Prepare Ourselves For Unknown
Emptiness! This is the death, the real death, out of which the resurrection.. This is the cross, the real cross. And everybody has to carry it daily, and not only to carry it daily, but dancingly – welcoming it, feeling a deep gratitude.
When you enter into this Emptiness for the first time, you will feel that this is the same Emptiness – naturally, because you have never known it before. Allow it, remain with it. Don’t try to think beyond it in any way. Be it. And suddenly the focus changes, the gestalt changes. The attention shifts and you look into it – and it is no longer loneliness, it is aloneness; it is no longer isolation, it is infinite presence. You have disappeared, and in that disappearance God has appeared.
But when you are filling your emptiness by mind. Then you will try to fill it with junk.
Man is full if he is in tune with the universe; if he is not in tune with the universe then he is empty, utterly empty. And out of that emptiness comes greed. Greed is to fill it: by money, by houses, by furniture, by friends, by lovers – by anything, because one cannot live as Emptiness. It is horrifying, it is a ghost life. If you are Empty and there is nothing inside you, it is impossible to live.
To have the feeling that you have much inside you, there are only two ways: either you get in tune with the universe…. Then you are filled with the whole, with all the flowers and with all the stars. They are within you just as they are without you. That is real fulfillment. But if you don’t do that, and millions of people are not doing that, then the easiest way is to fill it with any junk.
When you become aware of your greed, money, power, etc be alert you have experienced Emptiness but because you were unconscious you slip into mind. Be thankful for all this junk, it gave you realization that you had space or Emptiness which can be filled with universe.
God and you are just gestalts. If you are there, God remains hidden. When you disappear, he becomes manifest. When you come back again, he becomes hidden. Your very presence hides him; your presence functions as a cloud.
