divine craziness the quantum leap is a leap into that craziness it is a leap into the unknown you have lived in the known for too long you know your routine you know your sorrows
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you know your bore doms they are familiar you feel safe in them but this safety is the safety of a grave life is in the unknown life is a risk Buddha says it is difficult to disregard life and go to certain death
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he is not talking about physical death he's talking about the death of the known to leave the shore and sail into the uncharted ocean where there is no map and no guarantee of reaching anywhere that is the only way to find the new
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if you keep following the map you will only go where others have gone you will be a secondhand human being and the truth cannot be second hand it must be your own it must be fresh like a dewdrop in the morning sun
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the scholar Rio was a second hand man he was a professor a professor is someone who professes what others have realized he's a parrot he can repeat the most beautiful words but he doesn't know what they mean if a parrot says God is love
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does the parrot know love does it know God it just knows the sound most of your knowledge is just sound you have heard that you are a soul you have heard that you are immortal but do you know it if someone puts a gun to your head
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will you still be calm knowing you are immortal no you will tremble because your knowledge is just on the surface it is not an attainment the quantum leap turns knowledge into knowing knowing is a different dimension altogether it doesn't come from books
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it comes from the source and to reach the source you have to go against the current the current of the world is moving towards the material towards the outside towards the more you have to move towards the immaterial
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towards the inside towards the zero this is the most excellent way it is excellent because it is the only way that leads to fulfilment all other ways lead to frustration you can have the whole world at your feet
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and you will still be empty inside look at the successful people of the world are they happy are they at peace no they are more anxious than the unsuccessful ones because now they have the added fear of losing what they have
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the only success is to find yourself the only failure is to miss your own being and you are missing it every moment because you are looking in the wrong direction you are looking at the actor and missing the witness
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the actor is the one who is angry who is sad who is seeking the witness is the one who is simply watching the actor become the witness this is the secret of the cut when Basso called out Professor Rio turned back
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in that turning back his mind momentarily tripped he wasn't the scholar in that second he was just a man turning his head in that gap the witness was revealed I'm calling out to you professor businessman mother sinner Saint
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turn back don't look at what you are doing look at who is doing it don't look at what you are thinking look at the space in which the thought is appearing this turning of the light in words is what Zen is all about
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usually the light of your consciousness is like a torch shining on the objects around you you see the chair you see the tree you see the person Zen says turn the torch around let the light shine on the source of the light itself
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what happens when the light shines on the light suddenly there is an explosion a quantum leap the duality of subject and object disappears there is no me and no the world there is only a single undivided ocean of light
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this is what Buddha calls Nirvana this is what Jesus calls the kingdom of God it is not somewhere else it is right here but you are too busy you are too busy with your mind business I have heard of a man
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who was running very fast down the street someone asked him where are you going he said I don't know but I'm late this is the condition of humanity everyone is running everyone is in a hurry but nobody knows where they are going
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they are just late stop the running sit down just for a few minutes every day do nothing the mind will scream it will say you are wasting time you could be making money you could be watching the news
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you could be doing something useful tell the mind I have been useful for many lives and I have reached nowhere today I want to be useless in the eyes of the world a Buddha is a useless man he doesn't produce anything
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he doesn't contribute to the GDP he just sits under a tree but from that uselessness comes the greatest fragrance the world has ever known that uselessness is the source of all art all music all poetry and all peace
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the useful people give you machines they give you gadgets they give you better ways to kill each other the useless people give you your soul they give you the quantum leap they show you that you are not a cog in a machine
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you are a flower in the garden of the divine but a flower cannot bloom if it is always trying to be something else a rose doesn't try to be a Lotus a lotus doesn't try to be a Jasmine
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they are just themselves and because they are themselves they are beautiful you are trying to be someone else you are trying to follow a model you want to be like the Buddha are like Jesus are like your successful neighbour
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this effort to be someone else is the root of your misery it is the root of your self rejection the quantum leap is the moment you accept yourself exactly as you are with all your flaws with all your sins
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with all your limitations the moment you accept yourself the conflict stops and when the conflict stops the energy that was being wasted in the struggle is released that released energy is what becomes your transformation transformation is not a change
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change is always from the old to the new version of the old transformation is a mutation it is the total disappearance of the old and the emergence of something completely different it is like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly
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the butterfly is not a better caterpillar it is a different dimension of being the caterpillar crawls the butterfly flies the mind is a caterpillar it crawls on the earth is stuck to the material no mind is the butterfly
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it has wings it can fly into the immaterial into the infinite but to become a butterfly the caterpillar must be willing to die it must be willing to enter the cocoon of silence and wait this waiting is what meditation is
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you don't do meditation you enter meditation you enter the silence and you let the transformation happen to you you are not the doer you are the receiver this is what the Buddha means by reaching the source the source is not something you create
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it is something you return to you have come from the source and you are going back to the source but in between you have forgotten the way you have got lost in the marketplace of the mind I'm just a sign post
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I'm not the destination I'm just pointing my finger at the moon don't bite my finger look at the moon my words are just fingers the silence they point to is the moon the Iscalar Rio was biting the finger of the sutras
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he was chewing on the words Basil gave him a slap not a physical one but a spiritual one to make him look at the moon and that moon is shining inside you right now can you see it it is the silver light of your awareness
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it is the coolness of your inner space in this light there is no fear in this light there is no death death is only for the actor the witness never dies the witness was there when you were a child
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it was there when you were a young man and it will be there when your body is old and ready to fall the actor changes the roles change the costumes change but the witness is eternal to find the witness is to find the immortal
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this is the only thing worth finding everything else is just ties a child plays with toys and thinks they are very important if a toy breaks the child cries but when the child grows up he realizes they were just plastic and wood
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you are grown up children you are playing with big toys houses cars reputations and when they break you cry I'm telling you grow up become a spiritual adult a spiritual adult is one who knows the difference between the real
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and the unreal the real is that which never changes the unreal is that which is in constant flux the world is a flux your body is a flux your mind is a flux only the witnessing consciousness is the rock of the eternal
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build your house on this rock the quantum leap is the moment you move your center of gravity from the flux to the eternal it is not a slow movement it is a shift it is like when you look at those hidden image puzzles
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for a long time you see only a jumble of lines and dots you look and you look and you can't see anything and then suddenly click the hidden image jumps out at you once you have seen it you cannot unsee it
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the jungle is gone forever the image is there the Buddha nature is the hidden image in the jungle of your life you have been looking at the lines and dots for too long you have been obsessed with the details
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take a step back relax your eyes don't try to see just look in that relaxed looking the click will happen the quantum leap will happen and then you will laugh you will laugh at yourself you will say how could I have missed it
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it was always there right in front of my eyes this is the cosmic joke the truth is so obvious that we miss it we are looking for something complicated something far away something extraordinary and the truth is the most ordinary thing in the world
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it is your own breath it is your own heartbeat it is the very fact that you are aware to be aware of awareness is the ultimate secret the mind can be aware of things but it can never be aware of awareness
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only no mind can do that the mind is like a mirror that can reflect everything but it cannot reflect itself to see the mirror itself you have to remove all the reflections when the reflections are done only the mirror remains
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when the thoughts are gone only the awareness remains and that awareness is not yours it is the universal awareness in that moment you are God I don't say you are a God I say you are God because there are no two gods
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there is only one single undivided godliness you are a wave in that ocean and the wave is the ocean don't be satisfied with being a wave realize your oceanness this is the quantum leap from mind to no mind
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it is the most courageous act a human being can perform it is the ultimate adventure are you ready for it are are you still clinging to your mind sutras to your professor sleeves to your mummy identities drop them right now
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be empty be silence be nobody and in that nobodyness you will find the everything this is my promise to you not a promise of the future but a promise of the eternal now let's sit in this now for a while
