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Posts: 3137 · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:06 pm

This is the way to do it: first take slow, deep breaths, filling yourself up, filling your lungs up as deeply as you can. When you have inhaled as much as you can, continue to hold the thought, " I will experience meditation," and keep repeating this sentence. Then exhale, and at one point you will feel that there is no more air to exhale. But there is -- so throw that out too and repeat the sentence. Now you will feel that there is absolutely no more air left -- but still there is , so throw that out. Don't be afraid: you will never exhale completely. That's why, when you feel that there is no more breath left in you, there always is -- so try also to exhale that. Exhale as totally as you can, and keep repeating, " I will experience meditation."

It is a strange phenomenon: through it a thought process is triggered in your unsconscious mind. An intense resolve will arise and you will already see its effects tomorrow, so you have to make your resolution very strong. We will start the experiment before we leave this place this evening. You are to do it five times, that is, you should inhale and exhale five times, that is, you should inhale and exhale five times and repeat the thought inside five times. If anyone has a heart problem, or any other problem, don't do it strenuously, do it softly. Do it as gently as possible, don;t make yourself uncomfortable.

I have talked about the will to experience. You must practice it every night during these three days, before sleeping,. Lying on your bed, repeat the sentence as you gradually fall asleep. If you follow this process diligently and your voice reaches the unconscious, the result is easy to induce and is unmistakable.

I wanted to talk about these few things today, and I hope you have already understood the points that are relatively important. As I have said, there should be no talking. Naturally, you will not read the newspaper or listen to the radio, because that would also be a kind of talking.

Or when I said you will be silent and alone... this means that you avoid the company of people as much as you can. Except for the time when we gather here, or when we eat... but then too you will be quiet and in silence. There should be total silence, as if you are not there at all. When you come here to meditate, then too you will come in silence. You will see the results of three days in silence. When you walk on the street be quiet: when sitting, standing, moving around, be quiet. And most of the time try to be alone. Select a beautiful place and sit there quietly. And if there is someone with you, they too should sit quietly; don't talk, otherwise the mountains are wasted, the beauty is wasted. You will not see that which is right in front of you. You will destroy everything with your talking. Be alone.

I wanted to mention these few things which are important for everyone. If there is not thirst within you, and there seems to be no way to awaken this thirst, then tell me about this tomorrow. Let me know if you are not very hopeful about yourself and you don't feel there can be any hope, or if you find it difficult to strengthen your resolve and feel it is not possible for you to meditate. So tomorrow you can ask me about the difficulties that you think you will face in the next three days, so that no time is wasted later on.

If you have any personal problem, any pain or sorrow which you want to be relieved of which is preventing you from meditating, or if you are coming across any difficulty while meditating, remember this: you can ask your question separately. It will not be for everyone; it will be for you individually, that you follow a separate procedure. And whatever problem you may have, be clear about it tomorrow morning so that we will be prepared for the next three days. I wanted to say these few things.

You have to maintain a single-pointed vision. And then from tomorrow we will start with what is to be done, we will begiin the real work tomorrow.

Posts: 3137 · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 7:43 am

Now we will sit a little apart from each other -- the hall is big enough so that everyone can spread out -- and we will make our resolutions before we leave here.

... Not so jerkily, very slowly, slowlyfilling the lungs completely.When you fill your lungs, repeat to yourself, "I will experience meditation." Repeat this sentence. Then, when thelungs are filled to the maximum, hold your breath for a while, repeating the sentence. You may get nervous, you will feel like exhaling, but continue to hold your breath and repeat the sentence. Then slowly start exhaling, again repeating the sentence. Keep exhaling until you feel you are empty, and then go on exhaling and repeating the sentence. When you feel absolutely empty, hold this emptiness. Don't inhale yet, and go on repeating the sentence as long as you can. And then, slowly begin to inhale. An inhalation plus an exhalation is one round. Everyone should follow this procedure slowly, step by step.

After doing it five times straighten your back, breathe slowly, sit quietly and relax for five minutes. We will do this exercise for ten minutes and then everyone will leave this place silently. Remember, you are not to talk, and this is from now on. In that sense the meditation camp begins rightnow. When you go to bed repeat this exercise from five to seven times, as long as you feel comfortable, then switch off the light and fall asleep. Fall asleep thinking, "I will be in silence, this is my aim." And when sleep envelops you this thought will be with you.

