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why she was saying "What is the answer? Don't waste time with the question -- just give me the answer." And because they insisted, she said "Okay, then what is the question?"
This is really the situation: we don't know the question, we don't know the answer, but we are full of knowledge. The wise man is not at all full of knowledge. He knows the question and he knows the answer; and there is only one question and there is only one answer. The question is "Who am I?" and the answer cannot be given, one has to find it. If it is given, it becomes knowledge; if you find it, it becomes wisdom.
Is the Grass Really Greener...?
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 December 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8012045
ShortTitle: GREENR04
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up.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.]
Dhyan Helen: Dhyan means meditation. Helen means light.
Man without meditation is without light. He is just darkness. If one looks within without knowing the art of meditation one will find only darkness and darkness and nothing else. That's why nobody wants to look within. The Christs, the Buddhas, the Zarathustras, have been telling people to look within; Jesus goes on insisting that the kingdom of god is within you and Socrates says know thyself. People listen but nobody tries it because when they try the experience is not ecstatic, it is just terrible! (laughter) There is nothing but emptiness, darkness. One meets nobody -- no god, no kingdom of god. One goes with great expectations and just the opposite is the case.
So one pays polite, formal respect to these great teachers and goes on looking outside; the real world is there. But the reason why we miss is that to look inside one needs a certain discipline. It is like listening; to classical music: it needs a certain discipline, you need certain ears to listen to it, to understand it, to feel it, to see the beauty of it.
Meditation is a whole art; it is the art of focussing inwards, it is the art
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