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let the words fade away let only the silence remain this silence is the no mind this silence is the Buddha this silence is you we were talking about the void this wide is not a graveyard it is a garden
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but to see the flowers you must have eyes that are not clouded by desires Buddha says it is difficult not to hanker after that which is agreeable this is one of the 20 difficult things why is it so difficult
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because the mind is a hedonist it wants pleasure it wants comfort it wants the agreeable it wants the roses but not the thorns it wants the light but not the dark but life is a package deal you cannot choose one half and reject the other
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if you try to do that you create a split in your soul that is split is your misery you are constantly running towards the agreeable and running away from the disagreeable this running is what keeps you in the mind
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the moment you stop choosing the moment you accept both the agreeable and the disagreeable with the same equanimity you have taken a leap Zayn calls this choice less awareness it means you don't say I like this or I don't like that
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you simply say this is when it is raining it is raining you don't try to be a manager of the universe you are just a witness think about how much energy you waste in your liking and disliking you go to a party and you like someone's face
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so you feel happy then you see someone else you dislike and you feel angry your happiness and sadness are dependent on external objects you are a slave anyone can pull your strings and make you dance if they praise you you smile
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if they insult you you cry you are like a puppet the quantum leap is the moment you cut the strings you say my bliss is my own it has nothing to do with what you say or do this is what it means to be calm when slighted
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another of the difficult things Buddha mentioned it is easy to be calm when everyone is bowing down to you even a politician can do that but to be calm when someone is abusing you when someone is spitting on you that requires a Buddha
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it requires a Buddha because a Buddha knows that there is nobody to be insulted if someone spits at the sky the spit will fall on their own face the sky remains untouched if you are a somebody you will get hurt
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if you are nobody where will the insult land it will pass through you like a breeze through an empty room this nobodiness is the ultimate Protection it is the only real authority Buddha also says it is difficult not to abuse one's authority
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this is a very deep psychological insight when you have power over someone whether you are a father a boss a teacher or a politician the ego feels a great surge of energy it wants to crush the other to sow its superiority
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most people use their authority to humiliate others they call it discipline they call it management they call it parenting but behind the words is the ugly face of the ego the true master has the ultimate authority yet he never uses it to dominate
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his authority is the authority of love the authority of light he doesn't want you to follow him he wants you to find your own way he doesn't want to make you a follower he wants to make you a Buddha
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the scholar Rieu of Seyzan was an authority in his own eyes he was a professor of the Mind Sutra he had thousands of words at his command but Baso saw through him Baso saw that Rio's authority was borrowed
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it was the authority of the dead scriptures not the authority of living experience Baso's question by what do you lecture was a direct hit to Rio's ego and Rio's answer with my mind sowed his ignorance the mind is a parrot
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the mind can only repeat the mind is a jester as Basso said it plays with meanings it juggles with concepts but it has no substance if you want to lecture on the truth you must be the truth you must speak from the no mind
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when I speak to you I'm not speaking from my mind I don't have any prepared notes I don't know what the next sentence will be I'm as much a listener to my words as you are I'm just a hollow bamboo
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and the universe is singing through me this is the difference between a professor and a master the professor talks about the truth the master is the truth to become a hollow bamboo you must take the quantum leap you must drop the actor who thinks he's the one
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is speaking the one doing the one achieving look at the third difficult thing Buddha mentioned to disregard life and go to certain death this sounds very dramatic but what is this certain death it is not the death of the body
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the body will die anyway there is nothing difficult about that it is an inevitable biological process the certain death is the death of the eye to intentionally go into the death of the ego is the most difficult thing
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because the ego is our only identity we have spent lives building it decorating it defending it we are terrified that if the ego dies we will disappear into a black hole but I'm telling you that black hole is the womb of the stars
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when the eye dies for the first time you are born this is the meaning of being twice born the first birth is biological your parents give it to you the second birth is spiritual you give it to yourself
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the second birth is the quantum leap in the first birth you are an animal you are driven by hunger by sex by fear in the second birth you are a Buddha you are driven by compassion by awareness by bliss
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to take this leap you must be willing to disregard life meaning the life of the mind the life of the desires the life of the known you must be willing to step into the certain death of your old self
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it is like a seed that has to rot and disappear into the earth so that a tree can be born if the seed is afraid of dying quote unquote in the soil it will never become a tree it will remain a small
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harsh closed entity it might be safe quote unquote in a jar on a shelf but it is not living most of you are safe seeds on a shelf you have your religion your morality your job your family you are protected
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but you are not growing you are not blooming your fragrance is locked inside you and it is turning into a stink drop the safety fall into the soil disappear this disappearing is the essence of Zen it is the great death
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the Zen master Bunyan was walking through a marketplace and he overheard a conversation between a butcher and a customer the customer said give me the best piece of meat you have the butcher replied in my shop everything is the best
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you cannot find a piece that is not the best hearing this Banjan attained enlightenment why because he realized that in existence everything is the best there is no hierarchy a pebble is as best as a diamond a blade of grass is as best as the sun
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the disagreeable is as best as the agreeable the mind creates categories this is good this is bad this is high this is low existence knows no such categories in a distance there is only a vast interconnected wholeness when you stop categorizing
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you stop being a judge and when you stop being a judge your mind business closes down the actor has no script left to play this is the estate of no mind the Iskolar Rio was full of categories he was a professor
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he knew the Mind Sutra which means he knew the theory of no mind but theory is like a map of a garden you can study the map for years but you will never smell the flowers you will never feel the grass under your feet
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Basso's slap his professor's sauch was meant to tear the map out of Rio's hands he wanted Rio to look at the garden itself you see the truth is not something to be understood it is something to be comprehended
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and comprehension is a different thing to understand is of the head to comprehend is of the whole being in the discipline of transcendence I talk about reaching the source the source is the immaterial what is the immaterial it is the energy that precedes the form
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think about a wave in the ocean the form is the wave it has a height a shape a movement but the immaterial is the water the wave is just a temporary expression of the water the wave will die but the water will not
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you are the wave your consciousness is the water the mind is obsessed with the wave it wants the wave to be bigger it wants the wave to last forever the quantum leap is the realization I'm not the wave I'm the ocean
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once you know you are the ocean all fear of death disappears how can the ocean die waves come and go but the ocean remains this realization makes you a sramana a sramana is one who has gone out of the home
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this home is not your physical house it is the home of the ego it is the home of the known to go out of the home means to become a wanderer in the dimension of the infinite you no longer seek security
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you seek truth and truth is a pathless land people ask me also if I drop my mind how will I live in the world how will I do my job how will I drive my car don't be worried
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your mind is not driving the car anyway if you really think about it when you are driving you are often thinking about something else the body mind has its own intelligence it knows how to drive it is a biological computer
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the no mind does not mean you lose your intelligence it means you gain a higher intelligence you become more efficient not less because now there is no conflict inside you there is no actor trying to do two things at once
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when you eat you just eat when you walk you just walk Zayn says sitting silently doing nothing a spring comes and the grass grows by itself this by itself is the secret of the universe the stars move by themselves
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the seasons change by themselves your heart beats by itself the whole universe is a spontaneous flow only man thinks he has to do everything this doing is the ego the quantum leap is the shift from doing to happening
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you become a vehicle you let the divine happen through you imagine a flute if the flute is full of dirt the musician cannot play it the flute must be empty the emptiness of the flute is its no mind
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then the musician can breathe through it and a beautiful melody is born you are the flute the divine is the musician but you are so full of your mind sutras your knowledge your opinions your prejudices that the divine cannot find a way through you
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you are blocked my work is to clean your flute it is a messy job I have to use a brush I have to use water I have to scrub you might feel uncomfortable you might say also you are hurting my ego
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yes I am that is the whole point the ego must be hurt until it realizes its own futility Rio of Sezan felt hurt when Basso called him an actor and a jester he had spent his whole life being a respected scholar
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and here was this master calling him a clown but that clown realisation is the beginning of wisdom if you can see that you are a clown you are no longer a clown the witness who sees the clown is not a clown
