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cling to yourself -- that's all you have been doing all your past lives: clinging, afraid that if you don't cling to the ego, then you look down: a bottomless abyss is there....
That's why we cling to tiny things, really trivial, we go on clinging to them. The clinging shows only that you are also aware of a vast emptiness inside. Something is needed to cling to, but your clinging is your SAMSARA, is your misery. Leave yourself in the abyss. And once you leave yourself in the abyss, you become the abyss itself. Then there is no death, because how can an abyss die? Then there is no end to it, because how can a nothingness end? Something can end, will have to end -- only nothing can be eternal. Mahamudra rests on nothing.
Let me explain it to you through some experience that you have got. When you love a person, you have to become a nothing. When you love a person, you have to become a no-self. That's why love is so difficult. And that's why Jesus says God is like love. He knows something about Mahamudra -- because before he started teaching in Jerusalem, he has been to India. He has been to Tibet also. He met people like Tilopa and Naropa. He remained in Buddhist monasteries. He learned about what it is that these people call nothingness. Then he tried to translate his whole understanding into Jewish terminology. There everything got messed up.
You cannot translate Buddhist understanding into Jewish terminology. It is impossible, because the whole Jewish terminology depends on positive terms, and the Buddhist terminology depends on absolutely nihilistic terms: nothingness, emptiness. But here and there in Jesus' words there are glimpses. He says, "God is love." He is indicating something. What is the indication?
When you love, you have to become nobody. If you remain somebody, then love never happens. When you love a person -- even for a single moment love happens and flows between two persons -- there are two nothingnesses, not two persons. If you have ever had any experience of love, you can understand.
Two lovers sitting by each other's side, or two nothingnesses sitting together -- only then the meeting is possible because barriers
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