MEDITATE JUST BY WATCHING YOUR MIND

Our mind is a misery and if one wants to be blissful with it, it is impossible! The Mind is a dis-ease, this is absolutely so, it is a restlessness. However, one can transcend mind, one need not remain in it, one can hop out of it. And it is your choice and decision to be or not to be in it or not!

The whole phenomenon of religion depends on this possibility, that man can take a jump out of the mind. And that’s what meditation is all about: the art of getting out of the mind. And it is not difficult at all, it is very simple. Just watch the mind, with no judgement. Don’t be a judge, just be a witness, mirror-like.

The mirror does not say ‘How beautiful, how ugly, how disgusting, it simply reflects and remains silent. That’s the way of the meditator: he becomes a mirror, he looks at the mind. Thousands of thoughts and desires and memories go on passing day in, day out — he goes on watching, with no judgement at all. He does not say ‘This is good, this is bad, this should not be, this should be, I should choose — this is a gem, what a beautiful thought! And this is a disgusting thought, this should not be allowed to enter my mind.’ If you say those things you get involved. You start getting inside the mind; you become entangled and you lose meditation.

Meditation simply means a choiceless awareness. It takes a little time because it is a knack to learn, but if one goes on trying — whenever you have time just go on trying. Whenever you have any time close your eyes and watch the mind. Enjoy it. It is far more interesting than going to any movie, than sitting like a stupid person before a TV set.

And what do they go on watching? — the same murder and the same violence and rape and the same old stories, the same triangles: two women, one man or two men, one woman. It is such a stupidity! Man has been writing the same story again and again and there are fools who go on watching them. This is the marketing strategy in the movie industry - the story is the same, the plot is the same, the strategy is the same, nothing new in it. But maybe different actors and different titles in a different movie settings. That is all!

Have you ever for a second think, that is far more interesting to watch your own mind because it is far more insane and far more inventive too. If you simply go on watching it you will be surprised that you will find more postures for love-making than any psychologist has ever discovered. You will defeat all Masters-and-Johnsons and Kinsey reports and the old master Vatsyayana and all his postures for love making. Your mind is perfectly capable of inventing such absurd postures. The mind is so interesting… You will do all kinds of violence and all kinds of murders and you will commit suicide and everything will happen — simply go on watching. And the miracle is? You don’t have to pay for it!

Then by and by this whole scene starts disappearing. As you are becoming more alert it starts disappearing, as you become conscious of it, it loses its grip on you. Then, one day the greatest miracle in your life happens: your mind simply disappears and there is vast emptiness and nothing to observe. You are left in absolute solitude — that is meditation — and out of that solitude thousands of flowers of bliss, of beauty, of truth, of god, bloom but most of all.....you finally find yourself there. Your true s-elf!

MEDITATION IS THE CURE TO ALL DIS-EASE OF MANKIND

Next time you have a headache try a small meditative technique, just experimentally – then you can go on to bigger diseases and bigger symptoms. When you have a headache just try a small experiment. Sit silently and watch it, look into it – not as if you are looking at an enemy, no. If you are looking at it as your enemy, you will not be able to look rightly. You will avoid – nobody looks at the enemy directly; one avoids, one tends to avoid.

Look at it as your friend. It is your friend; it is in your service. It is saying, “Something is wrong – look into it.”
Just sit silently and look into the headache with no idea of stopping it, with no desire that it should disappear, no conflict, no fight, no antagonism. Just look into it, into what it is. Watch, so if there is some inner message, the headache can give it to you. It has a coded message. And if you look silently you will be surprised. If you look silently three things will happen.

First: the more you look into it, the more severe it will become. And then you will be a little puzzled: “How is it going to help if it is becoming more severe?” It is becoming more severe because you have been avoiding it. It was there but you were avoiding it; you were already repressing – even without the aspro you were repressing it. When you look into it, repression disappears. The headache will come to its natural severity. Then you are hearing it with unplugged ears, no wool around your ears.

First thing: it will become severe. If it is becoming severe, you can be satisfied that you are looking rightly. If it does not become severe, then you are not looking yet; you are still avoiding. Look into it – it becomes severe. That is the first indication that, yes, it is in your vision.

The second thing will be that it will become more pin-pointed; it will not be spread over a bigger space. First you were thinking, “It is my whole head aching.” Now you will see it is not the whole head, it is just a small spot. That is also an indication that you are gazing more deeply into it. The spread feeling of the ache is a trick – that is a way to avoid it. If it is in one point then it will be more severe. So you create an illusion that it is the whole head which is aching. Spread all over the head, then it is not so intense at any point. These are tricks that we go on playing.

Look into it and the second step will be that it comes to be smaller and smaller and smaller. And a moment comes when it is just the very point of a needle – very sharp, immensely sharp, very painful.

You have never seen such pain in the head. But very much confined to a small spot. Go on looking into it. And then the third and the most important thing happens. If you go on looking at this point when it is very severe and confined and concentrated at one point, you will see many times that it disappears.

When your gaze is perfect it will disappear. And when it disappears you will have the glimpse of where it is coming from – what the cause is. When the effect disappears you will see the cause. It will happen many times. Again it will be there. Your gaze is no more that alert, that concentrated, that attentive – it will come back. Whenever your gaze is really there, it will disappear; and when it disappears, hidden behind it is the cause. And you will be surprised: your mind is ready to reveal what the cause is.

And there can be a thousand and one causes. The same alarm is given because the alarm system is simple. There are not many alarm systems in your body. For different causes the same alarm is given. You may have been angry lately and you have not expressed it. Suddenly, like a revelation, it will be standing there. You will see all your anger that you have been carrying, carrying … like pus inside you. Now this is too much, and that anger wants to be released. It needs a catharsis. Cathart! – and immediately you will see the headache has disappeared. And there was no need for the aspro, no need for any treatment.