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the moment bas come... you are on the verge of something unimaginable. All that is needed is to relax.
The only secret of attaining to the ultimate truth is non-doing. That's what Buddha did sitting under the Bodhi tree when he became enlightened. He figured out that doing is not going to help. He did all that is humanly possible, and then one day it dawned upon him that if a confused mind is trying to do something, it will remain part of confusion. How can a confused mind do something that will lead you beyond confusion? It is impossible; because the doer is confused, the doing will remain confused. Seeing this he saw the greatest truth -- that doing is our undoing. That evening he relaxed. Relaxation means he came to understand the secret of non-doing.
Nothing has to be done, because we are confused and whatsoever we do will create more confusion. It will drive us more and more neurotic. All that is needed is to sit silently and not to do a thing at all. Because the mind is confused it is better not to do anything at all, and in non-doing the mind disappears, because the mind is a doer. It exists through doings: do this, do that. It goes on giving new desires, new plans, new programmes. It is very inventive... it always keeps you engaged in the future. All doing is in the service of the future and the future never comes; tomorrow cannot come, by its very nature. Hence it becomes a vicious circle chasing shadows, and life becomes a wasteland because there is never a moment of fulfillment.
Non-doing means that you have taken away the very ground from underneath the mind; you have cut the very root. Non-doing is in the present -- doing is future-oriented. Non-doing simply means you are here, you are now, and you are not moving at all. There is no moving in the mind, no motivation. In this state of no motivation, non-doing, suddenly all that one was seeking and searching for forever happens. It is a happening.
Anand means bliss, nishkam means no desire -- blissful desirelessness. Desire is the disease. Desire is the very foundation of the mind. It is desire that keeps the mind alive, sustained, nourished. And whenever one desire leaves,
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