|
Main Index
|
| |
| |
|
| |
had never left.
The third sutra:
THEY WALK OTHER PATHS AND SO FORSAKE TRUE BLISS,
SEEKING THE DELIGHTS THAT STIMULANTS PRODUCE.
THE HONEY IN THEIR MOUTHS, AND TO THEM SO NEAR,
WILL VANISH IF AT ONCE THEY DO NOT DRINK IT.
IF YOU ARE NOT BECOMING ONE WITH THE SKY with which you are really one, then you are walking other paths. There are millions of other paths -- THE TRUE PATH IS ONE. And in fact the true path is not a path. The sky never goes anywhere -- clouds go... sometimes west and sometimes east and south and this way and that, and they are great wanderers. They go, they find paths, they carry maps -- but the sky is simply there. It has no path, it cannot go anywhere. It has nowhere to go. It is all in all.
So those who remember their sky-being, they are at home, at rest. Except for these few beings, few Buddhas, the others walk so many paths AND SO FORSAKE TRUE BLISS.
Try to understand this. It is a very profound statement.
The moment you are walking on any path, you are going astray from your true bliss -- because your true bliss is your nature. It has not to be produced, it has not to be achieved, it has not to be attained.
We follow paths to reach somewhere -- it is not a goal. It is already there! It is already the case. So the moment you start moving, you are moving away. ALL movement is movement away. ALL going is going astray. Non-going is arriving. Not going is the true path. Seek and you will miss: don't seek AND find.
THEY WALK OTHER PATHS AND SO FORSAKE TRUE BLISS,
SEEKING THE DELIGHTS THAT STIMULANTS PRODUCE.
There are two types of bliss. One is: conditional -- it happens only in certain conditions. You see your woman, you are happy. Or, you are a lover of money and you have found a bag full of hundred rupee notes by the side of the road -- and there is happiness. Or, you are an egoist and a Nobel Prize is awarded to you -- and you dance, there is happiness. These are conditional, you have to arrange for them. And they are momentary.
How long can you be happy with a conditional happiness? How long can the happiness remain? It comes only like a glimpse,
|
|
|
|
| |