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say it is in the north, you cannot say it is in the south, you cannot say it is there -- because it is everywhere. That which is everywhere cannot be found somewhere. And where will you search? You will be rushing into the sky itself, here and there. And it is all sky. God is like the sky, like the empty sky.
It has no boundaries so it cannot be defined. You cannot say where it begins and where it ends. It is eternal, it is infinite -- yet it is right in this place, just in front of you. If you are relaxed it is there; if you become tense it disappears.
A Zen Master used to say, 'It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was he could have cooked his rice much sooner.'
Now with a lighted lantern you are searching for fire and you are carrying fire in your hands all the time. Yes, the Zen Master was right: had he known what fire was he could have cooked his rice much sooner. You could have always cooked your rice much sooner. And you are hungry, and you have been hungry for centuries, for eternity. And you have been searching for fire with a lighted lantern in your hand.
People go on asking where God is and he is just in front of you. He surrounds you. He is in and he is out because only he is. But Zen people call it 'it' so that you don't get trapped into the word 'God'.
WHEN YOU SEEK TO KNOW IT, YOU CANNOT SEE IT.
Why? Because when you want to know it your very wanting becomes a tense state of affairs. You become narrow. You become concentrated. WHEN YOU SEEK TO KNOW IT? YOU CANNOT SEE IT. You miss -- because it can be seen only when you are utterly relaxed, when you are open from everywhere, when you are not concentrated.
Listen to it. Ordinarily people who don't know what meditation is, write that meditation is concentration. There are thousands of books in which you will find this statement, this utterly stupid statement -- that meditation is concentration. Meditation is not concentration -- it is the last thing that meditation can be. In fact, concentration is just the diametrically opposite. In concentration you are very tense, focussed,
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