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of their winnings should be given back to God.
"Let us draw a small circle on the ground, throw our winnings up in the air, and what lands in the circle goes to God," the Catholic priest suggested.
"No, let us draw a large circle," said the Protestant minister, "throw the money up, and what lands outside the circle will go to God."
"Wait," cried the rabbi. "Forget all about circles. Let us throw the money up, and what stays up God can keep."
Mind is very clever. But as far as meditation is concerned, mind is absolutely impotent.
Your question is, "For the past few weeks, I have been able to sit and allow my mind to be quiet -- sometimes for only a second, but sometimes for longer. Since this has been happening, I have experienced many beautiful spaces, as if this quietness somehow invites the universe in. Inside these glimpses, there is no doubt, no `me' to doubt. Coming out, I doubt. I do not know whether this doubt comes from my mind, or simply from an inner knowledge that there is yet so much more. Can I trust that I am moving into meditation, or is my mind cunning enough to make me believe that I am?"
Mind is not capable of that. But one thing more has to be remembered: that whatever beautiful experiences may be happening to you, your inner being knows perfectly well that there is yet so much more. Mind does not know that. In a way, mind is very poor. All its experiences are very mundane -- about money, about power, about prestige, about borrowed knowledge, about a thousand and one things but they are all trivia.
Mind has no understanding, or even a suspicion that there exists a dreamland within you, a golden place. Mind cannot conceive what blissfulness is, what it is to be totally conscious, what constitutes ecstasy. Mind is not meant for that.
Make the division clear: mind is for the objective world -- there it has tremendous capacity. The whole of science is a creation of the mind.
Meditation is for the inner world, the subjective. That's why in the East science could not develop, and in the West, Gautam Buddhas could not be born. The West remained confined to the mind, reached to the deeper
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