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you had come with it into the world. MIND IS something new; meditation is your nature, it is your very being. How can it be difficult? You just have to know the knack: watch.
Sit by the side of a river and watch the river flowing. Yes, sometimes driftwood passes by and sometimes a boat comes and sometimes a dead body and sometimes a beautiful woman may be swimming in the river -- you simply watch, you don't get bothered, you remain cool, you don't get excited. You are not supposed to do anything, you have nothing to do. It is the river and it is the river's business. You simply sit silently. Sitting silently, slowly slowly the art is learnt... and one day, the moment your watchfulness is total, the mind evaporates.
If you are fifty percent watchful, fifty percent of the traffic disappears; if you are ninety percent watchful, ninety percent of the traffic disappears; if you are one hundred percent watchful, totally watchful, the mind totally disappears, the river is no more there. And in that moment when the mind is no more there, the sound is heard:
A U M
PURNAMADAH
PURNAMIDAM
PURNATPURNAMUDACHYATE
PURNASYA PURNAMADAYA
PURNAMEVA VASHISYATE --
And in that very moment you know THIS and THAT. This is whole, that is whole, the whole comes from the whole. Although the whole comes from the whole, still the whole remains behind.
It is because of this that I am not against anything: not against sex, not against love, not against money, not against matter, not against at all. I would like my people to live life in its totality. If you don't live it in totality you become a hypocrite, and the hypocrite is incapable of knowing the truth.
Little Peter and little Johnny asked their grandma, "How are children born, granny?"
"The stork brings them in his beak, my children," said the grandmother.
Little Peter and little Johnny looked at each other and then little Johnny said, "What do you think, Peter? Shall we tell her?"
'No! No!" said Peter. "Leave her in her innocence!"
The husband and wife decided never to fight in front of their children, so all their fights were wreathed
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