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cessation of thinking; it will be simply existing in oneself -- not thinking. Thinking is always about something. Thinking cannot exist in a vacuum, it is always about something. You can think about a chair, you can think about a house, you can think about a friend or an enemy; you cannot think about yourself, because you are! Who is to think? So, if you are to know yourself, you have to cease completely -- totally -- the process of thinking....
The process of thinking must not be there then you are, in your simple authentic existence. Then you are, simply. Then you come to know that mind is not through thinking, that mind is through non-thinking. That's why I define meditation as a state of mind which is not thinking, but is aware -- not thinking and aware. There is no thinking in the mind, but the mind is, and is totally aware. So, about what can it be aware now? There is nothing to think, so it cannot go outside....
SECOND QUESTIONER: AWARENESS... IS IT ALWAYS SOMETHING IN CONTACT WITH OTHERS?
A: No, it is not. You can be simply aware. There is no need of...
SECOND QUESTIONER: AWARE OF WHAT?
A: Aware of yourself. You are aware of yourself. But these two things are one -- you and your awareness are not two things. When you are aware of your house, there are two things. But when you are aware of yourself, there is nothing which is aware, and nothing to be aware about -- you are the awareness. Then you are simply awareness. Then you are not aware, you are awareness, because there is only one thing: you and you and you, and awareness -- and nothing to be aware about. This moment, when you are not aware but you are awareness, is meditation. That awareness which is not aware of anything else; it simply exists, like light; it simply exists, like a flame.
SECOND QUESTIONER: WOULD IT BE JUST LIKE OBJECTIVE....?
A: No. When awareness becomes objective, when you become aware of something else, then it becomes thinking. Then thinking goes on, thinking is created.
FIRST QUESTIONER: WHEN YOU COME SUBJECTIVELY?
A: When you come subjectively, then there is no possibility of any thinking.
THIRD QUESTIONER:
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