Nothing Chapter 6

A capital 'M' Mind - Without End and Without Beginnng.


Tought it is born, Thought it dies... ( Lower m) The small mind is born and dies. The great mind continues. The small mind is only reflection; reflections are born and dies.

As a reflection you are born and you will die. If you cling too much to the reflection, you will suffer.. That's what suffering is, that what hell is. If you dont get too much attached. If you are clinging to the reflection... the body is a reflection, this mind is a reflection, this life is a reflection. If you watch it silently, you be able to see all these reflections are passing - and then you become aware of the mirror in whch this reflections are passing.
That mirror is eternity. To attain to that mirror is to know what truth is.

All The Sins Committed,
In The Three Worlds,
Wil Fade And Disappear,
Together With Myself.


The moment you know that you are not, Then all that you have done in the past, are doing in the present, or will be doing in the future, has also disappeared. When the door disappears, the doings disappeared.

In the East, people have been too much concerned with karmas, actions. They have been very much afraid because whatever bad thing they have done in the past, they have to pay for them, they have to suffer for them.

Dont be afraid - because you arenot. so you ahve not done anyting. How can yu do it? because in the first place you are not. with i all disappears.

So the only things is to go deep into yourself and to see the nothingness. You need not do good things to weigh against the bad things that you have done. You are not to go and dogood deeds - because whether you you do bad or good, you remain in the illusion or a doer. See the difference.

Ordinary religions teach you to be moral, do goods, avoid sins. Remember those Ten Commandents - they consist of the ordinary religion; Dont do this, do that. The extraordinary religion say: Disappear as a doer - don't be bothered about doing good or bad. And who knows what is good and what is bad?

In fact, nothing is good and nothing is bad, because existence is one - How can there be two? it is ll one. Good turns into bad, bad turns into good; one never knows what is what. Things are changing continuously into each other. You can watch.

You were doing something good, and something bad turns out. A mother tries to protect her child from all the bad things of the world, and just just because she is protecting she is forcing her to go into them - because she is creating the temptation.

Remember the old story; God said to Adam not to eat from this tree - he create the temptation. He must have been a good father, he destroyed the child. Just by saying , "Don't eat from the tree of knowledge," he created the temptation and the desire, the irresistible desire, to eat from that tree.

Now, he want to do good, but what happened? The original sin happened.

All people who go on doing good prove to be very mischievous th do-gooders are the most mischievous people in the world. The world has suffered a lot from them. Their intention is good, but their understanding is nil. And just a good intention is not going to do anything.

Those who understand, they say it is not a question of good or bad: it is a question of the disappearance of the doer. Or we can say it in this way: To remain as a doer is bad; to disappear as a doer is good. Not to be is virtue; to be is a sin.

This is Buddha understanding. All our doings are just dreams. When one becomes awakened, one simply starts laughing : all the bad , all the goods, have been just dreaming.

Story:

Once upon a time there lived a working man who detested coffee. His wife did not know this, however. He had never told her. She loved coffee very much and took great delight in packing a thermos of the stuffs in his lunch box every morning.

He always carried the thermos and the box to work, but being a frugal man brought them home again in the evening, the thermos of coffee still untouched. Then, to save a penny, and because his wife loved coffee as much as he detested it, he poured the java back into the coffee pot when she wasn't looking. He was excused the evening coffee on the grounds that it kept him from sleeping well.

One night the wife dreamt that her husband was unfaithful to her. The next night she had the same dream. It angered her , but she said nothing. A week or so, the dream happened a third time, causing her much jeolousy and anquish.

"It is true," she thought. "It must be true. The worm is unfaithful to me!" So she set out to avenge herself. This she did by putting a pinch or arsenic in his thermos every morning until she killed herself.

At the husband trial of acquital, the judge said, "It is always the same: those who believe the dream murder themselves."

The gretest dream is that "I am" - and that has become our suicide. Now it ill look very paradoxical. The idea that "I am" has prove very suicidal. And if you disappear as a self, if you commit that spiritual suicide, for the first time you will start living. For the first time you will be born to eternal life. For the first time you will know something which is not of time.

And then, there is nothing good, nothing bad. Then a man eats when he is hungry, sleeps when he is tired, answers when a question is raised. Then a person has no idea how to live - then a person lives without mind. Then a person lives with nothingness in him, and this is the goal of Buddhism. To live as nothingness is nirvana.

Next chapter - Question 1
You said yesterday that science and religion are diametrically opposite. In the west there are many schools teaching scientific mysticism, and the path to tantra and yoga are also very systemetic. Your literature is also deeply and artistically rational. There seems to exist a bridge between the rational science and the irrational religion.