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the witness is the Buddha this is the beauty of consciousness the moment you recognize the false as false it drops away you don't have to fight it you just have to see it light does not fight darkness it just appears and the darkness is gone
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awareness is the light the mind is the darkness you have been trying to fix your mind you want a better mind a peaceful mind a positive mind but a positive mind is still a mind it is just a different kind of darkness
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I am not interested in your positive thinking I am interested in your not thinking in the silence of not thinking the quantum leap happens it is difficult to conquer the peasants says Buddha why because you are fighting them
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and when you fight something you give it energy you become obsessed with it if you fight sex you become sex obsessed if you fight anger you become an angry person if you fight greed you become greedy for heaven or enlightenment
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don't fight just watch watch the energy of the person see how it arises in the body see how it creates ripples in the mind just watch it like you are watching a movie when you are a witness the energy of the person is not used up in the action
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it stays with you and that energy when it is not directed outwards begins to move inwards it becomes a fire that burns your ego this is the discipline of transcendence it is the alchemy of turning the lead of the peasants
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into the gold of consciousness but for this you must reach the source the source is the immaterial Buddha talks about in modern science we have finally reached this point we have realized that the atom is not a thing
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it is an event it is a happening there is no matter there is only mattering there is no self there is only selfing life is a verb not a noun when you understand life as a verb you stop trying to freeze it
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you stop trying to make it permanent you accept the flux you accept the change the mind wants permanence it wants a permanent job a permanent relationship a permanent life but permanence is death only a dead thing is permanent
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a living thing is always changing the quantum leap is the acceptance of the ever changing nature of existence it is the leap from the aesthetic to the dynamic you become like a river the river is never the same
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yet it is always the river it flows it changes it moves around rocks it falls in waterfalls but its riverness remains your witnessness is like that it is the only thing that is permanent in you but it is a living permanence
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it is a dynamic silence don't be afraid of this change don't be afraid of losing your identity your identity is just a social convenience it's like your name or your address it's useful for the mailman but it's not you
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to find you you have to disregard the you that society has given you this is difficult as Buddha said it is difficult because we are social animals we want to be liked we want to be respected we want to fit in
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but a Buddha never fits in a Buddha is an outsider not because he is against society but because he has gone beyond it he is no longer a part of the collective mind he has found his individual soul
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and the moment you find your individual soul you are connected to the universal soul the paradox is the more individual you are the more universal you become the more you are yourself the more you are everything the Iskolar
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Rio was just a part of the collective iskolarly mind he was a professor a title given by the World he was not himself he was a representative of a tradition Baso wanted him to be himself Professor Rio turned back
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in that turning back for a split second he was not the professor he was just a human being surprised in that surprise the quantum leap was possible I'm trying to surprise you my jokes my paradoxes my silences they are all surprises
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they are meant to catch your mind off guard because when the mind is off guard the no mind can peek through and once you have had a single glimpse of no mind your life can never be the same
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you have tasted the nectar now the agreeable things of the world will look like toys to you you will still use them you will still enjoy them but you will not be possessed by them you will be in the world but not of it
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this is the estate of the arhat the arhat is pure and is spotless not because he has cleansed himself but because he has realized that his innermost being cannot be made dirty if you dip a diamond in MUD
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is the diamond dirty no you just have to wash the MUD away and the diamond is as brilliant as ever the MUD is your karma your past your mind the diamond is your awareness the quantum leap is the realization I'm the diamond
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not the MUD once you know this you can live in the world with absolute freedom you can be a king you can be a beggar you can be a scientist you can be a gardener it doesn't matter the diamond remains brilliant
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this is the most excellent way it is excellent because it is the way of the whole don't be a part don't be a specialist don't be just a thinker or just a doer be a witness the witness includes everything
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it includes the thinker and the thought it includes the doer and the deeds it is the vast blue sky that holds all the clouds as we sit here in this silence feel the sky of your consciousness don't try to do meditation
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don't try to find the source just be let the mind chatter if it wants to don't pay any attention to it let the birds sing let the air move everything is happening by itself you are just the space in which it is happening
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this space is the no mind this space is the quantum leap it is not a long journey it is a momentary shift one moment you were the actor the next moment you are the audience and in that shift
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the whole reality changes the world that looked like a prison now looks like a playground the people who looked like enemies now look like sleeping Guddhas the life that looked like a burden now looks like a Celebration this is my gift to you
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but I can only point the way you have to take the leap I can shout professor but you have to turn back are you turning back are you looking at the looker if you are then the Mind Sutra has been understood
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not the book but the Living Sutra of your own being Basso is smiling I'm smiling the whole universe is smiling with you because a child has come home a mummy has become a mother a scholar has become a sage
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the quantum leap has happened carry this taste with you as you leave this silence don't let the mind steal it from you the mind will try it will say that was just a nice talk now back to reality no
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that silence is the reality the mind's business is the illusion keep the silence as an undercurrent let it penetrate your every action let it make your life graceful let it make your death a Celebration because for a Buddha there is no death
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there is only Nirvana the blowing out of the flame into the infinite light be the light the silence we have touched is the beginning of the end of the ego it is the first ripple of the ocean reaching your shore
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but don't be satisfied with the ripple wait for the whole ocean to reclaim you Gautama says it is by a rare opportunity that a person is born in the age of a Buddha what does this mean does it mean you have to be born 2,500 years ago
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in India to be with Gautama no the age of a Buddha is not a historical time it is a state of presence whenever a person wakes up an age of Buddha is created around them whenever you are in the presence
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of an awakened consciousness you are born in the age of a Buddha but even then it is a rare opportunity because your mind is like a wall you can be sitting right in front of a Buddha and yet you are thousands of miles away
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you are lost in your thoughts in your worries in your mind sutras to be truly born in the age of a Buddha means to be receptive it means to be like a womb ready to receive the seed of truth
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it means to be vulnerable to be open to be willing to be destroyed as you are so that you can be reborn as you should be the mind is always protecting itself it is a mummy I use this word mummy very deliberately
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in the discipline of transcendence I explain that the mummy is the pretension of a mother a mother is someone who gives birth to your soul who helps you become an individual who sets you free but a mummy is possessive
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she wants to keep the child as a part of her own ego she instructs you she gives you a pattern she moulds you according to her own fears and ambitions your mind is a mummy it has instructed you so deeply
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that you have forgotten how to be spontaneous it has given you a character but character is just a beautiful word for a prison a man of character is a man who acts according to a fixed pattern he is predictable
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he is a machine a man of consciousness a Buddha has no character he is unpredictable he responds to the moment not to his memory if you ask him a question today he might give one answer if you ask him the same question tomorrow
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he might give a completely different answer not because he has changed his opinion but because the moment is different the now is different the quantum leap is the jump from character to consciousness it is the jump from being a machine to being a esprit
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Buddha says it is difficult to conquer the passions to suppress selfish desires but I tell you don't try to suppress suppression is a disease if you suppress a desire it goes into the basement of your unconscious it doesn't die
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it just waits for an opportunity to explode and when it explodes it is far more dangerous the religious people who have suppressed their sex for centuries are the most sex obsessed people on the earth their minds are full of pornography
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because they have denied the natural flow of energy the quantum leap is not about suppression is about transformation it is about understanding that passion is just energy when it flows downwards it is sex when it flows upwards it is prayer
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the energy is the same when it is mixed with the ego it becomes selfish desire when it is freed from the ego it becomes compassion the escholar Rio of Sezan thought he could lecture on the Mind Sutra using his mind
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but the mind is the very source of selfish desire the mind is always asking what's in it for me what will I get out of this meditation will I become famous will I reach heaven this eyeness is the Poison
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Vaso's statement that the mind is like an actor is one of the most profound Zen insights an actor is someone who is pretending when an actor plays the role of a king on a stage he knows he is not a king
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but your mind has become such a good actor that it has forgotten it is acting you think you are the role you think you are the professor the father the successful businessman the quantum leap is the moment the actor takes off the mask
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and looks in the mirror for a second there is a sock who am I without the crown without the costume without the script who am I in that who am I the gesture of meaning disappears Rio was looking for meaning in the sutras
