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not be, because with so much dust...
Scientists say that we see only two percent of life. Ninety-eight percent remains unavailable because of our prejudices. We see only that which we want to see, we see only that which we are prepared to see, we see only that of which we are not afraid. We don't see things which we are afraid of, which we don't want to see; we go on avoiding. By and by the mind becomes very very narrow and we see only a small bit of reality. And we go on claiming that reality to be the all, and we go on claiming that 'My truth is the whole truth.' And much conflict and controversy arises out of it.
Kabir says: You will have to create luminous eyes. Empty eyes are luminous eyes. Drop all dust. Sacred or mundane, drop all dust; holy or profane, drop all dust. Cleanse your eyes: that's what meditation is all about.
Let your past disappear from your being. Be here now, and you will have luminosity and you will be able to see. God is not somewhere else -- you need not go to the Himalayas. God is not somewhere high in heaven, God is here now! This very moment! But your eyes are not luminous, you cannot reflect Him. God is not to be searched for, your eyes have only to be clean, unburdened. Let the past disappear.
Says Jesus: Let the dead bury their dead. Disconnect yourself from the past -- and this has to be done every day, because the past is created every day. What is today will become your past tomorrow. The moment it is past, loose hold of it, don't cling to it, let it go. It is no more significant, no more of any value. If you can let the past go, you will be available. That availability is luminosity. You will have eyes which can reflect, which can see; you will have become mirrors. Meditation is the way of becoming a mirror.
And all the things Kabir will be saying to you are only to help you to become meditators. God need not be worried about. Let only one thing remain in the deepest of your heart -- that you have to bloom into a meditator. And all else will follow it.
The Revolution
Chapter #2
Chapter title: The Stretched Soul Makes Music
12 February 1978 am in Buddha Hall
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