First learn the preliminaries What are the preliminaries These are the preliminaries First truth is truth is not something to be created truth is not something that is far away truth is here now truth surrounds you like the ocean surrounds the fish the fish may not be aware once the fish becomes aware of the ocean the fish is enlightened the fish is not aware cannot be aware because the fish is born in the ocean has always lived in the ocean is part of the ocean is any wave is part of the ocean
the fish is also a wave a little more solid but born out of the ocean lives in the ocean and one day disappears in the ocean the fish may never come to know about the ocean to know something a little distance is needed to know something perspective is needed and the ocean is so close that's why the fish may not be aware of it and so is the case with truth or if you like you can use the word God so is the case with God it is not that he is far away and that's why we don't know about him it is bec
ause he is not far away but very close by even to say that it is close by is not right because you are it he is within you and without he is all in all this is the first thing that has to be allowed to sink deep in your heart truth already is we are in it this is the most fundamental thing to begin with you are not to discover it it is not covered all that is needed is a new kind of awareness which is missing in you truth is there but you are not aware you are not mindful you are not alert you d
on't know how to watch you don't know how to observe you don't know how to look and see you have eyes but still you are blind you have ears but you are deaf the second preliminary is mind is the barrier nothing else is hindering you from truth just your own mind mine surrounds you like a film like a movie that goes on and on and you remain engrossed in it fascinated by it it is a fantasy that surrounds you a continuous story that goes on and on and because you are so fascinated by it you go on m
issing that which is and mind is not it is only a fantasy it is only a faculty for dreaming mind is nothing but dreams and dreams dreams of the past dreams of the future dreams of how things should be dreams of great ambitions achievements dreams and desires that is the stuff mind is made of but it surrounds you like a China wall and because of it the fish remains unaware of the ocean so the second preliminary is mind is the only barrier and the third no mind is the door Adi Shah calls no mind b
ody Chitta that is his word for no mind it can be translated as Buddha mind Buddha consciousness 2 or if you like you can call it Christ consciousness Krishna consciousness it doesn't make any difference what name is used but the basic quality of body chitta is that it is no mind it looks paradoxical the mind in the state of no mind but the meaning is very clear mind without content mind without thoughts is what is meant is what is indicated remember the word bodychitta because Adisha says the w
hole effort of religion the whole science of religion is nothing but an endeavour to create bodychitta but a consciousness a mind which functions as a no mind a mind which dreams no more thinks no more a mind which is just awareness pure awareness now the work starts Oddish Eye is very condensed seedlike that is the meaning of a sutra it is just a thread just a hint and then you have to decode it phenomena means all that you see all that you experience all that can ever be experienced is all phe
nomena remember not only are the objects of the world phenomena and dreams but also objects of consciousness they may be objects of the world they may be just objects of the mind they may be great spiritual experiences you may see Kundalini rising in you that too is a phenomenon a beautiful dream a very sweet dream but it is a dream all the same you may see great light flooding your being but that light is also a phenomenon you may see lotus is blooming inside you in a great fragrance arising wi
thin your being those two are phenomena because you are always the seer in never the scene always the experiencer in never the experienced always the witness in never the witnessed all that can be witnessed seen observed is phenomena material phenomena psychological phenomena spiritual phenomena they are all the same there is no need to make any distinction the basic thing to remember is that which can be seen is a dream this is a tremendously powerful technique start contemplating in this way i
f you are walking on the street contemplate that people passing by are all dreams the shops and the shopkeepers and the customers and the people coming and going all our dreams the houses the buses the train the airplane all our dreams you will be immediately surprised by something of tremendous import happening within you the moment you think all our dreams suddenly like a flash one thing comes into your vision I am a dream too because if the scene is a dream then who is this I if the object is
a dream then the subject is also a dream if the object is false how can the subject be the truth impossible if you watch everything is a dream suddenly you will find something slipping out of your being the idea of the ego this is the only way to drop the ego and the simplest just try it meditate this way meditating this way again and again one day the miracle happens you look in and the ego is not found there the ego is a byproduct a byproduct of the illusion that whatsoever you are seeing is
true if you think that objects are true then the ego can exist it is a byproduct if you think that objects are dreams the ego disappears and if you think continuously that all is a dream then one day in a dream in the night you will be surprised suddenly in the dream you will remember that this is a dream too and immediately as the remembrance happens the dream will disappear and for the first time you will experience yourself deep asleep yet awake a very paradoxical experience but of great bene