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but life has no meaning this is the most beautiful thing about life meaning is a concept of the mind a rose doesn't have a meaning it is just a rose a star doesn't have a meaning it is just a star
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they are meaningless in the sense that they are not a means to an end they are their own end the mind always wants a means to an end it wants to do a to get B but in the dimension of the Esprit
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B is already contained in a the journey is the goal the meditation is the enlightenment when Baso said no mind can lecture alright he was saying that truth can only be communicated through silence are through words that come out of silence
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if you are listening to me with your mind you are just collecting meanings you are becoming like Ryo a a scholar but if you are listening to me with your no mind you are not collecting anything you are just being bathed in my presence
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you are not learning you are unlearning Buddha says it is difficult to be selfless why because the self is our only capital we think that if we are selfless we will be bankrupt we think that if there is no I
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there is no me to enjoy the bliss this is the ultimate trick of the mind it says OK I want Nirvana but I want to be there to see it but Nirvana is the absence of the eye you cannot be there if you are there
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it is not Nirvana Nirvana is like when you blow out a candle the flame is gone does the flame say wait I want to see where I go after I'm blown out no the flame is the going the flame is the disappearing
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this brings us to the concept of anatta no self this is the core of the quantum leap in the discipline of transcendence I talk about how Buddha's anatta is the most revolutionary concept in the history of human consciousness
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even the great Upanishads talk about the Atman the supreme self they say you are not the body you are the soul you are the Atman but Buddha goes one step further he says even the Atman is a reflection of the ego
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even the supreme self is still a self and where there is a self there is a boundary where there is a boundary there is a potential for conflict for otherness Buddha says go deeper beyond the self is the no self
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beyond the Atman is unatman just pure infinite space imagine a house you can talk about the bricks the doors the windows but the house is actually the space inside if you take away the walls where is the house
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the house disappears but the space remains that space was never part of the house the house was just a temporary boundary in the space you are the space the body the mind the ego these are the walls the quantum leap is the realization
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that you are not the walls you are the empty room and because you are empty you can contain the whole universe the Iskandar Rio was trying to fill his room with sutras with knowledge with meanings he was making his room very crowded
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he was so full of himself that there was no space for the truth to enter Basso's shout was like a sledge hammer hitting the walls professor when Rio turned back for a split second the wall cracked in that crack he saw the sky
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this is what I call the turning of the light usually our light is focused on objects we are object oriented we are interested in money in people in fame all objects Zain says turn the light around let the subject see itself
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let the looker see the looking this is the most difficult thing of all Buddha says it is difficult to see one's own nature and follow the way it is difficult because we are afraid of what we will find
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are rather what we won't find we are afraid that if we look inside we will find nothing and I say yes you will find nothing but that nothing is not nothingness it is no thingness it is the source of all things
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it is the sunyata the zero in mathematics the zero has no value of its own yet without it you cannot count it is the basis of all numbers in existence the no mind is the zero it is the silence from which all music is born
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it is the emptiness from which all forms arise when you reach this source you are a sramana a sramana is someone who has reached the source and comprehended the immaterial the immaterial is the quantum field it is the energy that has no mass
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no sap no weight modern physics says that matter is just a condensed form of energy Buddha said the same thing 2,500 years ago he said farm is emptiness and emptiness is farm your body looks solid but it is just a dance of atoms
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your mind looks solid but it is just a dance of thoughts if you go deep enough the dancer disappears and only the dance remains the quantum leap is the realization that you are the dance not the dancer most of you are trying to be dancers
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you are trying to control the dance to make it look good to win a prize this trying is the ego the moment you drop the trying the dance becomes a happening it becomes spontaneous it becomes divine this is the discipline of transcendence
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it is not a discipline of doing it is a discipline of being Buddha mentions that it is difficult for the estranged and the rich to observe the way let's look at the rich mind again a rich mind is one that is full of possessions
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not just money but knowledge virtue and respectability such a mind is very heavy it cannot jump to take a quantum leap you need to be light you need to be poor in spirit this poverty is the greatest wealth
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it is the wealth of being empty when you are empty you are available when you are available the whole existence can flow through you I have heard of a man who went to see a Zen master the man was a great scholar like Rio
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he started talking about his ideas his theories his interpretations of the sutras the master listened in silence and then offered the scholar some tea the master started pouring the tea into the scholar's cup the cup became full but the master kept pouring
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the tea started overflowing onto the table onto the floor the scholar shouted stop the cup is full no more will go in the master smiled and said like this cup you are full of your own opinions and speculations
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how can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup empty your cup everything I am saying is meant to help you empty your cup my words are not meant to give you more tea they are meant to help you pour out the old
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stale tea you have been carrying for years Rio of Sazan was full of mind sutra tea Baso wanted him to taste the no mind tea but no mind tea has no taste no colour no smell it is just pure water from the source
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to drink this water you must disregard your life the life of the ego and go to certain death you must be willing to let your iskolar die let your professor die let your personality die in The Discipline of transcendence
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I explain that the arhat is one who is pure and is spotless this purity is not the purity of the moralist the moralist's purity is just a whitewashed ego he thinks he is pure because he doesn't do bad things
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but his very thinking that he is pure is a bad thing it is the ultimate pride the purity of an arahant is the purity of a mirror a mirror reflects whatever comes before it if a beautiful flower comes
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it reflects the flower if a heap of garbage comes it reflects the garbage but the mirror itself never becomes the flower or the garbage it remains pure and spotless your consciousness is a mirror the thoughts are just the reflections
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you don't have to clean the reflections you just have to realize you are the mirror this is the most excellent way but the mind says which if I'm just a mirror then I'm nothing I have no character no history
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no history yes that is the beauty of it you are history less you are timeless the actor has a history the actor has a resume the actor has a biography but the witness has nothing the witness is just a presence
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the quantum leap is the shift from the biography to the presence when you live in prisons you are an anagamin one who does not return you don't return to the old ruts of the mind you don't return to the same
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old patterns of misery and desire you have ascended to the heaven not a geographical heaven but a heaven of consciousness this is possible for you right now you don't need to wait for your death to become an anagamin
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you can die to the past this very second the mind will say but I have so many responsibilities I have a family a job a reputation listen to me your responsibilities are part of the play you can play the role of a father
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a husband a worker far better if you are not identified with the role if you are a witness you can play the role with Grace with humour with love you won't be stressed by the role because you know it's just a play
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the mummy is stressed because she thinks the child is her reality the mother is graceful because she knows the child is a soul passing through her the actor is nervous about the audience the witness just enjoys the show
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the quantum leap makes you the audience of your own life and once you are the audience you see the cosmic joke you see that all your serious problems were just scenes in a comedy you see that your struggles for enlightenment
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were the funniest part of all because you were trying to find what you never lost it's like a man looking for his glasses when they are already on his nose he looks under the bed he looks in the closet
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he asks everyone have you seen my glasses he's very serious he's in agony and then he accidentally touches his nose and oh that oh is the quantum leap that oh is the laughter of the Buddha Rio of Cezan was looking for the mind in the sutras
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Basso touched his nose by calling out professor in that moment Rio touched the no mind on his own face you see my beloved ones the truth is so close that you are looking over it it is the very looker who is looking for it
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the eye cannot see itself unless there is a mirror I'm your mirror I'm here to reflect your original face back to you your original face is not the face you see in the bathroom mirror that is the face of the mummy
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the face of the actor your original face is the face you had before you were born and the face you will have after you die it is a face of pure light it is a face of no mind
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to see this face you have to disregard the agreements and disagreements of the mind Buddha says it is difficult not to hanker after that which is agreeable this hankering is the glue that keeps you is stuck to the mind
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you are always looking for a good feeling a pleasant experience but a Buddha is beyond pleasant and unpleasant he is in a state of Ananda bliss Bliss is not pleasure pleasure is always dependent on something outside Bliss is your internal nature
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pleasure is a thing you get Bliss is a state you are pleasure is always followed by pain they are the two sides of the same coin if you want pleasure you will have to accept pain they come together