When you have finished doing the exercise five times, rest quietly for a while and breathe softly. Now keep your back straight. Let your body be loose. Your back is straight and your body relaxed. Close your eyes. Quietly take a deep breath and do as I have just said five times. "I will experience silence. I will experience meditation. I am determined that I will experience meditation." Let your whole being make this oath that you will enter into meditation. Let your whole being resonate with it. This should reach to the deepest layer of your consciosness.

After doing this five times, very softly, very relaxedly, sit up, straighten your back and slow down your breathing. Exhale slowly and keep on watching your breathing. Rest for five minutes. During this rest period the resolution that you have made will sink deeper inside you. Make the resolution five times, then, sitting quietly, watch your breath for five minutes and take slow breaths.

Last night I spoke about how to create a foundation for meditation within yourelf. My approach to meditation is not based on any scriptures, any holy books or any specific school of thought. I am only talking about the paths which I have walked on and which I have known by going within myself. This is why what I am saying is not just a theory. And when I invite you to try it, I have no doubt that you will also be successful in finding what you are longing for. Rest assured that I will only talk about that which I have experienced.

I have had to go through a period of intense anguish and suffering. I had to go through a period of trial and error, and during that period I struggled to go inside myself. I made a constant effort to try all the roads, all the paths in this direction.

Those days were very painful, full of anguish and suffering. But there was constant effort, and because of this effort - just as when a great waterfall is falling from a great height and the constant flow wears away even the rocks -- so just like a waterfall, with continuous effort, somewhere I found an opening. And I will only talk about the methods through which I found this opening.

So I can say to you with absolute confidence and assurance that if you try this method the result is absolutely guaranteed. At the time, there was pain and sorrow, but now there is no pain or sorrow within me.

Yesterday somebody asked me, "People ask you about so many of their problems. Aren't you troubled by them?"

I said to him, "If the problems belongs to someone else then there is no trouble in it. The trouble starts if you take the problem as your own. "

In this sense I don't have any problems. But I experience a different type of sadness, and that is that I see many people around me who appear to be in so much pain, who have so many problems, and I feel that their pain and trouble can so easily be removed because there are such simple solutions to them. I feel that if they were to knock on the door, the door would open so easily. And yet they are standing right in front of it, crying. That's when I experience a very different kind of anguish and suffering.

Posts: 1270 · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 11:00 am

Thanks Pravin .. I must of over looked this whole section .. I really enjoy reading your work!
I just asked yesterday where your post where - I must of been blind for a moment! I can see now

Posts: 3137 · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:40 am

A blind man and his friend were crossing a desert. They were going on different journeys but they must have met on the way, and the other man must have asked the blind man to join him. They were together for some days and their friendship deepened over that time. One morning the blind man got up earlier than his friend and felt around for his stick. It was a desert night and it was very cold, it was winter time. He did not find the stick, but there was a snake which had stiffened because of the cold so the blind man picked it up and thanked God saying " I had lost my stick but now you have given me a better, a smoother stick." He thanked God and said, "You are very compassionate."

Then he poked his friend with this stick to wake him saying, "Get up, it's morning."

When the friend got up and saw the snake, he became afraid and said, "What is that you are holding in your hand? Drop it immediately. It is a snake, it is dangerous."

The blind man replied, "Friend, in a fit of jealousy you are calling my beautiful stick a snake. You want me to throw it away so that you can take it -- I may be blind, but I'm not stupid."

His friend replied, "Are you mad? Have you gone mad? Throw it away immediately. It is a snake and it is dangerous"

But the blind man said, "You have stayed with me for so many days and you still haven't understood how smart I am. I had lost my stick and now the Almighty has given me a more beautiful stick, and you are just trying to fool me by calling it a snake."

The blind man, in his anger, thought that his friend was jealous and envious, and so he started off on his own. After a little while the sun came up and the snake warmed up and came back to life. It was no longer cold and it bit the blind man.

The pain I'm talking about is the same pain that the blind man's friend must have felt for his friend. Just like him, I also feel pain for the people all around. They are carrying a snake in their hands, not a stick, but if I tell them they wonder what jealousy is provoking me to say this. And I am not talking about someone else, I am talking about you.

