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not conscious. Thinking will stop. The shock is so sudden, so unexpectedly sudden, and cannot figure out what is going to happen, and death is so close... in that shock, your mind stops. Your constantly spinning mind spins no more. Your constantly chattering mind is simply shocked into silence: you become aware. But this awareness is unconscious.
The Master teaches only one thing: how to be consciously aware. And that's a very simple thing. You can start doing it any moment; you can apply awareness, consciousness, to any activity that you go on doing.If you are walking on the road, just walk consciously. Take each step in deep alertness. Listening to me, right now, listen attentively. You are listening attentively but that attention may be unconscious. Become conscious of the attentiveness, and suddenly you will see a tremendous blessing descends in you. Out of nowhere, suddenly it is there. Just a moment of conscious alertness and your doors open and God enters in -- as if he was just waiting there at the door, knocking and knocking and knocking. But you are so much preoccupied....
Kabir says:
WHO TEACHES THE SIMPLE WAY OF ATTAINING HIM....
People who teach complex ways simply show that they have not known God -- because God needs no expertise. And people who teach complex ways have a reason to teach complex ways :so that they always can say to you `If you are not doing the thing rightly, how can you hope to attain?'
Have you heard a beautiful story of Khalil Gibran?..
A man used to move from town to town. He was a great teacher and he used to say to people, `Come and follow me, and I will show you the way to God.' But people were engaged. They had so many thousands of things to do and they would say, `We worship you, we respect you, and one day we are coming to follow you -- but right now it is difficult.'
Nobody is ready now -- that's why so many pseudo-Masters can exist. Saint Augustine, in his confessions says: `I used to pray to God when I was young, "God save me, but not right now. Save me but not right now" -- because I was indulging in so many things,' he says, `and I wanted to enjoy all that is available.
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