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you cannot have one without the other the quantum leap is jumping off the coin altogether it is the realization that I am neither the pleasure nor the pain I am the one who knows both this knowing is your liberation
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in the discipline of transcendence I talk about the srotapanna the stream entrant this is the one who has entered the stream of truth once you enter the stream you don't have to do anything the stream itself will carry you to the ocean
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entering the stream is the quantum leap before the leap you were standing on the bank trying to decide whether to jump or not you were calculating you were weighing the pros and cons if I jump what will happen
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will I drown is the water cold the calculation is the mind the jump is the no mind and I tell you the water is not cold the water is pure bliss and you cannot drown because you are the water
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the fear of drowning is the fear of the ego but the ego should drown let it drown the sooner it drowns the better because only when the ego drop drowns does the ocean consciousness arise this is the immaterial that the sramanas comprehend
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they comprehend that the solid world is just a dream a shadow the only substance is consciousness you have been told that you are a body with a soul this is a mistake you are a soul that has a body
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are even better you are consciousness that is currently dreaming it is a body the quantum leap is the waking up from this dream and how to wake up by being aware of the dreamer when you are dreaming at night
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you think the dream is real you are being chased by a tiger and you are terrified your heart is beating fast you are sweating the tiger is real for you but the moment you wake up you laugh there was no tiger
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there was only you in your bed your problems are that tiger your anxieties are that dream waking up is the only solution you cannot solve a problem inside a dream if you are being chased by a tiger in a dream
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you can try to run faster you can try to climb a tree you can try to fight the tiger but it's all part of the dream the only real way to solve the problem is to wake up meditation is the art of waking up
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it is the discipline of transcendence and Zen is the shortcut Zain doesn't believe in gradual awakening it believes in sudden enlightenment Satori why gradual if you are in a dark room do you need to bring the light in gradually
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do you bring the first percent of the light then the second percent no you just flip the switch awareness is the switch and the switch is always within your reach it is in the now don't say I will meditate tomorrow
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tomorrow is the mind's way of avoiding the leap the mind lives in the then and there the no mind lives in the here and now be here now look at your mind see the thoughts passing by see the actor trying to play a role
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see the jester trying to find meaning and then look at the one who is seeing professor turn back in that turning the mind Sutra becomes silence in that turning the quantum leap is completed you are no longer the one who is seeking
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you are the one who is sought you are no longer the one who is knocking on the door you are the one who is behind the door as the Sufis say I was knocking on the door for 40 years
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only to find that the door was never locked and I was inside all alone you are inside you are the Buddha you are the source don't let the mind tell you otherwise the mind is a liar it is a jester
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listen to the heart listen to the silence this silence is your true home carry this silence with you let it be the background of your life when you speak let silence be the source of your words when you act
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let the silence be the space in which the action happens then you are a Sramana then you are an arahant then you are a Buddha the pilgrimage from animal to ultimate consciousness is completed and what a beautiful pilgrimage it is
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from the mummy of the ego to the mother of the soul from the actor of the mind to the witness of no mind from the drop to the ocean the quantum leap has been taken the light is on
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the room is lit the dream is over welcome let's just be in this light for a moment no movement no thought just isness this is it this thisness is the truth everything else is just lecture everything else is just meaning
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this is the reality this reality is not a goal to be achieved it is a presence to be recognized and the recognition happens only when you are even minded Buddha says it is difficult to be even minded why
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because the mind is like a pendulum it moves from one extreme to the other it moves from love to hate from joy to sorrow from activity to lethargy the mind cannot stay in the middle the moment it stays in the middle it stops
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a pendulum that stops in the middle is no longer a pendulum a mind that stops in the middle is no longer a mind it is no mind the middle is the point of the quantum leap when you are in the middle
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you are even minded you are neither for nor against you are simply a witness but look at your life you are always taking sides you are either a theist are an atheist a communist are a capitalist a moralist are a hedonist
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you are always this are that and because you are this are that you are never the whole the hole is in the middle Buddha calls this the madhymika the middle path it is the path where the observer and the observed
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melt into one it is the path where you are so balanced that the gravity of the mind can no longer pull you down think of a tight rope walker he has a long pole in his hands if he feels he is leaning too much to the left
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he immediately moves the pole to the right if he leans too much to the right he moves to the left he is constantly correcting himself to stay in the middle the middle is not a aesthetic point it is a dynamic balance
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meditation is that dynamic balance it is difficult to be even minded because the ego thrives on conflict the ego needs an other to fight against if you are even minded the ego loses its food it starves and the ego is a very hungry ghost
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it will do anything to keep the drama going this is why people are so addicted to their problems have you noticed if you take away someone's problems they look lost they don't know who they are anymore their whole identity was built around their misery
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their struggle their uniqueness they say I have such a complicated life they feel proud of the complexity but truth is simple truth is the ordinary mind that the Zen masters talk about but ordinary doesn't mean common ordinary means
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a mind that is no longer trying to be extraordinary a mind that has dropped all pretensions the Iskolar Rio was trying to be extraordinary he was a professor he was an authority on the most profound sutras he was very far from being ordinary
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he was stuffed with extraordinary concepts Baso wanted to strip him naked he wanted to show him that his extraordinary knowledge was just a burden a heavy luggage that prevented him from jumping you see a jump requires that you are unburdened
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if you are carrying a mountain of scriptures on your back how can you take a quantum leap you will only sink Buddha says it is difficult to be sincere this is another of the 20 difficult things now you might think I am a sincere person
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I don't lie I pay my taxes I am loyal to my friends that is social sincerity that is good behaviour but that is not what Buddha means by sincerity spiritual sincerity means being one it means there is no gap between what you are
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and what you appear to be it means you are not a mummy pretending to be a mother it means you are not an actor playing a role most people are a crowd they have many faces they have one face for the office
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another for the home another for the club another for the temple they are constantly changing masks and because they have so many masks they have forgotten their own original face they are so divided that they are not sincere
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they are multisay they are fragmented sincerity means wholeness to be whole is the most difficult thing because society demands that you be fragmented society wants you to be a role it doesn't want you to be a soul if you are a soul you are dangerous
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you are a rebel you cannot be manipulated you cannot be predicted the quantum leap is the act of rebellion it is the moment you say I am not my masks I am not my roles I am not the expectations of others I am
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in that I am there is a great silence the mind is always in the past or the future it is never sincere with the present even while you are listening to me your mind is probably comparing what I am saying
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with what you have read in some book are what your priest told you are what you think is logical you are not here you are in your library are in your memory are in your projections to be sincere with the present moment
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is the quantum leap it means listening without the listener it means seeing without the seer Rio of Sisaan was listening to Baso with his professor ears he was waiting for a scholarly debate he was ready with his arguments
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but Baso didn't debate Baso cut by what do you lecture this question was meant to bring Rio into the present it was meant to make him look at the source of his own words Rio said with my mind
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he was being honest in the ordinary sense but he was not being sincere in the spiritual sense if he had been sincere he would have been silent because if you look deeply into the mind you will see it is just a record player
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it has no authority of its own it is a servant that has started pretending to be the master Baso's reply that the mind is like an actor and the meaning like a jester is a masterpiece of psychological insight
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why a jester because meaning is always a joke meaning is something we project onto the isness of adjistance adjistance itself has no meaning a tree is a tree it is not meaningful for the sake of something else it is its own meaning
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but the mind cannot accept that the mind wants a reason it wants a purpose it wants a destination the gesture is someone who entertains the king your meanings are the jesters that entertain your ego king they make you feel that your life is significant
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they make you feel that you are going somewhere but where can you go you are already there the quantum leap is not a movement from here to there it is a movement from the moving to the stillness it is the realization
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that the destination is the starting point Buddha says it is difficult to find the teacher this is a very subtle point you might think teachers are everywhere every street has a guru every city has a temple but Buddha is not talking about instructors
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he's not talking about people who can teach you a technique or a philosophy a teacher in the sense of a master is a wide he is a mirror to find such a teacher is difficult because you are looking for a personality
