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Sow the seeds, grow the flowers and one day spring comes and the flowers blossom and the whole sky is full of fragrance.
Is the Grass Really Greener...?
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
3 December 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8012035
ShortTitle: GREENR03
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]
Satyam literally means the truth, but the approach of the western mind and the eastern is so different, so diametrically opposite, that sometimes literal translations of words are not adequate at all.
In the West truth is a philosophical quest; in the East it is a mystical enquiry -- and there is tremendous difference. Philosophy means something of the head and mysticism is something of the heart. Philosophy is based on logical reasoning, and mysticism is rooted in something that transcends all logic, it is supralogic.
And when I use the word 'truth' I use it with the eastern emphasis -- and that makes a lot of difference. In the East we have thought about truth as an experience, not as a logical conclusion; more like love and less like logic, more in the mode of feeling than in the mode of thinking. In fact in the West if you are an enquirer, a seeker of truth, you have to sharpen your reasoning you have to become very skilful in thinking. That's what the whole western philosophy is, the art of thinking.
In the East just the opposite has to be done: logic, reasoning, mind itself has to be put aside; you have to come into direct contact with reality, into immediate contact with reality.
The mind is an interference because it interprets reality, and the moment you interpret, it is something else, it is no more the something.
The mind cannot experience, only the heart can experience, but the mind can interpret, the heart cannot interpret. The mind interprets without experiencing. It is like a blind man talking about light to a dumb man who cannot talk but who knows what light is.
The heart
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