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is my observation -- that if you settle on a peak, sooner or later that peak will disappear, because peaks exist only when you are growing. They exist as dynamic points of realisation. They are not static. Nobody can settle on a peak. Once you settle, the peak is ordinary ground. Soon you will realise that the peak has disappeared; you are moving again on ordinary ground.
So never settle for anything. Always go on and on and on.
One zen master, Rinzai, said to his master'Now I have attained to enlightenment, what shall I do?' The master said 'Walk on'.
Walk on is the message.
So whenever you feel that one peak is attained, feel happy, thankful, grateful -- but remember that this is only a new challenge. Go on looking for a further and higher peak which must be hiding somewhere in the mist. Use every peak as a step to a further peak. If you go on growing, you remain on the peak.
It is just like an aeroplane. If it goes on moving it remains on the height. If it stops moving, it falls. Its being on the height is a dynamic phenomenon; it is not a static thing. And when you are in the aeroplane and you almost feel that it is not moving, it is moving very fast. When it is moving very fast, you almost feel it is not moving.
So remain dynamic. Always remain in the process. That journey is the goal... there is no other goal. One goal from another is just an excuse for the journey. Goals exist for the journey, mm? People ordinarily think that the journey exists for the goal -- no. Goals exist for the journey -- just excuses so that one can go on journeying.
[A sannyasin says: When I first came here, I had been reading about astral projection and the Great White Brotherhood and blue triangles and golden chalices...
You started talking about being down to earth... and I dropped it all. And now you're giving it to me again!]
(chuckling) Many times I will take things away from you and then I will give them back (laughter), because sometimes there is a right moment for a certain thing.
Everything has its own place, and everything can be used for growth. And everything can become a hindrance... it depends. So
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