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has died only for me, to help me become enlightened."
This is a beautiful story for master and disciple.
The Imprisoned Splendor
Chapter #5
Chapter title: None
5 June 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8006055
ShortTitle: IMPRIS05
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]
Prayer has nothing to do with language, with words, with thoughts, with mind itself. It is a state of no-mind. What goes on in the name of prayer is not prayer, it is just a pseudo ritual. But all religions are caught in rituals because the ordinary unconscious human being does not really want to be transformed. He wants everything, but without any change in his being. Because of this foolish desire he gets caught by the priests, he is being exploited. He himself is responsible.
If he is really interested in going through a change no priest can exploit him, no ritual can satisfy him, and all that will just look like rubbish. Then he will seek a real master -- not a teacher who has some philosophy to teach, but a master who has attained, who has tasted of truth. Then he will not be interested in superficial things. His interest will be in getting totally transformed, whatsoever the cost. Even if he has to die, he will be ready to die for a new birth. In fact nobody can be born again unless they are ready to die. The seed has to die before it can become a sprout.
Before you can attain to consciousness you will have to die as an unconscious being. And the whole process of this death and resurrection is the process of shifting your energy from mind to no-mind.
Shunya means a state of no-mind, no-thought, no-feeling, just pure silence, utter silence. But in that very silence you come into communion with the divine, with the whole. That is prayer.
To be in communion with the whole is prayer. Nothing is said, nothing is heard, but everything is understood. It is not a communication. It is not that you have to kneel down and you have to
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