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-- your understanding, your preparedness, your maturity -- respond with it totally and then whatsoever happens is good! Otherwise you will live a very lukewarm life, and to live lukewarm is not to live at all.
Live dangerously! Mm? that's what Friedrich Nietzsche says 'Live dangerously!' Come back -- I will teach you how to live dangerously!
Veet means beyond, chitten means mind. Meditation is going beyond the mind. In fact, that is exactly the meaning of the English word 'contemplation'. The word contemplation comes from the root 'tem' -- tem means cutting off. The word temple also comes from the same root 'tem', The temple is a place which cuts you off from the world, hence it is called a temple, and contemplation is the process that cuts you off from your mind.
We have become too identified with the mind. That is the only problem that one has to face and dissolve all other problems are secondary. And one should not get involved in solving many problems. It is better to cut the root, rather than to go on pruning branches and leaves.
That's where Western psychology differs from Eastern psychology. Western psychology is still interested in cutting leaves and branches, pruning the tree, giving it a shape, making man adjusted to the society; and the society to which you are trying to adjust man may itself be insane. Whenever a problem arises, the Western approach is to solve it rather that going to the deepest cause of it. All treatments are symptomatic.
The Eastern psychology is not concerned with individual problems at all. It simply cuts the very root. The root is that we are identified with the mind; and we have to be separate from the mind, we have to know that we are separate, that we are a witness to the process of the mind -- whether the mind is angry, greedy, sexual, violent, etcetera... whatsoever it is. It is not a question of how to solve violence. The question is how to become a watcher of the violence of the mind, how to be separate and aloof, how to stand by and just be a spectator of it. And a miracle starts happening: the moment you watch the mind, it loses all energy, because it is you who give it energy, and you
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