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MANY TIMES WE HAVE SEEN DISCUSSIONS: four people are standing and a bird has
come and one person says, “What a beautiful bird!” Another person says, “In
our hometown we used to have the same bird,” or “My daughter likes this bird
very much.” They spoil the whole beauty. There and then they begin to talk
of their ancestry, other places, what “me” had. Then you are not seeing that
beauty. You are not one with that beauty. Not only are you not seeing the
bird, you are missing that very flow of life, which is enjoyable. Magnify
this example further: you are meditating with four persons and all of a
sudden one person says, “My son used to meditate very well.” The meditation
is over! You see this ancestral disease? When you magnify it, it is more
visible. In the example of the bird you might have thought it an
insignificant point, but what I am trying to convey is not insignificant.
You are not meditating; you are coming back to yourself: “My son . . .
my
daughter . . . me . . . mine.” That my-ness and
I-ness you should avoid,
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You cannot enjoy life through “me” although it is the “me” that wants to
enjoy life. It is a kind of paradox, but it is really true. Go to the church
or temple for God’s sake, not for your sake. First you want to go,
true, but when you reach there it is for His sake. God does not need you. He
is one with you but you do not know this fact. So you have to be one with
Him. God is not separate than you ultimately, but it is through your
Realization that you will see this. And you cannot Realize without dropping
“me.” When you sit in meditation, just remind yourself that you are
meditating upon Him, not for your sake. Carry on the practice but keep on
coming back to the remembrance that you are doing for God, not for you. Each
time you touch this idea, you will be refreshed. Without being One, how else
will you be transformed? So one of the two has to drop. As long as you
are existent you are doing for you. The very fact that you exist as you
means you are doing for you. Attaining Enlightenment is the only turning
point. Everything you do before that is what we call practice.
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