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is a great experience, but this is a very simple experiment that you can do. Just sitting in your room with closed eyes, see: thoughts are rushing this way and that way, everything is leaking.
When I say go beyond the mind, I mean go beyond all this leaking so that you can find something solid to stand upon. Before you take the jump, you need to find a spot at least to stand on, from which to jump into the darkness, into the unknown territory of your own being.
Buddha is reported to have said that everything that is great is bitter in the beginning and very sweet in the end -- and vice versa. That which is very sweet in the beginning, for example a honeymoon, is very bitter in the end. Meditation may be entering into darkness, unknown territory, but it ends up in self-illumination, in a great explosion of light. And once the explosion has happened, you remain the buddha forever; you cannot go back. The mind has gone, just as a shadow disappears. You function now from no-mind, and any action from no-mind is good, is a blessing to the world.
Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
HAKUIN SAID, "THE WISEST COURSE IS TO FORGE STRAIGHT AHEAD WITHOUT STOPPING." BUT IF WE KNEW WHERE STRAIGHT AHEAD WAS, WOULD WE NEED TO WALK IT?
It is just a way of saying it. There is no problem in it when Hakuin says, THE WISEST COURSE IS TO FORGE STRAIGHT AHEAD. He is talking to the disciples, not to the students; he is talking to the meditators.
When I say to you, go straight in, you don't ask me, "Where is this `in'?" You don't consult an encyclopedia or a map of the world -- where is this `in'? You understand, you know perfectly well where it is, just you have not gone that way before.
So, Maneesha, you know perfectly well where you have to go. Just go straight ahead. Walking will not do, not even running. That's why I have used the word `arrow' -- with the speed of light. I have used the words `quantum leap'. One moment you were not a buddha and another moment you are a buddha -- so fast.
There is no distance between you and your buddhahood, only a misunderstanding. It is something like, two plus two
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