Don't think I's talking about the person sitting next to you, I am talking absolutely to you. And I can see snakes in all your hands, yet anything that only looks like a stick is of no help, it is not a stick. But I don't want you to leave the path. And I don't want you to think that in a jealous state I am trying to snatch away your beautiful stick, so I don't directly call it a snake. Slowly, slowly I am trying to make you understand that what you are holding on to it is wrong.

And in fact I am not even saying that what you are holding on to is wrong. All I am saying is that there is something higher to hold on to. There is greater joy to be experienced, there are greater truths in life to be understood. What you are now holding on to can only lead to your destruction.

What we spend our lives doing eventually destroys us, destroys our entire lives. And when our whole lives have been destroyed, when our whole life is finished, there is only one pain and one sorrow that man suffers at the moment of death -- and that is his regret at losing a very precious life.

So today, the first thing I would like to say is that the thirst of which I spoke last night will airse only when you see, when you realise that the life you are leading right now is wrong. That thirst will arise only when you realize that the life you are leading right now is wrong. That thirst will arise only when you realize that the way you are living your life right now is absolutely wrong, meaningless. Is this such a difficult thing to understand? And do you know with any certainty that what you have collected so far has any value? Do you know for sure whether you will be able to know immortality with what you have accumulated? With all the efforts you are making in all directions, do you really know that you are making in all directions, do you really know that you are not just building sandcastles, or is there some solid foundation to it? Think this over, contemplate on it.

When you start to reflect and question life, a thirst begins to arise in you. A thirst for truth arises out of contemplation. There are very few who think about life, very few. Most people live life like driftwood floating down a river: it just keeps on floating and goes wherever the river takes it. If the river takes it towards the bank, it floats towards the bank,; if it takes midstream, it floats towards the middle of the river as if it had no life, a destination of its own. Most of us live the life of a piece of wood floating in the river - we go wherever time and circumstances take us.

Thinking about life and its purpose will help you to find a direction: whether you should live the life of a piece of wood floating in a river, whether you should live like a dried leaf which blows wherever the wind takes it, or whether you should be an individual, a person, a thinking person, one who has a direction in life, one who has decided what he wants to become and what he should be, one who has taken his life and its unfoldment into his own hands.

Man's greatest creation is himself: his greatest creation will be his own self-realization. Anything else that he creates will not be of much value. It will be like drawing a line on water. But that which he creates inside himself, that which he makes of himself, will be like a carving in stone: it can never be erased, it will be with him forever.

So think about your life -- are you a piece of wood floating in the river? Are you a dead leaf which is picked up and blown around by the wind? If you think about this, you will see that you are just floating like a piece of wood, and you will see that you are being blown around like one of the dead leaves on the ground, carried by the wind to wherever it is blowing. Right now the streets are covered with these leaves. Have you made any conscious progress in your life, or have you just been pushed around by the wind, have you reached anywhere? Has anyone ever reached anywhere like this? If there is no consciously chosen goal in life, one reaches nowhere. The thirst for a conscious goal will arise in you only if you think about it, reflect on it, meditate on it.

You must have heard this story about Buddha. This story is about how Buddha renounced his life, about how he became an ascetic and how the desirefor truth arose in him. It is a very famous story, and very meaningful.

When Buddha was a chilid his parents were told that their son would one day become either a great king, an emperor, or a great monk. So his father arranged everything so that Buddha would never experience any sorrow and should never feel like renouncing his life. He built a palace for him using all the artistry and craftmanship of those times and with all kinds of luxuries, gardens ......

And there were different palaces, one for every season, and he gave orders to all the servants that Buddha should never see even a wilted flower,: so that he would not come to know that flowers can die and the question, "Maybe I too will die?" would never arise in him. So during the night all the dead flowers would be removed from the garden. Any weak tree would be uprooted and removed. Only young people were allowed to be around him; old people were not allowed to enter becaue Buddha might think, "Man becomes old .... one day maybe I too will become old."

Until he grew up to be a young man, he did not know anything about death. He had never heard about death. He was kept totally ignorant of the people that were dying in his village so that he would not think, "If people die, then maybe I too will die one day."