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to enjoy it, but ritual is not the real thing. The real thing is to create a space within you which can be filled from the beyond by bliss.
All that is needed on the part of the seeker is to create a space in himself. We are so full of our own ego that we don't allow the beyond to penetrate us. We have to empty the cup completely, and then instantly something starts raining, something very tangible. You can almost hear it, you can almost see it filling you; you can taste it, you can smell it.
And once your inner cup is full of the beyond, life has become significant. Before that it is insignificant. Before that it is empty although it looks so full -- of rubbish, of all kinds of furniture: thoughts and memories and imagination and projections and conceptions, philosophies, ideologies... One seems to be so full up. One is almost a junkyard, centuries have become accumulated inside. All this has to be emptied.
And this is the miracle: the moment you are utterly empty of all this rubbish, you become full! In that emptiness God descends.
Dhammo is Buddha's word for religion; he used the word "dhammo" for religion. It is something more than the English word "religion": the English word does not have that beauty, that depth, significance The English word "religion" represents Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism -- systems of belief.
Dhammo fundamentally means your innermost nature. Just as it is the nature of water to flow downwards -- that is water's dhammo; just as it is fire's nature to burn -- that is fire's dhammo; just as it is the lotus' nature to be beautiful -- it is its dhammo.
Bliss is man's dhammo, his nature. It is not a system of belief; it is not a question of believing in something, but rather of discovering something inside you which is already there, which is already the case. True religion is not a belief but a discovery; it is an experience. So what we really have to do is uncover. Much garbage has gathered that has to be thrown out.
And the moment you have discovered your innermost emptiness, immediately -- not even a split second is lost -- you are in contact with the beyond. That beyond is known as God,
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