DAY
IN AND DAY OUT, KEEP PRACTICES ON.
SUGGEST TO YOURSELF,
“I
HAVE TO BE AWAKENED,
A BUDDHA,” UNTIL YOU COME OUT OF YOUR
SLUMBER OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS.
Actually, when you have dissolved the habits of ego, then the practices also dissolve. That is why we stress upon practices. Not that practices directly awaken you but they loosen the previous habits of ego’s impositions and creations so that your consciousness, which has been overlapped or covered or suppressed or trapped, is released.
HE
NORMAL PHILOSOPHY ON THIS
EARTH
has been that you have to go through pain,
suffering, misery and struggling in order to experience, in order to make
life worthwhile. But this is not necessary. With serene devotion, love,
practices, regularity and the right way of Dharma3, you could very joyfully
and peacefully achieve the same goal. We have fed our brain cells the belief
that unless we have miseries or suffering, we’re not going to learn the
lesson. This is self-martyrdom. We think that is religion—it has to be that
way. Unless we suffer or have pain or somebody knocks us down, we think it
is not worthwhile yet. This assumes that we do not deserve the smooth, easy
way, loving and good. |
We know we should be educated but we don’t know why. Some may say it’s just
for earning or for a job, but the real reason for education, for knowledge, is to
Know, to be Enlightened.
It is a degradation of education that they are not using it for
Enlightenment. From the Sanskrit: “That is true education or knowledge which
Awakens you, which Liberates you.” We have diverted ourselves from this
purpose and used education for insignificant pursuits. There we get tied up.
The original idea was and is that although we are born on this Earth as
human beings, we have the capacity and potential to be Conscious and
Awakened. That is our true Goal, the only Goal. |