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existence has nothing in it, just bare facts: geography, history, chemistry, physics, ;etcetera, etcetera -- all only facts, and you gave lost in those facts something which was really precious, you have lost the wonder, the awe.
Just watch a small child looking at a rose flower: he stands there in such awe. That is true religiousness. Watch him seeing a bird on the wing: he looks at the bird, he cannot believe it -- he is so wide-eyed! His whole being has stopped for the moment, he is not breathing. Those moments when you come to a full stop because the beauty of what you are experiencing is so overwhelming that you forget to breathe, you may miss a heartbeat -- those are the rare moments of life when man becomes aware that this existence is not just facts, there is a truth hidden behind the facts. And that truth is its miraculousness, its mysteriousness! Those are the moments when you can say "Ahhhh!" with your whole being. Each fibre of your being, each cell of your being is dancing with "Ahhhh!" That moment makes one enlightened.
Go beyond knowledge because it is all rubbish, go beyond mind because mind is nothing bur knowledge, go beyond all that you have accumulated to feed the ego.
Once the ego is not fed it dies. And to be egoless, innocent, is what Buddha Jesus, Zarathustra, Socrates, have been trying to convey to the world.
Swami Dhyan Siddho. Dhyan means meditation. Siddho means one who has arrived.
Meditation is the goal. We are all moving towards it, knowingly or unknowingly. If you move unknowingly it is almost impossible for you to reach, because there are thousands of ways to go astray and only one way to reach it.
There is a beautiful story about Diogenes -- there are many beautiful stories about this man. The Greeks have never produced another man of the same quality. He was really a man who could have introduced the whole Zen approached to the West, but nobody listened to him. People listened to his antagonist, Aristotle -- they were the enemies.
Aristotle represented logic, and of course logic can always be easily understood, and it is useful too. Diogenes represented the illogical, but in his
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