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you are looking for someone who fits your image of a holy man you want someone who looks pious who speaks softly who lives in a certain holy way but a true master might be a madman like Baso he might shout
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he might hit he might laugh at your most sacred beliefs he doesn't want to teach you he wants to wake you up and waking up is often a painful process to find the teacher you must first become a disciple
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and to be a disciple is one of the most difficult things because a disciple is one who is ready to learn and learning means dropping the known Rio was a scholar which is the opposite of a disciple a scholar is one who knows
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a disciple is one who knows that he knows nothing the quantum leap happens only in the estate of not knowing in the discipline of transcendence I speak about the isrotapanna the extreme enterer this is the first stage of the pilgrimage
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the extreme enterer is someone who has caught a glimpse of the immaterial he has felt the coolness of the source usually we are like people living in a desert we are thirsty and we are running after mirages the mind is a mirage maker
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it tells you if you get that job you will be happy if you marry that person you will be fulfilled if you reach that state of meditation you will be enlightened mirage after mirage the stream enterer is one who has seen the real water
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he has seen that the mirages are false and the moment you see the false as false you have entered the stream entering the stream is a quantum leap because it is a point of no return once you have tasted the real water
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you can no longer be satisfied with the desert sand you might still be in the desert but your heart is with the stream you are no longer a seeker of mirages you are a follower of the flow the stream will eventually take you to the ocean
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you don't have to push the river you just have to float but floating is difficult we have been taught to swim we have been taught to struggle we have been taught that life is a competition we are afraid that if we don't struggle we will drown
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the quantum leap is the courage to stop swimming and start floating it is the surrender to the Tao to the Dhamma to the logos Buddha says it is difficult to see one's own nature and follow the way why
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because your nature is no nature your nature is emptiness and to see emptiness is terrifying for the ego imagine you go into your house and you find it is empty your furniture is gone your family is gone your walls are gone
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you would be panicked but this is exactly what happens in deep meditation you go inside and you find the I is gone the me is gone the mine is gone there is only a nothingness but Zen calls this the great emptiness
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it is great because it is not a lack it is a plenam it is full of life it is the sunyata that is purna the zero that is the infinite to see one's own nature means to see that you are not a thing
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you are a process you are a flow in Zen the quantum leap from mind to no mind I discuss how this shift from thing to nothing is the essence of the Zen experience the iscalaryo was trying to define the mind
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but the mind cannot be defined because it has no boundaries it is like the wind you can feel it but you cannot catch it in a net Basso's professor was a net and Rio was the wind that got caught for a second
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in that catching he realized he was the wind think about the 20 difficult things again Buddha says it is difficult to be even minded this even mindedness is what I call the eye of the star the storm is moving all around you
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your emotions your thoughts the world the tragedies the comedies but at the centre there is a point that never moves this still point is your Buddha nature the quantum leap is the movement from the moving circumference to the still centre
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on the circumference you are always in trouble one moment you are up the next you are down on the circumference you are victim of circumstances in the center you are the master not a master who controls but a master who witnesses
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a true master doesn't control anything he doesn't even control himself he's so spontaneous that control is not needed control is needed only when there is conflict if you are one who will control whom this is the estate of the arahant
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the Arahant is one who has attained the fruits of saintship but these fruits are not something you can sow to others they are inner fruits they are the purity and spotlessness of your behaviour and spotless behaviour doesn't mean you follow a code of conduct
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it means your actions leave no karmic footprints if you walk on a beach you leave footprints in the sand but if you fly in the sky you leave no footprints the arhat is a sky flyer he acts but he doesn't do
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he loves but there is no lover he speaks but there is no speaker his actions are like writing on water the moment the writing is done it is gone there is no residue there is no past being carried into the future
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the mind however is like writing on a stone everything leaves a Mark every insult every praise every success every failure it all gets engraved and your personality is the collection of all these engravings you are a walking Tombstone of your own past
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the quantum leap is the explosion of this Tombstone it is the great death that leads to the great life in the discipline of transcendence I say that it is difficult to disregards life and go to certain death I want to emphasize this again
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the certain death is the death of your engravings it is the death of your Tombstone are you ready to be a blank page most people are afraid of being a blank page they want something written on them they want a meaning
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even a miserable meaning is better than no meaning at all they think but a blank page is the only page on which the divine can write its own song if the page is already full of your professor knowledge
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your mummy conditioning your social morality where will the divine write there is no space you have to be erased Baso's professor was an eraser my work is to be an eraser I'm not here to give you information I'm here to deform you
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I'm here to uncondition you I want to take away everything that you think you are until only that which you really are remains and what you really are cannot be taken away that is the only way to find the eternal
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if I can take something away from you it was not yours it was a borrowed thing your knowledge can be taken away just a blow to the head and you can lose your memory your money can be taken away
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your body can be taken away but your awareness cannot be taken away even in death the witness remains the quantum leap is the realization I'm the witness once you are the witness you are beyond the 20 difficult things
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they are no longer difficult because there is nobody there to find them difficult is it difficult for the sky to let the clouds pass no is it difficult for the mirror to reflect the garbage no difficulty is a concept of the doer
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for the witness everything is thus tatata this dustness is the ultimate stage the rain is falling thus the heart is beating thus the mind is chattering thus the professor is turning back thus in this dustness there is no problem
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there is only happening the scholar Rio was trying to solve the problem of the mind Vaso showed him that the mind is not a problem to be solved it is a play to be watched the mind is like an actor
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if you go to a theatre and you start trying to solve the play you are a fool you are there to watch to enjoy to be moved and then to go home you don't take the characters home with you
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you don't worry about whether the king on his stage will really be killed you know it's a play why can't you look at your own life in the same way the quantum leap is the distancing of yourself from the play
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it is not a physical distance it is a consciousness distance you are in the middle of the marketplace but you are also a watcher on the hill this is the most excellent way to be free from the passions and to be calm
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this calm is not the absence of passion it is the presence of watching if you are watching your passion the passion becomes a glow it becomes a warmth it becomes compassion the word compassion means passion with awareness without awareness passion is like a blind fire
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it burns you and it burns others with awareness passion is like a lamp it gives light to you and it sows the way to others the quantum leap turns your blind fire into a cool lamp this is the transformation of the Sramana
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the Sramana is one who has reached the source and at the source the fire is always cool the source is the immaterial it is the quantum wide when you sit in silence you are touching this wide don't be afraid if you feel a sense of nothingness
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that nothingness is the footprint of God don't be afraid if you feel that your self is disappearing that is the great departure the mummy is dying so the mother can be born the actor is leaving the stage so the witness can be revealed
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the professor is turning back so the Buddha can be seen this is the mystery of Zen this is the quantum leap it is sudden because it doesn't happen in time it happens in the vertical dimension of the now
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in the horizontal dimension of time everything is gradual you grow old gradually you learn a language gradually you build a house gradually but in the vertical dimension everything is an explosion birth is an explosion death is explosion love is an explosion
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an enlightenment is the ultimate explosion it is the explosion of the one into the all it is the Nirvana the blowing out of the Ismail flame into the infinite light you have been a small flame for too long
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flickering in the wind of your desires always afraid of being extinguished I say blow it out yourself don't wait for death to do it do it now throw awareness blow out the eye blow out the me blow out the mine and see what remains
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that which remains is the unborn that which remains is the undying that which remains is the Buddha carry this taste with you don't let the gesture of meaning distract you don't let the actor of the mind pull you back onto the stage
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be the witness be the zero be the quantum leap the professor has turned back the scholar has become silent the Mind Sutra has been fulfilled the no mind is lecturing and the lecture is silence listen to it drink it
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become it this is the most excellent way this is the discipline of transcendence this is Zen this reality is the only thing that is truly yours everything else is borrowed and that which is borrowed can never satisfy the soul
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it only creates a more profound hunger Buddha says that it is difficult to learn much and be of a generous nature look at the scholars the Learned ones they are the most miserly people in the world they accumulate information
