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MASTER DARUMA
MUST HAVE HAD
NOTHING IN HIS MIND.
Ordinarily, we are walking bundles of solutions to problems that no longer exist. Everybody is so. You are carrying thousands of solutions for problems which are no more existent -- and you call it knowledge. It is hindering your capacity to know. It is not knowledge.
Drop all the solutions that you are carrying. Drop all the answers that you are carrying. Just remain silent. And whenever a question arises, out of that silence you will hear the answer -- and that will be THE answer. It will not come from you, it will not come from scriptures, it will not come from anywhere -- it will come from nowhere and it will come from nobody. It will come from your innermost nothingness.
The other religions call that nothingness 'God'. Buddha often emphasizes the word 'nothingness' -- and significantly so, meaningfully so. Because once you use the word 'God', people start getting attached to it. Then they have some idea; they ask what God looks like. You cannot ask what nothingness looks like -- or can you? Once you have the word 'God', you start asking: "How to make the image? How to create a temple? How to worship? How to pray? What name to give to him?" And then there are many names and many images... and then the fight ensues.
That's why Buddha emphasizes the word 'nothingness' so much -- because it is really beautiful. It does not allow any games to be played with it. It does not allow itself to be corrupted by you. But if you understand rightly, nothingness means God, God means nothingness.
OUR MIND --
WITHOUT END,
WITHOUT BEGINNING,
THOUGH IT IS BORN,
THOUGH IT DIES --
THE ESSENCE OF EMPTINESS!
MIND HAS TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN TWO WAYS. One: Mind with a capital 'M'. That is the universal Mind, the cosmic Mind, the Mind of the whole -- the whole itself, the con-sciousness that pervades existence. It is a conscious existence. It is alive, alive to the very core. Everything is alive. You may know it, you may not know it. It may not be tangible to you, it may not be visible to you, but everything is alive. Only life exists.
And death
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