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too heavy. It has to be released, you have to be unburdened.
When the mind becomes silent, the hand has different gestures. When the mind becomes utterly silent, you can see from the gestures of the hand. They have a grace, and elegance that is almost not of this world -- the gestures of a Buddha are gestures of enlightenment. The way you are sitting meditators have been sitting down the ages for centuries, for a particular reason. One hand upon another creates a circle of energy; nothing is released. From the left hand it moves to the right and goes on circling inside you; it is a short circuit. It is immensely powerful. It gathers power, and gathers it in a different way -- not like a fist, because that is a broken line and the power becomes too much and has to be released. But when the power is moving in a circle there is no question of release. That's why meditators have been sitting that way.
Remember and watchsometimes you will find the left hand up, sometimes the right hand up. Don't force any pattern -- whatsoever the need of the energy is, it will take that form. When the left side of the brain wants to release energy it will take one form, when the right side of the brain is too burdened with energy, then there will be a different gesture.
You can become a great meditator through hand gestures; you have that potential. So just sitting silently, play, allow the hand... and you will be surprised. It is magical. You need not j'ump and jog and do much chaotic meditation -- just your hands will do. You have the hands of a great artist....
The Madman's Guide to Enlightenment
Chapter #6
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6 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
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[A sannyasin says: Sometimes I wonder whether you're real or not.]
Everything is unreal -- I am too -- because reality is not a thing. All things are unreal. Reality is a nothing, no-thing. Things are only appearances, forms of something which is formless. That formlessness is real but that cannot be seen by the eyes and cannot be touched and felt is unreal;
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