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like a miser accumulates gold coins they are very protective of their knowledge they won't share it unless they get something in return prestige a degree or a higher position their knowledge is not for giving it is for so
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but the quantum leap changes the very definition of much to learn much doesn't mean to read many books it means to experience much and when you experience the vastness of your own being you become naturally generous how can you be a miser
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when you have found an inadjustable treasure you want to say rich you want to shout it from the rooftops you want everyone to wake up and see what you are seeing the generosity of a Buddha is not an effort
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it is an overflow when a flower blooms it doesn't try to be generous with its fragrance it simply is the fragrance is the excess energy of the flower when you take the leap into no mind your consciousness becomes so full
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that it starts overflowing as compassion this compassion is the 11th difficult thing it is difficult because you cannot practice it if you practice compassion it is just another role for the actor you are playing the saint you are being kind to others
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because you want to be a good person this is just a refined ego true compassion has no motive it is like the sun shining on a thief and a saint with the same warmth the sun doesn't distinguish the sun is just being itself
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the Iscalar Rio of seissan was a Learned man but he was not generous he was defensive when Basso questioned him he felt attacked he was protecting his learn edness he was like a man who has built a house of cards
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and is terrified that a small breeze will blow it down Basso was that breeze I want to be that breeze for you I want to blow down your house of cards don't be afraid if your house can be blown
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breeze it wasn't a house anyway it was just a dream and wouldn't you rather be awake under the open sky than asleep in a fragile dream the open sky is the immaterial it is the quantum field in the discipline of transcendence
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I talk about the difficulty of not talking about others faults this is the 12th difficult thing why is it so hard to stop gossiping why do we love to see the flaws in others because every time you point out a fault in someone else
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your ego feels a little bit superior you are saying I'm not like that I'm better this is the actor's way of keeping the limelight the actor needs to feel that he is the protagonist and everyone else is just a supporting character
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with many flaws but the moment you take the quantum leap you see that the other is just another version of you you see that the same consciousness that is in you is also in them just dreaming a different dream
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how can you talk about the faults of a dream if someone is talking in their sleep do you get angry at them do you judge them no you just realize they are asleep a Buddha sees sleep not faults
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when you stop judging your energy is no longer directed outwards in criticism it turns inwards and becomes a mirror Buddha also says it is difficult to remain unconcerned in the world this doesn't mean you run away to the mountains
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if you run away you are very concerned you are so concerned that you had to escape remaining unconcerned means being in the marketplace but not being of it it is like a lotus in the MUD the lotus grows in the MUD
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but it is not muddy it stays above the water untouched most people are like sponges they absorb everything the stress of the office the anger of the spouse the anxiety of the news they are heavy with the world
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the quantum leap makes you like a lotus you are there you do your work you love your family you eat your food but you are unconcerned in your deepest core you know it is a play you know it is the acting of the mind
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this unconcernness is the secret of eternal youth you don't get old if you don't accumulate the dust of the world your body might age but your soul remains as fresh as a dewdrop in Zen the quantum leap from mind to no mind are described
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the moment of the jump as a moment of absolute freshness it is as if you are just born you have no past you have no mummy conditioning you have no social suit that you have to fit into Rio of Sisaan had a very expensive suit
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his escandarcit he was proud of it but when he turned back at Baso's Khan for a second he forgot his suit he was just a man that just a man is the Buddha you see the Buddha is not a god
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he is not a supernatural being he is simply a human being who has dropped on the garbage he is the original man and this original man is hidden inside you buried under layers of knowledge morality and personality to find him
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you don't need to add anything you only need to subtract Buddha says it is difficult to be pure and spotless this is the goal of the arhat but purity is not a moral attainment purity is a closeness to the source
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think of a river at the source in the mountains the water is pure it is just water as it flows down people throw garbage in it factories dump chemicals in it it becomes impure but the impurity is only on the surface
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if you take that dirty water and you distil it you get pure water again the essence was never dirty it was just mixed with something else your consciousness is the river your thoughts and desires are the chemicals and garbage
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you are currently impure because you are mixed you think I am my anger I am my bank balance I am my body the quantum leap is the process of distillation it is the separation of the witness from the witnessed
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once you are distilled you are an arhat you are pure and spotless even if you are in the middle of a dirty world you remain pure because you are no longer mixing yourself with anything you are just the mirror
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does a mirror get dirty because it reflects a garbage dump no you just wipe the mirror and it is as good as new meditation is the wiping of the mirror and Zen is the realization that the mirror was never dirty in the first place
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only the reflection was when Baso said no mind can lecture alright he was pointing to the mirror the mirror doesn't say anything yet it reveals everything the lecture of no mind is a revelation when you sit in silence
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you are lecturing to yourself your silence is telling you the most profound secrets of the universe but you are not listening you are waiting for the silence to end so you can go back to your meaningful talk it's time waiting
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the silence is the message in the discipline of transcendence I explain the difference between the biological and the spiritual the biological is the horizontal line birth growth reproduction death it is the world of the mummy the spiritual is the vertical line
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consciousness awareness transcendence Nirvana it is the world of the mother most of you are living only on the horizontal line you are like a train on a track you know exactly where you are going you are going to the graveyard
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every day you are a little closer to it the quantum leap is the moment the train leaves the track and becomes an airplane you move into the vertical dimension you are no longer moving toward death you are moving toward life
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eternal death is only for those who are on the track for the one who has taken the leap death is just a change of costume the 13th difficult thing Buddha Munsons is to meet with a good friend now this sounds easy we all have friends
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but what is a good friend in the spiritual sense a good friend is not someone who agrees with you a good friend is not someone who consoles you in your misery a good friend is someone who disturbs you
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a good friend is someone who won't let you sleep a good friend is a basso who calls out professor just when you are about to walk away in your ego to find such a friend is rare because we are all looking for comfort
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we want friends who tell us how good we are how smart we are how spiritual we are we want people who reinforce our mummy identity a true friend a master is a destroyer he destroys your illusions he is like a surgeon
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who cuts out the cancer of your ego it is painful but it is the only way to save your life if you have found such a friend don't let him go even if he hits you even if he insults you
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even if he makes you feel like a jester stay because he's the only one who truly loves you everyone else loves your mask he loves your original face and to love the original face he must first tear off the mask
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the quantum Leap is the moment you trust the master enough to let him tear off your mask it is a moment of total surrender surrender is not submission submission is of the weak surrender is of the strong submission is forced
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surrender is a let go it is the surrender of the drop to the ocean the drop doesn't lose anything in the surrender it only loses its boundaries it loses its smallness it gains the whole ocean but the drop is afraid
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it says but I won't be a drop anymore what will happen to my droppiness this droppiness is your misery this droppiness is your loneliness this droppiness is your fear of the sun why are you clinging to it jump
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the 14th difficulty is to remain calm when slighted I want to go deeper into this why do we get upset when we are slighted because we have a self image we have an idea of who we are if someone treats us in a way
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that doesn't match that image we feel slighted if you think you are a great scholar and someone calls you an idiot you get angry but if you know you are nobody if you have realised Anatta then idiot is just a sound in the air
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it doesn't find any hook in you to hang on it's like throwing a ball at a wall it bounces back but if you throw a ball into the sky where does it go it just keeps going the sky doesn't react
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be the sky if someone insults you let the insult pass through you don't catch it if you catch it you are an actor if you let it pass you are a witness the 15th difficulty is not to talk about other people's faults
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we already touched on this but look at the subtlety of it it's not just about gossip it's about the mind's tendency to find negativity the mind is like a fly it can fly over a beautiful garden full of roses
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but it will always find the one small piece of filth and sit on it the mind is a garbage collector awareness is like a bee it only looks for the nectar the quantum leap is the shift from the fly mind
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to the bee consciousness when you take the leap you start seeing the Buddha in everyone you see that everyone is struggling everyone is dreaming everyone is trying to find their way home you feel compassion not criticism even for the butcher in the market
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bunsan felt enlightenment he didn't see a killer of animals he saw a man who had realized the perfection of his own work he saw the dustiness of the situation this is the comprehending of the immaterial the 16th difficulty is to disregard life
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and go to certain death I return to this again and again because it is the core of the discipline you must be willing to die as you are this is what I call the Great Death if you die before you die