fit once you have seen your dream disappearing because you have become aware of the dream your quality of consciousness will have a new flavor to it the next morning you will wake up with a totally different quality you had never known before you will wake up for the first time now you will know that all those other mornings were false you were not really awake the dreams continued the only difference was that in the night you were dreaming with eyes closed in the day you were dreaming with eyes
open but if the dream has disappeared because awareness happened suddenly you became aware in the dream and remember awareness in dreaming cannot exist together here awareness arises and there the dream disappears when you become awake in your sleep the next morning is going to be something so important that it is incomparable nothing like it has ever happened your eyes will be so clear so transparent and everything will look so psychedelic so colorful so alive even rocks will be felt to be bre
athing pulsating even rocks will have a heartbeat when you are awake the whole existence changes its quality we are living in a dream we are asleep even when we think we are awake first objects will lose their objectivity and second the subject will lose its subjectivity and that brings you to a transcendence the object is no longer important the subject is no longer important then what is left a transcendental consciousness body should adjust a witnessing with no idea of Ellendow just a pure mi
rror which reflects that which is and god is nothing but that which is examine the nature of unborn awareness now you know what awareness is you have known this transcendental awareness where objects and subjects are no more existential you have known for the first time this purity this crystal clear mirror now examine the nature of this awareness look into it look deep into it shake yourself into as full alertness as possible wake up and see and you will start laughing because now you will see
there has never been a birth and there is never going to be a death this is unborn in undying consciousness it has always been here it is eternal it is timeless and how afraid you are of death and how afraid you are of old age and how afraid you are of a thousand and one things and nothing has ever happened always a dream seeing this one smiles one laughs your whole life up to now has been ridiculous absurd you were unnecessarily afraid unnecessarily greedy unnecessarily suffering you were livin
g in a nightmare and it was your own creation let even the remedy itself go and no more examination no more mindfulness no more remembering that all is a dream once the first taste of awareness has happened on your tongue be quick because the mind is very cunning the mind can start telling you look you are no longer ordinary you are extraordinary look you have attained you have a Buddha you are enlightened look this is the goal of all human beings and very rarely one in a million attains you are
that one in a million the mind will say all these beautiful sweet nothings and of course the ego can come back you can start feeling very good holier than now you can start feeling special spiritual insanely and all is lost through the remedy the disease is back cling to the remedy and the disease is back one has to be very alert about dropping the method once you attain something immediately drop the method otherwise your mind will start clinging to the method it will talk very logically to yo
u saying it is the method that is important Buddha used to tell a story again and again five idiots passed through a village seeing them people were surprised because they were carrying a boat on their heads the boat was really big it was almost crushing those five idiots they were almost dying under the weight of it and asked what are you they said we cannot leave this this is the boat that helped us to come from the other shore to this shore how can I leave it it is because of it that we have
been able to come here without it we would have died on the other shore now please don't cling to the remedy to the method this is the emphasis of Jay Krishna Morty but this is his first sutra it should be the fourth that's where he is wrong it cannot be the first sutra how can you drop a method that you have never used you can only drop a method that you have used Adishai is far more logical far more scientific than Jay Krishna Morty but I can understand why he emphasizes it because he is afrai
d that if you go into the first three sutris you may never arrive and you may be lost in the first three many are lost in the preliminaries many are lost in the methods so he has become too cautious extremely cautious those 5 idiots were carrying the boat and Jay Krishna Moody was on the other short teaching people don't enter the boat too cautious because if you enter the boat who knows you may start carrying the boat on your head so please don't enter it and many have become afraid of entering
the boat but to be afraid of entering the boat is the same idiocy there is no difference one who is afraid of entering the boat is the same person who will carry the boat otherwise why should you be afraid there are old friends of mine who have followed Jay Christian Morty for their whole life they come to me and say we would like to come here but we are afraid of all the methods that you teach methods are dangerous they say methods are dangerous only if you are unaware otherwise they can be us
ed beautifully do you think about is dangerous it is dangerous if you are thinking of carrying it on your head for your whole life out of sheer gratitude otherwise it is just a raft to be used and discarded all methods are rafts to be used and discarded used and abandoned used and never look back at again there is no need no point these are two extremes at one extreme are those 5 idiots and at the other extreme are the followers of Jay Krishna Morty there is no need to be either my approach is u
se the boat use beautiful boats and use as many boats as possible with this awareness when the shore is reached the boat is abandoned with no clingy while you are in the boat enjoy it and be thankful for it when you leave the boat say thank you and move on
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