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you have to carry it with you twenty-four hours.
On this path there is no specific period for meditation. The whole life has to become meditation. Sitting, standing, walking; waking, sleeping, meditation continues just like a thread in a garland of flowers. It does not show up but it is there, the connecting link of each flower.
All your actions, gestures, are just like flowers, but a consciousness should run through all of them. Only then the garland is a garland; otherwise it is just a heap of flowers.
Let your life be a garland with a consciousness connecting every action, every movement, every mood, and it will bring a total transformation. You will be a new man.
Each meditation will take away something false from you and will bring some new, fresh quality.
Slowly slowly a day comes when your whole life becomes the life of a buddha.
It is not far away,
it is always within your reach.
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Come back. But bring with you
the silence, the experience.
Sit down for a few minutes like a buddha.
This is your nature.
As Daio said, REMEMBER, REMEMBER!
He was referring to this experience of meditation:
REMEMBER, REMEMBER!
In twenty-four hours,
whatever you are doing it does not matter,
your remembrance should remain a continuity.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.
Can we celebrate the gathering of the buddhas?
Yes, Beloved Master.
The Language of Existence
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Go like an arrow
30 August 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Archive code: 8808305
ShortTitle: EXIST02
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 82 mins
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
HAKUIN SAID:
THE STUDY OF ZEN IS LIKE DRILLING WOOD TO GET FIRE. THE WISEST COURSE IS TO FORGE STRAIGHT AHEAD WITHOUT STOPPING. IF YOU REST AT THE FIRST SIGN OF HEAT, AND THEN AGAIN AS SOON AS THE FIRST WISP OF SMOKE ARISES, EVEN THOUGH YOU DRILL FOR THREE ASAMKHYEYE KALPAS, YOU WILL NEVER SEE A SPARK OF FIRE.
MY NATIVE PLACE IS CLOSE TO THE SEASHORE,
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