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then when physical death comes you will laugh you will say I have already seen this I have already gone through this the death in meditation is a rehearsal for the final departure it is the practice of disappearing if you can disappear into silence for 10 minutes
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you have conquered death because you have seen that even when the eye is gone life remains and that life is not your life it is the life it is the Tao it is the Dhamma the Iskolar Rio was afraid to disappear
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he wanted to be the Professor Rio even in the eyes of Baso but Baso wouldn't allow it Baso was a murderer every Zen master is a murderer he murders your ego so that your soul can breathe Professor Rio turned back
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in that turning back the professor died for a second the iskolar died only the turning remains that turning is the 17th difficulty to see one's own nature usually we are looking at things we are looking at the roach
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at the screen at the book we never look at the looking think about it can you see your own eyes no you can see their reflection in a mirror but you cannot see the eyes themselves consciousness is the only thing that can see itself
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it is self luminous but to see it you must stop looking outside you must turn the light around this is the quantum leap it is like a U turn in your awareness you have been travelling away from yourself
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for many lives you have gone far into the world of matter of meaning of minds now you are being called back turn back and what do you find when you turn back you find a zero a beautiful radiant blissful zero
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the 18th difficulty is to follow the way this is difficult because the way is not a marked road it is a pathless land you have to create the way by walking it as a great poet said traveller there is no path
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the path is made by walking when you walk in the world of the mind you follow the ruts you follow the tradition you follow the scriptures that is easy you just have to be asleep but to follow the way of no mind
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you have to be a lion you have to walk alone you have to trust your own inner light Rio was a Sikh he was following the Mind Sutra Basso wanted him to be a lion a lion doesn't lecture
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a lion roars and the roar of the lion is the silence of Zen the 19th difficulty is not to abuse one's authority when you start getting a spiritual results when you start feeling more peaceful more aware the ego will try to use that as a new authority
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you will want to teach others you will want to show off your meditation you will start judging others as unconscious this is the spiritual ego it is the most dangerous ego of all because it is very subtle it hides behind holy words
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the quantum leap is not complete until you have dropped the meditator too you must reach a state where you don't even know that you are enlightened if you know you are enlightened you are not because the eye who knows is is still there
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a Buddha is so natural that he doesn't think he is anything special he's just ordinary he eats when he is hungry he sleeps when he is tired he is thus the 20th difficulty and the most profound is to be sincere
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we have come full circle sincerity means that your no mind and your action are one when Baso called out Professor Rio's turning back was a moment of total sincerity he didn't think about it he didn't decide I should turn back
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now it happened it was a spontaneous response that spontaneity is the most excellent way if you can be spontaneous you are a Buddha but you are not spontaneous you are deliberate you are always calculating you are always rehearsing
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even when you say I love you it is a rehearsed sentence it comes from the mind not from the heart the quantum leap is the death of the rehearsal and the birth of the response it is the shift from the actor to the being
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in the discipline of transcendence I talk about the arhat as one who is pure and is spotless in their behaviour this purity comes from spontaneity if you are spontaneous you cannot be dirty because dirt requires accumulation a mirror is pure because it doesn't hold on to anything
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it reflects the bird and the bird is gone it reflects the cloud and the cloud is gone if you are spontaneous you don't hold on to the past you don't hold on to the engravings on the stone you are writing on water
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this is the immaterial that the sramanas comprehend they comprehend that the only reality is the now and in the now there is no self if there is no self there is no karmic footprint you are free the mind says I want freedom from things
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but the true freedom is freedom from the eye as long as there is an I you are in a prison even if the prison is made of gold and decorated with spirituality it is still a prison the quantum leap is the escape
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from the prison of the eye and you don't need a key you only need to realize that the door is not locked in fact there is no door the Iskolar Rio was dusting his sleeves and taking his departure
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he thought he was leaving he thought he was moving from one place to another but Baso's call made him realize that there is nowhere to go Professor where are you going Rio you are already here you are just carrying your mind
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Sutra luggage around the room stop the departure stop the arrival just be this just being is the Zen the quantum leap from mind to no mind it is the most blissful moment it is the Nirvana Nirvana is not a place you go after death
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it is a state of extinction of the ego while you are alive when the ego is extinguished what remains the whole the divine the nameless you are that tat Tvam asi but don't take my word for it don't become a scholar of my words
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take the leap experience the no mind for yourself sit silently close your eyes no movement just go within this is the only temple a jump a quantum leap from mind to no mind in this silence you are the Buddha
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in this silence the lotus of your being opens deeper and deeper don't be afraid you are going into yourself fearlessly penetrate to the deepest core let the body breathe but you simply become the center of your innermost being
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this is the truth this is the most blissful moment carry this taste with you as an undercurrent 24 hours a day like a fragrance surrounding you in every one of your actions let this silence penetrate and make them graceful
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come back to life absolutely new as if you are just born fresh knowing nothing with open hands you have completed the pilgrimage from animal to the ultimate consciousness of being a Buddha an awakened one the professor is no more
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the jester is no more only the silence remains and that silence is the most beautiful lecture of all it is the mind Sutra without words it is the quantum leap without distance it is you without the me beloved ones
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the stars are waiting for you the ocean is waiting for you the divine is waiting for you why are you still standing on the bank jump the water is fine the water is bliss the water is God be the water
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my beloved ones we have come to the edge of the abyss together all these words all these stories of Zen masters and ancient sutras have been nothing but a long preparation for this single moment the moment you stop seeking and start seeing
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we have discussed the 20 difficult things we have seen the struggle of the Escolar Rio and we have felt the shadow of the mummy over the soul now it is time to leave the soul behind forever the quantum leap is not something that happens once
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and then you are done it is a way of living it is a moment to moment realization that you are not the contents of your mind but the container you are the vast silent isky if this journey into the depths
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of your own consciousness has touched something real within you if you feel a flame being lit in your heart I invite you to click the like button it is a simple gesture but it tells the world and it tells the algorithm
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who are ready to take the leap into the unknown Buddha says it is difficult to be sincere throughout our lives we have been taught to be civilized which is just a polite way of saying false we have been taught to smile when we are angry
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to talk when we want to be silent and to follow the crowd when we want to walk alone this falseness is the barrier to be sincere means to bring your no mind into your daily life it means being so authentic
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that even your shadow doesn't lie when Baso called out professor he was testing Rio's sincerity in that sudden sock Rio couldn't pretend his turning back was his first sincere act in years in that moment he was not the scholar
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he was just a turning what are you turning towards in your life are you turning towards more information more possessions more meanings are are you turning back to the source to help you stay connected to this source I have poured the essence of these talks
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reading them is a meditation in itself a way to keep the fragrance of Zen alive in your heart during the busy hours of the day the quantum leap is a shift from the eye to the zero in modern science
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we are learning that the universe is not made of stuff but of relationships and energy waves there is no solid course this is exactly what Buddha meant by Anatta you are a wave in the ocean of energy the wave has no separate existence
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if the ocean moves the wave moves if the ocean is still the wave is still when you realize your oceanness you are free this is the most excellent way but remember the mind will try to reclaim you it will say okay
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that was a beautiful meditation now let's get back to your problems when the mind says this just laugh laughter is the best way to keep the mind at a distance don't fight the problem just see it's jester nature
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see that the problem is just a scene in the play for those of you who feel cars to support this work more deeply to help us keep this lighthouse burning for all the last sips in the sea of the mind
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to make a direct contribution your generosity is not just a donation it is an act of sharing the bliss you have found as we reach the final silence of this discourse I want you to remember one thing you are not a seeker
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you are that which you are seeking the pilgrimage is over the moment you realize you have never left home you have been dreaming of a long journey of many lives of many struggles but you have always been sitting
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in the heart of the divine stop the effort drop the mind be the no mind this is the quantum leap this is Zayn this is your reality I will wait for you in the silence not as a person
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but as the silence itself whenever you are silent I'm there whenever you are empty we are one go now and walk gracefully let your life be a dance let your death be a Celebration for the Buddha there is no difference
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blessings to you all
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