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make your meditation a serious affair, otherwise you are going to miss it. Be playful about it.
I am the first person who is saying that.
All the religions have been telling you to be serious. That's why they have killed millions of people, destroyed their spirituality, made them tense, anxiety-ridden, sick unto death. And in the effort to find their innermost being, people have been doing all kinds of unnecessary ascetic practices, which are nothing but masochistic torture.
I teach you playfulness.
It is your being.
Even if you want to lose it, you cannot lose it.
What is the hurry?
And what is the seriousness?
Just be playful, lightweight.
Bansho missed because of his great effort to find the innermost core of his being. Effort is a barrier. Effortlessness...
Just sitting silently, doing nothing, the spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
That grass you should not misunderstand. Basho is saying: You just sit silently, unworried, effortlessly, doing nothing. When the time is ripe means when your tensions have all gone... the spring comes, and your being grows by itself. You don't have to do anything; it simply explodes into a tremendous revolution. All that was junk in you is burnt, and all that was truth in you, the pure twenty-four-karat gold, comes shining with a great splendor.
But it happens only in a relaxed state, in a let-go. This is one of the most difficult problems.
People who are seekers are in a hurry. They want it to happen just now. It can happen just now, but you are preventing it by desiring it to happen just now.
Forget all about when it happens. Whenever the right time comes, existence will take care. Enjoy the meditation; don't bother about any conclusion, about any enlightenment. These things are not within your hands, you cannot do anything about them!
The spring comes by itself... and suddenly you find your old personality has melted away, and something absolutely new and fresh is born within you, and it is growing on its own. You are just a watcher -- watcher of the death of the old, and watcher of the birth of the new.
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