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your minds are functioning separately. Everybody's does this, but when meditation hits you deeply, the separation and the difference become exaggerated.
This exercise will settle many things in the brain and you will feel very collected and sane. Then I will give you a meditation.
The Cypress in the Courtyard
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
6 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7606065
ShortTitle: CYPRES03
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[A sannyasin says: I don't want to miss while I'm here. Is there any direction or anything that you see for me ?]
The only thing that can be done is to allow, to let it happen. Positively there is nothing to be done and nothing can be done. But negatively you can do much.
It is almost as if you are sitting in the room with closed doors and the sun has risen and beautiful winds are blowing and the fragrance is carried by the winds but you are sitting in a closed room. The winds knock on the door, the sunrays knock on the door, but you are sitting in a closed room; you don't listen. The knock is very subtle. Even if it is very gross you are too engaged, preoccupied with yourself. The sun cannot enter forcibly. It cannot coerce you. It will wait. If you open the door, it will come in.
So when I say that negatively much can be done, I mean you can let it happen, you can let it come in. You can permit it to come in. You can open the door and it will come. But if you don't open the door, the sun will be there and yet it will not be available to you. If it is not there you cannot bring it in. That's why I say that positively nothing can be done. But the light is there; you don't have to produce it. The energy is there.
The total is surrounding you. You live in the totality just like a fish lives in the ocean. Nothing is to be done. You just have to open.
So in fact it is not an effort. Rather it is more like effortlessness. It is passive. You are not to be aggressive towards the whole, because the part cannot in any way conquer the whole; that's impossible. The part can only allow the whole to overwhelm, to overflow, to
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