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never know the separation. This is the only problem that has to be solved; all other problems arise out of it.
Watch the mind. Become a little more distant. See the functioning of the mind: thoughts passing, coming and going, desires arising, disappearing, memories passing. It is like a screen and you are the spectator, you are the watcher. When this experience becomes strengthened, when it becomes very solid, that you are a witness, the shift happens. Suddenly the gestalt changes: You are no more mind, but a new state has arisen, the state of no-mind. And that is a great liberation. After that moment there are no problems in existence, after that moment there is no misery. Then all is joy and song and dance and celebration.
(To Elena) -- This is your new name: Ma Mouna. Mouna means silence -- and that is going to be the key for you. Be more and more silent. Whenever you have the opportunity just sit silently doing nothing, not even doing meditation. Just sit silently, for no reason, for no purpose, slowly slowly silence grows. It becomes an overwhelming experience.
And when silence has permeated you through and through, you will know who you are and you will know what this life is all about. In knowing it one knows god.
(To Evangelos) -- This is your new name: Swami Veetmano. Veetmano means beyond the mind.
Truth is beyond the mind. Philosophy fails for the simple reason that philosophy is mind and nothing else and truth is never going to be a conclusion of the mind. it is an experience when mind ceases to exist. When all the noise that mind makes has disappeared, then you know something within yourself; something surfaces from you own depths -- and that is truth. It is not a conclusion arrived at by mind, it's something that surfaces only when mind is no more present.
Mind is the barrier, the block. It is like a rock: it does not allow your own inner depth to speak to you
My work here consists only of one thing: helping you to go beyond the mind.
Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters
Chapter #5
Chapter title: None
5 January 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
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