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touch on the same track again and again and again. Hammering one day opens your deeper realm to it. Then you see it as if in a lightning flash and it is absolutely clear. In that moment something is transformed. You have experienced the stupidity of it, the futility of it, the fruitlessness of it. Then it will not bother you again.
When you are here with me, you forget your mind. That happens to everybody who is in love with me. When I am here I become more important, your mind becomes less important. That's what love means: you love a person -- the person becomes more important than you. Then I overwhelm you and your mind has no say in it, so you feel perfectly good.
One day you will learn that it has nothing to do with my presence. In fact, the basic mechanism is that whenever your mind has nothing to say, has no say, you will be at ease. This is just a device -- to be with a master -- to see the fact of it: if the mind is put aside even for a few seconds, you are totally different. Then there is no misery, no dichotomy, no tension. Everything is good. You are blessed and you can bless the whole existence.
See the point of it! The master is just an excuse to put the mind aside. The basic phenomenon is that the mind is put aside; that is to be remembered.
Whenever you are able to put the mind aside you will be in the same space. Experiencing again and again that the mind only brings misery, that the mind is hell, that the mind promises heaven but never delivers it.... Mm? that's what is happening. You are here; the mind says heaven is there. Heaven is always somewhere else; it is never here. That's the mind trick. It says it is there, not here; it is that, not this.
The mind needs distance to function; it cannot function in the present. Whenever you are in the present you are happy.
Heaven is here, now is enough. But the mind needs distance, so it goes on putting heaven there -- the further away the better. Then you reach there in the hope that you will find peace and you will find happiness and you will find this and that, but the moment you reach there, that there becomes here; it is no more there. And the mind cannot
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