Last in the Evening

I say existence has already made you what you are, only negate the hindrances

nothingness, the lotus opens up. When you are not, for the first time, you are. And to experience this paradox is the greatest experience in life

Go on saying, “This is not me, this is not me” and go on removing everything till nothing is left to be removed. When absolute nothingness has happened, in that

Your potential is there; you have to remove hindrances

Your life can be an instrument of existence, a bamboo flute on its lips. You just have to be hollow and let it sing the song if it wants. Or if it does not want, then silence is as beautiful as a song.

Before death comes, attain something of eternity, have a taste of something which is timeless, deathless; then death cannot destroy you. Then you can die dancing, singing, laughing. And to be able to die singing, laughing, dancing, is the greatest achievement of life.

Ego is our hell and the irony is that we are the creators of it. We create it and we suffer. But it is within our capacity not to create it and to move away from suffering. The moment the ego is not there and the suffering is not there, you are in bliss.
Bliss is our nature; suffering is a created phenomenon, arbitrary. Bliss is uncreated: it is there right now, underneath suffering, like an undercurrent. You need not create it, it is already the case – just don’t create suffering.

Be more and more silent. Whenever you have the opportunity, just sit silently doing nothing, not even meditation. Just sit silently for no reason, for no purpose. Slowly, slowly silence grows, it becomes an overwhelming experience. And when silence has permeated you through and through, you will know who you are and you will know what this life is all about. In knowing it, one knows godliness.

Start feeling grateful. Grow a sense of appreciation. Praise existence for what has already been done and then much more will go on happening to you. The more you praise, the more you become capable of seeing, the more perceptive you become. A prayerful person becomes so perceptive that he sees godliness everywhere, he finds its signature everywhere – scriptures in silence, sermons in stones.

insensitive to beauty, insensitive to music, insensitive to poetry, insensitive to love, insensitive to everything that is valuable. Then naturally you live in darkness, you live in ugliness. It is your own creation.