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travelling to far-away planets. In the morning when you wake up you will not find yourself on the planet you have been dreaming about; you will find yourself in your bed, in your own room.
When one becomes awakened to one's reality one finds that one was unnecessarily travelling, there was no need to go anywhere; and all those trips were mind trips, made of the same stuff dreams are made of. One has never left one's home, one cannot leave in the very nature of things. So all that is needed is an awakening from your dreaming state -- and that's my purpose here: to give you shocks, to shake you, to fix many alarms around you. All these meditation techniques and therapy groups are nothing but alarm methods to make so much trouble that you have to wake up and see what the matter is, what is going on. And once you wake up, the work is finished; then you cannot fall asleep and resume your old dreaming.
There is no path to truth because we are already there. We have not to reach there; we have just to wake up and see. Because it is so, it is simple, very simple. The moment you decide whole-heartedly to wake up, nobody can prevent you. It can happen right now!
Navyo means the eternally new.
Existence is eternally new, it never gets old, but our minds get old. And because we go on clinging to our minds we lose contact with reality, we start lagging behind.
When a child is born he is in tune with reality; he is not lagging behind, he is in the moment, herenow. But we start teaching him and he has to learn whatsoever we teach because he is so helpless. He has to bargain with us, he has to sell his self for survival.
Now psychologists have discovered that even a six-week-old baby starts being diplomatic. He smiles when he sees the mother coming. He knows that this woman is dangerous -- it is better to smile! This is a diplomatic smile; he does not mean it, he has nothing to smile for. But he knows that it pays to smile and it costs nothing, so he simply opens his mouth, Carter-style. It is just an exercise of the lips; there is no heart in it. He does not want to smile, there is no reason for it, but the mother feels good, and to make
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