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So when you wake up in the morning, you don't ask 'How did I arrive in Poona from Peking? -- because I was dreaming of Peking.' It was just a dream -- you never left the place.
That's how it is: we are there, we are it, the inside. So it is not a question of which way to move, from where to move, what direction to take. All that is needed is an awakening, a remembrance, and that is happening slowly. The sleep is getting thinner and thinner, and when the sleep gets thinner and thinner and you are just hanging in between -- a few dreams, fragments of the dreams, are still floating around and you have also started hearing sounds from the outside.... The milkman is at the door talking to your wife and the children are getting ready to go to the school, and the wife is preparing the breakfast, and the sounds from the kitchen, and even the smell.... Still fragments of the dream are floating about -- you are neither awake nor asleep, just in between. That is the situation where you are. And then this question arises: now what to do? which way to take? in what direction to move? No, it is not a question of direction -- it is just opening your eyes. It is just a remembrance.
It is happening! Just go on doing whatsoever you are doing, because when it starts happening that simply shows that whatsoever you are doing is right. So go on doing it. Go on digging in the same way and sooner or later more awareness will become available.
And there comes a moment when the eyes open and you are no more asleep. But then you will know that this is not a new space. It is the old space with a new vision, the old space with a new awareness... a new insight, but the space is the ancient one.
But things are going well -- just continue. Good.
The Madman's Guide to Enlightenment
Chapter #7
Chapter title: None
7 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7806075
ShortTitle: MADGUI07
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[A sannyasin asks about earning money in the West and finding time for sannyas activities.]
Do at least one meditation every day. Choose any meditation, but persist with one method;
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