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are not. And when you are not, then who is there to suffer? Who is there to be in pain and anguish? Who is there to be depressed and sad? And who is there to be happy and blissful? Buddha says that if you feel you are blissful you will become again a victim of suffering, because you are still there. When you are not, completely not, utterly not, then there is no suffering and no bliss -- and this is the real bliss. Then you cannot fall back. To attain nothingness is to attain all.
My whole effort with you is also to lead you towards nothingness, to lead you to a total vacuum.
THE VOID NEEDS NO RELIANCE MAHAMUDRA RESTS ON NOUGHT. WITHOUT MAKING AN EFFORT, BUT REMAINING LOOSE AND NATURAL, ONE CAN BREAK THE YOKE -- THUS GAINING LIBERATION.
The first thing to understand is that the concept of self is created by the mind -- there is no self in you.
It happened: a great Buddhist, a man of enlightenment, was invited by a king to teach him. The name of the Buddhist monk was Nagasen, and the king was a viceroy of Alexander. When Alexander went back from India, he left Minander as his viceroy here; his Indian name is Milanda. Milanda asked Nagasen to come and teach him. He was really interested, and he had heard many stories about Nagasen. And many rumors had come to the court: "This is a rare phenomenon! Rarely it happens that a man flowers, and this man has flowered. He has an aroma of something unknown around him, a mysterious energy. He walks on the earth, but he is not of the earth." He became interested; he invited him.
The messenger who went to Nagasen came back very much puzzled, because Nagasen said, "Yes, if he invites, Nagasen will come -- but tell him there is no one like Nagasen. If he invites I will come, but tell him exactly that there is no one like 'I am.' I am no more." The messenger was puzzled, because if Nagasen is no more, then who will come? And Milanda was also puzzled. He said, "This man talks in puzzles. But let him come." And he was a Greek, this Milanda, and the Greek mind is basically logical.
There are only two minds in the world, the Indian and the Greek. The Indian is illogical, and the Greek is logical.
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