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Pravin Kumar
Age: 60 Zodiac: 
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 Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:07 am |
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Don't miss any opportunity to awaken this center for friendliness andlove. And to grasp this opportunity, remember this key: every day, during the course of these twenty - four hours, remember to do one or two things for which you expect nothing in return. You work for twenty - four hours a day and youdo that because you want something in return. Regularly, every day, do something for which you don't expect to get anything in return. These will be acts of love and they will help to give birth to love inside you. If a person just does one thing everyday for which he expects to get othing back, he will get much out of it because this will activate and develop the love-center inside him.
So do something for which you don't want anything in return, nothing at all. That way, friendliness will slowly, slowly grow. A moment will come when you will be able to be friendly with someone who is a stranger. Then there will be more growth, and a moment will come when you will even be able to be friendly with someone who is your enemy. And then a moment will come when you will not discriminate between who is a friend and who is an enemy.
Mahavira has said, "Everyone is my friend. I feel no enmity towards anyone."
This is not a thought, it is a feeling. It is not a thought in the mind but a state in which you feel that no one is your enemy. And when does that 'no one is my enemy' state arise? It arises when you are no longer anyone's enemy. It is possible that Mahavira still had some enemies, but Mahavira is saying that no one is his enemy. What does this mean? It means that he was carrying no enmity. Mahavira is saying that he harbors no enmity. What a joyous moment that must be.
When you love a person so much joy arises then can there be a limit to the joy someone experiences who is able to love the whole world? This does not cost anything, you lose nothing and you gain much. That's why I don't say that Mahavira and Buddha are renunciates: in this world they are the ones who have enjoyed lifemore than anyone. In this world they have enjoyed life more than anyone. In this world they have enjoyed the most. You may be renunciates, but not them. They have opened so many doors of unlimited, infinite bliss. They have drunk and known the most supreme, the most beautiful, the divine in this world. And what do you know? -- you don't know anything except poison. They have experienced the elixir.
You have to discipline your life for the ultimate moment when you will be able to extend your love to the whole world and rays of love will radiate from your heart. But for that to happen it will need a discipline. Make sure that you do a small act of love every day. Do it consciously. The whole day gives thousands of opportunities for you to express your love. But you have many bad habits: you miss all opportunities to express your love but you don't miss a single opportunity to express your hatred. The more opportunities you miss to express your hatred the better, and the more opportunities you can take to express your love the better. Let the opportunities to hate pass by Once in a while, let them pass by unued. And once in a while use the opportunities to love consciously. This will speed up the process ofyour meditation tremendously.
So the first key was friendliness, and the second key is compassion. Compassion is also a form of friendliness, but I am mentioning it separately because it also contains some other elements. What I mean by 'other elements. is that if you blook at other people around you, you will feel compassion for them. Right now many people are sitting here: one never knows, by the evening one of them may have died. On some evening everyone will be dead anyway, one day we will all be gone. And if I realize that among all the people who are sitting in front of me I may not ever see one of their faces again, will my heart not fill with compassion for them?
Just now I visited a garden and the flowers that bloomed there will have withered by the evening. Their life is very short: they bloom in the morning and by the evening they are gone. When you remember the fact that these flowers that are smiling now will wither and fall and mix with the dust by evening, doesn't this fill you with compassion for them? Doesn't the idea that some of the stars in the night skyk break off and fall fill you with compassion for the stars? If there were a deeper understanding, as we look at everything, we would feel very sympathetic towards everything. Our meeting is so short, this life is so difficult, this opportunity is so rare; so much passion, so many desires, so much pain inside each person... and still we are somehow living and loving and creating works of art - how much compassion might this not create?
A man once spat at Buddha. The man got so angry that he spat at him. Buddha wiped the spittle off and said to the man, "Do you want to say something more?"
Ananda, the disciple who was sitting with Buddha, said, "What are you taling about? Has he said anything? Just give me the order and I will take care of him. This is the limit that he spits at you."
But Buddha said. "He is trying to say something and he has no language for it. He is trying to say something and his language is powerless and his inner impulse is intense. He couldn't say it so he has said it through actions."
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