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you are enjoying it
If you are delighted in doing it that's enough.
That means god is happy with you.
If you are delighted that means god is delighted.
It is his delight that reaches to you.
Prayer
Has been very much misunderstood down the ages
So much so that it has taken on
A totally wrong meaning.
Now prayer means saying something to god.
Even a man like Martin buber thinks
Prayer as a dialogue with god.
What to say about ordinary people?
Martin Buber is a rare, intelligent human being
One of the greatest philosophers of this age.
But even he goes on carrying the same old
Rotten meaning of having a dialogue with god --
As if something has to be said to god.
There is nothing to say.
Prayer is not saying something to god
It is listening to god.
When you are all ears, just ears --
Open, available, ready to listen
Ready to be guided, surrendered, in a let-go --
That is prayer.
If this meaning is understood
Then prayer and meditation
Are no more different at all, then they are
Two different names for the same phenomenon.
Both mean silence.
Both mean a receptivity, an availability to god.
What can you say?
And whatsoever you do say will be stupid.
All prayers are stupid!
Man is stupid, so whatsoever he can bring forth
From his mind is going to be stupid.
It will be part of his ignorance
Of his unawareness, of his unconsciousness.
It will be nothing but his desires, demands
Complaints.
One has to be silent
Before existence.
That is prayer. Sitting silently by a river
Or sitting silently by a rosebush
Or sitting silently under the moon
Or sitting silently with a friend holding hands
That is prayer... because god is everywhere.
Wherever you are silent you are in prayer.
Basically prayer is gratitude -- gratitude
For all that god has done for you already.
It is gratefulness, it is a deep feeling
Of thankfulness. Reduced
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